Maine OLPC - was - India Rejects One Laptop Per Child
Hi Mark Do you have any references to publications I (and other AoIR'ers) could download / otherwise access on the Maine "one laptop per child" project? It would be interesting to read the Maine project expectations and subsequent experiences as a comparison to the MIT project. Kind regards Mark Mark Gaved Knowledge Media Institute The Open University Milton Keynes MK7 6AA kmi.open.ac.uk/people/mark/ office +44 1908 654513 mobile +44 7796 266 592 m.b.gaved@open.ac.uk -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Mark Warschauer Sent: 27 July 2006 13:49 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] India Rejects One Laptop Per Child ... [snip] ... Finally, in answer to Jeremy's question about what happened to the laptop project in Maine, the answer is it's still going strong. The program was renewed after the first four-year contract (2002-2006) for a second four-year contract (2006-2010) for all 7th and 8th grade students in the state. There is also a laptop program in Maine at the high school level, but it is adopted (and funded) district by district and is thus not universal. Mark -- Mark Warschauer Associate Professor of Education and Informatics University of California, Irvine 2001 Berkeley Place Irvine, CA 92697-5500 tel: (949) 824-2526, fax: (949) 824-2965 markw@uci.edu; http://www.gse.uci.edu/faculty/markw
(1) My own book, Laptops and Literacy: Learning in the Wireless Classroom--based on research in Maine and California--can be ordered from Teachers College Press (http://store.tcpress.com/0807747262.shtml). (2) Some of my other articles on one laptop per child programs in Maine and California can be downloaded or requested from http://www.gse.uci.edu/faculty/markw/papers.html (3) There are a number of evaluation reports on the Maine program that can be dowloaded from http://www.usm.maine.edu/cepare/mlti.htm (4) An overview paper of recent research on the topic is available at http://ubiqcomputing.org/Apple_1-to-1_Research.pdf Mark
Hi Mark
Do you have any references to publications I (and other AoIR'ers) could download / otherwise access on the Maine "one laptop per child" project? It would be interesting to read the Maine project expectations and subsequent experiences as a comparison to the MIT project.
Kind regards Mark
Mark Gaved Knowledge Media Institute The Open University Milton Keynes MK7 6AA kmi.open.ac.uk/people/mark/ office +44 1908 654513 mobile +44 7796 266 592 m.b.gaved@open.ac.uk
-----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Mark Warschauer Sent: 27 July 2006 13:49 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] India Rejects One Laptop Per Child
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Finally, in answer to Jeremy's question about what happened to the laptop project in Maine, the answer is it's still going strong. The program was renewed after the first four-year contract (2002-2006) for a second four-year contract (2006-2010) for all 7th and 8th grade students in the state. There is also a laptop program in Maine at the high school level, but it is adopted (and funded) district by district and is thus not universal. Mark -- Mark Warschauer Associate Professor of Education and Informatics University of California, Irvine 2001 Berkeley Place Irvine, CA 92697-5500 tel: (949) 824-2526, fax: (949) 824-2965 markw@uci.edu; http://www.gse.uci.edu/faculty/markw _______________________________________________ The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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Hello All, Just discovered that you need a visa to get into Australia. This may be a no-brainer for most folks outside the US, but I think that it might be a surprise to US travelers who are used to not having to have one. Just go to: http://www.eta.immi.gov.au/ETAAus1En.html You can apply online ($20 AU) and it registers you in their database and gives you a confirmation number. -TED Ted M. Coopman Department of Communication University of Washington
Dear Ted - Usually this is done automatically by your travel agent. They append the visa and the charge for it directly onto your airline ticket. Those rolling their own tickets, that's where the drama comes in. Cheers, Denise Denise N. Rall, PhD thesis in revision, School of Environ. Science, Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW 2480 AUSTRALIA Tuesdays: Room T2.17, +61 (0)2 6620 3577 or Mobile 0427 245 497 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/rsm/staff/pages/drall/index.html Virtual member, Cybermetrics Group, University of Wolverhampton, UK http://cybermetrics.wlv.ac.uk/index.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Some of us Aussies, who are also used to travelling in Asia and Europe without visas, always get surprised by this too. Our government is a pretty protective bunch of people. They're like small, whiny bouncers outside the club party. But don't worry, you're still all invited to it. paul teusner -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Ted M Coopman Sent: Saturday, 29 July 2006 04:17 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] AU Visa Needed Hello All, Just discovered that you need a visa to get into Australia. This may be a no-brainer for most folks outside the US, but I think that it might be a surprise to US travelers who are used to not having to have one. Just go to: http://www.eta.immi.gov.au/ETAAus1En.html You can apply online ($20 AU) and it registers you in their database and gives you a confirmation number. -TED Ted M. Coopman Department of Communication University of Washington _______________________________________________ The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
Make sure you bring the printout of the confirmation number. There's no printed/stamped visa for US citizens. Recent experience with inbound US citizens says that this works reliably, FWIW :-) Baden On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Ted M Coopman wrote:
Hello All,
Just discovered that you need a visa to get into Australia. This may be a no-brainer for most folks outside the US, but I think that it might be a surprise to US travelers who are used to not having to have one.
Just go to: http://www.eta.immi.gov.au/ETAAus1En.html
You can apply online ($20 AU) and it registers you in their database and gives you a confirmation number.
-TED
Ted M. Coopman Department of Communication University of Washington
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Ted M Coopman