Posted in News, olpc, tagged NYC City Council, Student Experience on March 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The following are all comments made by students at KAPPA IV in NYC after visiting the New York City Council:
Yesterday I was in a council meeting about the XO. Other organizations were there too. A lot of people were there like City Council Member Inez Dickens. I got interviewed by a lot of important people.They asked [...]
Posted in 1 on March 30, 2008 | No Comments »
I took this photo with an XO using the Record activity during class - students are getting ready to draft their feature articles.
Yesterday, the Institute for Learning Technologies at Columbia University conducted focus groups with the students to learn about their experiences with the XOs over the February break. Many of the students dug right [...]
Posted in 1 on March 27, 2008 | No Comments »
The past two weeks the students have been completely immersed in the writing process with their feature article unit. Clearly, the students have become very comfortable with the XO’s, as if they had used them for a long time. As I sat in the back of the room helping a student edit their work, I [...]
Posted in 1 on March 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Having an xo for 4 or 5 weeks was a pretty good experience. I learned the functions of it like how to get on to the internet by writing in terminal wifi .py. Its a certain code to acess the internet or block ther users except for the school internet wireless connection. Writing my feature article [...]
Posted in 1 on March 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Having a xo made me really feel happy because it’s like a little toy but a toy that you helps you get better as a writer and etc. I feel i got a good grade because of the xo it helped me write fast and put me in a position that made me really think [...]
Posted in olpc, tech support, tagged ARIS, Firefox, JAVA, JRE, Scantron on March 25, 2008 | No Comments »
It seems sites that use lots of java also like to detect the kind of browser you are using and then limit their site only to the browsers they know work. So, while getting java working on the Opera activity was a step in the right direction, it still wasn’t solving the problem of not [...]
Posted in olpc, tech support, tagged ARIS, JAVA, JRE, Scantron on March 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Today I’ve been hammering away trying to get java to work on the OLPC. Why you ask? Well there are two systems in NYC that students and teachers use:
The Achievement Reporting and Innovation System (ARIS). This is a major information system that will allow teachers / schools / parents / students access to assessment data. [...]
Posted in 1 on March 18, 2008 | No Comments »
After a 4 day conference down in New Orleans I returned to work today and after reviewing the students work over the last few days, I felt elated. The feature articles are really coming together: Students take to their saved drafts with an enthusiasm and willigness to improve that is gratifying. The cohesiveness and continuity that [...]
Posted in learning, olpc on March 13, 2008 | No Comments »
Since I have had my XO for the last 4 weeks, I have been able to do a lot of research. I am not able to see the internet all of the time on my XO, but that is o.k.. We were told to just keep writing on the XO and save our work. I [...]
Posted in 1 on March 13, 2008 | No Comments »
I have been learning a lot about my topic using the xo. My topic angle is how drumming helps build mental and physical coordination. I wrote my outline and started drafting my feature article at school and home. My teacher lets me take them home so that I could continue typing. This has been really [...]
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