[IAEP] Material for teacher training
Holt
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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
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> *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
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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
>
> _______________________________________________
> support-gang mailing list
> support-gang at lists.laptop.org
> <mailto:support-gang at lists.laptop.org>
> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang
>
>
>
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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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>
> ----------
> 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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>
>
> ----------
> 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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