User:Vtaylor/XO 101 notes

== OLPC Canada==


 * http://www.olpccanada.com/content.php?id=6


 * http://www.olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?board=52.0

OLPC Canada has also added society-specific activities to engage young learners. Here are three of my favorites:


 * Healthy Heart, based on Canada's Aboriginal Food Guide, helps children assess their recommended daily intake of food with stylized bear avatars teaching children to act as "chefs" to choose food from a menu to prepare meals for their customers.


 * Drum Beats has Buffy Sainte-Marie walking children through the Nature of Sound and Indigenous, Aboriginal, and Native American music and instruments to introduce children to what sound is, the characteristic of sound, wavelengths and how sound travels.


 * Swift Feet is a high energy and up-beat action program encouraging children to be active with 20 different exercises and 10 different dances set to music take users through high, moderate and low impact movements.

== Introduction to XOs for the Classroom==


 * http://schools.sugarlabs.org/course/view.php?id=20

teacher training - what Sugar is and how it can be used in an educational setting without a lot of technical details - basic concepts, sample kids projects, teaching and learning - curriculum, learning outcomes and assessment

notes copied from inside the Moodle course


 * The XO Laptop in the Classroom - outline, download .pdf, author's blog (Spanish)

== Pre-course resources==

In order to have some background to the course you are about to commence, we recommend looking at some of the following materials:


 * A short video of the beginning dreams for the XO (Nicholas Negroponte on TED) http://www.ted.com/talks/nicholas_negroponte_on_one_laptop_per_child.html


 * Flash video of XO http://laptop.org/en/laptop/


 * Teaching with XOs in a Vietnamese village - http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/nsevers/4/1262548687/tpod.html


 * Repairing XOs http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/nsevers/4/1268682776/tpod.html


 * XOs in Afghanistan http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Afghanistan/Deployment_News


 * See where there are XOs around the world http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&ie=UTF8&cd=1&om=1&msa=0&msid=107887635573341686661.00045a8f74844ef1681f8&ll=7.710992,11.25&spn=136.959067,316.40625&z=2


 * The Scratch website http://scratch.mit.edu


 * A report of a classroom using 'Scratch' for the first time http://snow.utoronto.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=357&Itemid=322

== Connecting==


 * http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wifi_Connectivity
 * http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wifi_Troubleshooting_Guide
 * http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Test_Network_Configuration