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<P class=EC_MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Just wanted to pass along this email and video to everyone to show</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=EC_MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">others like ourselves our hard at work trying to highlight and increase</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=EC_MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">the effectiveness of Sugar and the XO.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=EC_MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Video is about 35min in length-well done and inspires like minded work</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=EC_MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">to be done.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=EC_MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Best,</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=EC_MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">John Tierney</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=EC_MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">>Subject: TTU's work with XO<BR>>Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 10:47:08 -0400<BR>>From: tcsalvo@purdue.edu<BR>>To: rich.rice@ttu.edu; jtis4stx@hotmail.com</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=EC_MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">>Dear John,</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=EC_MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">>I’ve mentioned to you that Rich Rice at Texas Tech University has been using XO laptops for outreach >with k-12 students, and recently, he and his graduate students completed a project with the Science >Spectrum in Lubbock, TX. Science Spectrum is the local science museum. As you can see from the >following movie, they developed some innovative activities and documented their work with children who >stopped by the Science Spectrum. They’ve had quite a bit of success using the drawing and >chat .software, among others.</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=EC_MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=#0068cf size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A href="http://media.english.ttu.edu/faculty/rice/5365/iplay.wmv" target=_blank>http://media.English.TTU.edu/faculty/rice/5365/iplay.wmv</A></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=EC_MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">>Rich is also a member of the Computers and Writing community and is interested in exploring other >ways that C&W can do outreach with k-12 schools using the XO and the Sugar platform. I’ve copied him >on this message, so we can continue to talk about options for immediate and long-term projects like >working with the National Writing Project.</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=EC_MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">>Tammy</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=EC_MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">--<BR>>Tammy S. Conard-Salvo<BR>>Associate Director, Writing Lab <BR>>Purdue University</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT></P>
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