User:Lauren

en This user is a native speaker of English.

EDU Grades: University Subjects: Subject Literature School: City University of New York Country: USA

About me

Hi! I'm Lauren! And here is a picture that I took with my XO:

See also:

• Very old web page.
• Official work page and bio.

Projects

XO User Map

Did you know? There's a Google Map for XO users: link

If you have an XO (or are getting one soon), you should add yourself to the map.

Deprecated:

Library Automation

• Write to l10n list abt localization issues
• Add geodata to .info spec
• Make better interface for bundle creation/submission.

Curators and Coordinators

• Draft email to curators
• Add obvs missing ones
• Set up RT for curators.

Our Stories

• Do poll-builder activity, then
• Send back to MMM for feedback

Learning Activities

• Do vertical activity template
• Poll-builder (above)

Educators Portal

• Work on it

Administrivia

• Respond to wiki talk
• Respond to various educators wiki pages.

Activating Educators

Moved to Activating educators

Related:

• Re-org of:
  • Educational content ideas
  • Educational activity ideas
  • Contributing content
• 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

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
• Good how-to how-tos
  • http://forrest.apache.org/docs_0_70/howto/howto-howto.html
• 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
  • Mapping (Baktiar)
  • Language instruction
    • Avallain
    • Individs (Tim VanSlyke)