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? <br>
<br>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.<br>
<br>--Mel "I've done far too many XO demos for my own good at this point" Chua<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Seth Woodworth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:seth@laptop.org">seth@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;"><br><br>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.<br>
<br>Seth Woodworth<br>One Laptop per Child<br>Community Outreach Coordinator<br>Feel free to call my cell! 857 928 4997<br><br>--<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Robert Frank <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rfrank@ccebos.org" target="_blank">rfrank@ccebos.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">As a less-than-novice in the OLPC world, I
have a possible proposal.</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">I will be teaching 2 technology sessions
this July at the Teacher Education Institute (TEI) of the University of the
Middle East (<a href="http://www.ume.org/" target="_blank">www.ume.org</a>). 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.</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">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.</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">It will be great if someone contacts me
who would be interested and able to do this.</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Bob Frank</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="blue" size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: blue;">Robert
Frank<br>
Director, Communications and Technology<br>
Center for Collaborative Education<br>
1135 Tremont St., Ste. 490<br>
Boston, MA 02120<br>
Tel. 617-421-0134 ext. 285</span></font><font color="navy"><span style="color: navy;"> </span></font></p>
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