Uruguay’s Plan Ceibal has a group of teachers and students that have been subtitling and using Khan Academy videos in Spanish over the past year. You can see some of the resulting videos here.
Sam Seidenburg has some suggestions about how we can improve learning with such videos: writing Activities that could be written to support math tutorial and physics tutorial work, or making similar format videos to help people get started with eToys.
Neil Dsouza at teachaclass.org has offered to help anyone who wants to start using Khan Academy videos in their classes.
Nicholas talked about Schools without schools and children as agents of change at TEDx Brussels in 2010. Children can grow up with a wealth of learning and skills that we cannot imagine today.
January 25, 2010 at 3:50 pm
· Filed under OLPCby sj
The latest issue of the new OLPC newsletter is out. I’m trying out different layouts for an archive, including having select past stories show up each week at the end.
As always, feedback on design and story selection are welcome. Current requests include a way to browse the newsletter online without leaving some sort of story navigation (with some sort of floating TOC?)
For the early-Feb edition we will try to gather & discuss stories and images in advance in the OLPC newsroom. Please submit your muck-raking, globe-trotting, xo-loving ideas and links there.
December 3, 2008 at 6:46 pm
· Filed under XOby brian
C. Scott Ananian just posted a bunch of videos from Peru’s MiniEd on his exciting, sporadic blog.
My favorite is the Children’s Song (ogg), which sings about the joy of learning with an XO. The first Peru program (ogg) contains the song subtitled in English, which some of you may enjoy more:
Check out the original post for more videolarity. Further updates in English and Spanish are coming later in the week — the Peruvian and Uruguayan blogospheres have been hopping recently.
November 13, 2008 at 1:21 am
· Filed under OLPCby Mel
Thanks to Joshua Gay of CK-12 for his help in crafting this posting!
Help us spread the joy of education to children all over the world by becoming a Social Media Warrior. At OLPC, we have the tools, the educational materials, and learning resources to help transform the lives of millions all over the world. To do so, we need thousands of volunteers to understand what we have and what we are capable of doing for the lives of children everywhere – and we need three of you to help us get the word out to them using the social networking and media sharing sites that pervade our lives.
Video Ninja
We’ll hand you the keys to our YouTube, dailymotion, flickr-video, and myspace-tv accounts; work with our marketing team and branch out to other video networks at your discretion.
Promote videos from media.laptop.org, olpc.tv, and other sources, including training resources for volunteers and staff in third-world deployments.
Track down celebrity speakers for original source material and permission to use it.
