<html> <head> <style></style></head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'> What a wonderful project! I'm envious of all you people have accomplished and am looking forward to the call tomorrow to see how I might get involved, from afar for a while, maybe in person later! Caryl <div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div>> From: sverma@sfsu.edu > Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 09:32:16 -0700 > To: olpc-jamaica@lists.laptop.org; olpc-sf@lists.laptop.org; olpc-open@lists.laptop.org; grassroots@lists.laptop.org; marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org > Subject: [IAEP] a little magic, Jamaica style! > > A short clip to show how our effort in Jamaica has been growing, one > step at a time, with one XO, a few XOS (thank you, Contributor > Program) and then some more, and then the idea begins to take root. > Those smiles you see are real. So are the math scores. And fototoons. > And the kid who goes around the school yard in August Town > (http://olpcMAP.net?id=813006), documenting sources of water using > Record, for his "Water Cycle" lesson in Grade 4. Or the six year old > at Providence Basic (http://olpcMAP.net?id=810009) who has figured out > - on his own - to modify Python code in Pippy to make his own version > of the games in there. > > Kudos to everyone who has helped make this a reality, all the way back > to the first meeting on September 5, 2008 at the University of the > West Indies, Jamaica. Of course, many are still plugging away and will > continue to do so. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMAZlPWCkw4 > > We're jammin', > > Sameer > -- > Sameer Verma, Ph.D. > Professor, Information Systems > San Francisco State University > http://verma.sfsu.edu/ > http://commons.sfsu.edu/ > http://olpcsf.org/ > http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/ > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep </div> </div></body> </html>