I highlighted the One Laptop Per Child project earlier on this blog. My husband and I volunteer with Jump Start, an after school enrichment and computer center located in public housing in Middletown, Ohio. Constrained by the OLPC “Give One. Get One.” deadlines (first Nov. 26 and then Dec. 31), I plunged into person-to-person [...]
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Jump Start, OLPC, and Our Stories
Posted in oral history, tagged Isay, Jump Start, OLPC, OurStories, Unicef on January 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
One Laptop Per Child
Posted in history, tagged Google, MIT, One Laptop Per Child, Our Stories, Scratch, StoryCorps, Unicef on November 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Those of us who have digital cameras, computers, and high speed connections can now more easily construct and share our stories but what about others who lack such tools? MIT’s One Laptop Per Child project aims to truly democratize the use of computers to tell our stories. The OLPC represents a massive, collaborative effort [...]
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