Hi all,<br><br>Adam suggested reaching out to you. <br>We would like to contribute to the OLPC project by creating educational content. Please see exchange below.<br><br>We would like to put out couple of lessons in a Collection and keep adding to it based on the feedback received.<br>
<br>Has anyone on this list developed any content? Can you share some of your experiences?<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Harshal & Harshada<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername"></b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:content@laptop.org">content@laptop.org</a>></span><br>
Date: Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 4:41 PM<br>Subject: [<a href="http://laptop.org">laptop.org</a> #60706] Indian Music Lessons in Marathi (India) for OLPC [Harshal & Harshada Jawale, San Jose, California/CA, USA]<br>To: Harshada Jawale, <a href="mailto:hjawale@gmail.com">hjawale@gmail.com</a><br>
<br><br>Hi Harshal & Harshada,<br>
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What a tremendous contribution -- cleanly packaging (presenting)<br>
learning content is a central need. Might you post email to the<br>
<a href="mailto:india@lists.laptop.org">india@lists.laptop.org</a> mailing list to see what others recommend?<br>
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<a href="http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/india/" target="_blank">http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/india/</a><br>
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Thanks for all your efforts!<br>
--Adam Holt<br>
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OLPC Support, Volunteer-Driven (<a href="http://support.laptop.org" target="_blank">http://support.laptop.org</a>)<br>
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On Mon Apr 05 19:21:28 2010, <a href="mailto:hjawale@gmail.com">hjawale@gmail.com</a> wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> My wife, Harshada & I are interested in developing educational content for<br>
> learning music in Marathi (spoken in the Khairat<br>
> <<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India/Khairat_Chronicle" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India/Khairat_Chronicle</a>>village).<br>
> Harshada is a trained Indian (Hindustani)<br>
> Classical<<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindustani_classical_music" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindustani_classical_music</a>>Singer<br>
> with a Masters degree in the subject.<br>
><br>
> We hope to develop multimedia content - Audio (OGG) and perhaps some<br>
> animation video (FLASH converted to OGG Theora)<br>
><br>
> We have reviewed the documentation here,<br>
> <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Collections" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Collections</a><br>
><br>
> Is there anything else that we need to be aware of?<br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
><br>
> Harshal & Harshada<br>
> San Jose, California<br>
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