by | | OLPC, Sugar, syndication-floss, Work
Release Candidate 2 of the 2012 OLPC Australia operating system, XO-AU OS 12, has been released. We hope to make a final release in two weeks, in time for the start of term 2 of school in Queensland and Northern Territory. To get started, visit our release...
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Edition 9 of the OLPC Australia Education Newsletter is now available. In this edition, we provide a few classroom ideas for mathematics, profile the Jigsaw activity, de-mystify the Home views in Sugar and hear about the OLPC journey of Girraween...
by | | OLPC, Sugar, syndication-floss, Work
Underpinning the OLPC Australia education programme is a cache of training resources. In addition to our Online Course and Learner Manual, we have a set of help videos, hosted on our Vimeo channel. I have updated the OLPC Disassembly instructions for...
by | | Education, OLPC, Sugar, syndication-floss, Work
Editions 7 and 8 of the OLPC Australia Education Newsletter have come out in the past few weeks. In each edition, we will provide news, tips and tricks and stories from the field. To subscribe, send an e‑mail to...
by | | Activities, Education, OLPC, Sugar, syndication-floss, Talks, Trips, Work
OLPC Australia had a strong presence at linux.conf.au 2012 in Ballarat, two weeks ago. I gave a talk in the main keynote room about our educational programme, in which I explained our mission and how we intend to achieve it. Even if you saw my talk at...
by | | OLPC, Sugar, syndication-floss, Work
The OLPC Australia XO-AU OS 12 has reached beta 1. This is based on OLPC OS 11.3.1 and Dextrose 3. We’d really appreciate some testing. Please direct your feedback to the OLPC Australia mailing list. Here is the notice I sent out to teachers: ———-...
