Penelope @ OLPC Australia just created a short video which is an on-the-ground account of the OLPC program from a remote Australian teacher’s perspective –you can see it online here.
A teacher’s perspective from the Australian outback
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Category Archives: Vision
Rasha Hussein shares her journey with OLPC in Ramallah
Rasha Hussein writes on the TEDx Ramallah blog about her journey with OLPC and PaleXO over the past year in Ramallah, and how she was welcomed to the group by Noura Salhi and found friends and collaborators, and inspiration to join a new startup (Bazinga) with others from that group.
I learned the true meaning of voluntary work, and I felt awesome about what I do. It’s been a year now, and it was the best year of my life!
Kudos to her for sharing this experience. Â For more about the Bazinga technology hub, you can also follow them on twitter.
If you have been involved with an olpc project in your community, let us know what it was like — Â we would love to hear from you.
4 years of Plan Ceibal: Much more than a computer
Last year, Uruguay published Plan Ceibal, the Book (with Prentice-Hall), describing the world’s first national-scale implementation of one laptop for every child.  This month they released an amazing video looking back on the first four years of the project:  “Much more than a computer“.
The 15-minute video ranges from what students work on in school, outside, and at home, and how the teaching community thinks about the classroom now. Â It is shot mainly outside, emphasizing working with nature and laptops as a part of everyday life. Â There is a lot of student work with multimedia in the background. Â And they share the view of this work from Ceibal as institution – what the program means for supporting schools across the country, and what it means for the influence of schools in their communities.
“transformamos un privilegio en un derecho” —Plan Ceibal
Sunlight is the best light: new Qi screens at Computex
PixelQi showed off its new higher-res 10.1″ and 7″ screens at Computex this week. Â By some accounts they are the fastest-growing new display technology in a long time; they are certainly essential for our students’ normal daily use in African schools.
And the Telegraph’s Rick Maybury lampoons the aesthetics of sun shields answers a reader asking why he can’t use his laptop outside. Â Hopefully there will be more positive answers to such questions next year, as this sort of display solution becomes commonplace.
Bhagmalpur school project update
The OLPC Bhagmalpur project, which Sameer started in 2008 with support from the Digital Bridge Foundation, is finishing a renovation that will provide regular power from a generator at the local school, and close to giving the students there their own XOs.  They visited with the students recently, one of whom is featured in our second Mission video, to show them how many people are following the school’s progress.
olpcMAP and Map-12.xo
The latest version of the Map activity was released this month, and works smoothly with the XO-1.5 and with openstreetmap or google map data.
And olpcMAP has been updated to work with new features of the Google App Engine. Â Check them both out! Â Â HT to SaigonOLPC for publishing these monthly status summaries.