[OLPC India] India Digest, Vol 17, Issue 3

Sat Apr 12 01:46:16 EDT 2008

Can someone on the list please tell me who we can make an application  
to for XO's, in India, for a new child-to-child education program in  
Delhi's largest slum? Any leads will be greatly appreciated.
Bill Coddington
On Apr 11, 2008, at 9:00 AM, india-request at lists.laptop.org wrote:

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> From: "Manusheel Gupta" <manu at laptop.org>
> Subject: Re: [OLPC India] There are more XOs in India!
> To: "Holden Bonwit" <hbonwit at alumni.nd.edu>
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> Holden,
>
> Thanks for your interest in our educational project.
>
> We will be glad to share notes, and discuss about the activities being
> organized in Khairat school.
>
> I am copying this memo to Amit Gogna, and Mukesh Mukane, who have
> been looking after the Khairat pilot project.
>
> Regards,
> Manu
>
>
> Manusheel Gupta
> Technical Consultant and Adviser
> One Laptop Per Child Inc.
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> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Holden Bonwit  
> <hbonwit04 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>  Hello, all!
>>
>> I have been reading about the pilot program in Khairat, India (
>> http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/india/ 
>> olpc_india_khairat_school_pilot.html)
>> and wanted to thank you for sharing what is going on.  I'm also at  
>> a grammar
>> school in India, and we have a limited number of XOs (from G1G1  
>> program) for
>> students here to use as learning tools.
>>
>> Does anyone mind stepping forward as a contact point for that  
>> project, so
>> that we might compare notes (age of students using the XOs,  
>> curriculum,
>> technical issues, etc.)?
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> -Holden
>>
>> ps. I just stumbled upon this great website with XO accessories,  
>> in case
>> you hadn't seen it!  Fantastic!
>>  http://studiofibonacci.com/        XO Explosion
>> <not a plug by any means, I really am excited... if not saddened that
>> someone beat me to the market!>
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> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:33:51 +0200
> From: "Marc Valentin" <mvalentin at oeuvredespains.org>
> Subject: Re: [OLPC India] There are more XOs in India!
> To: "Holden Bonwit" <hbonwit at alumni.nd.edu>, india at lists.laptop.org
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> Hi Holden,
> As I understand, you are in Meerut, U.P. ... Our school is not very  
> far from
> there, approximately 3 hours. It is very different from what you  
> can see in
> Meerut. In Meerut you have facilities, it is a city, you can also find
> educated people... we are in a very remote village area. I invite  
> you to
> feel the difference !!!
> We have 9 XO at present. Actually, I just came back to Belgium, I  
> was there
> for a month.
> I had the chance to go for a few days to Mumbay, meet Amit and  
> visit the
> Khairat school. OLPC India is just in the starting blocks and there  
> are a
> lot of challenges to face. Particularly for teachers training and
> concientisation and also schoolbooks and pedagogic documents.
> The Grammar School is an english medium school ? What curriculum  
> are they
> following ? Is it the State curriculum or CBSE ?
> -marc-
> http://www.OeuvreDesPains.org
>
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Holden Bonwit  
> <hbonwit04 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello, all!
>>
>> I have been reading about the pilot program in Khairat, India (
>> http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/india/ 
>> olpc_india_khairat_school_pilot.html)
>> and wanted to thank you for sharing what is going on.  I'm also at  
>> a grammar
>> school in India, and we have a limited number of XOs (from G1G1  
>> program) for
>> students here to use as learning tools.
>>
>> Does anyone mind stepping forward as a contact point for that  
>> project, so
>> that we might compare notes (age of students using the XOs,  
>> curriculum,
>> technical issues, etc.)?
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> -Holden
>>
>> ps. I just stumbled upon this great website with XO accessories,  
>> in case
>> you hadn't seen it!  Fantastic!
>>  http://studiofibonacci.com/        XO Explosion
>> <not a plug by any means, I really am excited... if not saddened that
>> someone beat me to the market!>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> India mailing list
>> India at lists.laptop.org
>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/india
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