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

Sat Apr 12 02:31:46 EDT 2008

Hi Bill,

  Kindly let us know the no. of laptops you are looking forward to avail for
the program.
We would try to make provision for the same and also provide much needed
support for deployment. Do let us know more about your program and your
plans for the same.
(If we could assist for the same).

Amit
OLPC India Team

On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Bill Coddington <snwyrvr at comcast.net>
wrote:

> 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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> >    1. Re: There are more XOs in India! (Manusheel Gupta)
> >    2. Re: There are more XOs in India! (Marc Valentin)
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> > Message: 1
> > Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:19:07 +0530
> > 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>
> > Cc: india at lists.laptop.org
> > Message-ID:
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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.
> > http://laptop.org
> >
> > 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!>
> >>
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