[Olpc-open] Working on "Community Building" article in the wiki

[Bryan Berry]

Clare,

That's fantastic.  I think alot of students are in a perfect position to
develop and create content for OLPC. Global issues are great pls do cover
them.  People in Nepal and a lot of other developing nations need basic
English and mathematics skills. If you can find time at some point to work
on creating materials for those two areas, that would be great.

I really don't know much about teaching programming through game design.  SJ
Klein may know though.

I think groups of students in the US are perfect for generating content. I
have discussed w/ my Aunt (a teacher) and she thinks we could get a lot of
students to create content through the mandatory public service that many
high schools require.  I don't think there is a organization outside of OLPC
that is actively generating content for OLPC in the US but there should be.

Let me reiterate, create content on whatever you think is needed but pls,
pls find time to work on English as a second language and math.  Open-source
materials on those subjects are desperately needed in the developing world.


If anyone on *OLPC-Open* knows some good open-source ESL resources, pls let
me know.

As far as I know, your group would be the first student group to create
content for OLPC.  But I'm not the content expert, SJ Klein is.

I am cc'ing SJ Klein and Richard Rowe of OLPC. SJ is in charge of content
and Richard is in charge of working w/ grassroots organizations.

keep up the great work!  And please post the blueprint for a game jam to the
wiki.  We would love to do one in Nepal

Bryan
Kathmandu
OLPC Nepal


On 4/17/07, Clare Richardson <clare at girlstart.org> wrote:
>
>  Bryan,
>
> I'm interested in creating an OLPC content community out of an
> after-school program that I coordinate.  "Project IT Girl" is an
> after-school program for high school girls (age 16 – 17) in Austin, Texas,
> to get them interested in technical careers and improve their
> computer/programming literacy.  These girls are very motivated by global
> issues, which I think is perfect for creating OLPC content.  For example
> this year, they picked topics ranging from alternative fuel sources to AIDS
> awareness to create a public service announcement about.
>
>
>
> Next year, our curriculum will focus around creating "serious",
> educational games.  Most of the participants have zero programming
> experience, so we're teaching them programming basics through the game
> project.  I see our group as falling into both the Developer and Educator
> categories you described on the wiki.  Our participants will essentially be
> very novice developers, as well as educators since these games will be
> instructional.
>
>
>
> I have posted to the OLPC Games mailing list, but I wanted your input on
> it too.  What resources have you seen for this kind of project (teaching
> programming through creating instructional games)?  What content communities
> are out there already?  Are there any schools or other educational groups
> creating laptop content?  I'm wondering if most student content developers
> are on the university level.  It looks like there's a great community in
> Nepal; is there an active organization in the US looking for people to
> create content?
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Clare Richardson
> Technology and Program Coordinator
>
> Girlstart
>
> www.girlstart.org
>
>
>  ------------------------------
>
> *From:* olpc-open-bounces at laptop.org [mailto:olpc-open-bounces at laptop.org]
> *On Behalf Of *Bryan Berry
> *Sent:* Thursday, April 12, 2007 8:49 PM
> *To:* devel at laptop.org; olpcnepal digest subscribers; olpc-open at laptop.org
> *Cc:* bergern at ohio.edu
> *Subject:* [Olpc-open] Working on "Community Building" article in the wiki
>
>
>
> I have created a wiki article on Community building.  There are lots of
> pieces in the wiki on how to build a community to support OLPC, but nothing
> that tied them together.  this new article complements the "Getting Involved
> w/ OLPC" article in that its purpose is to get more people involved in OLPC.
>
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Community_Building
>
> It's pretty rough but contributions/editing are most welcome
>
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