[IAEP] Material for teacher training

Holt holt at laptop.org
Wed May 9 00:48:50 EDT 2012


Thanks Tracy & Christophe!
Plz keep the orig discussants involved on support-gang at laptop.org too :)

On 5/9/2012 12:43 AM, Tracy Richardson wrote:
>
> Hi Christophe (And anyone else),
>
> We can help with that!
>
> We have quite a substantial teacher training program which is 
> absolutely core to what we do. You can see our online course and the 
> types of tasks the teachers need to do to be prepared for deployment 
> here: http://laptop.moodle.com.au/
>
> We have a comprehensive learner manual here: 
> http://laptop.moodle.com.au/manual/
>
> And we are in the process of developing 'train the trainer' materials 
> which will be published online. If you contact me, I can provide you 
> with login credentials to see where we're up to in the development of 
> those training modules.
>
> Please feel free to contact me if you need anything we have developed 
> or would like to discuss what we're doing here.
>
> *Tracy Richardson*
>
> *Education Manager*
>
> *One Laptop per Child Australia*
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> *From:*iaep-bounces at lists.sugarlabs.org 
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> <mailto:iaep-bounces at lists.sugarlabs.org>] *On Behalf Of *Frederick Grose
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 9 May 2012 2:27 AM
> *To:* iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org <mailto:iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org>
> *Subject:* [IAEP] Material for teacher training
>
> *Christophe Guéret*<c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl 
> <mailto:c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl>>began this conversation on 04 May 2012 in 
> the [support-gang] mailing list.  It has blossomed to over 25 
> messages, and we decided to forward and continue it on [iaep] *It's an 
> Education Project*:
>
> *Forwarded conversation*
> Subject: *[support-gang] Material for teacher training*
> ------------------------
>
> From: *Christophe Guéret* <c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl <mailto:c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl>>
> Date: Fri, May 4, 2012 at 4:45 PM
> To: support-gang at lists.laptop.org <mailto:support-gang at lists.laptop.org>
>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> We are working on setting up a course about ICT4D at the Free 
> University of Amsterdam (www.vu.nl <http://www.vu.nl>). The idea is to 
> train the students on this matter, spend a significant amount of time 
> on education topics and the XO, and with the best students establish a 
> team to take care of XO deployments. Progressively, contacts are being 
> established with experts in relevant topics. We are also in touch with 
> a school in Peru that received some XOs but no training on how to use 
> them - as a result, they are not used. Our first goal will thus be to 
> go there and help them making the best out of their devices.
>
> For this, we need to have some teaching material to be used there and 
> we also need some material to teach our students, who will in turn 
> teach the local teachers ;-)
> We found some pointer for the former but not much for the later. Would 
> you have something to recommend?
>
> Besides, it would be handy to have some XOs for the course in 
> Amsterdam. Shall we make a proposal through the contributor program or 
> is there a more appropriate way to emit such request?
>
> Cheers,
> Christophe
>
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> From: *Jennifer Martino* <jennifer.j.martino at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jennifer.j.martino at gmail.com>>
> Date: Fri, May 4, 2012 at 4:52 PM
> To: "Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to help 
> ATlaptop.org" <support-gang at lists.laptop.org 
> <mailto:support-gang at lists.laptop.org>>
>
> Hello Christoph!
>
> We could really use this kind of support in Canada too and we are 
> exactly on the same page. Should we talk?
>
>
> @jennifermartino
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> From: *elise moussa* <elise.moussa at gmail.com 
> <mailto:elise.moussa at gmail.com>>
> Date: Fri, May 4, 2012 at 5:02 PM
> To: Jennifer Martino <jennifer.j.martino at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jennifer.j.martino at gmail.com>>, "Community Support Volunteers 
> -- who help respond to help ATlaptop.org" 
> <support-gang at lists.laptop.org <mailto:support-gang at lists.laptop.org>>
>
> Ow exciting! We at BE have teaching material and a platform to collect 
> and create more. Would love to get connected.
> Thanks
>
> Elise
>
> Www.whatisbe.com <http://Www.whatisbe.com>
>
>
> Sent from my Windows Phone
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> *From: *Jennifer Martino
> *Sent: *Friday, May 04, 2012 4:53 PM
> *To: *Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to help 
> ATlaptop.org
> *Subject: *Re: [support-gang] Material for teacher training
>
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> From: *James Simmons* <nicestep at gmail.com <mailto:nicestep at gmail.com>>
> Date: Fri, May 4, 2012 at 5:47 PM
> To: "Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to \"help AT 
> laptop.org <http://laptop.org>\"" <support-gang at lists.laptop.org 
> <mailto:support-gang at lists.laptop.org>>
>
>
> Christophe,
>
> I would guess you already know about my book "E-Book Enlightenment" 
> but in case you don't it is here:
>
> http://www.flossmanuals.net/e-book-enlightenment/
>
> and here:
>
> http://archive.org/details/EBookEnlightenment
>
> I wrote this book specifically for teachers and students so they could 
> learn everything the XO can do for them that involves free e-books.  
> The XO is much more than an e-book reader, but using it that way might 
> be an easy way to start.  Nobody questions the value of getting 
> thousands of books for free.
>
> James Simmons
>
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> From: *Frederick Grose* <fgrose at gmail.com <mailto:fgrose at gmail.com>>
> Date: Fri, May 4, 2012 at 7:45 PM
> To: support-gang at lists.laptop.org <mailto:support-gang at lists.laptop.org>
>
> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Christophe Guéret <c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl 
> <mailto:c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl>> wrote:
>
>
> Consider the resources from OLPC Australia, such as,
> http://edu.laptop.org.au/laptop/xo-cert-course
>
>       --Fred
>
>
> ----------
> From: *Chris Leonard* <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com 
> <mailto:cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com>>
> Date: Fri, May 4, 2012 at 9:11 PM
> To: "Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to \"help AT 
> laptop.org <http://laptop.org>\"" <support-gang at lists.laptop.org 
> <mailto:support-gang at lists.laptop.org>>
>
>
> Christophe,
>
> If you want to talk to some people in Peru about the curricular
> materials provided by the government and some explorations of adding
> to that set of materials, you should probably reach out to the
> Peruvian Sugar community via the somosazucar list (in Spanish is
> typically best).
>
> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/somosazucar
>
> As for getting XO laptops, a Contributors Program application or
> finding a European XO lending library (OLPC France?) seem like your
> best options.
>
> cjl
> Sugar Labs Translation Team Coordinator
>
>
> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Christophe Guéret <c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl 
> <mailto:c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl>> wrote:
>
>
> ----------
> From: *Tabitha Roder* <tabitha at tabitha.net.nz 
> <mailto:tabitha at tabitha.net.nz>>
> Date: Fri, May 4, 2012 at 9:26 PM
> To: "Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to \"help AT 
> laptop.org <http://laptop.org>\"" <support-gang at lists.laptop.org 
> <mailto:support-gang at lists.laptop.org>>
> Cc: OLPC Australia list <olpc-au at lists.laptop.org 
> <mailto:olpc-au at lists.laptop.org>>, c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl 
> <mailto:c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl>
>
>
> Hi Cristophe
>
> Can I suggest you talk with the Australian crowd? They have some good
> resources as they do teacher training and have a Moodle site with some
> courses that might suit.
>
> Kind regards
> Tabitha Roder
> eLearning specialist and olpc volunteer
> Cell +64 21 482229 <tel:%2B64%2021%20482229>
> tabitha at tabitha.net.nz <mailto:tabitha at tabitha.net.nz>
> http://tabitharoder.wordpress.com/
> Winner: NZ Open Source Contributor Award 2010
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> From: *Sridhar Dhanapalan* <sridhar at laptop.org.au 
> <mailto:sridhar at laptop.org.au>>
> Date: Sat, May 5, 2012 at 8:41 AM
> To: "Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to \"help AT 
> laptop.org <http://laptop.org>\"" <support-gang at lists.laptop.org 
> <mailto:support-gang at lists.laptop.org>>
> Cc: OLPC Australia list <olpc-au at lists.laptop.org 
> <mailto:olpc-au at lists.laptop.org>>
>
>
> I suggest that you take a look at our One Education programme:
>
> http://www.one-education.org/
> http://www.techworld.com.au/article/421124/one_laptop_per_child_australia_set_launch_one_education_program
>
> We _only_ supply XOs for classes who have a teacher who have passed a
> training course and earnt a certification. The course is 100% online,
> and hence can be completed by anyone in the world.
>
> For further information, fill in the contact form at
> http://www.one-education.org/
>
> Regards,
> Sridhar
>
>
> Sridhar Dhanapalan
> Engineering Manager
> One Laptop per Child Australia
>
>
> ----------
> From: *Caryl Bigenho* <cbigenho at hotmail.com <mailto:cbigenho at hotmail.com>>
> Date: Fri, May 4, 2012 at 5:50 PM
> To: Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond t 
> <support-gang at lists.laptop.org 
> <mailto:support-gang at lists.laptop.org>>, Jennifer Martino 
> <jennifer.j.martino at gmail.com <mailto:jennifer.j.martino at gmail.com>>
>
> Hi All...
>
> Here is a link to the Sugar Labs Peru site which has many, many 
> resources.
>
> http://pe.sugarlabs.org/go/Página_principal 
> <http://pe.sugarlabs.org/go/P%C3%A1gina_principal>
>
> Many years ago (3 or 4?) I downloaded some great teacher training 
> materials from Mochilla Digital. They included units on 
> constructionism and project based learning, which really should be 
> considered for inclusion in any training program for the XOs as many 
> teachers have no experience with them.
>
> Some of the materials got lost in my hard drive crash last year, 
> including the one with the schedule for a 3-day workshop for teachers 
> that was very well planned. It included, among other things, having 
> the teachers participate in projects done via constructionism and PBL 
> to give them an idea of what they are and how they work. It no longer 
> seems to be available. However, I do have a pdf of one of the guides 
> covering collaborative learning and PBL. I will attach it to this 
> email. Of course, it is all in Spanish, but Christoph shouldn't have 
> any problem with that! Open-mouth smile
>
> Caryl
>
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>
> From: elise.moussa at gmail.com <mailto:elise.moussa at gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 14:02:11 -0700
> To: jennifer.j.martino at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jennifer.j.martino at gmail.com>; support-gang at lists.laptop.org 
> <mailto:support-gang at lists.laptop.org>
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> From: *Gerald Ardito* <gmanb5 at gmail.com <mailto:gmanb5 at gmail.com>>
> Date: Fri, May 4, 2012 at 9:21 PM
> To: "Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to help AT 
> laptop.org <http://laptop.org>" <support-gang at lists.laptop.org 
> <mailto:support-gang at lists.laptop.org>>
>
> Christophe,
>
> I can puy together some materials for this project.
> Gerald
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> From: *Gonzalo Odiard* <gonzalo at laptop.org <mailto:gonzalo at laptop.org>>
> Date: Sat, May 5, 2012 at 2:51 PM
> To: "Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to \"help AT 
> laptop.org <http://laptop.org>\"" <support-gang at lists.laptop.org 
> <mailto:support-gang at lists.laptop.org>>
>
>
> A place with many resources (in spanish) is:
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Recursos_en_espanol
>
> Gonzalo
>
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> From: *Christophe Guéret* <c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl <mailto:c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl>>
> Date: Sun, May 6, 2012 at 11:29 AM
> To: "Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to \"help AT 
> laptop.org <http://laptop.org>\"" <support-gang at lists.laptop.org 
> <mailto:support-gang at lists.laptop.org>>
>
>
> Hi Elise,
>
>     Ow exciting! We at BE have teaching material and a platform to
>     collect and create more. Would love to get connected.
>     Thanks
>
>     Elise
>
>     Www.whatisbe.com <http://Www.whatisbe.com>
>
>
> Thanks for the pointer. I'm not sure that's the kind of things we need 
> right now but I'll keep a note on it ;-)
>
> Christophe
>
>
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> From: *Christophe Guéret* <c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl <mailto:c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl>>
> Date: Sun, May 6, 2012 at 11:35 AM
> To: "Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to \"help AT 
> laptop.org <http://laptop.org>\"" <support-gang at lists.laptop.org 
> <mailto:support-gang at lists.laptop.org>>
>
>
> James,
>
> Thanks, I was aware of your very nice book about making sugar 
> activities but missed that one.
> If I remember correctly, Sameer made an e-book server using a plug PC.
> Is there any connection between your book and these project?
>
> Christophe
>
> On 4 May 2012 23:47, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com 
> <mailto:nicestep at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Christophe,
>
>     I would guess you already know about my book "E-Book
>     Enlightenment" but in case you don't it is here:
>
>     http://www.flossmanuals.net/e-book-enlightenment/
>
>     and here:
>
>     http://archive.org/details/EBookEnlightenment
>
>     I wrote this book specifically for teachers and students so they
>     could learn everything the XO can do for them that involves free
>     e-books.  The XO is much more than an e-book reader, but using it
>     that way might be an easy way to start.  Nobody questions the
>     value of getting thousands of books for free.
>
>     James Simmons
>
>         _______________________________________________
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>
>
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> ----------
> From: *elise moussa* <elise.moussa at gmail.com 
> <mailto:elise.moussa at gmail.com>>
> Date: Sun, May 6, 2012 at 11:59 AM
> To: Christophe Guéret <c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl 
> <mailto:c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl>>, "Community Support Volunteers -- who 
> help respond to \"help AT laptop.org <http://laptop.org>\"" 
> <support-gang at lists.laptop.org <mailto:support-gang at lists.laptop.org>>
>
> It could be used train teachers.  Look at the quiz platform, content 
> is open to change by users
>
>
> Sent from my Windows Phone
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> *From: *Christophe Guéret
> *Sent: *Sunday, May 06, 2012 11:30 AM
>
>
> *To: *Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to "help AT 
> laptop.org <http://laptop.org>"
>
> *Subject: *Re: [support-gang] Material for teacher training
>
>
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> ----------
> From: *elise moussa* <elise.moussa at gmail.com 
> <mailto:elise.moussa at gmail.com>>
> Date: Sun, May 6, 2012 at 12:00 PM
> To: Christophe Guéret <c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl 
> <mailto:c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl>>, "Community Support Volunteers -- who 
> help respond to \"help AT laptop.org <http://laptop.org>\"" 
> <support-gang at lists.laptop.org <mailto:support-gang at lists.laptop.org>>
>
> Hi Christophe, could you kindly introduce us who don't know you about 
> yourself, involvement with olpc etc? Thanks
>
>
> Sent from my Windows Phone
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> *From: *Christophe Guéret
> *Sent: *Sunday, May 06, 2012 11:35 AM
>
>
> *To: *Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to "help AT 
> laptop.org <http://laptop.org>"
> *Subject: *Re: [support-gang] Material for teacher training
>
>
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> From: *elise moussa* <elise.moussa at gmail.com 
> <mailto:elise.moussa at gmail.com>>
> Date: Sun, May 6, 2012 at 6:33 PM
> To: Christophe Guéret <c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl 
> <mailto:c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl>>, "Community Support Volunteers -- who 
> help respond to \"help AT laptop.org <http://laptop.org>\"" 
> <support-gang at lists.laptop.org <mailto:support-gang at lists.laptop.org>>
>
> Quick question, what resources and apps are available for teachers to 
> learn about using a computer or the internet for the first time? And 
> what resources are available to them to use as part of the curriculum 
> for students, the first time?
>
>
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> From: *James Simmons* <nicestep at gmail.com <mailto:nicestep at gmail.com>>
> Date: Mon, May 7, 2012 at 11:07 AM
> To: "Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to \"help AT 
> laptop.org <http://laptop.org>\"" <support-gang at lists.laptop.org 
> <mailto:support-gang at lists.laptop.org>>
>
>
> Christophe,
>
> I wouldn't say there is a connection, exactly.  I describe a bunch of 
> ways to publish e-books including having your own server, and several 
> ways of doing that.  I think that Sameer's book server used Pathagar, 
> which I describe:
>
> en.flossmanuals.net/e-book-enlightenment/the-pathagar-book-server/ 
> <http://en.flossmanuals.net/e-book-enlightenment/the-pathagar-book-server/>
>
> My book had a working title of "Everything You Always Wanted To Know 
> About E-Books* (*But Were Afraid To Ask) which is a joke that the 
> target audience will be too young to get.  I do try and describe 
> everything you could possibly do with an e-book.  For instance, there 
> is no reason that students in Peru could not write and publish their 
> own books and sell them on Amazon, either as e-books or as printed 
> books using CreateSpace.  The barrier to entry on this is absurdly 
> low.  If more teachers and students understand the material in my book 
> it could change education.  I say this not to praise my own work but 
> to point out that there are untapped resources out there that teachers 
> and students need to know about.
>
> James Simmons
>
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> From: *elise moussa* <elise.moussa at gmail.com 
> <mailto:elise.moussa at gmail.com>>
> Date: Mon, May 7, 2012 at 11:42 AM
> To: James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com <mailto:nicestep at gmail.com>>, 
> "Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to \"help AT 
> laptop.org <http://laptop.org>\"" <support-gang at lists.laptop.org 
> <mailto:support-gang at lists.laptop.org>>
>
> Great point James! I will spread the word!
>
> I propose an open conversation for more initiatives like this rather 
> to talk, explore connections and improve Ed.
>
> Anyone else also interested? We could do this remotely.
>
> Best,
> Elise
>
>
> Sent from my Windows Phone
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> *From: *James Simmons
> *Sent: *Monday, May 07, 2012 11:07 AM
>
>
> *To: *Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to "help AT 
> laptop.org <http://laptop.org>"
> *Subject: *Re: [support-gang] Material for teacher training
>
>
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> From: *Frederick Grose* <fgrose at gmail.com <mailto:fgrose at gmail.com>>
> Date: Mon, May 7, 2012 at 11:58 AM
> To: support-gang at lists.laptop.org <mailto:support-gang at lists.laptop.org>
>
> This support-gang thread from the beginning seems to be a good 
> candidate for moving to the open IAEP mailing list.
>
> Does anyone object to this?
>
>          --Fred
>
> ----------
> From: *Chris Leonard* <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com 
> <mailto:cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com>>
> Date: Mon, May 7, 2012 at 1:07 PM
> To: "Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to \"help AT 
> laptop.org <http://laptop.org>\"" <support-gang at lists.laptop.org 
> <mailto:support-gang at lists.laptop.org>>
>
> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com 
> <mailto:fgrose at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > This support-gang thread from the beginning seems to be a good 
> candidate for
> > moving to the open IAEP mailing list.
> >
> > Does anyone object to this?
>
> For my part, I think moving it to IAEP would be a very good idea.  I'm
> subscribed to both as are many of us and IAEP has a somewhat larger
> audience and it is publicly archived for the benefit of future
> reference.
>
> cjl
>
>
> ----------
> From: *Christophe Guéret* <c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl <mailto:c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl>>
> Date: Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:34 AM
> To: elise moussa <elise.moussa at gmail.com <mailto:elise.moussa at gmail.com>>
> Cc: "Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to \"help AT 
> laptop.org <http://laptop.org>\"" <support-gang at lists.laptop.org 
> <mailto:support-gang at lists.laptop.org>>
>
>
> Ok, didn't tought about it this way. I was more into seeing how this 
> could be used for the kids but our first "target" is our students that 
> will train the teachers...
>
> On 6 May 2012 17:59, elise moussa <elise.moussa at gmail.com 
> <mailto:elise.moussa at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> It could be used train teachers.  Look at the quiz platform, content 
> is open to change by users
>
>
> Sent from my Windows Phone
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> *From: *Christophe Guéret
> *Sent: *Sunday, May 06, 2012 11:30 AM
>
>
> *To: *Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to "help AT 
> laptop.org <http://laptop.org>"
>
> *Subject: *Re: [support-gang] Material for teacher training
>
> Hi Elise,
>
>     Ow exciting! We at BE have teaching material and a platform to
>     collect and create more. Would love to get connected.
>     Thanks
>
>     Elise
>
>     Www.whatisbe.com <http://Www.whatisbe.com>
>
>
> Thanks for the pointer. I'm not sure that's the kind of things we need 
> right now but I'll keep a note on it ;-)
>
> Christophe
>
>
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>
> ----------
> From: *Christophe Guéret* <c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl <mailto:c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl>>
> Date: Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:46 AM
> To: elise moussa <elise.moussa at gmail.com <mailto:elise.moussa at gmail.com>>
> Cc: "Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to \"help AT 
> laptop.org <http://laptop.org>\"" <support-gang at lists.laptop.org 
> <mailto:support-gang at lists.laptop.org>>
>
>
> Hi Elise,
>
> My name is Christophe Guéret and I'm a researcher working at the Free 
> University in Amsterdam. The research group I'm in is doing research 
> in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning techniques, my specific 
> areas of interest include the publication of Linked Open Data and the 
> related impact on Development.
> In late 2010, I proposed a contributor project named "SemanticXO" 
> whose goal is to investigate how Semantic Web technologies, and in 
> particular Linked Data principles, could impact the features of Sugar. 
> Parallel to this, I tried to bring this as a research topic and got 
> some more colleagues joining me in this initiative. We now have some 
> visibility and a small group is busy working on Linked Data for 
> resources constrained contexts (such as an Internet-less, or almost, 
> mesh of XOs).
>
> You can find more information about SemanticXO there:
> * A short video 
> http://semweb4u.wordpress.com/2012/02/28/1-minute-video-about-semanticxo/
> * A presentation of a position paper presented at our biggest SW 
> conference last year http://videolectures.net/iswc2011_schlobach_web/
> * The feature proposal http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Semantic_Web
> I'd be happy to flood you with more links about SemanticXO or our 
> other projects related to ICT4D if you want ;-)
>
> This mail I sent was related to another project for the VU. Beside 
> this SemanticXO work, we would like to actually do something concrete 
> and help some schools we are in touch with. We are thus setting up a 
> course to train students with the goal to have a local team able to 
> take care of deployments.
>
> Cheers,
> Christophe
>
> On 6 May 2012 18:00, elise moussa <elise.moussa at gmail.com 
> <mailto:elise.moussa at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi Christophe, could you kindly introduce us who don't know you about 
> yourself, involvement with olpc etc? Thanks
>
>
> Sent from my Windows Phone
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> *From: *Christophe Guéret
> *Sent: *Sunday, May 06, 2012 11:35 AM
>
>
> *To: *Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to "help AT 
> laptop.org <http://laptop.org>"
> *Subject: *Re: [support-gang] Material for teacher training
>
> James,
>
> Thanks, I was aware of your very nice book about making sugar 
> activities but missed that one.
> If I remember correctly, Sameer made an e-book server using a plug PC.
> Is there any connection between your book and these project?
>
> Christophe
>
> On 4 May 2012 23:47, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com 
> <mailto:nicestep at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Christophe,
>
> I would guess you already know about my book "E-Book Enlightenment" 
> but in case you don't it is here:
>
> http://www.flossmanuals.net/e-book-enlightenment/
>
> and here:
>
> http://archive.org/details/EBookEnlightenment
>
> I wrote this book specifically for teachers and students so they could 
> learn everything the XO can do for them that involves free e-books.  
> The XO is much more than an e-book reader, but using it that way might 
> be an easy way to start.  Nobody questions the value of getting 
> thousands of books for free.
>
> James Simmons
>
> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Christophe Guéret <c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl 
> <mailto:c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl>> wrote:
>
>     Hi everyone,
>
>     We are working on setting up a course about ICT4D at the Free
>     University of Amsterdam (www.vu.nl <http://www.vu.nl>). The idea
>     is to train the students on this matter, spend a significant
>     amount of time on education topics and the XO, and with the best
>     students establish a team to take care of XO deployments.
>     Progressively, contacts are being established with experts in
>     relevant topics. We are also in touch with a school in Peru that
>     received some XOs but no training on how to use them - as a
>     result, they are not used. Our first goal will thus be to go there
>     and help them making the best out of their devices.
>
>     For this, we need to have some teaching material to be used there
>     and we also need some material to teach our students, who will in
>     turn teach the local teachers ;-)
>     We found some pointer for the former but not much for the later.
>     Would you have something to recommend?
>
>     Besides, it would be handy to have some XOs for the course in
>     Amsterdam. Shall we make a proposal through the contributor
>     program or is there a more appropriate way to emit such request?
>
>     Cheers,
>     Christophe
>
>     _______________________________________________
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>     http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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>
>
> ----------
> From: *Christophe Guéret* <c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl <mailto:c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl>>
> Date: Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:50 AM
> To: "Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to \"help AT 
> laptop.org <http://laptop.org>\"" <support-gang at lists.laptop.org 
> <mailto:support-gang at lists.laptop.org>>
>
>
> James,
>
>     For instance, there is no reason that students in Peru could not
>     write and publish their own books and sell them on Amazon, either
>     as e-books or as printed books using CreateSpace.  The barrier to
>     entry on this is absurdly low.
>
> That's a good point which also applies to students in Amsterdam.
> We could discuss how we can publish the material we will build for 
> this course as a book :)
>
> Christophe
>
>
>
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>
>
> ----------
> From: *Christophe Guéret* <c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl <mailto:c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl>>
> Date: Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:50 AM
> To: "Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to \"help AT 
> laptop.org <http://laptop.org>\"" <support-gang at lists.laptop.org 
> <mailto:support-gang at lists.laptop.org>>
>
>
>     Great point James! I will spread the word!
>
>     I propose an open conversation for more initiatives like this
>     rather to talk, explore connections and improve Ed.
>
>     Anyone else also interested? We could do this remotely.
>
> I'm in!
>
>
> Christophe
>
>
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> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang
>
>
> ----------
> From: *Christophe Guéret* <c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl <mailto:c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl>>
> Date: Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:51 AM
> To: "Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to \"help AT 
> laptop.org <http://laptop.org>\"" <support-gang at lists.laptop.org 
> <mailto:support-gang at lists.laptop.org>>
>
>
> On 7 May 2012 19:07, Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com 
> <mailto:cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com 
> <mailto:fgrose at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> > This support-gang thread from the beginning seems to be a good 
> candidate for
> > moving to the open IAEP mailing list.
> >
> > Does anyone object to this?
>
> For my part, I think moving it to IAEP would be a very good idea.  I'm
> subscribed to both as are many of us and IAEP has a somewhat larger
> audience and it is publicly archived for the benefit of future
> reference.
>
>
> Yes, let's move to IAEP, it also seems the conversation will be better 
> suited for this list.
>
> Christophe
>
>
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>
>
> ----------
> From: *Christophe Guéret* <c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl <mailto:c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl>>
> Date: Tue, May 8, 2012 at 7:40 AM
> To: "Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to \"help AT 
> laptop.org <http://laptop.org>\"" <support-gang at lists.laptop.org 
> <mailto:support-gang at lists.laptop.org>>
>
>
> Hi Chris,
>
>     If you want to talk to some people in Peru about the curricular
>     materials provided by the government and some explorations of adding
>     to that set of materials, you should probably reach out to the
>     Peruvian Sugar community via the somosazucar list (in Spanish is
>     typically best).
>
>     http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/somosazucar
>
> My Spanish is not as good as it used to be but we should be able to 
> find a way to communicate, hopefully :)
>
>     As for getting XO laptops, a Contributors Program application or
>     finding a European XO lending library (OLPC France?) seem like your
>     best options.
>
> Ok, we'll go ahead with making an application then.
>
> Christophe
>
>
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>
> ----------
> From: *Christophe Guéret* <c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl <mailto:c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl>>
> Date: Tue, May 8, 2012 at 7:47 AM
> To: "Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to \"help AT 
> laptop.org <http://laptop.org>\"" <support-gang at lists.laptop.org 
> <mailto:support-gang at lists.laptop.org>>
>
>
> Hi,
>
>     Here is a link to the Sugar Labs Peru site which has many, many
>     resources.
>
>     http://pe.sugarlabs.org/go/Página_principal
>     <http://pe.sugarlabs.org/go/P%C3%A1gina_principal>
>
>     Many years ago (3 or 4?) I downloaded some great teacher training
>     materials from Mochilla Digital. They included units on
>     constructionism and project based learning, which really should be
>     considered for inclusion in any training program for the XOs as
>     many teachers have no experience with them.
>
>     Some of the materials got lost in my hard drive crash last year,
>     including the one with the schedule for a 3-day workshop for
>     teachers that was very well planned. It included, among other
>     things, having the teachers participate in projects done via
>     constructionism and PBL to give them an idea of what they are and
>     how they work. It no longer seems to be available. However, I do
>     have a pdf of one of the guides covering collaborative learning
>     and PBL. I will attach it to this email. Of course, it is all in
>     Spanish, but Christoph shouldn't have any problem with that!
>     Open-mouth smile
>
> Thanks a lot! So, it seems we should have at least a part about 
> constructionism and project based learning in our curriculum. Then, 
> our students will be able to explain what this notions are about to 
> the teachers and help them create courses that fit these principles. 
> Sounds good, and we can surely re-use some of the content in that PDF 
> (once we manage to read it and translate it to Dutch ;-) )
>
> Christophe
>
>
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