Posts Tagged ‘XO laptop’

BookSprint for Floss Manuals writing for the XO and Sugar

{ Posted on Jul 26 2008 by annegentle }
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Categories : OLPC, blogging, techpubs
I've been busy lately working on plans for a Floss Manuals BookSprint. A BookSprint is a week-long concentrated effort of technical writers getting together to create a manual for free, libre open source software products. BookSprints are like a workshop ...Read More »

Stories from SXSWi 2008 – Textbooks of the Future: Free & Collaborative

{ Posted on Mar 23 2008 by annegentle }
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I have been talking to SJ Klein regularly via email and phone for my work on the wiki pages and kid's user manual for the XO laptop for One Laptop Per Child, so I was excited to hear him speak ...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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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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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 »

Happy turkey day – but let’s talk wiki, not turkey

{ Posted on Nov 23 2007 by annegentle }
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Categories : writing
Happy thanksgiving everyone! I have much to be grateful for. Here's me with my son, both of us stuffed full of turkey. Deadline extended... multiple meaning I just learned that the Give 1 Get 1 program to purchase two XO laptops has ...Read More »

Community support – don’t think of yourself as a customer but as a member of a movement

{ Posted on Nov 12 2007 by annegentle }
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Categories : tools, wiki, writing
I've signed up for the Give 1 Get 1 program for One Laptop Per Child, and just received the email today, November 12, 2007, with the link to the site, www.laptopgiving.org. I read the terms and conditions with interest because I ...Read More »