OLPC Fan Show: a XO-Friendly TV Channel

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I'm Oriol Pascual, and amongst other things, love tech and new media. At the end of last year, I ordered an OLPC and while waiting for it to arrive, decided to aggregate already existing content regarding the XO.

I created the OLPC Fan Show; a 24/7 tv channel about the OLPC program.

OLPC Peru

In Perú at Arahuayrural community is taking place the OLPC experiment in order to equip with 40 thousand computers but what is really interesting is the political discussion about the possibility of buy One Computer Per Professor. Here is a video of the first OLPC results at Arahuayrural (Only Spanish =( )....

The happiest day of engineer developer life

...when the OS for the XO runs native in his mac.... isn't beautiful?. By the way if you are a developer you might want to see our work storaged in our server; but you need tortoise so you can access our svn located in our linux server:

svn://linux.mty.itesm.mx/home/oramirez/atlas_am

OLPC at the Forum Universal de las Culturas

As part of the Gobernability Week in the Forum universal de las Culturas, we had the opportunity (thanks to professor Philipp Mueller), to present part of our work at OLPC, and show them some of our current projects. It was a great experience because it wasn't only a simple workshop, researchers from Europe and Mexico share their ideas, thoughts and knowledge. We make a very good networking for future projects for the XO and hope with this kind of events to boost the OLPC project in academic and technological areas not only in México but also in other parts of the globe. We attach the slides for part of the presentation that we gave them in October.

Hiro from NBC’s Heroes becomes ambassador for OLPC

Those of you that are fans of the NBC's Heroes can imagine what now that two great ideas joint forces ! Masi Oka, (Hiro Nakamura character) is now ambassador for OLPC according to several blogs in the web, Masi obtained a Belcheror in Computer Science so now we can say to the XO Yatta!.

GEOMAPPING AMERICA'S ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS

From Curriki and Global Education Learning Community website:

Students from many disciplines studying at the Escuela de Graduados en Administración Pública y Política Pública (EGAP) del Tecnológico de Monterrey, have planned a project called “Geomapping in America’s Elementary Schools” which will serve as software for One Laptop Per Child’s XO project.The project involves creating an interactive map of the Americas with geographical and sociological information that would help teachers in social science courses for children between 9 and 10 years old. The map will consist of two layers, one with graphical content and the other with language. Thus although the project will be in Spanish it can be easily adapted to other languages. Awardees include Fernando Rojas Sanchez, Dante Sanchez, Hector GHF, Nestor Guerrero, and Ricardo Martinez.

A warm congratulations to all winners

OLPC Latinamerica Presentation

In our school, EGAP , we have been thinking about how we can integrate Mexico in the OLPC project. We are a multidisciplinary group of students who want to generate content for the XO in Spanish. After doing web based research we found Curriki as the best option to introduce us in the production of educational content with open source standards. Thus, we want to generate content that serves both Curriki’s and OLPC’s priorities.

Our project is “Geomapping in Americas’Elementary Schools” which involves creating an interactive map of the Americas with geographical and sociological information that would help teachers in social science courses for children between 9 and 10 years old. The map will consist of two layers, one with graphical content and the other with language. Thus although the project will be in Spanish it can be easily adapted to other languages. This map will have images, colors and designs according to every country, as well as specific elements like flags, structure and other basic information. We are going to use Flash as a graphical base for the project. Our project will have to day as deadlines; first, for the information content, we will have the text and class contents (20 lessons) in a publishable format by October 26. The graphical part of the project, maps and design, will be finish by November 15.

In order to construct the map, we will research geography education in 4th and 5th grade in Latin America, U.S. and Canada, text books, remarkable research and interview geography teachers.

It is important to highlight that we already contacted the offices of the PHD and the Master program in education in our university this to get feedback and permanent reviews of the pedagogical and instructional design of the content. Also, we will prepare lesson plans on geography which we will link to the map. Finally, we will make copies of the product for elementary schools in our city, in order to have monitoring capacity.