[OLPC-Philippines] Need help with the training this April

[Marife Mago]

Cherry...only if Gerald give me his credit card number.  :)

Gerald: As of the moment eKindling volunteers pay their own expenses and
even miscellaneous expenses.

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Cherry Withers <cwithers at ekindling.org>wrote:

> Marife, you're giving away plane tickets? Whoah! Where's mine? :-D
>
> By the way Gerald do you have a hardware trouble shooting guide or diagram
> (maybe a flow chart) that you use for your kids?
> We will have a support team outside of the school but I would like for the
> kids and teachers to debug
> their problems first before they send over their laptops to someone else.
> At least be able to articulate the problem in
> repair ticket.
>
> I'm looking at the troubleshooting guide from the OLPC wiki and it goes
> through a labyrinth of information. I would
> rather keep it simple for the first responders (kids and teachers) .
>
> Cheers,
> Cherry
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Gerald Ardito <gerald.ardito at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Marife,
>>
>> Thanks for the introduction. I am really looking forward to following the
>> progress of your progress.
>> Please let me know if I can help at all.
>>
>> Also, let me know when to expect the plane ticket. :)
>>
>> Gerald
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Marife Mago <marife.mago at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Cherry and All,
>>>
>>> Plz let me introduce Gerald Ardito, he's from Pierre Van Cortlandt Middle
>>> School in Croton, Hudson NY.  Ryan and I ...had a chance to visit their
>>> first deployment.
>>>
>>> Gerald plz meet the team.
>>>
>>> Just got a word from him...he'll join Mitch in traveling to the
>>> Philippines for the deployment.  Right ...Gerald? :)
>>>
>>> Gerald: Plz feel free to join our mailing list.
>>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-philippines
>>>
>>> Mabuhay!
>>>
>>> ~marife
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Cherry Withers <cwithers at ekindling.org>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi folks,
>>>> (PAGING Carlos, Rowen and Hamilton and anyone else who have done
>>>> XO/Sugar work)
>>>>
>>>> I'm going back home to the Philippines after 17 years of absence. I
>>>> always thought I won't do this until I'm given a compelling enough reason to
>>>> do so. I think affecting some changes on our education system in the
>>>> Philippines (however small or big that may be) is compelling enough. So I'm
>>>> heading back home this April to lend a hand in preparing the teachers in
>>>> Lubang for the pilot deployment in June. But I need  help especially from
>>>> those who have experience playing with the laptop and Sugar.
>>>>
>>>> Tessa Yuvienco will work with the teachers on prepping them on how the
>>>> technology will change the dynamics of the classroom (classroom management,
>>>> curriculum integration, etc.). Harvey volunteered to do some second tier
>>>> hardware support training (this is for training the technical support team
>>>> who will be the main contact when hardware breaks) but his time is limited
>>>> so he can only go over a handful of things. I can go over most of the things
>>>> that's not covered but it would be great to break up the task. Mitch Seaton
>>>> from OLPC-Aus will lend his support during the deployment and do a refresher
>>>> course on what we talk about in April. Here are some of the bigger areas
>>>> that we need help on:
>>>>
>>>> A) XS server training and support (I'm working on getting us the ideal
>>>> hardware for this before I go home and OLPC-SF said that they can help but
>>>> just in case, maybe someone can look into getting us a set-up even if it's
>>>> just for the span of the training?). This is for teaching the teachers and
>>>> students on how to log in and use the XS server and Moodle.
>>>>
>>>> B)* Detailed hardware debugging and repair. The hardware trouble
>>>> shooting and repair training will likely be broken up into two tiers:
>>>>
>>>> 1st Tier: this will be a simple diagnosis that we can teach the
>>>> technical support team including teachers and kids. Maybe just how to
>>>> recognize trouble signs and to know how to articulate the problem to the
>>>> tech support team.
>>>>
>>>> 2nd Tier (only for Tech support team): More detailed training on how to
>>>> trouble shoot, debug and do quick repairs. We still have to figure out up to
>>>> how much complexity of repairs the tech support team in Lubang can handle.
>>>> We may add a third tier to the support or just escalate the hardware
>>>> problems to OLPC main.
>>>>
>>>> *Note: any guidance on this part would be truly appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> The training will be from April 12-21st with the last two days dedicated
>>>> to the Muscovado project and training in content creation using Etoys.
>>>> Unfortunately space is limited (this is venue and hardware issue) to just
>>>> the participants of the two pilots but let me or Ryan know if you'd like to
>>>> get involved long term to the projects and we'll try to accommodate as much
>>>> as we can possibly can.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for your support!
>>>>
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>> ---Cherry
>>>> P.S. So far we have 6 XOs that we are guaranteed to have, but we could
>>>> use more as there will be 12 participants in the Lubang project. If you have
>>>> some hardware that you can lend that will be great. The teachers will need
>>>> them till their laptops come in around late July or early August.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>
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