<div>Hi Daniel,</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; ">>Easier said than done, I know it's not easy to find these kinds of</span></div><i>>resources, so I just write this in hope that it might make people<br>
>start thinking about it (and keep eyes open).<br></i><br><div>In one of my earlier emails I mentioned that I had informally approached a non-profit tech company about this. They have a team of volunteers, recruited every year mainly in the summer, who they assign development projects to. </div>
<div><br></div><div>The other channel would be final year university students who could work on this as part of their final year projects.</div><div><br></div><div>These were some of my initial thoughts on finding dedicated and committed resources for doing this.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I am sure there are other creative ways we could find resources. I'll keep thinking. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><br><div>Best wishes.<br><br>Faisal<br><br>--<br>One Laptop per Child (OLPC) <br>
"Opening new opportunities to children the world over."<br><a href="http://laptop.org/en/vision">http://laptop.org/en/vision</a><br><br><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/7/26 Daniel Drake <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dsd@laptop.org">dsd@laptop.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi,<br>
<br>
Just wanted to write down some thoughts based on some of the pilot<br>
discussion, regarding integration of the laptops into the school:<br>
<br>
It's been stated that the teachers want to handle this topic, in<br>
entirity. That's great, and no matter how this project is done,<br>
teachers should always be the driving factor on this topic.<br>
<br>
However, my personal suspicion is that they will not have sufficient<br>
time or technical skills to take full advantage of the laptops on<br>
their own. (not having interacted with the teachers, I may be wrong,<br>
in which case I would be both wrong and very happy)<br>
<br>
So, my point is basically that you should look out for technical<br>
minded people (i.e. developers) who you could pair up with the<br>
teachers in order to generate educational activities for the<br>
classrooms.<br>
<br>
Easier said than done, I know it's not easy to find these kinds of<br>
resources, so I just write this in hope that it might make people<br>
start thinking about it (and keep eyes open).<br>
<br>
I've now been in Nepal for a week and I've been very impressed with<br>
this angle of things on the deployment here (they employ graphic<br>
designers, education specialists and programmers in order to produce<br>
many curriculum-based activities, which are almost entirely designed<br>
conceptually by teachers). One item of good news is that they're<br>
looking at ways of making this localisable and sharing it with the<br>
world, but that is a young project which will not be ready in time for<br>
this deployment.<br>
<br>
Daniel<br>
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