[OLPC_Boston] IMSA / CFS Deployment Schedule and Goals

[Yifan]

By the way, I was also curious; if the IMSA guys could also work on making
some activities over the week, is it possible for us to demo them at one of
the events, say the after school activity on Wednesday?

On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Yifan <yifan.sun at students.olin.edu> wrote:

> Thanks a bunch for the reply!
>
> I'm not terribly familiar with what goes into a classroom simulation. Is
> that with kids and laptops, or just one or the other? I'm wondering when we
> should have all the server and network stuff set up by.
>
> On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 9:14 PM, MacKenzie Sigalos <
> msigalos at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Yifan,
>>
>> Thanks so much for the email! I wanted to go ahead and reply-all to the
>> Boston list so that everyone can hear updates on the CFS pilot. We are
>> having our second teacher workshop this coming Friday, the 12th. We just
>> heard back from Peter Sommer this week, and it looks as though the sixth
>> grade teachers for English/History, Math/Science, and Spanish are most
>> interested. We will be holding individual meetings with each teacher before
>> we leave for the break on Dec. 17th.
>>
>> We are thrilled that you will be joining us in early January. We think
>> this would be the perfect time to continue to work with these teachers to
>> develop the curriculum, as well as to hold a pre-pilot week of workshops for
>> interested students, teachers, and parents. The envisioned schedule for this
>> week is as follows:
>>
>> Day 1: 3rd teacher training workshop; classroom simulation
>> Day 2: parent information session
>> Day 3: after-school XO activity for students
>> Day 4: individual meetings with pilot teachers
>> Day 5: action plan decided; tech system finalized
>>
>> Any additional ideas are, of course, welcome! Just reply all so that
>> everyone can remain updated.
>>
>> Finally, insofar as in-classroom involvement is concerned, this is a topic
>> that we have yet to finalize with CFS. We will be sure to get back to you as
>> soon as this is decided by the school.
>>
>> Have a great weekend,
>> MacKenzie and Katelyn
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 8:32 PM, <yifiyster at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I've shared a document with you called "IMSA / CFS Deployment Schedule
>>> and Goals":
>>>
>>> http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pFAYZYtRIh1CR_8ry7Tg8QQ&inv=msigalos@fas.harvard.edu&t=6090006729825253763&guest
>>>
>>> It's not an attachment -- it's stored online at Google Docs. To open this
>>> document, just click the link above.
>>>
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> So the IMSA intersession is getting close! On January 5-9, the IMSA
>>> team, headed by Kevin and Scott, will be here and excited to work. I've
>>> shared this spreadsheet with you guys so that we could dump all the
>>> information we know in one common place.
>>>
>>> Mack, Katelyn, it'd be really great if we knew what sort of plan you
>>> guys had for deployment. I know we have had some scheduling confusions;
>>> can you clear up for us what you have planned? In particular, will
>>> there be at least three classroom teachers that would permit us to take
>>> up their class time? I think I may contact Peter on Tuesday if we don't
>>> have more information, just because I'm afraid of not having a good
>>> enough plan before the teachers go on vacation.
>>>
>>> Kevin, if you could pass this on to the other intersession
>>> participants, and fill it in with stuff that you guys have been
>>> training on during the year, that would be great. Scott, you're our
>>> resident expert on setting up the server and network and things, so any
>>> input on that would be great.
>>>
>>> This will make planning the actual schedule a lot easier. Thanks so
>>> much everyone!
>>>
>>> Yifan
>>>
>>
>>
>
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