[Health] Fwd: RE: [Waveplace Health] Re: Notes from OLPC/Waveplace Health Discussion

Sun Jul 4 11:00:23 EDT 2010

Nice idea, but I wouldn't make it daily for some things.  It is best that we not encourage students, especially girls, to obsessively weigh themselves daily. We don't want to encourage eating disorders, which we see too much of here in the "developed" countries.
Another thing that could perhaps interface would be BP or heart rhythms if they have made a probe to use with measure.  I don't know how hard that is to do, but people have made them.
Caryl

From: beth at waveplace.org
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2010 13:43:20 +0000
To: health at waveplace.org; health at lists.laptop.org
Subject: [Health] Fwd: RE: [Waveplace Health] Re: Notes from OLPC/Waveplace	Health Discussion

This looks like a great idea from Elsa. Also think it might be something that could be easily created using the exe platform that Mike/OLPC Afghanistan is developing...?
Beth

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From: Elsa Culler <elsa.culler at students.olin.edu>

Date: Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 1:38 PM
Subject: Fwd: RE: [Waveplace Health] Re: Notes from OLPC/Waveplace Health Discussion
To: Beth Santos <elizabeth.ann.santos at gmail.com>

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From: Elsa Culler <elsa.culler at students.olin.edu>

Date: Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 9:37 AM
Subject: Re: RE: [Waveplace Health] Re: Notes from OLPC/Waveplace Health Discussion
To: health at waveplace.org

Hi,

I've been off the grid for the past few weeks, so I'm not 100% sure what's going on with this, but I had one idea:

A health-logger activity that would allow students to keep track of various (customizable) personal health information on a daily basis. Any data could be visualized on the computer or exported in a format that doctors could easily read. It would be nice if it could start up automatically when the computer is turned on for the first time every day.

I also could not send this to the list I was replying to...not sure why.-Elsa

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 2:31 AM, Beth Santos <elizabeth.ann.santos at gmail.com> wrote:

These are definitely all great ideas. I honestly haven't even had a chance to look at the malaria activity so I'm definitely disappointed that it falls so short. I think making Etoys projects would be a great way to have something that non-technical people would easily be able to manipulate. Ill ask the etoys team if they know anyone who has created etoys projects in the health field already. With appropriate funding I'm sure teachers I know in Sao tome and Haiti would also be interested in adapting and also translating content.

Beth

On Jun 30, 2010 5:25 PM, "Caryl Bigenho" <cbigenho at hotmail.com> wrote:

Hi All...
Along these same lines, we should probably find out what has already been done for Health Topics for Sugar and the XO and for other means of presentation. I, for example, will put out queries to the OLPC-sur list and the other lists in Latin America to see what they have that they would like to share with us.  I'll also contact the folks from the PCUSA's Living Waters Project to see if they have any educational materials we can adapt/adopt.

Perhaps some of you who are fluent in other languages or have contacts in other regions could do the same. Then we can have a list of resources to draw upon.  We all know the old saying about not trying to re-invent the wheel.

Caryl
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 08:03:33 +1100
From: IanT at spc.int
To: health at waveplace.org; health at lists.laptop.org

Subject: RE: [Waveplace Health] Re: Notes from OLPC/Waveplace Health Discussion

Hi Beth,

I have been speaking with our Health people and I would like to pass on some comments...

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