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About me
Hi! I'm Lauren! I'm here for the summer! And here is a picture that I took with my XO:
See also:
Projects
OLPC Summer Blog
Did you know? There's a blog for the OLPC Cambridge office: http://olpc-cambridge.blogspot.com!
To become a contributor (which you all should do), send a message with your preferred email address to: lauren AT laptop DOT org and I'll add you to the list.
Week of 7/30
Library Automation
In .js:
- Add in third-level menu
- Make/use bundle obj
- Decide on alphabetization/ordering scheme
- Do default values for all fields
In .py:
- Update script to reflect new .info fields
- Maybe make cat/subcat/bundle objs instead of flat file
In .info:
- Clarify icon path reqs
- Explain category class field (include table of fields on wiki)
- Note defaults for all fields
Overall:
- Write to l10n list abt localization issues
- Implement l10n
- Implement css support
- Ditto for xml
- DONE: Install git on bantha
- Get access from home
Publishers
- Write to Macmillan, McG-H abt content matrices
- Respond to Macmillan abt other issues
Other orgs
- Follow up with:
- DONE: Make
- DONE: Burda
- DONE: WWW
- DONE: Majesco
Licenses
- DONE: Finish licenses
Our Stories
- Write to DC about Brazil contacts
- DONE:Monday call
- Review/incorporate CGM notes
- Do Bug Blitz activity, then
- Send back to EOW Found + Thailand. Also,
- Introduce Thailand + EOWF
Educators Portal
- Work on it
Blog
- One blog post per day +
- page on wiki for how to make a blog post/join the blog +
- sidebar on blog for same.
Wikimania
- Welcome/participate web page for XOs being taken to Wikimania, including links to easy-to-contribute-to projects. In progress: Wikimania
Administrivia
- Respond to wiki talk
- DONE:Respond to email
Activating Educators
Moved to Activating educators
Related:
- Re-org of:
- Wiki template and/or form for content submission
- In progress: Template:content submission
Educational Activity Guidelines
- Guidelines for activity development (cf. OLPC_Human_Interface_Guidelines).
- In progress (and should get a name change): Educational activity guidelines
Organizing organizing
Moved to Organizing organizing
Activity status
- Status template for OLPCWiki: Template:status box; example: TamTam.
- Contact Activity builders
- List of Activities
- In base or additional?
- Currently playable?
Deprecated:
How-tos
- Ideas for how-tos:
- Laptops
- What are they?
- What are the main components
- Keyboard and touchpad
- Antennas and wireless network
- Taking care of your laptop
- What do you do when something goes wrong?
- Starting to use them
- Applications
- Mesh and friends
- Username
- A browser and the internet
- Google and finding content
- Email and creating a gmail account
- Wiki for kids?
- Safety
- Handling power
- Resources
- OLPC's website
- Wikipedia
- Dictionary (Marriam Webster)
- Google's image search
- Laptops
- Good how-to how-tos
- Webclippy? Have webclippy people convert startup sheets, which involves...
- Locating startup sheets (Adam Brandi) (emailed 5/24)
Ideas for lowercase "a" activity development
- List of resources available
- Base Activities/content
- Additional Activities/content
- Online resources/content repository
- Ideas for projects/activites
- How to adapt your existing activity/curriculum/lesson for use w/ XO.
- How to create an activity for use w/ XO.
- Sample activities
- Links to models for activity creation/development (cf. three x's).
- Conceptual templates for types of activites (research, games, etc).
- Specific projects
- Storytelling/Center for Digital Storytelling
- Info abt. storytelling opportunities
- Available Activties
- Relevant resources
- Examples we like
- Info abt. storytelling opportunities
- Mapping (Baktiar)
- Language instruction
- Avallain
- Individs (Tim VanSlyke)
- Storytelling/Center for Digital Storytelling
