technology

GLF and World Care Technology Program for International School of Tucson

Cooperation GLF in association with World Care, is helping the International School of Tucson meet its growing and immediate technology needs.

GLF is providing the Software, Professional Development, Network infrastructure and Digital Curriculum as well as all other needed IT services to advance the IST mission. World Care is providing repurposed computers.

A case study is in the works for publication this summer as this long term project meets its first major milestone.

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Boys & Girls Club - Sacaton

We are now working on a strategic plan + project plan for the Boys and Girls Clubs. It will focus on technology, curriculum and professional development.

Coming very soon~

Learning Technologies in Action

The Association for Learning Technology's annual conference, ALT-C
2008, brought together over 700 delegates and more than 100 speakers
from all over the world. Catherine Dhanjal reports on some highlights
from the conference.

Here are some highlights from the ALT conference: a report on two
presentations from the business sector, and a fascinating seminar on
the divide between businesses who use internet and communications
technology (ICT), and those who don't.

More at: http://www.trainingzone.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=191719&d=680&h=608&f=626&dateformat=%25e-%25h-%25y

Stephen Downes' List of Free Applications

Jane Hart's articles and list of free applications for eLearning.

More information at: http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?author=Jane%20Hart

The Billion Kids Library

The central feature of each Open Learning Exchange is the Billion
Kids Library: a library that contains open and free basic whole-course
educational curricula appropriate for the elementary and secondary
school teachers and students of that particular location. These OLE
sites may be as small as an open-air classroom, or as large as a
nation-state. To help ensure that all library curricula effectively
meet the needs of patrons, each item in the Library can be evaluated by
member-users – both educators and learners - according to a robust and
refined objective standard schema. The OLE evaluation standards balance
objective assessment and subjective experience and are further vetted
automatically and objectively through a process linked to the
characteristics of the members who composed the evaluation. The goal is
to allow library patrons to define for themselves what is useful, and
then help those patrons find Library content that fits their individual
criteria.

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Xiwasan sutixa: OLE Bolivia

Xiwasan sutixa’ is Aymara for ‘this is our name’ – and there is a new name in the OLE family: OLE Bolivia. Under the gifted leadership of Yamandu (Yama) Ploskonka, OLE has hit the ground running in this South American country!

While formal incorporation of a national OLE is in progress with recruitment of a national board of directors, Yama has brought together a team of local volunteers to translate the Sugar computer interface used in the XO computers from One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) into Aymara, the language spoken by over two million Bolivians. During the weekend of September 13-14 the team worked through a 25-hour-long marathon session on this important project. . A further translation project will allow OLE members to use the Course Development Studio and access the Billion Kids Library in Aymara.

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Palmeto Project & Laptop SC

One Laptop Per Child/South Carolina is a statewide partnership between the South Carolina Department of Education and the non-profit Palmetto Project.

More information at: http://laptopsc.org/

GLF Member Orientation

In order to most effectively contribute, GLF Members should be familiar with the following general principles and procedures to use the GLF website and collaboration tools.

Getting started: