[Olpc-open] friendly manual

[Edward Cherlin]

On Dec 22, 2007 11:14 PM, Michael Burns <maburns at gmail.com> wrote:

> Was there a reason you decided to start anew, rather than extend the User
> Guide? It would be great if we had a more cohesive, less fragmented wiki
> namespace (and unified documentation, to boot).


Indeed, there is a reason. I am working on a discovery guide that tells as
little as possible of what is discoverable up front. The aim is to give a
taste of discovery to adult XO purchasers, so they get the idea of what this
is all about. Then I want to show them (help them discover) how to introduce
children to collaborative discovery on the XO, rather than try to teach
them.

Another aim is to document the claim that teacher training is not essential
for the OLPC program to work, and to provide the essential teacher training
to make it even more wildly successful.

On Dec 22, 2007 10:39 PM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On Dec 22, 2007 9:15 PM, Michael Burns <maburns at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Dec 22, 2007 7:57 PM, gnome <gnome at greenglim.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Yes, indeed.  There's a distinct lack of a friendly manual.  Maybe
> > > > this
> > > > is something we could do as a community?
> > >
> > >
> > I have started a new document, Discovering the OLPC XO, which I will
> > post when it has a bit more form. In the meantime, please use
> >
> > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User_guide
> > >
> > > Indeed, it is community-editabled wiki designed to be a simple,
> > > friendly user manual. Suggestions always welcome.
> > >
> >
> > Please post questions that this guide does not answer on the talk page
> > there, or on the New Users page. We also need to gather the pages containing
> > existing answers. I plan to link to them from OLPC Publications on the Wiki,
> > or from the relevant page for each publication. You are welcome to help.
> >
> >
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Edward Cherlin
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