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[Mel Chua]

I'm also curious to hear more about the TEI curriculum and what you're
planning - would you folks mind keeping this conversation on this mailing
list and posting notes from conversations so we can all see what's going on
and better help with it?

I'll be working with UNICEF and Red Hat this summer on open-source in
education and internationally in the developing world (with OLPC and Sugar
as two great examples of projects in that area that I've been heavily
involved in), and would love to see if there's anything I/we/others that I'm
working with can do to lend a hand as well. There are also several groups
and individuals on this list (many from universities in the Boston area) who
are working on African deployments, OLPC community work, Sugar development,
and other things you may be interested in.

--Mel "I've done far too many XO demos for my own good at this point" Chua

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Seth Woodworth <seth at laptop.org> wrote:

>
>
> 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
>
> --
>
> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> It will be great if someone contacts me who would be interested and able
>> to do this.
>>
>>
>>
>> Bob Frank
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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