One Laptop Per Child A Short History of EduBlog

 Ask first and respond to the users needs  Discover the capacity of volunteer engineers  Co-design a project with teachers in the loop from day 1  Run a bi-lingual, bi-cultural project  Build and deploy something useful for all XO deployments  Build long term relationships with people who can come together for more projects EduBlog High Level Goals

 Uruguay schools posted lots of great blogs in November, 2007   ADIVINANZA MUY BONITO POR DELANTE Y MUY FEO POR DETRÄS MÈ TRANSFORMO A CADA INSTANTE PUES IMITO A LOS DEMÁS ¿qué es ? Jimena  They upgraded to 656 in November and hit a bug that blocked upload of images to blogger.com   Almost all blog posts out of Uruguay stopped! Pablo’s Idea

 Pablo noted four key challenges with blogging:  Children getting confused with some options  The number of steps involved in creating a post  Difficulty in collaborating on a post  Difficulty with monitoring and viewing posts before being published  After much study we decided we could build a simple GUI on the school server that has APIs on its back end to post to many blog types  Blogger.com and Moodle are the first two APIs implemented  XS implementation allows inclusion of teacher review and workflow via Apache/PHP/SQL  Tarun built a prototype so we could show the idea to teachers for early feedback

Tarun’s Design

Community in Action The team came together in 1 week in late June!  Pablo found Glen and Marcel, Greg found Tony and Tarun  Pablo found teachers to comment on design and create art work  Tony built the server (at his own cost), Glen hosted it (for free), Marcel, Tony and Tarun configured GIT, Moodle, XS, PHP, MySQL, PostyGreSQL, Network and more…  Tony made a server with three boot options: Debian, XS, Fedora  Server came online in early July  More people too (e.g. Said, Keny) and many others. The group is still growing. Roadblocks Overcome XS installation on Tony’s off the shelf HW – Lots of hard work on server list Uruguay on Debian not XS! – EduBlog beta on Internet and designed for Debian too Browse in 656 can’t pick any images off the Journal – New browse built Write in 656 saves non standard format – Tarun coding Abiword converter now  Beta test at schools in Uruguay may start next week…

   Requirements definition and schedule  Relevant URLs

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