[Olpc-socal] Uruguay's Open Source Software In Education "Jam" Wins International Recognition

[Caryl Bigenho]

Hi All,


As you may have heard, Uruguay's Ceibal Jam has received an Honorable Mention in the Digital Community division of the prestegious Prix Ars Electronica of Linz, Austria.  Project Ceibal is the official name for Uruguay's educational program that has distributed OLPC's XOs, running open source Sugar software, to every student in the country's public elementary schools. 
CeibalJam is an offshoot of Project Ceibal. It is only 2 years old but has progressed from a simple get-together to share programming knowledge and ideas among educators, developers, and other interested people, to a highly organized and productive all day affair.  
Participants are offered a wide variety of opportunities for learning and collaboration with open source software for education. Often projects get started at one of the Jams and the collaboration continues between jams.  Teachers, artists, programmers, and other interested people participate in creating new and interesting Activities and ways to use existing Activities.


CeibalJam offers a model that could be adapted/adopted by other groups interested in open source software in education.  Below is a translation of their workshop schedule for their recent Jam#7 (seven in just 2 years time!).


If you missed the link to the announcement of the award, here is the official one and a link to the Ceibal website talking about the Jam and the award:


http://www.aec.at/prix_history_en.php?year=2010#honorarymention2010digitalcommunities


http://ceibaljam.org   (for a translated version of the page, paste the url into Google Translate)


Caryl


Program for ceibalJAM7 (held on a university campus)
















































Room "Auriga"


Room 103


Room "Orión"


Room 104


Room 105












9:00


Arrival and registration












9:30 (1 hr)


Introduction, orientation and overview 












10:30
(2 hrs)


Conozco* Workshop
(Ana Cichero, Gabriel Eirea)


Scratch Workshop
(Nestor Flaquer, Graciela Barretto, Leticia Romero [RAP Ceiabl])


PippyJAM Workshop
(Pablo Moleri)


Accessibility Workship
(Andrea Mangiatordi, Alejandro Esperon, Micaela Acosta, Alfredo Villaverde)


Game Development Workshop
(Nicolás Castagnet, Fernando Sansberro, Gabriel Eirea)












12:30


Lunch












13:30
(4 hrs)


Developing Activites with Conozco*






Developing examples with  Scratch


Developing examples with PippyJAM


Development of software for special education Lend me your voice, Sequence, Memorize, Accesible.


Exploring  games












17:30 (1 hr)


Sharing progress and results












18:30


Close





































 		 	   		  
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