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A nice OLPC story

{ Posted on Dec 01 2008 by annegentle }

Tags : Dominican Republic, education, G1G1, Haiti, laptop, OLPC, one laptop per child
Categories : OLPC

Lifted in whole from the December 1, 2008 OLPC Community update - what a neat story. Cambridge: Samuel Dalembert, the 6-11 starting center for the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers, is a devotee of technology whose personal foundation supports a variety of youth projects. Samuel ...Read More »

XO BookSprint instructions

{ Posted on Aug 25 2008 by annegentle }

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Tags : BookSprint, computer, laptop, learning, OLPC, one laptop per child, writing, XO
Categories : OLPC

Adam Hyde of FLOSS Manuals wrote up these instructions for how to get involved with the BookSprint going on this week. I'm hoping to write blog entries that describe the planning sessions and surrounding practical advice for this type of ...Read More »

Taking the One Laptop Per Child XO laptop to the preschool classroom

{ Posted on Mar 02 2008 by annegentle }

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Tags : Austin, BarCamp, computers, education, laptop, OLPC, one laptop per child, preschool, teacher, teaching, XO laptop
Categories : OLPC

What can you teach with the XO laptop? I'm still pondering that question for US-based classrooms. I'm reading the news from Birmingham Alabama and the blog entries from Dallas-Fort Worth Texas school systems with interest. Apparently you can buy a ...Read More »

How to download and copy epub files using the XO laptop

{ Posted on Jan 20 2008 by annegentle }

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Tags : children's books, ebooks, external media, FBReader, Little Bo Peep, OLPC, one laptop per child, SD card, The Three Bears, USB stick, XO laptop
Categories : OLPC

Bob DuCharme recently converted 16 children's books from the Project Gutenberg archive into .epub format for use with FBReader on the XO laptop. Thanks Bob! I've just walked through the scenario of downloading the epub files from Bob's download page and ...Read More »

Audience considerations – writing technical doc for kids, parents, and teachers for One Laptop Per Child

{ Posted on Oct 18 2007 by annegentle }

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Tags : emulate, laptop.org, OLPC, one laptop per child, Sugar, technical writing, user analysis, XO
Categories : techpubs

I've recently (read:last week) learned that there is active recruiting going on for end-user documentation for One Laptop Per Child. The OLPC project, as it is also known as, is Nicholas Negroponte's education project that hoped to build a US$100 ...Read More »