[OLPC India] laptops arrive in Nashik, Maharashtra

[JV Avadhanulu]

Dear Marc, Thank you for the wonderful suggestions and the great work you 
did in reorganizing the projects enabling all to to start sharing the 
deployments !
I agree with your concern re MS Windows and appears to be inescapable in the 
near-term!
Regards,
JV Avadhanulu
+91-9443797563
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marc Valentin" <mvalentin at oeuvredespains.org>
To: <India at lists.laptop.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 3:27 AM
Subject: Re: [OLPC India] laptops arrive in Nashik, Maharashtra


> Hi,
> I reorganized the "More Deployments" list on the page :
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India
> I also added the Auroville pilot to the list, moving the project
> description to a new page (it was at the bottom in the software
> project list, not really the right place).
> So Joshua, I invite you to add all the informations and experiences
> you want to share on "your" project page :
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Auroville
> For you information, we have 14 XO at the moment in our school and
> soon it will be 34. We use them in the school but we don't plan any
> child "ownership", though times to times children will be allowed to
> take them home. At least at the beginning, we don't plan to use them
> to teach common things like english or geography but more computer and
> logic topics. We will start with Logo and basic computer manipulation
> (we bought also enough mice).
> Several classes will use the XO but we added a sticker with a number
> on each XO so that, if possible, the same child can always use the
> same computer. We want to make them feel "responsable" of this
> expensive piece of hardware.
> Now we are just at the start of something. Our main concerns are
> teachers interest and training and also how it can fit in the
> curriculum. Saint-Anthony School is an english medium school, at the
> end of class 10 the children will go for CBSE exam and, as far as I
> know, the computer part of this exam is entirely focused on MSWindows
> and MSOffice. If things don't change, I think we will have after a few
> years to acquire new computers or install MSWindows on the XO because,
> XO are good for education but they are not good to prepare to the CBSE
> computer exam...
> -marc-
> Oeuvre des pains asbl
> http://www.OeuvreDesPains.org
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Arjun Sarwal <arjun at laptop.org> wrote:
>> Could you all please document your experiences on the wiki and link it
>> off the OLPC India page ( http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India ) ?
>> It'd make very useful reading for all .
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Arjun
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Joshua N Pritikin <jpritikin at pobox.com> 
>> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 10:28:44AM +0530, JV Avadhanulu wrote:
>>>> Dear Joshua,
>>>> Congratulations.
>>>> I am coordinating the pilot at Auroville, which is at the planning 
>>>> stage.
>>>> I got the funding for 10 machines (XO-1) and XS. I want to know how you
>>>> ordered the machines and how long it took.
>>>
>>> I ordered the machines months ago, and it seemed to take forever. We
>>> have 10 laptops now.
>>>
>>>> I also would like to understand from the people in the Nasik project 
>>>> the
>>>> challenges and learn from your experience.
>>>
>>> Our implementation is simplistic because we are not yet trying to
>>> achieve child ownership. The laptops are owned by the school. The
>>> children spend just a few hours a week working with them. As the kids
>>> and parents become more comfortable with the laptops, we expect to move
>>> towards child ownership and closer integration into the curriculum.
>>>
>>> We hope to save ourselves from disappointment by starting with very low
>>> expectations. :-)
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Arjun Sarwal
>> http://dev.laptop.org/~arjs
>> http://youtube.com/watch?v=SwcSEcfR464
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