[OLPC_Boston] MassCUE

[Diane Serley]

MassCUE is  the Mass chapter of the national organization "Computer Using
Educators". MassCUE is having its annual conference in mid November (in
Sturbridge) -- in May (or thereabouts) OLPC Boston was asked if we wanted to
give a 1 hour  workshop/presentaton on the XO.

I put it to the group and several people said they'd be interested in doing
it... and I sent info about it to the list a couple of times in the summer.
And I also put in a casual request to OLPC (at at least a heads up that I
would make a request)  for a jam pack. But basically no-one but me (Diane)
is currently "signed-up" to run/do the workshop. If *anyone* else is
interested I'd love to have people join me!

I ponied up the $50 to register as a presenter and will be doing the
workshop on November 19th (at 9am I think). My current plans are for a very
basic "this is constructivism/constructionism/active learning" explanation
of buzzwords, then a simple tutorial on the Sugar UI, then open question
session and playing with XOs. I'll be burning and passing out the current
Live CD (from Sugar labs). And printing and passing out brochures and
reports from the various deployments (all from the wiki). But if someone has
ideas for a presentation, I'd love to hear!

The reason CUE is in the air is that someone on the support gang just posted
that she's going to present at the national conference in the winter, and I
posted about MassCUE. And then I also spammed OLPC (cuz I didn't know
exactly who to ask) for a jam pack.


Diane


On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Nicole Lee <nicole.lee at students.olin.edu>wrote:

> i'm pretty sure i speak for more than just me when i say "can has
> explanashun pls?"
> -nikki
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Mel Chua <mel at laptop.org> wrote:
>
>> In the past 2 hours, I've heard about MassCUE things (http://www.cue.org)
>> from 2 people; and wonder what else is going on with that / whether any
>> other groups can be tapped to share their expertise.
>>
>> Ccing Diane, Mack, Katelyn, Lauren, Nikki, Caroline, Christine, Bill,
>> Sandra, and Yifan as leaders of other Boston-area OLPC groups, and shouting
>> out to olpc_boston as a general heads-up.
>>
>> Folks already doing MassCUE: please share your MassCUE plans if you have
>> them and can share them, if you need any help/supplies, and how people can
>> come/participate.
>>
>> Folks not doing MassCUE (yet): if you are interested, please list what you
>> can present on / what you'd be interested in helping with, and ask the folks
>> who /are/ doing MassCUE who at MassCUE you can talk to about having your
>> group come.
>>
>> Woo! Synergy!
>>
>> -Mel
>>
>
>


-- 
Diane Serley
www.XOExplosion.com
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