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lang="x-western">Please join us
now, voting for the latest
OLPC/Sugar community<br>
projects over IRC Live Chat, to
make the best project
allocations &<br>
mentoring
relationships--starting right
here:<br>
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Then type at bottom:<br>
/join #olpc-meeting<br>
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AGENDA:<br>
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* Fast Review of the 7 latest
(greatest!) HW/Project
Proposals.<br>
Plz join us advocating for
& reviewing shortcomings of
these proposals:<br>
<br>
1. OLPC Training, Math and
Secondary Students, Peace Corps
Masters Intl - Calif State Univ
Northridge<br>
2. OLPC Tanzania Rural Cancer
Prevention Initiative - Dallas,
TX<br>
3. GPS navigator for bicycle
(with modified charger for
bicycle) - Beijing, China<br>
4. Marysville Rotary Literacy
XO Repair Facility - Guatemala
& Marysville, WA<br>
5. SWAG for Upcoming LUG
Meeting - Los Angeles, CA<br>
6. Turning Slumdogs into
Millionaires/Vocational Skills
Transfer - Kolkata, India<br>
7. OLPC Paktika, with
Paiwastoon - Afghanistan<br>
<br>
<br>
* Which projects might you enjoy
Mentoring below?!<br>
<a
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href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects</a><br>
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href="http://rt.laptop.org/Search/Results.html?Query=Queue=%27contributors%27">http://rt.laptop.org/Search/Results.html?Query=Queue=%27contributors%27</a><br>
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* New projects & libraries
-- teaching them Community
Outreach:<br>
<a
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href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries</a><br>
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<br>
1. OLPC Training, Math and
Secondary Students - Peace Corps
Masters Intl, Calif State Univ
Northridge<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81518">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81518</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.csun.edu/~vcmth014/peacecorps/PCMI_10_2010.html">http://www.csun.edu/~vcmth014/peacecorps/PCMI_10_2010.html</a><br>
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE
POSTED OFF <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://olpcMAP.net">http://olpcMAP.net</a>
& <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://j.mp/6UhCtd">http://j.mp/6UhCtd</a><br>
<br>
Requests 10 XOs over 36
months<br>
<br>
Project Objectives:<br>
California State University,
Northridge (CSUN) requests 10
OLPC<br>
computers for instruction of
Math and Secondary Education
CSUN Peace<br>
Corps Master's International
students. CSUN students will
learn to use<br>
existing educational software
and develop new projects
appropriate for<br>
middle and high school level
students. We will also teach
CSUN<br>
students use to some tools
developed by CSUN faculty for
Mathematics. <br>
<br>
<br>
2. OLPC Tanzania Rural Cancer
Prevention Initiative - Dallas,
TX<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81646">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81646</a><br>
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE
POSTED OFF <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://olpcMAP.net">http://olpcMAP.net</a>
& <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://j.mp/6UhCtd">http://j.mp/6UhCtd</a><br>
<br>
Requests 4 XOs and 12 months<br>
<br>
Project Objectives:<br>
The Healthnovations
International-UT Dallas Chapter
aims to utilize<br>
the OLPC laptops in order to
establish a thorough curriculum
to promote<br>
cancer awareness to the
Tanzanian community. The goal of
the project is<br>
to empower pediatric cancer
victims in the region to access
information<br>
about the causes and
consequences of the disease and
to assist their<br>
communities in combating
pediatric cancer with access to
primary<br>
healthcare, education,
counseling, emotional support,
and medical care.<br>
<br>
<br>
3. GPS navigator for bicycle
(with modified charger for
bicycle) - Beijing, China<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81836">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81836</a><br>
<br>
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE
POSTED OFF <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://olpcMAP.net">http://olpcMAP.net</a>
& <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://j.mp/6UhCtd">http://j.mp/6UhCtd</a><br>
<br>
Requests 1 XOs over 9 months<br>
<br>
Project Objectives:<br>
1. Since I will be a
volunteer to teach some students
in Qinghai<br>
Province(a very poor province
of china) late July, if I can
get one before<br>
July, I can take it to these
children to find out how favor
do them<br>
like this , and what do they
want and so on. 2. Help with
some translate<br>
projects although my english
is also very poor... 3. Since
the olpc<br>
1.75 works only 2W, so we can
use the hand-shake charger to
charge it for<br>
all the use.<br>
<br>
But it will do us a favor if
we can charge the battery while<br>
riding bicycles! 4. With a
usb gps receiver connected to
our olpc<br>
laptop , and bind it to the
bicycle , we can use it as a
good navigator.<br>
We can develop a program
using google map api, providing
some<br>
history and culture
information arround where you
are, and you can<br>
also select anywhere to learn
something about the place you
select. I<br>
think I can develop it using
Qt.<br>
<br>
<br>
4. Marysville Rotary Literacy XO
Repair Facility - Guatemala
& Marysville, WA<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=82243">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=82243</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.clubrunner.ca/Portal/SitePages/SitePage.aspx?cid=275">http://www.clubrunner.ca/Portal/SitePages/SitePage.aspx?cid=275</a><br>
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE
POSTED OFF <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://olpcMAP.net">http://olpcMAP.net</a>
& <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://j.mp/6UhCtd">http://j.mp/6UhCtd</a><br>
<br>
Requests 10-15 brickes XOs
over undetermined months<br>
<br>
Project Objectives:<br>
This is a project that is
being lead and developed by High
School <br>
students with supervision
from adult school staff and with
the support <br>
of outside community computer
professionals. Students will
learn <br>
technology troubleshooting
skills, which will be used
during the <br>
project. Skills include but
are not limited to: using a
multi-meter, <br>
oscilloscope, audio equipment
and soldering equipment. Also
students <br>
will create a working
business model on the proper
manner of receiving, <br>
processing, repairing,
packaging and shipping of the XO
systems.<br>
<br>
<br>
5. SWAG for Upcoming LUG Meeting
- Los Angeles, CA<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=82585">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=82585</a><br>
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE
POSTED OFF <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://olpcMAP.net">http://olpcMAP.net</a>
& <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://j.mp/6UhCtd">http://j.mp/6UhCtd</a><br>
<br>
Requests outreach materials<br>
<br>
Project Objectives:<br>
Requests OLPC outreach
materials for Linus User Group
meeting(s).<br>
<br>
<br>
6. Turning Slumdogs into
Millionaires/Vocational Skills
Transfer - Kolkata, India<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=82735">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=82735</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://impactforpeace.blogspot.com">http://impactforpeace.blogspot.com</a><br>
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE
POSTED OFF <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://olpcMAP.net">http://olpcMAP.net</a>
& <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://j.mp/6UhCtd">http://j.mp/6UhCtd</a><br>
<br>
Requests 26 XOs over 1.5
months<br>
<br>
Project Objectives:<br>
To uplift the living standard
of underprivileged families, by
providing <br>
vocational trainings,
especially computer skillsto
enhance their chance of <br>
upward social mobility.<br>
To infuse in the community
the notion that education is an
important way for <br>
them to get rid of poverty.<br>
<br>
<br>
7. OLPC Paktika, with Paiwastoon
- Afghanistan<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=82810">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=82810</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.paiwastoon.af">http://www.paiwastoon.af</a><br>
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE
POSTED OFF <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://olpcMAP.net">http://olpcMAP.net</a>
& <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://j.mp/6UhCtd">http://j.mp/6UhCtd</a>
<br>
<br>
Requests 10-12 laptops for 3+
months<br>
<br>
Project Objectives:<br>
Ensure that teachers in
Paktika where 450 XO 1.5s will
be delivered are<br>
comfortable and confident
before children's laptops
arrive. Create and<br>
trial new interactive teacher
training materials (developed
with EXE see<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.paiwastoon.af/eldep">www.paiwastoon.af/eldep</a>) that
will help standardize teacher
training and<br>
ensure all teachers have
completed essential teacher
training modules<br>
(avoid issues where trainers
short change training time).<br>
<br>
Afghanistan's children suffer
from critically short classroom<br>
instruction time, receiving
roughly 55% of class time in
comparison to<br>
UNESCO’s average of countries
like Argentina, Basil, India,
Jamaica,<br>
Jordan, Malaysia, Peru,
Russian Federation, Tunisia or
Uruguay. Due<br>
mostly to a lack of resources
in terms of both material and
human<br>
capital, Afghan schools are
often teaching between 2-3
shifts a day with<br>
the Government of the Islamic
Republic of Afghanistan’s
Ministry of<br>
Education delivering
approximately 35 minutes
classroom time per subject<br>
and 5 subjects per grade.<br>
<br>
Also, Afghanistan’s harsh
winters, mountainous geography
and severe lack<br>
of infrastructure imposes yet
another significant limitation
on the<br>
Afghan school year.<br>
<br>
PAIWASTOON found that the
minority of homework is marked
by the<br>
teachers; while that being
marked is done hastily without
provision of<br>
in-depth feedback. Hence,
OLPC's interactive book is an
improvement to<br>
offering little or no
feedback as is currently
practiced. Interactive<br>
digital learning applications
also can support children's
problem<br>
solving and logic abilities
to find their own mistakes. In
terms of<br>
gender implications, the OLPC
offers equal opportunity to both
girls<br>
and boys; whereas boys in
some circumstances are allowed
greater<br>
freedom leave the home
seeking help and feedback, girls
often don't<br>
have this ability. A digital
device with learning content can
turn<br>
any space into a virtual
classroom. More so, rote
learning is<br>
dominant throughout
Afghanistan and by overcoming
feedback challenges,<br>
time can be found to use
constructivist tools such as the
already<br>
localized turtle, etoys and
scratch.
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