Posted in 1 on February 23, 2008 | No Comments »
It was fun and fast when I was researching. My topic is global warming and how it affects polar bears. I went to Google.com and also Ask.com and I saw some articles and good information on my topic. I was able to save the articles that I liked on my xo laptop [...]
Posted in 1 on February 21, 2008 | No Comments »
I was very excited to take my xo laptop home. As soon as I got home, I went to record. I showed my family how to take pictures, record videos, and do more things on the xo as well. I was able to connect to the Internet very easily.
My dad was amazed at how much the little [...]
Posted in 1 on February 19, 2008 | No Comments »
i was able to take the xo home for the break. i had alot of fun using the writing software and record software and basicly every other feature. the only problem that i didnt like was the fact that when i was recording a quote on the record audio activity it came out low [...]
Posted in olpc on February 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
We had to show the students how to access the internet using a free public wifi network around the school. We were wondering if students would be responsible enough to only use the internet for their research on feature article. With support and advice from TMI, we decided that it would make sense since the [...]
Posted in 1 on February 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
At first the wireless in the neighborhood did not work. but then i rebooted it and then i got internet. The first time it was not easy because the wireless was not flashing. The second time was easy because i just had to click on another persons. I am going to try to do it at [...]
Posted in News, learning, olpc, tagged OLPC Parents, XO at home on February 15, 2008 | No Comments »
We thought we were excited about the XO, but our parents loved them even more. After the workshop that teaching matters held for us at KAPPA IV, we took them home. All of us played with the XO software like the camera, the writing, the music, and some of the math stuff too. When we [...]
Posted in olpc on February 15, 2008 | No Comments »
My experience with the xo was pretty hard at first when going to the internet but then it got easier because I got used to what im doing for example learning how to access the internet by writing in termanal and writing (python wifi.py). I found a lot of good information for my topic wich is “Drumming can [...]
Posted in olpc on February 15, 2008 | No Comments »
It was a little easy but at first it was a little hard, I got the hang of it though. I liked going on the internet on the xo because it was fast and easy to find what i needed to find and take notes on it. My topic is on global warming and [...]
Posted in olpc on February 15, 2008 | No Comments »
Researching on the XO was fun but also easy.It was almost easier than using a regular computer because when I went on the enternet it was already on the google homepage and I could save the website I found research on.
Posted in olpc on February 15, 2008 | No Comments »
using these xo’s for resarch was fun i got to find out alot on my topic. the only thing i didnt understand was why the board of education blocked some useful sites. i mean it wasnt like i was going to go somewhere bad. but other than that using the xo for resarch was a [...]
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