On Dec 22, 2007 11:14 PM, Michael Burns <<a href="mailto:maburns@gmail.com">maburns@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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).</blockquote><div><br>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.
<br><br>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.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Dec 22, 2007 10:39 PM, Edward Cherlin <<a href="mailto:echerlin@gmail.com" target="_blank">echerlin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Dec 22, 2007 9:15 PM, Michael Burns <<a href="mailto:maburns@gmail.com" target="_blank">maburns@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><span></span>On Dec 22, 2007 7:57 PM, gnome <<a href="mailto:gnome@greenglim.com" target="_blank">gnome@greenglim.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Yes, indeed. There's a distinct lack of a friendly manual. Maybe this<br>is something we could do as a community?</blockquote></div><div></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br>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
<br><br></div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User_guide" target="_blank">
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User_guide
</a><br><br>Indeed, it is community-editabled wiki designed to be a simple, friendly user manual. Suggestions always welcome.</div></div></blockquote></div><div><br>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.
<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><font color="#888888">-- <br>Michael Burns * Student<br>Open Source {Education} Lab
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Edward Cherlin<br>Earth Treasury: End Poverty at a Profit<br><a href="http://www.EarthTreasury.org/">http://www.EarthTreasury.org/</a><br>"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay
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