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   1. Re: (no subject) (Seth Woodworth)
   2. Re: (no subject) (Mel Chua)
   3. Re: One For All & Cambridge Friends School Update (Mel Chua)
   4. Re: Cambridge Friends School - help still needed? (Mel Chua)

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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 14:21:28 -0400
From: Seth Woodworth <seth at laptop.org>
Subject: Re: [OLPC_Boston] (no subject)
To: Robert Frank <rfrank at ccebos.org>,	Boston OLPC group
	<olpc_boston at lists.laptop.org>
Cc: MacKenzie Sigalos <msigalos at fas.harvard.edu>
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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.
>
>
>
> 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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> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc_boston
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 14:13:41 -0500
From: Mel Chua <metamel at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [OLPC_Boston] (no subject)
To: seth at laptop.org
Cc: Boston OLPC group <olpc_boston at lists.laptop.org>,	MacKenzie
	Sigalos <msigalos at fas.harvard.edu>
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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
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> OLPC_Boston mailing list
>> OLPC_Boston at lists.laptop.org
>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc_boston
>>
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 14:17:17 -0500
From: Mel Chua <metamel at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [OLPC_Boston] One For All & Cambridge Friends School
	Update
To: Robert Frank <rfrank at ccebos.org>
Cc: MacKenzie Sigalos <msigalos at fas.harvard.edu>,
	olpc_boston at lists.laptop.org
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(The RSI is getting better, so I might actually rejoin the internets again
soon!)

You already know I'm interested in lesson plan development and would be
thrilled to sit in sometime. :) When is the next open classroom day, and are
there any topics that the teachers would like worked on in particular?

Thanks for keeping this pilot going! It's awesome to have a live deployment
here in Boston, and I hope we'll be seeing other university groups being
inspired by your example to start their own deployments at local schools
soon, too. *winkwinkcoughcoughcollegechaptershi!*

--Mel

Hi Deb and OLPC Boston,
>
> Attached is a sampling of lesson plans that we used during the pilot. If
> anyone is interested in lesson plan development or has ideas for future
> lesson plans, please let us know!
>
>
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 14:21:25 -0500
From: Mel Chua <metamel at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [OLPC_Boston] Cambridge Friends School - help still
	needed?
To: Nick Doiron <ndoiron at andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: olpc_boston at lists.laptop.org
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Hi, Nick - did anyone from the list ever reply to you? If you haven't
already been sucked into our happy volunteering world, there are some
projects I could point you towards.

(Folks, if I might request replying - at least initially - to the list so
that we know that newcomers with questions are being taken care of, that
would be awesome. Thanks!)

--Mel

On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Nick Doiron <ndoiron at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm a student at Carnegie Mellon and returning to the Boston area next
> week.  Please let me know if you could still use some help on the
> geometry/mapping project or the metropolis/SimCity project which were
posted
> on the wiki site.  I saw these posted last month but I was in the middle
of
> an OLPCorps application and college so there wasn't much I could do.
> Since I'm a civil engineering major, I'd enjoy putting something together
> for the OLPC involving mapping or city-building.  Let me know how I can
> help.
>
> Regards,
> Nick Doiron
>
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