Talk:One Laptop Per Teacher

OLPT
The paper currently contains roughly 85% content from me (Ian), 10% from Delia, 4% pulled out of Roxan's Masters thesis, 1% questions from Gavin. Co-authors who persist in a state of breathless silence will be excluded from the author line next week. The author line is still open for anybody wishing to contribute. It is not a closed user group. Since it is going to reside at Wikiversity, any nitpicking, discussing and editing would be welcome and will be acknowledged. The deadline for submission to SITE2007 is 15 December 2006! Wikiversity has enabled co-authors around the world to work around the clock on assembling and writing it. --Ian Kennedy 19:02, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

It is also a call for participation in populating the framework we are proposing, which can link off our paper. --Ian Kennedy 17:06, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

How to get your head around what we are doing
Material towards our real abstract follows. --Ian Kennedy 09:09, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

We identify a problem
OLPC training and training of in-service teachers

We offer a generic solution
In-service training will be hosted provided at Wikiversity as a learning project. This is to be downloaded or supplied to the teacher on a SD card, to be inserted into the teacher's OLPT. It is envisaged that the teacher will study the material it slowly over 6 months, working cooperatively with the teacher's cohorts. The study will in all probability best be done simultaneous with the teacher teaching the children ways in which they can use the OLPCs.

This requires encouraging creativity, and curiosity, rewarding discoveries by letting the whole class (and the wider community) know about the discovery. For example, the first task could be to see which child can be the first to discover how to open the laptop. (The child has to unlatch both antennas, which double as case clips.)

Target Output
Brief paper (Proceedings length: 6 pages maximum); Theme: PT3: Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology at SITE 2007. March 26-30, 2007. San Antonio, Texas SITE 2007 is the 18th annual conference of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education. This society represents individual teacher educators and affiliated organizations of teacher educators in all disciplines, who are interested in the creation and dissemination of knowledge about the use of information technology in teacher education and faculty / staff development. SITE is a society of the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).

Editing protocol
Initially, please leave all references in situ (with their calling text). This way if we change our minds and delete text, we will delete the reference also. I am now moving the references of printed material to the reference section, where they really belong. Our standard is twofold:
 * Cite paper references traditionally (Harvard style) so that the paper can be refereed and offered to printed journals or conference proceedings.
 * Link Web pages from the references section: Link so that the reader can quickly visit as many on-line references as the reader wishes. --Ian Kennedy 16:17, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Dual Publication
We are preparing this paper for 2 audiences: As far as copyright goes, the conference gets copyright for the print version, and anybody can use the hypertext version under GFDL. As far as I know it is OK for material to have two copyright (different) holders if the media are different (e.g. video and print).
 * The traditional conference paper. This audience cannot click on links, so they get the inferior experience. (This will help to convert the unconverted!)
 * The on-line community who believe that even quality on-line research should get financial recognition.

The conference also will get the copyright for the powerpoint.

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Feedback
Greetings, and thanks for adding this paper to Wikiversity - particularly in order to invite co-authors and comments. I'm afraid I haven't yet had a chance to fully read the paper, so I can't comment myself - and it looks like I won't be able to before the deadline for submission. It might be an idea for the future to add a paper slightly longer in advance, and to publicise it wider, in order to ensure timely feedback. It's already difficult to track every movement on this young wiki! Anyhow, all the best with the submission, and hopefully we can work on common issues together - possibly centralised on School:Education or even Portal:Education... Cormaggio talk 21:51, 12 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Also, just to say that a page named "Test" has been moved to One Laptop Per Teacher/Test - just in case you were looking for it. If this page is no longer necessary, you can let me know on my talk page, and I can delete it. Cheers. Cormaggio talk 22:36, 12 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the note on my talk page, Ian. I've only been able to scan the paper - this week is a very busy one for me. The paper looks good - I might tighten up the sequence from the introduction to the paragraph about Wikiversity, which doesn't seem to flow, but that's just me. Overall, if, as it seems, you're going to use Wikiversity further to act as a space for teachers to collaborate and learn from eachother, and possibly even set up activities for their students - this would be very exciting. I'd love to help out in this regard, and would be fascinated to find out more. So, let's keep in touch - cheers! Cormaggio talk 10:26, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Hope you do not mind.
I quoted your abstract at Google Scholar in Wikipedia article wikiversity preparing to meet notability requirements of pedantic Wikipediasts attempting to delete article on Wikiversity as non notable or some such nonsense. I think they may accept that the steam engine is a good idea and here to stay but I have not checked on the Fulton or steam related articles or stubs. If you dislike how the quote or link have been used there feel free to modify or delete. I am "Lazyquasar" there so you will not hurt my feelings. By the way I am excited your team has chosen to publish your material and collaborate here at Wikiversity. I just bought an OLPC under the get one give one program for me, my nephew and some African child to play with. Hopefully future generations will get down to the $100/laptop goal or better. Thanks for your efforts in helping launch this critical initiative. Mirwin 07:34, 18 December 2007 (UTC)