<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Would concur with Amir's assessment coming out of the last meeting with our pilot school, which was subsequent to my original message.</div><div><br></div><div>To provide further context, the note was within the body of a general update. On the development of curriculum and applications, there have been numerous discussions and some efforts (however independent to date) to both draw together (where available) and look to develop both areas (i.e. Amir's attendance at a Sugar Camp in Paris), and Peter's recent attendance of a Redhat Fedora session.</div><div><br></div><div>For OLPC (UK) it would be very early days in any formalized effort to develop specific curriculum or applications, however there is great initiative to do so.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Warren<br><br>On 2009-07-18, at 7:52 AM, Amir Ansari <<a href="mailto:amir@open-edu.co.uk">amir@open-edu.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span style="font-face: Helvetica; ">I think Warren was referring to the activities centered around the school pilot. It seems now that we're NOT going to be developing curriculum material since the teachers at the school expressed a wish to work through this themselves. At our last meeting (on Tuesday) Michael and I encouraged them to consider how to share these lessons (schemes of work, etc.) with the rest of the OLPC community, later in the year.<br><br>It makes sense, since these are the people on the 'front line'... ;-)<br><br>Amir<br><br><br>On 18 Jul 2009, at 00:50, Faisal Sadeq Khan wrote:<br><br></span><blockquote type="cite"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgba(0, 152, 0, 1); ">>>2009/7/5 Lawrence W Pimm <<a href="mailto:wpimm@mac.com">wpimm@mac.com</a>> wrote:</span><span style="font-face: Helvetica; "><br></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgba(0, 152, 0, 1); ">>>There have been several other key initiatives underway with OLPC (UK) including:</span><span style="font-face: Helvetica; "><br></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgba(0, 152, 0, 1); "> >>.</span><span style="font-face: Helvetica; "><br></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgba(0, 152, 0, 1); ">>>.</span><span style="font-face: Helvetica; "><br></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgba(0, 152, 0, 1); ">>>.</span><span style="font-face: Helvetica; "><br></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgba(0, 152, 0, 1); ">>>- development of a curriculum and application team for OLPC (UK);</span><span style="font-face: Helvetica; "><br><br></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgba(50, 50, 254, 1); ">>2009/7/5 Faisal Sadeq Khan <</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgba(0, 0, 237, 1); "><a href="mailto:olpc@sadeq.me.uk">olpc@sadeq.me.uk</a></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgba(50, 50, 254, 1); ">> wrote:</span><span style="font-face: Helvetica; "><br></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgba(50, 50, 254, 1); ">>You mentioned the development of a curriculum and application team. I am not aware of this. Can you point me >to any info on this? Much appreciated.</span><span style="font-face: Helvetica; "><br><br>Warren, would appreciate a response to my question above. Thanks much appreciated.<br><br><br><br>Best wishes.<br><br>Faisal<br><br>--<br>One Laptop per Child (OLPC) <br>"Opening new opportunities to children the world over."<br></span><span style="font-face: Helvetica; color: rgba(0, 0, 237, 1); "><a href="http://laptop.org/en/vision">http://laptop.org/en/vision</a></span><span style="font-face: Helvetica; "><br></span></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Olpc-uk mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:Olpc-uk@lists.laptop.org">Olpc-uk@lists.laptop.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-uk">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-uk</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>