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.<br>
<br>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!<br>
<br>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!<br>
<br>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.<br>
<br><br>Diane<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Nicole Lee <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nicole.lee@students.olin.edu">nicole.lee@students.olin.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
i'm pretty sure i speak for more than just me when i say "can has explanashun pls?"<div><br></div><div>-nikki<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Mel Chua <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mel@laptop.org" target="_blank">mel@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">In the past 2 hours, I've heard about MassCUE things (<a href="http://www.cue.org" target="_blank">http://www.cue.org</a>) from 2 people; and wonder what else is going on with that / whether any other groups can be tapped to share their expertise.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Woo! Synergy!<br><font color="#888888">
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-Mel<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Diane Serley<br><a href="http://www.XOExplosion.com">www.XOExplosion.com</a><br>