This is a video-interview with Walter Bender of Sugar Labs at Netbook World Summit in Paris. Sugar is the Gnu/Linux based OS running in over 1.5 million OLPC XO-1 laptops used by Children around the world. It is the Linux distribution that popularized Linux on Laptop form factors. As I wrote in http://www.olpcnews.com/commentary/impact/olpc_netbook_impact_on_laptop.html the OLPC project has greatly influenced the whole PC/Laptop industry, and with more optimized and streamlined Linux implementations like this new Sugar Linux OS, the influence is only going to be even greater.
March 3, 2010
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June 1, 2009
Mitch Bradley shows and explains Open Firmware
Mitch Bradley, One Laptop Per Child Firmware Lead, shows and explains why the Open Firmware that he created is useful and important not only for the OLPC project but used and important for many other parts of the industry.
March 29, 2009
Videochat for literacy on the OLPC XO laptops
This video shows a child in a remote townw in Australia using the Videochat and Write activites on the OLPC XO laptop for a literacy lesson. He does literacy assessment, reading, and writing under the direction of the specialist educator. This project has immense opportunities for children in remote and regional areas, such as most of Australia. More details about this trial here http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Australia%27s_first_deployment
October 24, 2008
Cnet reviews the OLPC XO-1 running Windows XP
CNET News senior writer Ina Fried talks to Kara Tsuboi about what’s different in the Windows version.
October 23, 2008
SQUEAK
Squeak é um programa que possibilita criar simulações gráficas, animações e jogos, buscando despertar o interesse da garotada pela aprendizagem.
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March 20, 2008
Voice synthesizer for the OLPC
It seems like it might have been developped in Chile. This is really awesome. They should develop voice synthesizer, voice recognition for the OLPC, and provide software that can synch an audio-book sound file with an ebook file and highlight the word while it is being spoken in the audio file. Eigther the voice-recognition should happen on a server and a timecode file could be loaded to provide the synchronization for each word of an audio-book or else it should be processed in realtime on the laptop. This voice synthesizer is a great way for children to get instant gratification for learning how to write, to type words and learn how to spell correctly. Imagine combining this functionality with a game where the computer asks a question and the student has to type in the answer which is then read by a voice synthesizer with all kinds of different voice pitches and voice types possible, the possibillities could be really endless. Then use this functionality in combination with the curriculum, and you have one of the many revolutionnary applications of the OLPC project right there.
Usos educativos del OLPC. Este video es parte de una serie de mini-videos donde mostramos las distintas aplicaciones educativas asociadas al proyecto ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD. Este video es un aporte de la campaña un computador por niño, Chile.
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