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Hey Mel,<br>
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could you please provide contact Info for Jonathan Austin?<br>
I haven't found him on <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Birmingham">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Birmingham</a><br>
and I am allways interested in getting in touch with people doing local (olpc) stuff in BHM. The building local communities thing interests me particularly since I encountered such little interest on the side of the BHM Board of Education.<br>
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I wish I could have attended the bootcamp. Pippy (and TurtleArt!) gives me wonderfull fluctuating goosebumpy sensations.<br>
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Stefan<br><br>> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:19:40 -0400<br>> From: mel@laptop.org<br>> To: grassroots@lists.laptop.org; interns@laptop.org; olpc-open@lists.laptop.org<br>> Subject: [Grassroots-l] Grassroots bootcamp, Day 2<br>> <br>> The grassroots bootcamp continued today with:<br>> <br>> * A discussion led by Jonathan Austin (from the upcoming Birmingham, <br>> Alabama deployment) on training volunteers, getting funding, and <br>> building local communities. This led into side discussions on grassroots <br>> finances and more...<br>> <br>> * Chris Ball gave us all a crash course on Pippy, a learn-by-example <br>> programming Activity, and how it can be used to develop Activities and <br>> scripts for the XO. Again, the topic was so compelling that a cluster <br>> could be found huddled in the back corner talking about <br>> internationalization of Pippy, even after plates of food had been placed <br>> less than 10 feet away.<br>> <br>> Special guests included Pam Cooney from World Computer Exchange and <br>> Cynthia Solomon from the OLPC Learning Team, one of the co-creators of <br>> Logo. Cynthia and Francesca Slade also led a roleplay during the <br>> afternoon where the rest of us pretended to be 8-year-olds learning <br>> Scratch (actually learning Scratch in the process). I don't know about <br>> the rest of the "students," but Chris Carrick, Nikki Lee, and I ended up <br>> engrossed in exploring forensic ballistics* with a Scratch activity that <br>> Chris had created to go alongside...<br>> <br>> All this and more (including - yes, you guessed it, transcripts!) are at <br>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Grassroots_bootcamp/Results#Tuesday<br>> <br>> All errors/emissions/typos in these notes are almost certainly my fault. <br>> Please correct/clarify if you see an occasion to improve any of these notes.<br>> <br>> Cheers!<br>> <br>> -Mel Chua<br>> <br>> *we were strange 8-year-olds, yes.<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Grassroots mailing list<br>> Grassroots@lists.laptop.org<br>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots<br><br /><hr />Immer dabei! <a href='http://redirect.gimas.net/?cat=hmtl&n=M0804HMHandy&d=http://www.gowindowslive.com/minisites/mail/mobilemail.aspx?Locale=de-de' target='_new'>Holen Sie sich Ihre Mails aufs Handy!</a></body>
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