<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> <div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"> <div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"> <div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"> <div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"> <div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"> <div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"> <div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"> <div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"> <div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"> <div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"> <div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"> <div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"> <div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"> <div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"> <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed; font-size: 13px;" lang="x-western">Please join us now, voting for the latest OLPC/Sugar community projects over IRC Live Chat, to make the best project allocations & mentoring relationships--starting right here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://forum.laptop.org/chat">http://forum.laptop.org/chat</a> Then type at bottom: /join #olpc-meeting AGENDA: * Sunday's 9PM EST Philippines Deployment Report, Live! <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/grassroots/2011-March/001735.html">http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/grassroots/2011-March/001735.html</a> * Fast Review of the 7 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals -- please join us advocating for, and/or reviewing shortcomings of these proposals: 1. IT in Education - Benin 2. Village Education Project - Ecuador / Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 3. Ecole Mixte and Friends - Gonaive, Haiti 4. Helping with OS Releases/Customisation - Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pennsylvania 5. Think Big Nepal - Educating Children Rescued from Slavery 6. Game based applications to enhance literacy in Rural Kenya 7. Children Key of Life Project - Dem Republic of Congo/DRC, Zaire * Which projects might you enjoy Mentoring below?! <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Search/Results.html?Query=Queue=%27contributors%27">http://rt.laptop.org/Search/Results.html?Query=Queue=%27contributors%27</a> * New projects & libraries -- teaching them Community Outreach: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries</a> 1. IT in Education - Benin <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77626">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77626</a> SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://olpcMAP.net">http://olpcMAP.net</a> & <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://j.mp/6UhCtd">http://j.mp/6UhCtd</a> Requests 1 XOs over 10 months Project Objectives: The project objective is to help children and the public learn to use technology and find information using computers and the Internet. We provide services such as: - Literacy courses - Basic Computer Usage - Word Processing - Using Email - Using the Internet - Using Computers and the Internet to search for jobs / write résumés - Specialized Internet search classes on specific topic (such as health care, agriculture, etc...) 2. Village Education Project - Ecuador / Swarthmore, Pennsylvania <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77660">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77660</a> SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://olpcMAP.net">http://olpcMAP.net</a> & <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://j.mp/6UhCtd">http://j.mp/6UhCtd</a> Requests 10-20 XOs over 3 months Project Objectives: (excerpt) The new computer curriculum aims to give the children basic computing literacy, including the skills they will need in high school (for example, touch typing, word processing, email and Internet research techniques) to place them on a more level playing field with their more privileged classmates and to ensure that they have a solid foundation to build on in their high school classes. OLPC’s XO laptops are especially good for this purpose due to their portability, ease of charging, and simple interface. More specifically, since our summer program ends with a final exam, we aim to have at least 90 percent of our students pass the exam on the computer curriculum. We are starting literally at the beginning with these kids - most have never used a mouse - so the outcomes will be especially visible not only in hard outcomes like their test scores, but also in soft outcomes like quality of school projects, and general readiness for school. 3. Ecole Mixte and Friends - Gonaive, Haiti <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77921">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77921</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://friendsacademy1810.org">http://friendsacademy1810.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://sbsgrade3kids.blogspot.com">http://sbsgrade3kids.blogspot.com</a> SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://olpcMAP.net">http://olpcMAP.net</a> & <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://j.mp/6UhCtd">http://j.mp/6UhCtd</a> Requests 5-9 XOs over 36 months Project Objectives: Friends Academy is seeking to establish a long-term partnership with Ecole Mixte Choubert Alexis in Gonaives, Haiti, an accredited school that was devastated in the 2010 earthquake. The school would be one of several schools in our network. Our objective is to collaborate with students around the world on the kinds of projects that require teamwork, complex communication, creativity, technical competence, and other 21st century skills. These projects can take many forms. Imagine students at one school creating storyboards, students at another school designing the artwork, students at a third school composing the music, a forth class producing the final video. This kind of project and those like it differ from the usual correspondences and pen pal exchanges that teachers initiate with their international partners. We will also have these initial exchanges, but expect more out of these partnerships in the long-term. The projects we propose provide students with genuine learning experiences. They also build friendships, cement relationships, and bridge cultures. They require intense and sustained collaboration. Apps like[ <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://translate.google.com/">http://translate.google.com/</a> ] translate.google.com can help with the language barrier. Email, wikis, and blogs allow us to network, share and collaborate. These projects allow children to share their stories, experiences, culture, values, ideas, and dreams. We believe projects like these can be powerful and transformative. Students can share, learn, and grow together. Technically, we hope they can build on their skills. These projects tie in to our school's vision "to develop students who have strong global literacy" and to one of our technology goals "global communication and global awareness." Teachers at the other schools will carve out their own goals. For one teacher, these collaborations might be an avenue to teach English, for others, it might be a way to teach the writing process, art, music, or theater. 4. Helping with OS Releases/Customisation - Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pennsylvania <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78001">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78001</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://dachte.org">http://dachte.org</a> SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://olpcMAP.net">http://olpcMAP.net</a> & <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://j.mp/6UhCtd">http://j.mp/6UhCtd</a> Requests 1 XO-1 and 1 XO-1.5 over undetermined months Project Objectives: [In order to] help with OS packaging/customisation/builds. For example, I would like to help with making smaller images without GNOME by verifying the dependencies for the sugar components, and I would be willing to otherwise assist in tracking down bugs in the system releases and participate in meetings/Bugzilla to this effect. As a systems programmer/admin, I know Fedora/RHEL/CentOS very well, and I have experience customising them. 5. Think Big Nepal - Educating Children Rescued from Slavery <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78050">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78050</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.childrenoftomorrow.org">http://www.childrenoftomorrow.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nepalorphanshome.org">http://www.nepalorphanshome.org</a> SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://olpcMAP.net">http://olpcMAP.net</a> & <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://j.mp/6UhCtd">http://j.mp/6UhCtd</a> Requests 10 XOs over 12 months Project Objectives: (excerpts) Theobjective of this project is to create a yearlong extracurricular academic andmentorship program for 10 children—mostly girls—who have been rescued fromslavery or abandonment in Nepal.Through the use of the laptops, the program will encompass a wide-rangingcurriculum that will enhance the children's understanding of themselves and theworld and will foster cognitive, psychological and emotional development. The curriculum will be divided into 3 parts; each part will take 4 months to complete: The first part of the curriculum focuses on geography, peoples of the world, cultures and religions. The second part focuses on government, law and human rights. The third part focuses on health, the environment and basic science. Create a mentorship program between older and younger children in order to maximize the program's benefits for years to come. Enhance student interaction with each other through the use of technology, fostering an innovative learning experience outside the classroom. The children will use the laptops to read given assignments, participate in exercises, as well as to write their own newspapers and create their own storybooks. Participants are responsible to teach some of what they learn to the other children in the orphanage, fostering communication and mentorship skills. For this project, Children of Tomorrow is partnering with Nepal OrphansHome (NOH), a nonprofit organization in Kathmanduthat operates homes for children who’ve been orphaned, abandoned or rescued from bonded labor. <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.nepalorphanshome.org">www.nepalorphanshome.org</a> 6. Game based applications to enhance literacy in Rural Kenya <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78380">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78380</a><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67167"></a> SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://olpcMAP.net">http://olpcMAP.net</a> & <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://j.mp/6UhCtd">http://j.mp/6UhCtd</a> Requests 10 XOs for undetermined months Project Objectives: To empirically measure the impact of low cost technologies use in enhancing literacy for kids from Bottom of Pyramid in Kenya. To establish design features that enhance learning for rural kids. To make a contribution towards digitizing learning in Kenya and the region 7. Children Key of Life Project - Dem Republic of Congo/DRC, Zaire <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78464">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78464</a> SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://olpcMAP.net">http://olpcMAP.net</a> & <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://j.mp/6UhCtd">http://j.mp/6UhCtd</a> Requests 20 XOs for 12 undetermined months Project Objectives: Although it has been a really long time since the computer was developed, the computer has become an object of great importance to day, be it any workplace and any profession. The uses and applications of computers are vast and un-ending. Computer literacy has become a pre-requisite while appearing for almost every odd interview. Since it is a known fact that today’s children will grow up to become responsible adults of tomorrow, they must be introduced to the basic technology that currently rules the world. According to that reality we have gote that ideas to make this project in order to providing this knowledge to our children is like preparing them for the future. But According to the successive wars here in our country (DR Congo) many children does't use these software because of life is more hardful, parents are not able to pay laptop, it means that the laptops are using only for the noble and rich families.. That is the reason why our Project will allow those vulnerable children (all kind of children without eny discrimination )to introducing them to that new technology so that This will give them an introduction to the syllabus that he will be taught in further professional courses and to allow them to get a job... Our Project is from the Bible "Paulm 30:11 that says, you have turned my mourning into dancing you have sut off my sacclother and clothed me with gladness" Really we need to help our community with this new system of education.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>