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<div>I refactored that page a bit, turns out there are some additional stories (another 8) on the UNESCO site (original) that Child-to-Child hadn't reposted on their site. Some of them are posted in .doc instead of .pdf if that helps any with reformating tasks. Direct links provided in refactored list.</div>
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<div>cjl<br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 3:20 AM, Mel Chua <<a href="mailto:mel@melchua.com">mel@melchua.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I made a stub page for health books that Chris found tonight that need to be edited and made into a content bundle. They're pretty neat - they take potentially lifesaving but usually-presented-as-boring materials like "how to care for someone with a fever" and rewrite them as childrens' stories which are... actually somewhat entertaining.<br>
<br><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Childrens_Health_Books" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Childrens_Health_Books</a><br><br>The page has some thoughts on what needs to be done (which is mainly a strawman begging for improvement) - Lynne May (a teacher, also my aunt) has enthusiastically volunteered to figure out what needs to be done to make these books more useful for OLPC Health and other audiences, to do at least some of the editing that's needed, and to help us use this as a good example of curricular design thinking in general.<br>
<br>It's a good opportunity to prototype some good learning activities that could potential be supported by short videos / Activities (in the software / computer-game sense) simulating... the spread of germs, or a nutrition planner, or whatever other assorted optional resources we can think of. That's pretty ambitious, though, and in the short term I'd just love to have these as an activity bundle. (And then find a way for that bundle to get used with actual kids - that's the next fun part.)<br>
<br>I'd really like to do this by the weekend after next (the first weekend in May) so we can print, bind, and show off copies at the Cambridge Science Festival. (Hello, Edward!) Perhaps some of the folks coming to Linuxfest Northwest might want to pitch in. (Hello, Iain!)<br>
<br>Anyway, another thing out there now - Health is picking up momentum (w00t!)<br><font color="#888888"><br>-Mel<br></font></blockquote></div><br>