One Laptop per Child

BiB : Rural editionSamuel Klein sj@laptop.org

Luquia, Peru

About this session interrupt with questions!

Use cases from OLPC communities Low-connectivity and offline book use:

readers for all audiences

browsing and discovery

Writing and publishing

interaction, workbooks, collaborative books

publishing and distribution

A new digital 1st-5th grade curriculum. Initially: PDF and doc (for editability)

Peru, 2008-2011

Peru, 2010 (offline)

Uruguay, 2007-2011

Uruguay, 2009 (online)

Types of rural classrooms

•Fairly connected. Regional servers

•Offline with school servers, or offline for stretches of time at home / for research

•Offline, one-room schools, extensive group learning

Types of use

• Visual books (literacy, photobooks, comics)

• Structured books with annotation, localization, and updates (Texts, manuals)

• Thousands of heavily linked texts (Wikipedia)

• Highly collaborative texts (wiki papers)

• Workbooks and interactive/programmable texts (html5, dhtml)

Classroom and offline collaboration

eXe: dhtml texts and workbooks

Recap: hard school use cases

•Often offline

•Every reader or node its own server– Search everywhere, aggregate

•Every reader is an author – Publish early and often, iterate, store additions

•Every work has versions– Modify, annotate, collaborate as a rule

– Listing 'related works' is compex

Questions!

( lastly: enjoy your books! )