<div dir="ltr">Hello all,<div><br></div><div>We're looking for programming help on student writing software; hope some OLPC SF folks can become involved! I'm over on the East Coast, but I can join in over Skype / respond to questions via email if folks are interested.</div><div><br></div><div>Here are some more details:</div><div>Unleash Kids recently received <a href="http://www.unleashkids.org/blog/">recognition</a> for our <a href="http://iloominate-haiti.herokuapp.com/edit">iloominate</a> app (shout-out to Caryl Bigenho for her input and Mike Dawson, whose Ustad Mobile project was also recognized). The app <a href="https://projectrive.wordpress.com/2014/12/27/lascahobas-workshops-final-review/">helps teachers write books</a> for beginning readers by recommending easy words; now we're shifting our focus to supporting student writers. </div><div><br></div><div>There are already several excellent writing activities for the Sugar, which we're including as we design lessons for a summer writing workshop for our XO projects in Haiti:</div><div><br></div><div>-<a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4078">Labyrinth</a>, a mindmapping activity that <a href="http://www.unleashkids.org/2013/07/31/story-activity-continued-and-the-results/">gets kids thinking</a> about how to lay out their ideas on paper</div><div>-<a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4253">Fototoon</a>, comic-book style creations; a <a href="https://projectrive.wordpress.com/2013/08/16/first-week-of-classes/">perpetual favorite</a></div><div>-<a href="http://seeta.in/j/products/37.html">Newspaper</a>, an example of how templates can <a href="http://blog.unleashkids.org/2013/08/01/journal-mission-of-hope/">enable kids</a> to explore new formats</div><div>-<a href="http://olpc-yokwe.tumblr.com/post/39897602954/prompt-activity">Prompt</a>, literally just presents students with a random image from a library for them to write about...proof that simple stuff can be powerful</div><div><br></div><div>We want to supplement these great activities with some new stuff, based on teacher recommendations. A lot of the focus will be on creating templates and scenarios that kids can use as inspiration - for example, we can present the kids with a scene of people talking, where the speech bubbles aren't filled in, and ask them to fill in the speech bubbles. That's one of many ideas for an effective tool. </div><div><br></div><div>We also hope to make use of the XSCE schoolserver installed on-site to enable the kids to collaborate and share the finished products with one another.</div><div><br></div><div>Our most dire need is help with the programming, but we also welcome input on any and all aspects.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you everyone!</div><div><br></div><div>Sora Edwards-Thro</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 1:49 AM, Aaron Borden <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adborden@live.com" target="_blank">adborden@live.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello,<br>
<br>
OLPC San Francisco will be hosting our monthly meeting Saturday,<br>
February 14th, from 10AM - 1PM at the downtown SFSU campus, 835 Market<br>
Street, Room 597 (the fishbowl).<br>
<br>
Our meetings are held on the second Saturday of every month. Everyone is<br>
welcome to join us for our monthly meeting! We'll be discussing the<br>
latest in OLPC events and give updates on our local (and global)<br>
projects. There will be plenty of XO laptops with the latest builds to<br>
play around with, too. Please post with any additional agenda<br>
items.<br>
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Aaron Borden<br>
Human and Hacker<br>
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