[Nepal] [Open Learning Exchange Nepal] Comment: "Notes from Nepal's OLPC Deployments"

[Bryan Berry]

thanks greebo!

We will test out your suggestions. much appreciated. 

By the way, I read a lot of your e-mails to the lists and blog entries.
They are sooo helpful. Pls keep up the great work.

On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 22:47 +0100, Pia Waugh wrote:
> New comment on your post #325 "Notes from Nepal's OLPC Deployments"
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> Hi Bryan,
> 
> Thank you for this writeup, very interesting and useful.
> 
> We ran into the jumpy cursor and the children largely cope with it now by:
> 
> a) holding down the 4 corner keys on the keyboard to reset the keyboard.
> 
> b) ensuring the children wash their hands before starting. Often if they have sticky or dusty hands the jumpiness happens.
> 
> c) training the children to not push down hard on the touchpad which creates the issue. We also taught them how to be more comfortable by getting them toplay the clickgame activity, which is a basic mouse usage game in gcompris which helped the younger children get more used to the mouse.
> 
> Out of the 80 I've rolled out, I've got one or two which persist, but the rest were cleared up by one of the methods above. The really young children (5 and 6) that I'm working withhad major difficulties with the touchpad which had nothing to do with the hardware/software, and we helped them by buying child sized USB mice for them to use. That might also be an option for you. They were about $10 each.
> 
> I've also documented some of the ways we are using ours here including our technical documentation:
> 
>   http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Australia's_first_deployment
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Bryan W. Berry
Technology Director
OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org