Hi Caroline, <br><br>I'll rattle off updates. I apologize if it's incoherent. Frantically getting ready for my trip. The only pictures that we got from Lubang are the ones that Ryan and Tessa took when they went for a visit. That's located in: <a href="http://www.ekindling.org/blogs">http://www.ekindling.org/blogs</a><br>
<br>1) We've set the date for training. It will be from April 12-16th in NCC and 17th-18th in Lubang. Sorry for the ones who want to attend the training and observe. Space and resources are limited to the attendees (this is a factor of space and funds). We will document the training with videos and photos and do updates on our blog (which is synced to <a href="http://www.olpcnews.com">www.olpcnews.com</a>). Trying to see if we can do a live feed. <br>
<br>2) Training schedule can be located in: <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/EKindling/Projects/Remote_Pilot_Deployment_in_Lubang">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/EKindling/Projects/Remote_Pilot_Deployment_in_Lubang</a> <br>This is schedule is flexible and will depend on how fast the teachers can process the info. I am more concerned about confidence building rather than going through the entire list. Anything that we can't cover, I will go over with them on the web and a weekly online meet-up was agreed upon on IRC #ekindling (<a href="http://freenode.net">freenode.net</a>) or Skype. Still figuring out what the best time is for the teachers. Everyone's invited to this. To do list: set up jabber server for eKindling. <br>
<br>3) An online meeting with teachers happened yesterday. I'll try to get a more detailed entry in the wiki regarding our survey. <br> <br>4) Mitch Seaton (OLPCFriends/OLPC-Aus) is going to support the deployment and will be staying in Lubang for the month of July. <br>
<br>5) Ryan is taking care of the order details and working hard to get them to arrive right around the time Mitch is in the Philippines. Estimated ship time now is Mid-July to early August (Ryan please confirm this). <br>
<br>6) I've donated a netbook to use as XS for both the training and deployment. Hamilton will get it ready for us. He's also teaching the class (see schedule). We are still in need of a couple of WAPs and possibly a repeater since there are two schools for this pilot (Maligaya Elementary is a satellite school of Lubang Integrated and is walking distance to LIS).<br>
<br>7) There could possibly be three 4th grade classes for this pilot but it will be "pushing it". Maligaya has an estimated 25 incoming 4th graders, while LIS estimates 70-78 students incoming 4th graders. We will only have 100 available laptops. It doesn't leave us much wiggle room. <br>
<br>8) Logistics: we have 8 XO (number of students: 13) 1.0s confirmed for the training. Hamilton volunteered to be the point person for gathering the laptops from CP contributors (so far, only Alan Victorino and Jerome are parting with theirs). The rest are donated by US donors. There MIGHT be 7 coming in from CP though this is still in process and might not make it before I leave. Hamilton is working with the NCC team to get us wifi in the training room: He found out that the problem was getting Browse configured with the proxy. <br>
<br>Hope I covered most of it. <br><br>Cheers, <br>Cherry<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Caroline Meeks <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:caroline@solutiongrove.com">caroline@solutiongrove.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">I am going to a teacher conference FOSS VT in vermont tomorrow. Can you give me a quick update and maybe a picture so I can talk about what is happening RIGHT NOW. :)<div>
<br></div><div>Thanks<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Cherry Withers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cwithers@ekindling.org" target="_blank">cwithers@ekindling.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hey Gerald,<br><br>A kids-to-kids exchange would be great! Would be hard to manage the time difference but I think we can manage a video exchange. I'm sure they have <br>LOTS of questions for your kids. <br><br>Cheers,<br>
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Cherry</font><div><div></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 3:58 AM, Gerald Ardito <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gerald.ardito@gmail.com" target="_blank">gerald.ardito@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Cherry,<div><br></div><div>I don't have a troubleshooting guide, but could put one together.</div><div>Also, if you will have access to Skype, I'm sure my kids would love to help your kids via video conference.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Gerald<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Cherry Withers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cwithers@ekindling.org" target="_blank">cwithers@ekindling.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Marife, you're giving away plane tickets? Whoah! Where's mine? :-D<br><br>By the way Gerald do you have a hardware trouble shooting guide or diagram (maybe a flow chart) that you use for your kids? <br>We will have a support team outside of the school but I would like for the kids and teachers to debug <br>
their problems first before they send over their laptops to someone else. At least be able to articulate the problem in <br>repair ticket. <br><br>I'm looking at the troubleshooting guide from the OLPC wiki and it goes through a labyrinth of information. I would <br>
rather keep it simple for the first responders (kids and teachers) . <br> <br>Cheers,<br><font color="#888888">Cherry <br></font><div><div></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Gerald Ardito <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gerald.ardito@gmail.com" target="_blank">gerald.ardito@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Marife,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for the introduction. I am really looking forward to following the progress of your progress.</div>
<div>Please let me know if I can help at all.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, let me know when to expect the plane ticket. :)</div>
<div><br></div><div><font color="#888888">Gerald</font><div><div></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Marife Mago <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marife.mago@gmail.com" target="_blank">marife.mago@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hi Cherry and All,<br><br>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. <br><br>Gerald plz meet the team. <br>
<br>Just got a word from him...he'll join Mitch in traveling to the Philippines for the deployment. Right ...Gerald? :)<br><br>Gerald: Plz feel free to join our mailing list.<br><a href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-philippines" target="_blank">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-philippines</a><br>
<br>Mabuhay!<br><br>~marife<br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Cherry Withers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cwithers@ekindling.org" target="_blank">cwithers@ekindling.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Hi folks,<br>(PAGING Carlos, Rowen and Hamilton and anyone else who have done XO/Sugar work)<br>
<br>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. <br>
<br>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:<br>
<br>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. <br>
<br>B)* Detailed hardware debugging and repair. The hardware trouble shooting and repair training will likely be broken up into two tiers:<br><br>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. <br>
<br>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. <br>
<br>*Note: any guidance on this part would be truly appreciated.<br><br>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. <br>
<br>Thank you for your support! <br><br>Sincerely, <br><font color="#888888">---Cherry <br></font>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. <br>
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