Tomorrow, Monday, November 17 is the launch of the new Give One Get One campaign for 2008 – meaning, once again you can buy your very own XO laptop. The tagline for this year is Give a Laptop. Get a Laptop. Change the World. You can buy yours at amazon.com/xo. All our community author’s work […]
BookSprint post on OLPC News web site
Here’s a post I wrote about the BookSprint published on OLPC News, an independent site that boasts about 5,000 readers a day. OLPC / Sugar – Book Sprint, part II: Action To build a set of books in five days takes a lot of preparation work that Adam Hyde, founder of FLOSS Manuals, described in […]
Wikislicing project gets real – introducing InfoSlicer as a Sugar Activity
A photo of old school remixing – printing out Wikipedia articles and recombining them. 🙂 This was a fun learning exercise as part of an IBM Extreme Blue student project creating a Sugar Activity called InfoSlicer. Instead of using scissors, you can now slice information by downloading Wikipedia articles, editing and remixing them, and reading […]