[OLPC-SF] What would you say to a Haiti schoolmaster to interest them in OLPC?

[Travis A]

Adam and Caryl,

Thanks for your excellent insight.  I knew it could be an uphill battle.
To be honest, I am relying on the others at the church that know the
schoolmaster better to lead the charge.  However, since I know the
technical faucets more, I hope that I can help assuage any concerns.  They
do some other computer installation at the school -- I believe it is a
windows-based choice.  So hopefully he does support computer education, and
this might not be too much of a leap.

Thanks for letting me know about Child in Hand.  I will pass this
information onto the others and your recommendations.  Certainly also might
be a point to make to the headmaster.  This is exactly the type of info
that I didn't know and appreciate it.

I did see some of George's blog posts, but I will keep looking and learn
more about this before tomorrow.

Thank you!
Travis

On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Holt <holt at laptop.org> wrote:

> Huge question!  A school's principal/headmaster must be deeply committed
> to laptop learning of one sort or another, or you will face trouble -- to
> put it mildly.
>
> Just as a point of ref, George Hunt (with Anna Schoolfield's help) created
> a solid little Haiti build last month, based on OLPC Release 11.3.1 and
> Sugar Activities we trained folks around, over almost 3 weeks in Haiti.
>  We'd love more Creole but quality translations/literature/**Activities
> are hard to come by.  So for now we went with 40+ French books, Fototoon,
> WikipediaFR, Etoys (TuxPaint at times) etc.  This was reflashed onto almost
> 240 XO-1s in Haiti last month, which are progressively being introduced to
> Port-au-Prince area schools and orphanages.
>
> See olpcMAP below (Grand Goave, Haiti and the northern part of
> Port-au-Prince) for snapshots and brief blog posts if curious. You're
> asking the most profoundly hard question, as I'm sure you're aware :)
>
> Child in Hand is paying trainer/mentors to do this critical implementation
> work in Haiti, similar to what the Waveplace Foundation did in the past, if
> you are interested in paying these same Haitian implementors in
> Port-au-Prince and nearby to do some consulting for you, I can certainly
> connect you, as I speak with them on a weekly basis -- and yes Haitian do
> in fact need jobs not just computers :)
>
> --
> Help kids everywhere map their world, at http://olpcMAP.net !
>
>
>
>
> On 4/20/2013 2:47 PM, Travis A wrote:
>
>> Hello support-gang and OLPC-SF,
>>
>> A church in Carmel valley has been working with a school in Hinche, Haiti
>> as part of their outreach effort.  They have the headmaster of the school
>> visiting here and would like to introduce them to the OLPC.  They even have
>> 20 OLPC's ready to go if the headmaster is interested.  They've asked me to
>> speak to him and show him the XO.
>>
>> I have done more work with the programming side of OLPC, and not yet done
>> a OLPC deployment.  From those of you with that experience, particularly in
>> Haiti, what would you say to the headmaster?  What type of XO content do
>> other Haiti deployments ask for?  I was planning to show the customization,
>> language switching, variety of activities, and maybe something about a
>> power charging station if he asks.  I've already read through past posts on
>> the lists about Haiti, but I thought I would just ask for your current
>> input.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Travis
>>
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