John,<div> </div><div>Thanks a lot for the information. We will see how we can move forward with this. I just arrived in Delhi last night and we are slowly settling in. Will follow up with you by the end of the week. </div> <div> </div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Anurag <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 5:55 PM, John Tierney <<a href="mailto:jtis4stx@hotmail.com">jtis4stx@hotmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div> Hi Harriet and Anurag, David, and Francis, <pre>In case you have not met and corresponded I wanted to facilitate this connection because I believe it can provide beneficial collaboration for all involved. I would have done this sooner but was traveling in Europe most of the month of May. With the SoaS Pilot to soon be starting in New Delhi, I thought your groups could be helpful to each other. Anurag and Team meet Harriet Vidyasagar, she is with Out of India- <a href="http://www.outofindia.net/,I" target="_blank">http://www.outofindia.net/,I</a> originally met her at the One Laptop per Child Global Workshop in May 2008. We recently reconnected through posts about the SoaS Creation Kit and the Sugar Workshop we just put on at the Computers and Writing Conference at Purdue May 22. It was myself, Dr. Gerald Ardito(Just defended Dissertation on Sugar Changing Learning Environment 5/21-XO's in 5 fifth grade classrooms and Dell 2100 and SoaS in 1 5th grade class), Tammy Conrad-Salvo:Assoc.Director Purdue Writing Center, Walter Bender via Adobe Connect, and Dr. Rich Rice Texas Tech Multiple Literacy Lab via Adobe Connect. Harriet here is the link to the New Delhi SoaS project and thread below also gives explanation. <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick_in_Delhi_India" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick_in_Delhi_India</a> At the Computers and Writing Conference about 350 attendees received a CD/DVD Combination. The CD contained the Sugar Image that Gerald Ardito has been using in the Fifth Grade Classroom in New York-Sugar Demo Sugar iso (disk 1) <a href="http://idisk.mac.com/geraldar//Public/soas-st-20091004-ss.iso" target="_blank">http://idisk.mac.com/geraldar//Public/soas-st-20091004-ss.iso</a> The DVD contained the Sugar on a Stick Creation Kit which has been wonderfully put together by Thomas Gilliard. Creation Kit and Goodies (disk 2) <a href="http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/SugarCreatonKit07.iso" target="_blank">http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/SugarCreatonKit07.iso</a> This was version07 and now he has released version09 which also includes the new Mirabelle offerings. <a href="http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Sugar-Creation-Kit-09.iso" target="_blank">http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Sugar-Creation-Kit-09.iso</a> Would be great for you to take these images and create DVD's and CD's to distribute especially to the University Level contacts you try to forge in India. Our hope is to get the SoaS Creation Kit into a delivery form and lower level of technical language to allow the less technically inclined to become Sugar on a Stick Creation Stations. By copying these files to their own computers they can then hand DVD on to colleagues and so on, building a vast ecosystem of Sugar enablers. I have attached handout from the Workshop. It was formed around how we could create collaborative relationships between the University and K-12 Instructors to use Sugar as the platform to provide writing resources and activities to the entire learning continuum. Having writing resources for each grade level available locally on a USB Stick would be a major step forward. I hope this turns into a beneficial collaboration. Let me know if there is anything else I can do to help facilitate. Best In Your Travels and Pilot! John Tierney Contact Info: Anurag Goel - <a href="mailto:agoel23@gmail.com" target="_blank">agoel23@gmail.com</a> David Han - dshan@bu.eduFrancis Thalakotur - <a href="mailto:francis@thalakotur.com" target="_blank">francis@thalakotur.com</a> Harriet Vidyasagar- <a href="mailto:outofindia@gmail.com" target="_blank">outofindia@gmail.com</a> Message: 1 Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 22:26:45 -0400 From: Anurag Goel <<a href="mailto:agoel23@gmail.com" target="_blank">agoel23@gmail.com</a>> Subject: [OLPC_Boston] SoaS Deployment in Delhi, India To: iaep <<a href="mailto:iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>>, <a href="mailto:olpc_boston@lists.laptop.org" target="_blank">olpc_boston@lists.laptop.org</a> Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:AANLkTikNr6CmOlVzlp1tXMR2346HnDL2asxiZQBojZp2@mail.gmail.com" target="_blank">AANLkTikNr6CmOlVzlp1tXMR2346HnDL2asxiZQBojZp2@mail.gmail.com</a>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hey all, Some of you might already know but for those who don't, there will be a SoaS deployment in Delhi, India. A team of 3 students from Boston University will be leaving for Delhi in June. The deployment will be about 10 weeks long from June-Aug. We will be working closely with SEETA (<a href="http://www.seeta.in" target="_blank">www.seeta.in</a>) while we are in Delhi. Dr. Stefanakis (Boston University School of Education) will be our faculty advisor for the project. We have made great strides in preparing for our project, but like any deployment, planning is an on-going job that can always use help. We have set up a wiki page for our project. You can find it here: <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick_in_Delhi_India" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick_in_Delhi_India</a> We have raised about $4000 for our project and are continuing to fundraise more. We are targeting for $6000. We would greatly appreciate any donations, which can be made via PayPal on our wiki page. There is a lot to be gained from this deployment as we plan to write a case study this fall. As part of our research, we want to measure how Sugar impacts student learning. We will be measuring this through qualitative and quantitative data with a sample size of at least 150 students. We are planning to use SoaS Strawberry version1 in India. If USR is stable by June, we would like to use that. We ruled out SoaS Blueberry because of problems with collaboration. Anyone suggest a different strategy? Also, we need some help setting up a school server, ideally with integration with Moodle. I tried setting up an XS using the steps on the OLPC wiki but did not have much luck. Is there anyone who can point me in the right direction or is willing to help set this up? I'm not sure if anyone has successfully done this in the past. My technical skills are at par, but if there is any documentation on setting up a backup/restore server I am willing to give it a shot. If you would like us to test certain activities as part of the deployment, please let us know. Feel free to foward this email and the wiki page to anyone else. Thanks, Anurag Goel Boston University '12 College of Engineering</pre> </div> </blockquote></div> -- Anurag Goel </div>