[Olpc-za] XO deployment in South Africa

Morgan Collett morgan.collett at gmail.com
Mon Aug 18 06:54:57 EDT 2008


See Seth's comments. We need someone to clean up the South Africa page
he mentioned - this is a good way for someone to get involved :)


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Seth Woodworth <seth at laptop.org>
Date: Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 03:15
Subject: Re: [Grassroots-l] XO deployment in South Africa
To: Morgan Collett <morgan.collett at gmail.com>
Cc: OLPC South Africa Interest Group <olpc-za at lists.laptop.org>, OLPC
Grassroots <grassroots at lists.laptop.org>


This is excellent news!  I'm going to go read the blog now.

Can we work on getting the Deployment page a little more up to date?
(could you forward me on to the ZA list?)

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_South_Africa

There is now a pretty neat template that uses our new semantic tools.
The form template has fields for number of laptops, language, type of
keyboard, etc.

If you go to http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Category:Deployments you can
see an auto generated table of information from deployments and
pilots.  It's pretty neat IMO.

All the best,
Seth

On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Morgan Collett
<morgan.collett at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Paul Commons and a team from One Here... One There have been deploying
> XOs at three schools in Limpopo province, South Africa.
>
> They are writing up their experiences here: http://iuohot.blogspot.com/
>
> "I set up the Saturday program just to see what sort of interest we
> have from the community and students in the program. Right now I'm
> sitting in the classroom, along with more than 100+ children ranging
> from 5-18 learning how to use the laptops. Success can't even describe
> this learning environment. We have 5th graders teaching older
> teenagers, 5 year olds learning how to use the mouse which only
> improves hand-eye coordination, and much more..."
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