Un documental sobre OLPC – “Una Computadora Por Niño”

Publicado: 18/02/2012 | Autor: | Archivado en: Uncategorized | Tags: , | Deja un comentario »

La serie televisiva “26 personas para salvar el mundo” transmitida y producida por el canal Infinito, ha dedicado un capítulo entero a documentar algunas de las experiencias del proyecto OLPC (One Laptop Per Child).

Los protagonistas:

OLPC: Es un proyecto revolucionario, originado en el año 2005 por catedráticos del MIT con el objetivo de crear una computadora portátil para niños con el propósito de ser usada en la educación. En un inicio se planteó desarrollarla a un precio de $100, sin embargo el costo se incremento alrededor de los $180 siendo aún extremadamente bajo comparado con los precios del mercado.

Esta iniciativa origina la laptop XO, famosa por su diseño y a la vez por su sistema operativo, utilizando una versión adaptada de Fedora (sistema Linux) y una peculiar interfaz gráfica llamada Sugar, la cual ha sido diseñada para ser simple e intuitiva para los niños.

El proyecto ha sido implementado por varias ONGs alrededor del mundo. En Nicaragua el proyecto está siendo desarrollado por la Fundación Zamora Terán, teniendo presencia en todos los departamentos del país. En las próximas semanas se entregarán 5,000 computadoras en la isla de Ometepe.

Plan Ceibal: Es el primer proyecto gubernamental que se encarga de entregar una computadora XO a cada niño en edad escolar y a cada maestro de escuela pública en Uruguay. Se lleva a cabo desde 2007.

MIT Media Lab: Es un laboratorio del MIT dedicado a la investigación y diseño de nueva tecnología.

26 personas para salvar el mundo: La descripción de la serie producida por el canal infinito es la siguiente:

“Jorge Lanata, partirá del descubrimiento de un texto de época según el cual se necesitan 26 personas para salvar el mundo y recorrerá los cinco continentes hasta encontrarlas y descubrir lo que las hace merecedoras de su rol.”

El argumento:

En esta ocasión Lanata llega al Massachusetts Institute of Technology para entrevistar al “Inventor”, Nicholás Negoponte,  fundador del proyecto OLPC. El capítulo relata la experiencia de Nepal y Uruguay en la implementación del proyecto, en un acercamiento a directivos, profesores y niños, mientras que Negroponte comparte su opinión acerca de la situación de la educación y el origen de su fundación.

Como dato interesante, Lanata entrevista al escritor uruguayo Eduardo Galeano.

Sugar news in Nicaragua

Publicado: 16/05/2011 | Autor: | Archivado en: OLPC, Uncategorized | Tags: , , | Deja un comentario »

I was working for the last three months in a Nicaraguan Foundation that is deploying an educational project with the XO in all Nicaragua’s departments. I was focused to inprove three activities developed by Nicaraguan volunteers, one by my own.

Calendario 4.

The new version of Calendario, some new:

  • Phrase of the week.
  • Pending task
  • Icon for activity status.
  • Edit activities.
  • Color for categories.
  • Mark days with activity in the calendar.
Download: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4360
calendario
Screenshot:
Sin dientes 2
Hangman game clone, friendly to the children… the character doesn’t have to die hanged.
I’m not sure about the words list, it was a collaboration and I think that we can improve it.
Download from my git clone repo, it’s not been published by the maintainer yet.
 personajes
Sin dientes
Conozco Nicaragua
Fork of Conozco Uruguay. Game for learn geographic, developed by ByronCorrales and improved by me :)
Download the source from git here.
This is an amazing tools for children, it’s very cool game. I like it.
Sugar rpm packages for Fedora.
Now you can write “# yum install sugar-calendario” in Fedora 14 or 15 and install the activity Calendario,
it is my first package and I’m very happy, I want keep working in this way to help sugar and fedora ;)
Conozco Nicaragua
  • Phrase of the week.
  • Pending task
  • Icon for activity status.
  • Edit activities.
  • Color for categories.
  • Mark days with activity in the calendar.

How to add/import an ephemeris database in Calendario 3

Publicado: 28/12/2010 | Autor: | Archivado en: OLPC, Uncategorized | Tags: | Deja un comentario »

Hi people..

On the after christmas days I interested to inprove my sugar activity Calendario, I had been thinking add a new feature that allows to import an ephemeris database, so I worked in the way to convert from a conventional format and save it like a file that the activity would read.

First I thought in the convertion algorithm, and I wrote a funny python script that take a file saved such as .csv with OpenOffice Calc and create a new file including python objects, in this case a data dictionary. Afterwards I worked in the graphic interface, I added a customized toolbox with special buttons.

Step 1 Create a .csv

A comma-separated values or character-separated values (CSV) file is a simple text format for a datebase table.

Via Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values

We have to create a new csv file, I use to work with OpenOffice Calc, but I assume excel would do the same. This is an example of one file:

cvs

The date format is DAY/MONTH/YEAR all in number, this is very important for the aplication.

Now we save the document like .cvs, be carefully in indicate just one ‘ for separate the text

 guardar

Step 2 Import the file

The activity has a new toolbar and two news buttons the first one with the laptop icon is for the calendar interface and the other for the file navigator.

import

Now we search our file, and click over the button… and done. Now we have to restart the activity and we’ll see the ephemeris.

Calendario, An activity for sugar developed in Nicaragua

Publicado: 06/09/2010 | Autor: | Archivado en: OLPC, Uncategorized | Tags: , | Deja un comentario »

I just finished my first sugar’s activity, it was the final project of a python course given by Guegue Educación and sponsored by Fundación Zamora Terán.

I’m proud about the knowledge that I’ve got, and I hope keeping developing for Sugar, and Free Software in general.

About The Course

My friend Marcelo said “the course was never boring”, and it is true, It was a really nice experience. The teacher Fitoria had a good level, and a nice method for teach the python programing art. The people was always cool, and the environment was all the nights very nice. In fact, we could watch the Argentina – Alemania game in the Football World Cup, thank you Gema :) .

About Calendario

It’s a simple calendar for the Sugar environment, the software plataform based on Fedora that run the XO, the funny green computer by the project “One Laptop Per Child”

It allow the feature to add/remove diaries to-do and a block for ephemeris. It’s work very simple, It’s very easy for a child to create  and delete content. Also it would be usefull for a teacher either other person that needs an agenda in Sugar.

I’ll write in the future about the tecnical details, and some links to download and colaborate. Special thanks to Pedro Vuskovic, wish helped me to design the icons.
Thank everybody, fito, yn1v, gema, mmgc, teoten, pynash, jimbo, don Juan, Yuri, byrcon, guegue.. etc.

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