[Health] OLPC Health Content Straight Talk

Nicholas Doiron ndoiron at andrew.cmu.edu
Mon Sep 20 04:19:30 EDT 2010


Did you also see the ones on Scribd?  This includes their more recent
newsletters, "Young Talk" for the younger kids, and "Farm Talk" which
occasionally has health-related articles.

http://www.scribd.com/Straight%20Talk%20Foundation

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Nick

On Mon, September 20, 2010 3:45 am, Sandra Thaxter wrote:
> Dear all health curriculum providers,
> I downloaded a couple of these straight-talk newsletter style reports.
> They are very well done, full of color and great illustrations, photos,
> the information is presented clearly, no judgement, acceptable in a broad
> range of student contexts.  a great addition to the more informational
> material.  Some issues may be culturally specific, but the frank
> presentation of information was great.
>
> Sandra Thaxter
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Samuel Klein
> To: tinygames at googlegroups.com
> Cc: OLPC Health list ; Maho 2010 ; Support Gangsters
> Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2010 8:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [Health] OLPC Health Content as (more than a) Game
>
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>
> What a great idea.  I wonder if we can get groups in Nepal and Australia
> to try this out.
>
> S
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> On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Holt <holt at laptop.org> wrote:
>
>
> Who can please help Nick (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Ndoiron) shape
> his very thoughtful proposal!
>
>
> Subject:  [Health] [olpc-health] Content and Health Reports
> Date:  Sat, 18 Sep 2010 21:25:28 -0400
> From:  Nicholas Doiron <ndoiron at andrew.cmu.edu>
> To:  health at lists.laptop.org
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>
> OLPC Health has great potential for expanding the OLPC curriculum.  The
> Kasiisi Project in Uganda is interested in getting health content on their
>  laptops.  We have a potential partner, StraightTalk -
> http://www.straight-talk.or.ug/ - which has children's health information
>  in PDF format.  Hopefully this can be translated for Haiti and other
> deployments.
>
>
> In the HealthMap conference call, we also talked about collecting reports
>  and diagnosing health problems.  eToys and Scratch are great ways for
> students to discuss what they're learning, but we would need forms, mesh
> networking, and a database for teachers to collect students' reports.
> Those are best accomplished with a separate activity.
>
>
> Fortunately, I have a BookReport activity which already uses these
> methods.  I'd like to make this into a HealthReport activity!  The best way
> for this to move forward would be to have a clear picture of who the first
> users will be, and what information they want to collect.  I've put a few
> ideas and details on the wiki at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/HealthReport
>
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
> Regards,
> Nick Doiron
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