Some XOs have arrived at G1G1 households

Here’s a first hand report by a recipient of an XO Laptop.

laptop.org’s “Getting Started” pages

laptop.org has launched a Getting Started section with the following topics:

• help topics
• opening the laptop
• getting connected
• using activities
• inviting a friend
• sharing with the neighborhood
• using your journal
• ebook mode
• home view
• friends view
• neighborhood view
• activity view
• laptop features
• external ports
• battery
• troubleshooting

Our Stories site

Our Stories is a promising project in which children are invited to share video clips they have created with their personal stories.Here’s the project’s description from its site:

The Our Stories™ project helps people share the stories of their lives, no matter where they live or how their stories unfold. We’re providing resources to create and share personal stories from all over the world, starting with children in developing countries who are using One Laptop per Child (OLPC) computers or those who are working with UNICEF radio producers to record and share interviews. Children are asked to record the stories of elders, family members, and friends. You can listen to our growing collection of global voices on this site, which includes stories from Brazil’s Museum of the Person and stories from Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, and Pakistan (through UNICEF). Soon, stories from other countries will also be available for listening here. And in the future, we’ll make it possible for people of all ages around the world to add their content to the Our Stories site.Feel free to explore our site, listen to stories, and learn about the world through the voices of others. You may even be inspired to capture the stories of your own friends and family. Everyone has a story to tell. What’s yours?

Here is the link to the YouTube upload page for the Our Stories project.

Discovering XO

Sometime in the next few weeks, our family is going to welcome an XO Laptop, a new member of the household about which we know little.  Will we learn to understand its personality?  Will it get along well with our peripherals?  Will it be able to make friends with other neighborhood XO’s? I am starting this blog to share our family’s discoveries with other XO users, in hopes that we will collectively find out how to have the most fun, be as creative as we want to be, and learn how to make it the best possible tool for learning. Please feel free to participate.