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One Laptop Per Child A Short History of EduBlog

One Laptop Per Child A Short History of EduBlog. Ask first and respond to the users needs Discover the capacity of volunteer engineers Co-design a project with teachers in the loop from day 1 Run a bi-lingual, bi-cultural project Build and deploy something useful for all XO deployments

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One Laptop Per Child A Short History of EduBlog

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  1. One Laptop Per Child A Short History of EduBlog

  2. Ask first and respond to the users needs • Discover the capacity of volunteer engineers • Co-design a project with teachers in the loop from day 1 • Run a bi-lingual, bi-cultural project • Build and deploy something useful for all XO deployments • Build long term relationships with people who can come together for more projects EduBlog High Level Goals

  3. Uruguay schools posted lots of great blogs in November, 2007 • http://cardal-ceibal.blogspot.com/ • ADIVINANZAMUY BONITO POR DELANTEY MUY FEO POR DETRÄSMÈ TRANSFORMOA CADA INSTANTEPUES IMITO A LOS DEMÁS¿qué es ?Jimena • They upgraded to 656 in November and hit a bug that blocked upload of images to blogger.com  • Almost all blog posts out of Uruguay stopped! Pablo’s Idea

  4. Pablo noted four key challenges with blogging: • Children getting confused with some options • The number of steps involved in creating a post • Difficulty in collaborating on a post • Difficulty with monitoring and viewing posts before being published • After much study we decided we could build a simple GUI on the school server that has APIs on its back end to post to many blog types • Blogger.com and Moodle are the first two APIs implemented • XS implementation allows inclusion of teacher review and workflow via Apache/PHP/SQL • Tarun built a prototype so we could show the idea to teachers for early feedback Pablo’s Idea

  5. Tarun’s Design

  6. The team came together in 1 week in late June! • Pablo found Glenand Marcel, Greg found Tony and Tarun • Pablo found teachers to comment on design and create art work • Tony built the server (at his own cost), Glen hosted it (for free), Marcel, Tony and Tarun configured GIT, Moodle, XS, PHP, MySQL, PostyGreSQL, Network and more… • Tony made a server with three boot options: Debian, XS, Fedora • Server came online in early July • More people too (e.g. Said, Keny) and many others. The group is still growing. • Roadblocks Overcome • XS installation on Tony’s off the shelf HW – Lots of hard work on server list • Uruguay on Debian not XS! – EduBlog beta on Internet and designed for Debian too • Browse in 656 can’t pick any images off the Journal – New browse built • Write in 656 saves non standard format – Tarun coding Abiword converter now • Beta test at schools in Uruguay may start next week… Community in Action

  7. http://edublog.venango.org/ • http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Educational_Blogger_Project • Requirements definition and schedule • http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Blog_Educativo_Plan_del_Proyecto Relevant URLs

  8. Backup

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