<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>Hi Christophe,</div><div><br></div><div>this looks like an interesting and ambitious course schedule! :-)</div><div><br></div><div>May I ask what the background of these students is expected to be? Also (and somewhat related): What kind of class projects do you envision the students to tackle? It would of course be excellent if their work could fairly directly contribute to what's hapening in the OLPC/Sugar projects around the world (plus it could also be an additional motivating factor for the students).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Last but not least: I hadn't realized that there is an ongoing OLPC project in Suriname. I only remember some blog posts and e-mails from the early days (maybe 2007~2008?) about some Dutch folks considering such an effort. Is there further information about the project online somewhere?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Christoph</div></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Christophe Guéret <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:c.d.m.gueret@vu.nl" target="_blank">c.d.m.gueret@vu.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Christoph, Tracy, everyone,<br><br>Some time ago I spoke about a course around ICT4D we are setting up in Amsterdam.<br>
Here is the plan we came up with, we would be very pleased to hear what you think of it.<br><br>Cheers,<br>
Christophe<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br>
----------------------------- Plannen:<br>
<br>
Week 1: 7-12 January (calendar week 2).<br>
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5 lectures a 2 uur (11-13.00) dit zijn de echte ICT 4 D colleges. B.v.<br>
but tbd<br>
1) Introductie: vak en thematiek (allemaal)<br>
2) ICT in development (voorbeelden en issues) (CIS)<br>
3) ICT4D technology (challenges) (CS)<br>
4) ICT4D technology (solutions) (CS)<br>
5) ICT4D Software engineering (CS)<br>
4 lectures a 2 (10-11.00, every day, but not Monday)<br>
Students present papers, ideas etc.<br>
4 lectures a 2 uur (13-15.00, every day, but not Monday)<br>
Guest speakers (Chris Reij, ...) (mostly CIS oriented)<br>
<br>
Week 2: 15-19 January (calendar week 3).<br>
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4 lectures a 2 uur (11-13.00)<br>
Ma: Education: XOs, schools, teaching material etc<br>
Di: Voice technology: (CS)<br>
Wed: An XO deployment in Suriname (very concrete)<br>
Thu: Voice technology for markets in XYZ (very concrete)<br>
after the lecture, students get the task of forming groups, and<br>
formulating the challenge they want to<br>
tackle, and the method they want to do it..<br>
2 practical sessions 2 uur (13-15.00. Monday (XO) + Tuesday (VoiceTech)<br>
1 lectures a 2 uur (13-15.00 Vrijdag. Groups present themselfs and their<br>
ideas).<br>
<br>
Week 3: 22-26 January (calendar week 4).<br>
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Individual meetings with groups.<br>
1 lectures a 2 uur (13-15.00 Vrijdag) Progress report<br>
<br>
Week 4: 28.1. - 1.2. (calendar week 5).<br>
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Individual meetings with groups.<br>
1 lecture a 3 uur (bij voorkeur Vrijdag 9.00) *scheduling because of<br>
conflict with my other course.<br>
Presentation of project results<br>
<br>
no exam.<br>
---------------- this implies schedule:<br>
<br>
We hebben geen idee hoeveel studenten we kunnen verwachten. Zeg maar 40.<br>
<br>
Week 1: 7-12 January (calendar week 2).<br>
-------------------------------<br>
5 lectures a 2 uur (11-13.00)<br>
4 lectures a 2 (9-11.00, every day, but not Monday)<br>
4 lectures a 2 uur (13-15.00, every day, but not Monday)<br>
<br>
Week 2: 15-19 January (calendar week 3).<br>
-------------------------------<br>
4 lectures a 2 uur (11-13.00 Mo- Th)<br>
2 practical sessions a 2 uur (13-15.00. Monday + Tuesday)<br>
1 lectures a 2 uur (13-15.00 Vrijdag)<br>
<br>
Week 3: 22-26 January (calendar week 4).<br>
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1 lectures a 2 uur (13-15.00 Vrijdag)<br>
<br>
Week 4: 28.1. - 1.2. (calendar week 5).<br>
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1 lecture a 3 uur (bij voorkeur Vrijdag 9.00)<br>
<br>
no exam.<span><font color="#888888"><br>
</font></span></div><span><font color="#888888"><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><pre cols="72">Christophe Guéret Ph.D. (<a href="mailto:c.d.m.gueret@vu.nl" target="_blank">c.d.m.gueret@vu.nl</a>)
<a href="http://www.few.vu.nl/%7Ecgueret/" target="_blank">http://www.few.vu.nl/~cgueret/</a><br><a href="http://semweb4u.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://semweb4u.wordpress.com/</a><br>Postdoctoral researcher working on LATC (<a href="http://latc-project.eu" target="_blank">http://latc-project.eu</a>)
Knowledge Representation & Reasoning Group
Department of Computer Science, AI
VU University Amsterdam</pre>
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</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div></div></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">-- <br>Christoph Derndorfer<div><br></div><div><div>volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [<a href="http://www.olpc.at/" target="_blank">www.olpc.at</a>]<br>
<div>editor, OLPC News [<a href="http://www.olpcnews.com/" target="_blank">www.olpcnews.com</a>]<br>
contributor, TechnikBasteln [<a href="http://www.technikbasteln.net/" target="_blank">www.technikbasteln.net</a>]</div></div><div><br></div><div>e-mail: <a href="mailto:christoph@derndorfer.eu" target="_blank">christoph@derndorfer.eu<br clear="all">
<div><br></div>-- <br>Christoph Derndorfer<div><br></div></a><div><a href="mailto:christoph@derndorfer.eu" target="_blank"></a><div><a href="mailto:christoph@derndorfer.eu" target="_blank">volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [</a><a href="http://www.olpc.at/" target="_blank">www.olpc.at</a>]<br>
<div>editor, OLPC News [<a href="http://www.olpcnews.com/" target="_blank">www.olpcnews.com</a>]<br>contributor, TechnikBasteln [<a href="http://www.technikbasteln.net/" target="_blank">www.technikbasteln.net</a>]</div></div>
<div><br></div><div>e-mail: <a href="mailto:christoph@derndorfer.eu" target="_blank">christoph@derndorfer.eu</a></div></div><br>
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