<div class="gmail_quote">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>An open invitation to join us in a <b>brainstorming session</b> about how we can <b>use the XO to promote public health </b>across the greater OLPC community. <a href="http://www.waveplace.org" target="_blank">Waveplace</a> and a few other interested public health professionals, teachers and programmers are teaming up to make some more educational content that can be used to teach kids various public health initiatives (HIV/AIDS prevention, malaria, sanitation, anatomy, nutrition, etc) using programs, puzzles and other learning tools on their XOs.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Waveplace primarily uses <a href="http://www.squeakland.org" target="_blank">Etoys</a>, building ten structured lessons on Etoys for each subject unit. The idea is to build enough content so that teachers feel comfortable using the XOs in the classroom, and I think public health would be a fabulous realm of interest to many communities. Etoys could be a focus in terms of medium. As for content, certainly interested in what you all have been working on in the <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Health" target="_blank">OLPC Health wiki</a>, as well as texts such as <a href="http://www.hesperian.org/publications_download.php" target="_blank">Where There Is No Doctor</a>. Hoping to pair public health professionals with programmers in order to get a sort of arsenal of courseware built up over the next month or two.</div>
<div><br></div><div><b>Please join us to brainstorm, via Skype:</b></div><div><b>Tuesday, June 22nd</b></div><div><b>4pm EST</b></div><div><br></div><div>My handle is notonfriday. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to email (or Skype).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Hope to see you then!</div><div><br></div><div>Beth Santos<br></div>
</div><br><div>---<br><strong>Beth Santos</strong><br>Outreach Coordinator<br>Waveplace Foundation<br><br>Tel: +1 610 797 3100 x 44<br>Fax: +1 610 797 3199<br>Cell: +1 603 661 1273 <br><a href="http://www.waveplace.org">http://www.waveplace.org</a></div>