<html> <head> <style> .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { font-size: 10pt; font-family:Verdana } </style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> Hello Nancie, Welcome to OLPC!  Here is are links to the teachers' manuals from Peru.  They are in Spanish, but excellent. It tells how to do almost everything you would want to do. There are 3 parts totalling over 100 pages. <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sur#Per.C3.BA">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sur#Per.C3.BA</a> They also have an excellent web site with a lot of links to interesting things: <a href="http://www.perueduca.edu.pe/web/visitante/inicio">http://www.perueduca.edu.pe/web/visitante/inicio</a> Mexico also has a lot of things on the web. Some of their screen shots may be from older versions of Sugar, but their manuals are excellent. <a href="http://www.mochiladigitaltelmex.com.mx/olpc/index.php/Herramientas_pedagógicas">http://www.mochiladigitaltelmex.com.mx/olpc/index.php/Herramientas_pedagógicas</a> They have also done some excellent training sessions.  This link will take you to the page with links to their workshop lesson plans, participant guides, and a short "presentation."  <a href="http://www.mochiladigitaltelmex.com.mx/olpc/index.php/Talleres_Mochila_Digital_Telme.com.mx/olpc/index.php/Herramientas_pedagógicas">http://www.mochiladigitaltelmex.com.mx/olpc/index.php/Talleres_Mochila_Digital_Telme</a>x  They deal with far more than how to use the XO.  There is a lot of other important information too.  Probably the 2nd one is the most important as it deals with constructionism and collaborative learning. Unfortunately, they are all in Spanish.  Here is a suggestion...find a friend who is fluent in Spanish and spend several hours perusing these teacher workshop resources.  Take copious notes. Then write your own workshop lesson plan. Of course, your most useful resource in English will be the FLOSS manuals at: <a href="http://en.flossmanuals.net/">http://en.flossmanuals.net/</a> The ones for OLPC are on the right-hand column. I hope you will be able to use some of these resources in your project. We really need someone to dedicate some time to get them translated into other languages. Caryl <hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:36:37 -0400 Subject: Hi from Nancie From: nanciesevers@gmail.com To: caryl@laptop.org Hi Caryl, It is nice to meet you:). Thank you for sharing. Nancie Severs Hanover, NH -- This email came from my XO computer from the One Laptop Per Child project. Please check out One Laptop Per Child at <a href="http://www.laptop.org/en/">www.laptop.org/en/</a> and help make the world a better place! Nancie </body> </html>