Ubiquitous Learning Practices Kenzen Chen

 MITers  Universities  Governments & Sponsors  Community volunteers  From western world  Local communities  Educators  Students  Out of School Settings

 Technical and administrative support  Developing XO2  Merging the existing open source software  Grouping local initiatives like….  Language, translation, keyboards, speech synthesis, community repair center, effective free software community leaders  Organize OLPCorps to Africa  OLPC.TV – shares what people do around the world

 Makes deployments efforts with governments and communities

 Oregon State Univ. Open Source LabOpen Source Lab  Try to merge their Helix Software Kit (Watch & Listen, Produce, Teleconference, Audio Presentations Via Producer) to XO  hosting the OLPC support forums.OLPC support forums  Iowa State University  Bicycle Pedal Generator

 OLPCorps UIUC SaoTome 2009 OLPCorps UIUC SaoTome  will involve the distribution of XO laptops to girls age 9-12 located in urban and rural areas throughout the six political districts of São Tomé. Student team members will collaborate in part with University of Illinois youth community informatics project.

 Brazil – UCA Project  Federal government purchased XOs, 500 by school, equipped with 1 Mbps broadband (at least) and 2 servers

 Papua New Guinea  is participating in trials of the XO laptop, distributed by the OLPC Foundation and implemented by the Secretariat for the Pacific Community.  Ethiopia  Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi confirmed (Nov. 2007) his commitment of giving 50,000 laptops to Ethiopia. The importance of the funding is its exemplary nature - it is model for other European countries and the EU itself to follow.

 Nortel in Telesur, FL  Contributing 200 OLPC units, provide LearnIT and network connections offered as applications.  Susie Scott Krabacher of the Mercy & Sharing Foundation  Delivered the XO laptops in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti at Feb

 OLPC in NYC OLPC in NYC  “Out of the box” workshops targeted to writing instruction  Participation in a citywide constructionist learning project  Technology planning workshops and consultation  Optional intensive onsite support for lead teachers

 TinyLanguage TinyLanguage  a comprehension-based language learning program for low cost computing devices, including the XO. Conducted by OLPC Chicago.OLPC Chicago  FLOSS: Free manuals for Free software  G1G1 XO manual  Volunteer Demos on Youtube  E.g. a librarian’s blogblog  Unboxing, testing, reviewing, and hacking

 Free Music Project Free Music Project  a collection of free music from cultures and genres around the world

 Country Tech Support Teams  Create localized FAQ and Network/IT documentation  Build a database for deployment and for problem tracking  to OLPC for problems not resolved locally  Sugar Lab Translation System Sugar Lab Translation System  Help translate wiki and software

 Community repair centers  Canada, Nepal, The Netherlands, France, and the US. CanadaNepalThe NetherlandsFrance  OLPC India Student Chapter OLPC India Student Chapter  to spread awareness about OLPC in India and unite the student manpower of various universities, colleges and schools.  24 official languages need to be translated.

 Uruguay schools  OLPC+ Blogger & Wordpress OLPC+ Blogger & Wordpress  OLPC Friends/Australia's first deployment  Making diaries, write scientific reports, and related spelling, grammar, and typing skillsdiarieswrite scientific reports

 1 st results in 3 rd worlds (official statements) Used as a light source in houses Take pictures Children come to school again, girls also, just like when you provide food Parents understand better the use of schools Children learn faster and better

 First results Netherlands Read an eBook (digital schoolbook) ‏ Texteditor: answer questions and writing stories “Memory” make your own game and play with: counting, practise English words, “Measure” the distance between 2 XO's “Speak”, type in text and read out loud by the XO “Surf” find information on the internet

 OLPC Health Group OLPC Health Group  Bolivia Maternal Health Education Project  Health Software and software: TeleHealth remote sensor packageTeleHealth  Build health contents

 Should be more practices, but I’m not able to read them all……  Many OSS supporters are highly engaged in OLPC projects  Instructional practices need to be shared.  There is still a gap between what IT people recommended(like sensors) on instruction and what teachers really do, just like the story when computers walk into classroom.

 olpc.tv  Wiki.laptop.org   Forum.laptop.org  Olpcnews.com/forum 