Often I think that institutions like a Science Museum just need just a couple of laptops running Sugar. With 30 they tend to be boxed and only get handed out when it is 'safe' to do so. With just one they miss out on the collaboration feature (akin to handing out a mobile phone and just inviting them to play with the address book function), With at least two, things can start to cook .. <br> <br>Imagine a public foyer with a ring of six OLPC computes or Sugar enabled NetBooks that kids can click and play with, glued or secured to a round oard  .. painted out with a world map or UN logo, .. and perhaps a central solar charger / crank charger. Some laminated cards with background info and some basic "Try this" Sugar instructions, perhaps also a face and profile for each laptop that gives a case study or background to a current OLPC owner in different 'third world countries'. <br> <br>Just a thought but it could be used to inspire other science museums to give the idea a try.  I would love to chat this over with the local science museum (Joel / Bill / Tony?). A couple of years ago I volunteered to help with the education resource activities on for CSIRAC, the last first-generation computer.<br>      <a href="http://museumvictoria.com.au/CSIRAC/">http://museumvictoria.com.au/CSIRAC/</a><br><br>Regards Roland<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/12/16 Edward Cherlin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:echerlin@gmail.com">echerlin@gmail.com</a>></span><br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Samuel Klein <<a href="http://meta.sj" target="_blank">meta.sj</a>@<a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Edward Cherlin <<a href="mailto:echerlin@gmail.com">echerlin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> <br> </div><div class="Ih2E3d">>> Earth Treasury is starting a project to create digital textbooks and<br> >> teacher training materials.<br> ><br> > Ed, can you please include a URL when you make statements like this?<br> <br> </div>It was announced on this mailing list. As it happens, you can now look<br> at Creating textbooks in the SL Wiki. Sugar Labs, Alan Kay's<br> Viewpoints Research, The Doug Engelbart Institute at SRI, FLOSS<br> Manuals, Creative Commons, and OLE have expressed strong interest.<br> <div class="Ih2E3d"><br> >> Currently I am without an XO,<br> ><br> > Only temporary, I hope.  How did this happen?<br> <br> </div>The B2 is temporarily in pieces, and a B4 was stolen along with my<br> regular laptop.<br> <div class="Ih2E3d"><br> >> The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose would like in principle to<br> >> be a test site,<br> ><br> > Now this would be fantastic.<br> <br> </div>They are committed in principle, as I said. That came about during the<br> Program for the Future conference last week, when Peter Friess<br> complained during a presentation that Apple won't let The Tech have<br> prototype iPhones and such like to display. Since OLPC and Google<br> handed out prototypes fairly widely during development, I assured him<br> that we could make a deal. We are arranging to meet for substantive<br> discussions. The Exploratorium and Zeum in San Francisco have<br> expressed some interest, also. I would love to see an XO being a<br> digital oscilloscope or a microscope at the Exploratorium.<br> <br> I would like it even better if someone were willing to buy each<br> institution 30 or more XOs, so that they could bring in whole classes<br> from schools for one-to-one computing. Say, 100 from GiveMany for SF,<br> for the Exploratorium, the Zeum, and the CA Academy of Sciences; and<br> 100 for Silicon Valley, for The Tech, The Children's Discovery Museum,<br> and...I don't know. I'm sure we'll find a place.<br> <br> Similarly, I would like to do the Children's Museum in Indianapolis,<br> the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, the Smithsonian, and so<br> on and on.<br> <br> > SJ<br> <div class="Ih2E3d">><br> <br> <br> <br> --<br> Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name<br> And Children are my nation.<br> The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination.<br> <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai</a><br> _______________________________________________<br> </div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br> <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a></div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College<br> <a href="http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au">http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au</a><br><br>"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead<br>