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

[Harv Viray]

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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