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[Seth Woodworth]

I've spoken with MacKenzie and Diane and we would all be happy to be
involved (final dates permitting).  Let's try to meet sometime in the next
few weeks, I would love to hear more about the TEI curriculum.

Seth Woodworth
One Laptop per Child
Community Outreach Coordinator
Feel free to call my cell! 857 928 4997

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On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Robert Frank <rfrank at ccebos.org> wrote:

>  As a less-than-novice in the OLPC world, I have a possible proposal.
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> I will be teaching 2 technology sessions this July at the Teacher Education
> Institute (TEI) of the University of the Middle East (www.ume.org). The
> TEI will be held in Boston at Simmons College. About 25 teachers from North
> Africa and the Middle East come to this Institute each summer to learn about
> innovative ideas for k-12 education in America. I wonder whether this might
> be a great opportunity to expose teachers in these developing countries to
> OLPC and Sugar. Would someone consider coming to one or both of these
> sessions (dates in July not yet fixed) to introduce these teachers in a
> hands-on way to XOs and Sugar? It would require bringing the XOs.
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> Please contact me if you are interested and can help. Something like the
> Cambridge Friends intro would probably be perfect—even, possibly, with a
> couple of students from that class, although that definitely would not be
> necessary. In the past TEIs, the teachers were from 8 countries: Algeria,
> Morocco, Tunisia, Palestine, Israel, Egypt, Lebanon, and Jordan.
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> It will be great if someone contacts me who would be interested and able to
> do this.
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> Bob Frank
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> Robert Frank
> Director, Communications and Technology
> Center for Collaborative Education
> 1135 Tremont St., Ste. 490
> Boston, MA 02120
> Tel. 617-421-0134 ext. 285
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