[Olpc-open] Fwd: Scientific Animations Without Borders

[Kevin Mark]

On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 10:25:45PM -0500, Barry Pittendrigh wrote:
> 
> Dear OLPC,
> 
> I am writing you as the Director of Scientific Animations Without Borders
> (SAWBO). SAWBO is a University of Illinois-based program focused on
> developing educational materials for low literate learners in developing
> nations in their own language. We have already developed a series of
> animations that might be useful for the OLPC program. All animations are
> given out to educators around the world free of charge. If OLPC would be
> interested in some of our animations we would be happy to provide them to
> OLPC free of charge we would be happy to work with your group to adapt
> them to the OX laptops. We feel that our educational content could be helpful
> for your wonderful system of delivering educational materials.
> 
> A few websites on our program can be found at:
> 1) A PBS article on our project - http://www.americasheartland.org/episodes/episode_721/smart_phone_farming.htm
> 2) An animation explaining our project - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjtOHFFJSpc
> 3) Our full website - http://sawbo-illinois.org/
> 4) Our website for those will low bandwidth - http://sawbo-illinois.org/mobile/
> 5) An example animation - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQQycDb2tdY
> 
> We would like to explore possible synergies between our two groups. Feel
> free to contact me at this e-mail address or at 1-(217)-417-8930.
> 
> Regards,
> Barry
Hi Barry,
As an OLPC volunteer (and not officially speaking for OLPC-F or OLPC-A), my
understanding is that pilot project and deployments create most of their own
content and that OLPC does not really host educational content with the
expections of the "Wikipedia Activity' which If I recall is produced by Sugar
Labs (who creates 99% of the Activities for the XO).  You might start by adding
your information to the OLPC wiki, to list as a resource. Other people might
suggest the appropriate wiki page for it. You also might ask the people of
Sugar Labs about creating a 'Content bundle' containing your content. That
might ensure one avenue for people to find and use your content.
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Creating_a_collection

cheers,
Kev
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