<div>Hi all,</div><div><br></div><div>To those who attended- thanks for a GREAT talk about public health on the XO! Those of you who couldn't be there, be sure to keep yourself posted on our listserv, where we'll continue the dialogue.</div>
<div><br></div><div>See notes below about our Public Health meeting from Tuesday, June 22nd at 4pm EST.</div><div><br></div><div>Next steps: </div><div><ul><li>Add more ideas under each of the OLPC Health unit suggestions over the <i>next week</i>.</li>
<li>Divide topics among people and build units over the next <i>month or two</i> to create an "arsenal" of public health curricula that can be used in current and future laptop projects.</li></ul></div><div>Ready, set, go!</div>
<div><br></div><div>Anyone not on the <a href="mailto:health@waveplace.org" target="_blank">health@waveplace.org</a> listserv who would like to take part in the topic identifying and project executing, send me an email and I will add you.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Beth</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
<div><br></div><div>Attendees:</div><div>Beth Santos</div>
<div>Caryl Bigenho</div><div>Jessica Curtis</div><div>George Hunt</div>
<div>Steve Sargon</div><div>Randall Caton</div><div>David Cullen</div><div>Samuel Klein (chat only)</div><div>Mika Matsuzaki (chat only)</div><div><br></div><div><ul><li>Interest in making public health programs for the XO</li>
<ul><li>Focus on Etoys </li><ul><li>Will allow teachers who are not familiar with computers to edit programs so they are culturally relevant</li><li>Will also allow students to interact with the lessons more</li><li>Does not NEED to be Etoys-focused</li>
<li>Waveplace: divides units into ten lessons, each lesson is about 50 minutes in length (not necessarily all time used on the computer, some interaction off the computer too)</li><li>We can take on 5+ units and create ten lessons for each unit (for example, the sanitation unit includes lessons on hand washing, water filtration, etc)</li>
</ul><li>Haiti, São Tomé- both locations that could really use public health programs on the XO NOW</li></ul><li>Topics on the OLPC Health Wiki (can structure from here)- via <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Health_Content" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Health_Content</a></li>
<ul><li><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px"><ul style="line-height:1.5em;list-style-type:disc;margin-top:0.3em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:1.5em;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">
<li><a href="http://go/Physiology" title="Physiology" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(122, 54, 150);background-color:initial;background-repeat:initial initial" target="_blank">Physiology</a> and body systems/functions</li>
<ul><li>Reproduction???</li><li>Family planning?? Caution with these, could be culturally insensitive/irrelevant</li><li>Tobacco and smoking (also under air quality)</li><li>Breast feeding</li><ul><li>Steve's wife- La Leche Legue</li>
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<li><a href="http://go/Water_and_sanitation" title="Water and sanitation" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(48, 107, 181);background-color:initial;background-repeat:initial initial" target="_blank">Water and sanitation</a></li>
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<li>water testing and filtration</li><ul><li>in Haiti there are good and bad wells</li><li>see microscope talk below- we can compare good and bad water by number of microbes, color of water, etc.</li><li>Beth will get in touch with MIT students that created their own water filtration kits for kids to use</li>
<li><span style="font-family:arial;line-height:normal;font-size:small"><a href="http://www.water1st.org/work/bangladesh/update.html" target="_blank">http://www.water1st.org/work/bangladesh/update.html</a></span></li>
</ul><li>village-scale water treatment</li>
<li>latrines- Jess-- water-sealed toilets<br></li><li>Solar-powered water still</li><li>Diarrheal diseases</li><li>hand-washing</li><ul><li><span style="font-family:arial;line-height:normal;font-size:small"><a href="http://www.kidzworldespanol.com/articulo/792-lavarse-las-manos" target="_blank">http://www.kidzworldespanol.com/articulo/792-lavarse-las-manos</a></span></li>
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</ul><li>Hygiene- hand-washing could also come into play here</li><li><a href="http://go/Nutrition" title="Nutrition" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(122, 54, 150);background-color:initial;background-repeat:initial initial" target="_blank">Nutrition</a></li>
<ul><li>"Food Force" on the XO explores the topic of world hunger</li><li>Diet planner</li><li>Vitamin A and blindness</li>
</ul><li>Infectious diseases</li><ul><li>Make sure to focus on both communicable AND non-communicable diseases</li><li>H1N1</li><li>MALARIA</li><ul><li>mosquito nets</li><li>São Tomé has been able to end death from malaria under age 5</li>
<li>"Free from Malaria" game on the XO</li></ul><li>HIV/AIDS</li></ul><li>Indoor cooking and air quality</li><ul><li>Environment/deforestation/reforestation</li><li>Pollution</li><li>Smoking</li></ul><li>First aid and "field" medicine</li>
<li><a href="http://go/Disaster_Relief" title="Disaster Relief" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(48, 107, 181);background-color:initial;background-repeat:initial initial" target="_blank">Disaster Relief</a></li>
</ul></span></li><li>Also see more topics on <span style="font-family:arial;line-height:normal;font-size:small"><a href="http://www.tchd.org/kids.html" target="_blank">http://www.tchd.org/kids.html</a></span></li>
<ul style="line-height:1.5em;list-style-type:disc;margin-top:0.3em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:1.5em;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px"><li><a href="http://www.hesperian.org/publications_download.php" target="_blank">http://www.hesperian.org/publications_download.php</a> (Where There Is No Doctor)</li>
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</ul></ul><li>Ways to present info</li><ul><li>Interactive lessons</li><ul><li>take the kids outside or doing something physical</li></ul><li>Data storing/importing</li><ul><li>perhaps using Kedama</li><li>Netlogo/Starlogo</li>
<li>health simulations where kids can play</li></ul><li>Get local involvement and ownership-- make sure content is <b>culturally appropriate and relevant</b></li><li>Encourage local institutions and governments to adapt the content and presentation of content to their needs</li>
<li>Use the XO as a microscope- camera has a resolution of 720 x 480</li><ul><li>Kids can use the microscope to explore micro/macrobiotic things in water, for example</li><li>"seeing the invisible"</li></ul><li>
Mike Dawson's Afghanistan stuff</li><ul><li><a href="http://www.paiwastoon.af/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=50&Itemid=23&lang=en" target="_blank">http://www.paiwastoon.af/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=50&Itemid=23&lang=en</a></li>
<li>Teachers and other locals would be able to make their own programs</li></ul></ul></ul></div><div name="sig_050680e344" style="margin-top: 2em; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 2em; margin-left: 0pt; ">---<br>
<strong>Beth Santos</strong><br>
Outreach Coordinator<br>
Waveplace Foundation<br><br>
Tel: +1 610 797 3100 x 44<br>
Fax: +1 610 797 3199<br>
Cell: +1 603 661 1273 <br>
<a href="http://www.waveplace.org">http://www.waveplace.org</a><br></div>