Keynote for First Lego League VA/DC Senior Solutions Science Expo 2012
Zambia trip report to OLPC Learning Club DC
1. LubutoLiteracy – Zambian Teaching and Learning
Materials for the Digital Age
By Mike Lee, Sugar Labs DC – OLPC Learning Club DC Meeting, 13 April 2013
2. A collage showing my journey
from being corporate liaison to
the MIT Media Lab to joining the
OLPC volunteer community and
then to Lubuto Library.
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3. Jane Meyers of Lubuto Library presented at an
OLPC Learning Club meeting.
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4. OLPC
Contributor’s
Cianna Lee helping to pack upLaptops
Program six
to Zambia
OLPC XO-1.5 laptops from the
OLPC Contributors’ Program to
ship to Lusaka, Zambia. 2011
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5. Upper left: Teachers and student
assistants working on the Etoys
lessons. Lower left two photos
are from the XO laptop camera.
At right is an architect’s model
of the Lubuto Libraries.
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6. Reading and story circle at the Lubuto Library.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27158519@N02/
Lubuto Library 6
7. LubutoArts
Program
Theater and arts programs are an
integral part of the Lubuto library
experience.
LubutoDrama
Program
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8. Theater and arts programs are an integral part of the
Lubuto library experience.
Book curation and cataloging at
St. Pauls’ Church in NW DC
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9. Under a grant from EIFL, we recorded native bemba
spoken phonemes and words to incorporate in the Etoys
lessons.
Recording digital audio under
first grant from EIFL 9
10. Lubuto Library Bemba Letter Board. Clicking on
each bemba alphabet letter plays the spoken
sound.
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12. 700 literacy lessons
Produced in 2011
The 700 lessons being inventoried on a
Mac laptop.
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13. Mike Lee working with 20 volunteers from
the D.C Special Libraries Association to
add sound files to the 700 Etoys lessons.
Special Libraries Association
production volunteers in DC 13
14. In September 2012, Lubuto Library
received a $300,000 grant from USAID
and World Vision to enhance and expand
the 700 Etoys lessons. http://lubuto.org
http://www.allchildrenreading.org/
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A collage showing my journey from being corporate liaison to the MIT Media Lab to joining the OLPC volunteer community and then to Lubuto Library.
Jane Meyers of Lubuto Library presented at an OLPC Learning Club meeting.
Cianna Lee helping to pack up six OLPC XO-1.5 laptops from the OLPC Contributors’ Program to ship to Lusaka, Zambia.
Upper left: Teachers and student assistants working on the Etoys lessons. Lower left two photos are from the XO laptop camera. At right is an architect’s model of the Lubuto Libraries.
Reading and story circle at the Lubuto Library. http://www.flickr.com/photos/27158519@N02/
Theater and arts programs are an integral part of the Lubuto library experience.
Paper books donated by publishers and authors of children’s titles are cataloged and stored in the basement of St. Paul’s Church in NW DC to be sent in batches of 4000 to each new library facility.
Under a grant from EIFL, we recorded native bemba spoken phonemes and words to incorporate in the Etoys lessons.
Lubuto Library Bemba Letter Board. Clicking on each bemba alphabet letter plays the spoken sound.
A typical lesson file in Etoys.
The 700 lessons being inventoried on a Mac laptop.
Mike Lee working with 20 volunteers from the D.C Special Libraries Association to add sound files to the 700 Etoys lessons.
In September 2012, Lubuto Library received a $300,000 grant from USAID and World Vision to enhance and expand the 700 Etoys lessons. http://lubuto.org http://www.allchildrenreading.org/
27 sq mi. 5 mile square. Roughly ½ land area of D.C.
27 sq mi. 5 mile square. Roughly ½ land area of D.C.
27 sq mi. 5 mile square. Roughly ½ land area of D.C.
Garden Compound roughly the same land area as DC’s Capital Hill.