[NBLUG/talk] OLPC work in Jamaica...

Zack Gold zzatkin at gmail.com
Wed Mar 28 12:58:17 PDT 2012


You just gave me 10 more acronyms to remember.

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I was on sabbatical leave at the University of the West Indies (UWI)
> in Fall 2008. There, I helped start the Center of Excellence (CoE) at
> the Mona School of Business at UWI. Through the CoE
> (http://coe-msb.org), we started the OLPC Jamaica project on September
> 5, 2008. Its been three and a half years since then, of an uphill
> battle to get the project going to fulfill its goals of early
> childhood education, technology in remote and rural places and
> community outreach and impact, not to mention supporting IT
> infrastructure (server, wireless LAN, content filtering, traffic
> management) remotely over a VPN for 5 year olds :-)
>
> Last year, we implemented 115 OLPC XO 1.5 laptops in two schools, and
> the results have been amazing. I was on a data collection trip over
> the break, and what we are finding through the initial analyses is
> impressive. An increase in numeracy by 12% ! The most sought-after
> program is TuxMath. Other results will be interesting as well, we
> hope.
>
> This is a brief on the project and a video clip (well worth the 12
> minutes, I think) of what we have done so far. I think you Linuxers
> will enjoy the beginning :-)
>
> http://myspot.mona.uwi.edu/msb/news/olpc-jamaica-evolving-story
>
> These are *my* children :-)
>
> cheers,
> Sameer
> --
> Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
> Professor, Information Systems
> San Francisco State University
> http://verma.sfsu.edu/
> http://commons.sfsu.edu/
> http://olpcsf.org/
> http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/
>
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