[OLPC-SF] Missing narrative (was Re: Notes from Ethiopia's deployment...)

[Edward Cherlin]

The article that Sameer brought to our attention is almost entirely
positive, but it notes that in the first large XO deployment in
Ethiopia, nobody told the children about collaboration. A group of
them got quite excited by their first demo of Chat and other shared
activities, and is now passing the word to the other children.

We need to have a story about a child learning to use the XO, and
teaching friends and family. We could put a video together with all of
the essential bits and some of the positive social and educational
outcomes. It needs to have the facts, the human interest, and the
points that teachers and ministries need to absorb to get the most out
of the program.

Or perhaps we need a global Mr. Rogers to introduce children doing
something different every day. But that is for later.

Who wants to work on the first script?

Some possible topics:

Opening the XO.
Turning it on.
Doing something else while it boots.
The wireless neighborhood
Friends
The Journal
Bringing up and dismissing the frame.
Starting Activities.
Switching Activities.
Keyboards and Languages
Music keyboard
Saving state in the Journal.
Sharing Activities.
Sharing files.
Brief intro to selected Activities
Book mode with screen rotate
Using the XO as a mirror.
Using the XO as a light source.
Charging the XO battery.
Renewable electric power
Village Internet
Collaboration in the classroom
Tile-based programming.
Teaching parents.
TTS for literacy--XO reads stories to children and family.
Cultural sharing and preservation.
Some lessons, such as Alan Kay on Galilean gravity.
Repair

The big question is, what do we know from the field that teachers and
students have trouble finding out about in various circumstances? What
have I missed in the list above?

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
> A great post on observations in the field in Ethiopia.
> http://www.reactivated.net/weblog/archives/2008/10/olpc-ethiopia-updates/
>
> Sameer
> --
> Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor of Information Systems
> San Francisco State University
> San Francisco CA 94132 USA
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