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• Saturday: OLPC San Francisco Bay Area Summit 2009

  
  One Laptop Per Child News — Authority: 585
  Come out this Saturday to OLPC events in New Your City , or San Francisco. Here in the Bay Area, well have the OLPC San Francisco Bay Area Summit 2009 - a OLPC-SF community event designed to primarily foster collaboration amongst deployment teams in the SF Bay Area. We also hope that the event will help in ...
  15 hours ago

• 2 workshops – Learning (also) with computers : OLPC in Greek schools

  
  Re-public: re-imagining democracy - english version — Authority: 124
  Re-public and ΕΕ/ΛΛΑΚ invite you to 2 workshops titled ‘Learning (also) with computers: The OLPC in Greek schools’. Following the open call for the dispatch of 500 OLPC XO-1 to Greek schools, the 2 workshops aim at bringing together teachers and schools who are interested in participating in this project ...
  15 hours ago

• SugarLabs: Sugar-sweet or Sugar-coated?

  
  tuxmachines.org - Do you waddle the waddle? — Authority: 503
  olpcnews.com: Its engineering goals call for a (Linux) OS and hardware-agnostic platform, with transparent, free and readily accessible and modifiable code that can be also easily shared among users. The normal user has absolute control over the Sugar part but the core system remains secure from malicious activities. ...
  1 day ago

• ANYWHERE: The book

  
  Yankee Group Blog — Authority: 126
  First it was an idea… then it became a company-wide research mission… now it’s a book. Today we start talking publicly about something we have been working on at Yankee Group for much of this past year: our first mass-market book. If you have worked with us recently — or even if you have just visited our web ...
  2 days ago

• Plan Ceibal book unleashed tomorrow

  
  Education Futures — Authority: 113
  Friends and colleagues in Uruguay are invited to attend a presentation of the Plan Ceibal book (on OLPC) tomorrow at 7pm in Montevideo:
  3 days ago

• Amping Up OLPC in NYC: Community Summit Nov 21

  
  One Laptop Per Child News — Authority: 585
  Its time for a One Laptop Per Child & Sugar Labs Community Summit in New York City. Key community members from OLPC, Sugar Labs, the OLPC Learning Club are converging in the Big Apple to re-catalyze the NYC-area community and touch off regular meetings again. Time, location and agenda details: Saturday ...
  3 days ago

• Actively Reading: OLPC Critique

  
  Disparate — Authority: 104
  Critical thinking has been on my mind, recently. For one thing, I oriented an  ”intro. to sociology” course I teach toward critical skills and methods. To me, it’s a very important part of university education, going much beyond media literacy. And media literacy is something about which I care a great deal. ...
  4 days ago

• Debating technology in education: shared usage vs. 1:1 computing – Part 1

  
  Disruptive Leadership — Authority: 104
  Recently I participated in an online debate sponsored by Infodev and UNESCO on technology in education with Walter Bender, CEO of Sugar Labs, the non-profit organization that provides the software for the XO laptop of One Laptop Per Child. The debate was focused on which model was better for schools in the developing ...
  4 days ago

• Menq EasyPC 790, il netbook da 80 dollari

  
  Web Burning Blog — Authority: 148
  Nel image dei notebook low-cost, nati da progetti più o meno mossi da spirito umanitario (oltre che da interessi economici) e finalizzati a diffondere lalfabetizzazione informatica in quei paesi che non hanno la forza economica per investire in macchine comunemente sul mercato, si conoscono fondamentalmente lXO-OLPC ...
  5 days ago

• Learning (also) with computers – 2nd open call

  
  Re-public: re-imagining democracy - english version — Authority: 124
  Since September 2009, two Greek schools, the Sminthi High School and the 2nd Experimental High School of Florina, are using the OLPC XO-1 student laptops in one of their classrooms. In continuation of this pilot program, Re-public and the Greek Free/Open Source Software Company (ΕΕL/LΑΚ) extend an open call for ...
  1 week ago

• So Many People Interested in George Polya

  
  SOPHISTICATED FINANCE — Authority: 124
  Many people say that successful blogs stay on subject. Long time readers of SF will know that I cannot abide this rule. I often post on academic papers that interest me and other somewhat eclectic subjects. A recent example would be the post on George Polya. Much to my surprise this off topic post has brought ...
  1 week ago

• Open Thread - Kids changing the world

  
  ePluribus Media — Authority: 485
  From the One Laptop Per Child News Blog: OLPC Video of Twinning Canadian and Kenyan Schools Hi, my names Amal Chandaria, and Im one of the four students from Upper Canada College who researched, designed and deployed an OLPC laptop implementation program at the Ntugi Day Secondary School in Kenya in March 2009. ...
  1 week ago

• NEPAL: New computer learning brings girls empowerment and education

  
  Women News Network - WNN — Authority: 92
  - PUNITA RIMAL / correspondent - Women News Network - WNNNepal has always been classed as a developing country. In the U.S. it is often called a “third world” country. And it may well remain that way unless Nepal can break out of the vicious cycle of exploiting its people, particularly its women. One strategy ...
  1 week ago

• Speed up your OLPC XO laptop significantly without tweaking

  
  rootninja — Authority: 128
  Switch to the console by pressing CTRL-ALT- (The neighborhood button is the one on the left with the most dots where you see other XOs and wifi hot spots around you) and install xcompmgr.
  1 week ago

• Nepal sets example with school laptops

  
  tuxmachines.org - Do you waddle the waddle? — Authority: 503
  Nepal sets example with school laptops Over 1.1 Million Sugar Activities in the Wild Advertisement:
  1 week ago

• BoomingBang: XO Laptop Role Playing Game

  
  tuxmachines.org - Do you waddle the waddle? — Authority: 503
  olpcnews.com: The basic mission of players is to eliminate all other players from the game in a funny way. You control a team of creatures, be it a penguin or Pigeon or a bull. Advertisement: read more
  2 weeks ago

• OLPC switching to ARM, plans paper thin netbook

  
  Linux/Unix News - motd.ambians.com — Authority: 461
  One Laptop per Child chairman Nicholas Negroponte told Xconomy that OLPC is prepping an ARM-based version 1.75 of its XO netbook while planning to release a & paper-thin& version 3.0 in 2012. Meanwhile, the Internet Archive is providing OLPC users with 1.6 million e-books, says the nonprofit organization....
  2 weeks ago

• the Litl Webbook

  
  JESS3 Blog — Authority: 129
  reminds me of the OLPC laptop (which gathers dust on my shelf)
  2 weeks ago

• The Future Of Netbook Battery Life

  
  NetbookBoards.com — Authority: 440
  What would you do with your 6-cell netbook if you could leave it on for 36 hours at a time? It sounds pretty insane, but JKOnTheRun has unearthed information about some very realistic ionic battery advances from one Arizona State research team. Batteries haven’t gotten a technology boost in ages, but in a time ...
  2 weeks ago

• Making Books Available

  
  Sayamindu's Ramblings — Authority: 92
  Its all over the web now – the Internet Archive has opened up over 1.6 million books for the OLPC XO laptops and in general, any machine running Sugar. Before going into anything else, it makes sense to provide a more specific meaning of “opening up” here – it involves two main objectives completed at the ...
  2 weeks ago

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