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Subject: Re: [support-gang] DC-area public housing kids test George Hunt's XoPhoto<br>To: "Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to \"help AT <a href="http://laptop.org">laptop.org</a>\"" <<a href="mailto:support-gang@lists.laptop.org">support-gang@lists.laptop.org</a>><br>
Cc: Joanne Miller <<a href="mailto:jmillerphoto@earthlink.net">jmillerphoto@earthlink.net</a>>, Support Gangsters <<a href="mailto:support-gang@laptop.org">support-gang@laptop.org</a>><br><br><br>Please do brainstorm the NYC angle with George! <br>
<br>Joanne and I have already talked about taking the bus up to meet with George and anyone else. We're going into cold weather quickly, but If OLPC NY could select a nice indoor garden that would allow a group of inner city kids to do a photo walk, we might be able to do a photo walk up there in the coming weeks.<br>
<br>Even cooler would be to do simultaneous photo walks in DC and NYC with Skype Video linking the two groups! I've got the gear for that on my end.<br><font color="#888888"><br>Mike</font>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Marife Mago <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marife.mago@gmail.com" target="_blank">marife.mago@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>OLPC_NYC we'll have a planning meeting this Saturday and this will be a great idea to do as an event activity as part of our XOphoto marketing.</div>
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<div>I'll share this with the group, if they're up to doing a similar activity anyway the man behind the xophoto George Hunt is with the team. :)</div>
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<div>Awesome idea and pictures!</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Mike Lee <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:curiouslee@gmail.com" target="_blank">curiouslee@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">Hi Adam,<br><br>Thanks for the plug and dispatch from Haiti. Yes, these--and all kids--need to have regular time to sense, reflect and create. Even when survival is the priority.<br>
<br>I posted a package of links, photos and videos in a Flickr gallery here:<br><br><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/sets/72157625300840584/with/5141142801/" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/sets/72157625300840584/with/5141142801/</a><br>
<br>Alas, the only dimension I didn't cover thoroughly was live tweeting. Between taking photos to document and helping the kids, I was hopping!<br><br>Be safe down there!<br><br>Mike<br><br>P.S. SJ: OLPC blog post please?<br>
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<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">Kids here in Haiti are ready for XoPhoto please, if we can please bring Into Popular Distribution, as Mike Lee & Joanne Miller below!<br><br>Even if kids in this town where I'm standing (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petite-Rivi%C3%A8re-de-Nippes" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petite-Rivi%C3%A8re-de-Nippes</a>) weren't increasingly getting Internet through a benefactor I just met. Several older Haitian kids I saw today were obsessed with taking photos, but unable to integrate them into Etoys & all other storytelling on their XOs. Such a shame. As bad as me running around seeing 2 of the most vivid countries I've seen in my life (DR+Haiti) without a cam. But at least a 1AM Haitian marching brass bands just right now passed me by celebrating the "1st day of autumn". Haitians are tired of cholera, hurricanes and earthquakes. So are installing solar+Internet on the roof of their 900-kid school's roof here instead. Let's hope it all works, unlike the generator they could not get working this holiday morning, til I bought them gasoline and fired it up with an old rope just long enough for their kids to dazzle us with on-the-spot Etoys animations and yes, shock us with porno on their cellphones..<br>
<br>But no time to write, let alone meditate, in this seas of humanity+greenery+water+sewage+mosquitos+gratefulness+humble-while-demanding-hope as we drive through a few more beautiful lush rivers, and meet a pile more smalltime school leaders, on the way to Ground Zero tomorrow, but Tim will hopefully catch up blogging by weekend here: <a href="http://waveplace.com/news/blog/" target="_blank">http://waveplace.com/news/blog/</a> PS don't tell anyone I'm actually using a cellphone for the 1st time in my life as here it's a survival issue.. Like <a href="http://olpcmap.net/" target="_blank">http://olpcMAP.net</a> in its very own way....<br>
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<pre>Joanne and I (along with Cici!) are doing our first PhotoKids nature
walk tomorrow at the Smithsonian Castle.
The Housing Opportunities Commission sent out a press release yesterday:
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, November 1, 2010
CONTACT:
Susan Krimer Yancy
240-773-9060; cell: 301-661-3921
Joanne Miller: 301-758-4870
MEDIA ADVISORY
YOUNG RESIDENTS FROM GAITHERSURG PUBLIC HOUSING TO TEST LAPTOPS
FOR CHILDREN IN THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES
WHEN: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2010, 12:30 – 2 P.M.
WHERE: NATIONAL MALL NEAR ENID HAUPT PUBLIC GARDEN
(1050 Independence Ave., S.W., on the grounds near the Sackler
Museum and the National Museum of African Art)
On Tuesday, November 2, 2010, ten young residents of the Housing
Opportunities Commission’s
(HOC) subsidized housing in Gaithersburg, will travel to the National
Mall in Washington, D.C.
to help test a photography application on special “XO” laptops that
are given to children in third
world countries by the “One Laptop Per Child” nonprofit organization.
All of the children going to the Mall are former participants in
“PhotoKids,” a photography
program coordinated by the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery
County in collaboration
with HOC and professional photographer/artist/teacher, Joanne Miller.
After establishing a connection to the Internet on the Mall, the young
photographers will upload
their photographs to the XO computers to test the photography software
on the machines. Their
feedback will help the program designer improve the software for use
by children around the
world. The photos will be posted on the Arts and Humanities Council of
Montgomery County
website.
“One Laptop Per Child” was created by Nicholas Negroponte and others
from the MIT Media Lab
to design, manufacture and distribute laptop computers that are
inexpensive enough to provide
every child in the world access to knowledge and modern forms of education.
“Photo Kids” was made possible by the generous support of the Arts and
Humanities Council of
Montgomery County, the Montgomery County Employee Giving Campaign and
Sovereign Bank
Foundation for the Arts.
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INTERVIEW AND PHOTO OPPORTUNITIES
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And a copy of it is on Scribd:
<a href="http://scr.bi/boFxub" target="_blank">http://scr.bi/boFxub</a>
I'll be posting our adventures to Twitter:
<a href="http://twitter.com/curiouslee" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/curiouslee</a>
and
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/sets/72157624954544779/with/5047527735/" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/sets/72157624954544779/with/5047527735/</a>
Mike
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