[Olpc-Haiti] Content from: XRI-Seeds of Empowerment, Stanford University, Innovations For Learning
Caroline Meeks
caroline at solutiongrove.com
Fri Feb 5 13:05:09 EST 2010
hi,
Did my previous email about the Stanford content make it to the list?
Here is some more info. Looks like Fire Rescue and Sim Farm would be great
additions for Sugar.
It maybe that the book reader and story teller activities are pretty close
to things we already have.
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From: Kim, Paul <phkim at stanford.edu>
Date: Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:56 PM
Subject: RE: [IAEP] Laptops?!?
To: Caroline Meeks <caroline at solutiongrove.com>
Except the bookviewer, most are games. That means children play over
indefinite multiple levels. For example, the Fire Rescue math game can get
harder and harder as you get better at it.
It can start from simple 2 + 2 to 15 – 27 involving negative numbers
spanning over numerous levels. I couldn’t easily solve beyond level 32
because it got so hard. In that game, you have to use the right combination
of ladders to rescue people. If you choose a wrong combination of ladders,
you cannot get to the right floor. It is not a drill and kill, but a
critical thinking and problem solving math game. Kids from Africa to Latin
America and to India, Fire Rescue as the best game of all. When I gave them
to kids in Cristo Ray slum kids in Costa Rica, they were ecstatic! Their
math skill improved dramatically.
The Sim Farm also can be challenging as you take out more loan to operate
bigger farms. In places where there are no schools or properly trained
teachers, game-based learning wins over any instruction-based educational
materials. The storyteller was also a hit because it has voice recording
feature. We have many other ed game ideas, but we, too work with volunteers
and students and that’s why we are not so organized. With the sample games I
provided, can you show me how your volunteer network will work to convert
them for XOs? The proper credits for those games should be given to:
XRI-Seeds of Empowerment, Stanford University, Innovations For Learning.
Best,
Paul
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*From:* solutiongrove at gmail.com [mailto:solutiongrove at gmail.com] *On Behalf
Of *Caroline Meeks
*Sent:* Thursday, February 04, 2010 5:29 PM
*To:* Kim, Paul
*Subject:* Re: [IAEP] Laptops?!?
Thanks thats a great start.
About how many screens/levels/minutes of instruction are there per item?
Do you maybe have a work study eligible student who wants to help us with
this? I have a bit of funding that is earmarked for work study students.
You can get few XOs pretty easily. There is a contributors program with a
standard application: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors Let me know if
you decide to go for it and I'll help with the application and talk to Adam
Holt for you.
There is a CrisisCamp in NYC this saturday that will be focusing on
educational material. They often have technical people. Maybe you could
just throw a big blob of content over the wall to them and see if they get
anywhere. :)
Thanks,
Caroline
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Kim, Paul <phkim at stanford.edu> wrote:
This is not really a good catalog, but I quickly made this.
The book viewer reading program can take any languages and currently, we
have growing number of short stories in English and Spanish. We are
translating them into Arabic and Hebrew as well.
If you want to establish a formal relationship, I can get my students to
come up with learning games for XO as well. I am teaching EDUC 308 Mobile
learning application design class this Spring. Google is going to give me a
bunch of phones for my students to examine.
If you want to give my students XOs, I can get them to develop games for
XOs.
Paul
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*From:* solutiongrove at gmail.com [mailto:solutiongrove at gmail.com] *On Behalf
Of *Caroline Meeks
*Sent:* Thursday, February 04, 2010 6:59 AM
*To:* Kim, Paul
*Subject:* Re: RE: [IAEP] Laptops?!?
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Kim, Paul <phkim at stanford.edu> wrote:
Hi Caroline,
First of all, unzip the attached file and run the program and see if they
run properly. I will find the course codes in the mean time.
Also, please see attached story collection file. If you can get them to be
translated, we can plug them into our existing story flash program and give
them to you.
It is always hard to organize our resources because we are research focused,
not distribution oriented. We need to get some human resources to organize
our learning resources and ready them for world-wide distribution.
We have a lot of volunteers with a variety of skills. What skills do you
need?
I'm in a chicken and egg situation. To get the help of the best programmers
I need to show them the extent of the content because they are quite busy.
I've seen hints of what you have. I think it could be more useful then just
more eBooks. But I need more information to make my case. The volunteers
are not that sophisticated so the difference between and eBook and a
learning program that deliberately teaches reading needs to be explained and
shown.
But I can get some computer savvy people to help catalog and/or set up
version control for you I bet.
Thanks!
Caroline
Paul
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*From:* Caroline Meeks [mailto:solutiongrove at gmail.com]
*Sent:* Tuesday, February 02, 2010 8:12 AM
*To:* Kim, Paul
*Subject:* Fwd: [IAEP] Laptops?!?
hi Paul,
OLPC community is translating content now. If we can get your content
organized I think we can get it into Haiti. I also think there is a lot of
value in the type of content that you have created. Yes, books are great
and kids need books, but if we can also get pedagogically organized content
to teach basic skills that is very valuable.
Thanks,
Caroline
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: *Adam Holt* <holt at laptop.org>
Date: Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:17 AM
Subject: [IAEP] Laptops?!?
To: Support Gangsters <support-gang at laptop.org>, IAEP <
iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org>
By Carmina, one of many Haitian-American
bloggers/entrepreneurs/educators/open sourcerers I met in NYC
Saturday, *willing
to Take a Stand for Haiti:*
Laptops?!?
My good friend Mike asked puzzled. And I understood his reaction because I
had the same one at first.
Haiti ’s children don’t need laptops; they need food, shelter, the basic
stuff…
I’m grateful that others have the skills and the opportunity to go to Haiti
and help with those basic needs.
I applaud their efforts and admire their courage: unfortunately, I don’t
have the skills or opportunity to do so myself.
Almost a month has passed already…It’s time to build Haiti back!
It’s not going to happen overnight and it’s not going to happen by itself.
It’s starts with everyone doing a little bit, where they are, when they can.
So I’m doing the little bit I can by actively supporting 2 organizations in
which mission I believe in.
What motivates and excites me about the One Laptop Per
Child<http://www.laptop.org>/
Waveplace <http://www.waveplace.org> project is its potential to impact
the next generation of Haitians, out of which future parents, citizens,
mayors, senators and even presidents will come from.
I see a potential to open the minds of our children to other realities,
other worlds, give them new dreams, broader horizons.
So last Saturday at a CrisisCamp <http://www.crisiscommons.org> in NYC, when
I heard Adam Holt and Allison Bland, exhausted from an early morning train
ride from Boston to NY
talked enthusiastically about this project I saw a chance to make a
difference.
No matter how small my part would be.
Then I witnessed something awesome: people were gathering around them,
coming together, rallying around this project.
The ideas started flowing, out of the box ideas.
Suddenly, a simple translation project request became a movement to
revolutionize the educational system in Haiti.
2 days later, we have a coloring book project under way, translation parties
in the works, blogs, websites, publishers/authors
willing to giving us permission to make their children Creole books into
e-books, an active and growing online community of a people exchanging ideas
and
ready to make a difference in anyway they can. Wow! If we can do that in 2
days, what can we do in 1 week, 1 month, 1 year!
Yes, I realize that it’s a drop in the ocean, but if you could even
indirectly impact the future of 1 child of Haiti,
Would it not have been worth your while?
You can help!
Join our community at The New Haiti
Project<http://newhaitiproject.ning.com/group/onelaptopperchildwaveplaceproject>
.
Donate 1 hour of your time to translate material from English to Creole
Start here: http://translate.sugarlabs.org/ht/<http://translate.sugarlabs.org/>
[ Originally published at: http://RaiseUpHaiti.com - *Rebuilding Haiti by
Educating its Future Leaders* ]
[ Carmina is now translation volunteer coordinator for:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Haitian_Creole_Translation_for_Education ]
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Caroline Meeks
Solution Grove
Caroline at SolutionGrove.com
617-500-3488 - Office
505-213-3268 - Fax
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Caroline Meeks
Solution Grove
Caroline at SolutionGrove.com
617-500-3488 - Office
505-213-3268 - Fax
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Caroline Meeks
Solution Grove
Caroline at SolutionGrove.com
617-500-3488 - Office
505-213-3268 - Fax
--
Caroline Meeks
Solution Grove
Caroline at SolutionGrove.com
617-500-3488 - Office
505-213-3268 - Fax
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