[Olpc-uk] Teacher Training Preparation - Saturday, 11 July 2009

[michael_jordan50 at bigpond.com]

I have added Steve's points into the draft agenda for Tuesday - still required are a look at the applications that should be shown and anymore detail anyone thinks should be included.

Amir, please update us on further developments you have made toward a detailed agenda specifically for Tuesday.

Agenda
Tuesday 14th July
5:00pm Start

OLPC - vision, activities, etc.

XO laptop and Sugar
* understanding the various buttons and what they did (and didnt) do.
* XO startup / booting / basic attributes
* Connection to networks

Activities - run through a couple of activities and show how they can fit perfectly into National Curriculum requirements
* Selected list of activities to go through - in detail?





1) working out how top open it(!). i got there in the end and it seems obvious now. Martin had a good laugh at me while i tried to figure it out though
2) understanding the various buttons and what they did (and didnt) do.
3) getting it to connect to my home network. wpa and the build on the XO i have dont seem to play nice! possibly not an issue with the ones we have for the teachers though
4) figuring out all the activities. some seem obvious - write, record, some of the game ones. some are a little more tricky (although im sure there are instructions for them somewhere that i didnt bother to look up).

---- Steve Berryman <steve at berryman.org.uk> wrote: 
> Any plans to reschedule this meeting? if not (or even if so!) I was
> wondering which activities people were thinking would be best to demonstrate
> to the teachers first? Is there any sort of structure in place yet for the
> first session?
> 
> From the short time i've had to play with an XO the main 'issues' i've had
> (if that's what you want to call them!) are:
> 1) working out how top open it(!). i got there in the end and it seems
> obvious now. Martin had a good laugh at me while i tried to figure it out
> though
> 2) understanding the various buttons and what they did (and didnt) do.
> 3) getting it to connect to my home network. wpa and the build on the XO i
> have dont seem to play nice! possibly not an issue with the ones we have for
> the teachers though
> 4) figuring out all the activities. some seem obvious - write, record, some
> of the game ones. some are a little more tricky (although im sure there are
> instructions for them somewhere that i didnt bother to look up).
> 
> just a few thoughts i had.
> 
> Steve
> 
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > The chat room will be #olpc-uk on freenode.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Peter
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 5:22 PM, <michael_jordan50 at bigpond.com> wrote:
> > > Good afternoon,
> > >
> > > As per Warren's email earlier in the week we are aiming to discuss the
> > teacher training over the weekend.  We have settled on an IRC chat at 2pm on
> > Saturday - those working on the laptop's at Clapham Junction will join the
> > chat from there.  So anyone looking to contribute to the training please
> > tune in.
> > >
> > > Draft agenda for the teacher training on Tuesday below - looking to add
> > significant detail to guide the training session.
> > >
> > > OLPC - vision, activities, etc.
> > > XO laptop - the physical hardware
> > > Sugar - how to get around, etc.
> > > Activities - run through a couple of activities and show how they can
> > > fit perfectly into National Curriculum requirements
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Michael Jordan
> > > 07 8814 64213
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