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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Greetings and salutations everyone. Here is another mesmerizing update from yours truly. The community has certainly been busy with activities. So please help yourself with this smorgasbord of community updates!</font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Jerome will be Cebu Bound this week to attend DevCon and CebuICT2009 (June 26, 2009). He will participate in the lighting talk session to discuss OLPC and Sugar. If you are in the area, please come see his riveting talk! And see him sprinkle water on the XO. </font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">For more info, contact Jerome or click the following website: (</font><a href="http://www.devcon.ph/"><font color="#800080" face="verdana,sans-serif">http://www.devcon.ph</font></a><font face="verdana,sans-serif">).</font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">In coordination with Sagip Bata and members of the Singles for Christ, Jerome will organize an OLPC discovery session with local educators and developers. Although an agenda has not been set yet, two of the goals are to spread awareness and elicit feedback. Depending on their schedules, the meeting will most likely be held in July. If you are interested, please contact Jerome.</font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">“Focus on the mission, not the vehicle (referring to the XO)!” - True words of wisdom from the founder of Waveplace. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Marife Mago, Cherry Withers, and Ryan Letada skyped with Tim Falconer this past week to discuss Waveplace’s vision, philosophy, deployment approaches, challenges, and curriculum. Other buzz words/phrases include “Agile approach,” “etoys,” and “16-unit curriculums.” </font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Meeting notes will be posted soon at </font><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Philippines/Meetings"><font color="#800080" face="verdana,sans-serif">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Philippines/Meetings</font></a></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">The Mission – Meeting Update from June 14</font></b></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">After an hour and a half of discussion, the mission is as follows: </font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">"Our mission is to enhance educational opportunities through open source, technological and learning innovations for the empowerment of the children in the Philippines."</font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">For the minutes, please click: <a href="http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting.log.20090614_0858.html">http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting.log.20090614_0858.html</a></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Discussion regarding the vision is still taking place. The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">next meeting</b>, which will take place on the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">24<sup>th</sup> of June</b> (same time, same place) will revolve around organization structure. </font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Mafe and Mel met to discuss the Sagip Testbed. Mafe is driving forward the creation of a test bed in the Philippines to try out XOs, Sugar, and other open-source educational technologies and curricula with Sagip kids at a Gawad Kalinga (GK) village.</font></p>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font size="2" face="verdana,sans-serif">Check out the minutes at: </font><a href="http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-philippines/2009-June/000585.htm"><font size="2" face="verdana,sans-serif">http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-philippines/2009-June/000585.htm</font></a></span></div>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">These articles/full blown research cover lessons learned from the evaluation of different OLPC programs worldwide. </font></p>
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<li style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in" class="MsoNormal"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Evaluation of OLPC programs worldwide: <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/images/f/fb/Literature_Review_040309.pdf">http://wiki.laptop.org/images/f/fb/Literature_Review_040309.pdf</a></font></li>
<li style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in" class="MsoNormal"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Evaluation of OLE Nepal: <a href="http://blog.olenepal.org/index.php/archives/321">http://blog.olenepal.org/index.php/archives/321</a></font></li>
<li style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in" class="MsoNormal"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Evaluation of Teaching Matters approach with the OLPC [Harlem]: <a href="http://www.teachingmatters.org/evaluations/olpc_kappa.pdf">http://www.teachingmatters.org/evaluations/olpc_kappa.pdf</a> </font></li>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Click here: </font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="verdana,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/06/the-xo-laptop-two-years-later-part-1-the-vision/">http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/06/the-xo-laptop-two-years-later-part-1-the-vision/</a></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">The link provides a list of netbooks that can be used for our educational purpose.</font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-olpc-list/2009-June/msg00061.html">https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-olpc-list/2009-June/msg00061.html</a></font></p>
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<li style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in" class="MsoNormal"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Spread the word! Engage and start conversations!</font></li></ul>
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