olpc lending library and drupal: collaborative commons
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OLPC Lending Library
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Drupal Content Management System
Presentation:Education Technology Advisory CommitteeSan Francisco State UniversityDecember 2009
Sameer Verma, Ph.D.Associate ProfessorInformation Systems DepartmentSan Francisco State UniversitySan Francisco, CA 94132 USA
hint hint: underlying message
Collaborative Commons: A Big Picture View
the OLPC story
Somebody is finally thinking of the children!
To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning. OLPC Mission Statement,It's an education project, not a laptop project. Nicholas Negroponte
far and wide
Multiple hats...
July 2007
The first time I actually saw the OLPC XO laptop.
1.4 million + See Google Maps
Deployments worldwide
Also see: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Property:Number_of_manufactured_laptops
Sabbatical leaveResearch agendaTeaching perspective
travels
Jamaica
Resident artist in Khairat, India
Khairat school is India's first pilot site.See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India
Khairat school is India's pilot site.See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India
Bhagmalpur project
Location:Village: Bhagmalpur
District: Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh
Railway Station: Shahganj
Bus Stop: Banuwadeeh
School: Classes: 1 to 8 class
Children: 1087
Teachers: 11
Internet: none
Computers: none
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Bhagmalpur
What's a laptop?
Under a tree...
OLPC Headquarters (1CC)
1 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Little green machines...
CostElectricityNetworksContentLanguagesPedagogyAgeSecurityTheftAppropriateness...
The challenges
Cost
US $140 at the factoryMy Lenovo Thinkpad cost me > US $2500
Electricity
Non-traditional sources...
Yo Yo Charger
http://www.potenco.com/products
Hand Crank Charger
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Peripherals/Hand_Crank
Pedal power
OLPC Afghanistan http://www.olpc.af/images/HPM/dscf1324.jpg
Solar Panel
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Product_News#Solar_Panels
5 Watt/14Volt panel
Moo power...
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Cow_Power
Networks
Offline technologyRise of the SneakernetsHigh Capacity Solid-State Storage
Content
Open content standards (SCORM, IMS-CP)
Creative CommonsEnglish Wikipedia < 4GB1.6 million books from the Internet ArchiveMoodle in tight spaces (yes, that Moodle)
Language Diversity
Example: India has 28 states and 7 union territoriesThe Constitution of India recognizes 22 languages
1. Assamese2. Bengali3. Bodo4. Dogri5. Gujarati6. Hindi7. Kannada8. Kashmiri
9. Konkani10. Maithili11. Malayalam12. Manipuri13. Marathi14. Nepali15. Oriya16. Punjabi
17. Sanskrit 18. Santhali 19. Sindhi 20. Tamil 21. Telugu 22. Urdu
Languages
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Aymara, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Melayu, Basque, Bengali, Bengali (India), Bislama, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, Dzongkha, English, English (South African), English (US), Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, French (Canada), Friulian, Fula, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Khmer, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Kreyol, Macedonian, Malayalam, Maltese, Marathi, Marovo, Mongolian, Nauruan, Nepali, Norwegian, Norwegian Bokml, Papiamento, Papua New Guinea Pidgin (Tok Pisin), Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Punjabi, Quechua, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Solomon Islands Pidgin, Sotho, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Templates, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur, Vietnamese, Walloon, Wolof, Yoruba, pseudo L10n
Approx. 90+ languages
Tutorial:http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/452
Translate:http://translate.sugarlabs.org/
Pedagogy
http://www.sugarlabs.org/
Constructivism, Constructionism, Social Media, ...
school...to go
not that different...
Educational device or trojan horse?
Surprise! Its a REAL computer. It can do REAL computer things!
OLPC San Francisco Bay Area
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea
http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sf
OLPC-SF Deployments
Exchange of ideas, plans, content, enthusiasm...
DeploymentsAfghanistan (Carol Ruth Silver)
Jamaica (Sameer Verma/Univ. of the West Indies)
Madagascar (June Kleider)
India (Humaira Mahi & Sameer Verma/SFSU)
Senegal (Drew and Lick-Wilmerding Schools)
South Africa (EduWeavers)
San Francisco (Starr King Elementary)
OLPC-SF resident expert
OLPC-SF and SF State University
In the quad...
On the student union...
OLPC-SF at SFSU Downtown Center
OLPC-SF and SF State University
Meets once a month at SFSU Down Town Center.See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea
IMSA (student association) helps with organizing meetings, donation drives, translation jamshttp://imsa.sfsu.edu/
Engineering student started OLPC SF XO Repair CenterSee http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SF_Repair
Internships?
Volunteers?
Course projects?
More...
hidden agenda
OLPC Lending Library
New! http://opensource.sfsu.edu/olpc
Library Media Services has 10 XO laptopsLoan to students, staff and faculty
HSS 127
You get:XO Laptop
Charger
Instructions
Join the community!
the Drupal story...
it began with a meeting with Jonathan Rood in 2000...
Home-grown portals - circa 2000 CE
Homegrown Linux + Apache+ MySQL + PHP portal
the push for Drupal
Drupal-based siteshttp://opensource.sfsu.edu (all things FOSS)
http://is.sfsu.edu (Departmental needs)
http://imsa.sfsu.edu (Student organization)
http://bie.sfsu.edu (Federal Grant)
http://southasia.sfsu.edu (Campus institute)
http://cob.sfsu.edu/blog (Dean's blog)
Analysis of CMS/Portals
Varut Aphaisuwan's study and graduate thesis
Weighted scoring model
Three contenders (Drupal had the highest score)
Drupal's growth
OSCON 2005 - Presentation by Dries Buytaert, founder of Drupal
Parallel efforts?Creative Arts
BSS Computing
Recent eventsKevin O'Brien
Bay Area Drupal Camp hosted at SFSU by IMSA (http://imsa.sfsu.edu)
Community of Practice
Drupal Community of Practice http://drupal.sfsu.edu
Meets once a month
A platform to share initiatives, techniques, code
Solve similar problems
Different solutionsCentrally hosted
Multi-site
Locally hosted, but centrally supported?
putting 2 and 2 together
Purpose of these projectsSupply-based or Demand-driven?
Solving SFSU problems/opportunitiesDemand driven
Tinkering with codeDiscovery-based
IntroductionsSupply, meet Demand. Demand, meet Supply.
Map of projects
Note the common underlying technologies
Commons
Software: Free and Open Source
Content: Creative Commons
Infrastructure is commodityHardware, Networks
Virtualization
Cloud
Collaborative
A commons has limited scope without collaboration
Collaboration keeps the commons alive.Sharing ideas
Massive feedback loops
Unless it flows freely, collaborative frameworks don't scale.
Brown bag it!
Fostering a collaborative commons on campus
Food and ideas go well together Host a Brown Bag session today!