[OLPC-Philippines] ZDNet Asia: Open source adoption 'anomaly' in Philippines

[Cherry Withers]

Thanks Harv!

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 3:23 AM, Harv Viray <bcviray at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Cherry, Marife,
>
> I have used Edu 2.0 (http://www.edu20.org/) in one of my previous
> classes.  Maybe you can check this out as another teaching portal
> alternative.
>
>
> Regards,
> Harv
>
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Cherry Withers <cherry.withers at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Here's the content development and programs update:
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/eKindling_Content
>>
>> I have Nepal's E-paath running on my XO and exploring how we can modify it
>> for our use as a possible offline teaching portal (until they're ready for
>> Karma). They currently have content for Grade 2 and 6, but some in Nepalese.
>> There might be an earlier English only image we can use.We currently don't
>> have smalltalk/squeak developers from the Philippines. I've pinged Richard
>> Rowe to help out. Also learning Squeak on the side.
>>
>> Marife is currently exploring Moodle as a possible online teaching portal
>> alternative.
>>
>> On my way to Squeakfest from August 10-12. I'll do a virtual meeting after
>> I come back as part of eKindling:Discoveries Series.
>>
>> Cheerios,
>> Cherry Withers
>> cwithers at ekindling.org
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:41 AM, Jerome Gotangco <jgotangco at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Mel Chua<mel at melchua.com> wrote:
>>> >>> How's eKindling doing these days? I don't see a lot of discussion on
>>> the
>>> >>> mailing lists, which makes me curious whether there's another place I
>>> >>> should be listening in.
>>> >>
>>> >> We've managed to carve a speaking slot at Y4IT on September. Y4IT is
>>> >> like the JavaOne of Technology conferences here bu with a unique
>>> >> audience because it only focuses on the youth, those graduating from
>>> >> high school and starting up college. Will be talking about the Sugar
>>> >> Learning Platform in particular and other stuff we're doing and
>>> >> planning with ekindling. I think its a good opportunity to seed
>>> >> interest to students. Details at http://y4it.up.edu.ph
>>> >
>>> > Thanks! Is there another mailing list or venue that these plans are
>>> > being discussed on? It's great that we can find out by asking - how can
>>> > we find out without having to ask?
>>>
>>> Actually none yet. We just email within ourselves. An organizational
>>> list is in my todo. It's because the past few weeks we've been pretty
>>> busy with real life (have been traveling) but what we've been up to
>>> today are:
>>>
>>> 1. Incorporation of eKindling
>>> 2. Jump starting the plan again for the discovery session
>>>
>>> On the side, I've been hanging out in the OLE Nepal channel and
>>> helping Christoph and Bryan on the evaluation of Liferay portal, which
>>> I believe they will need to use for Karma. Here are the details:
>>> http://blog.olenepal.org/index.php/archives/335 any help would be
>>> appreciated!
>>>
>>> --
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Jerome
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