This document provides an overview of Sameer Verma's presentation on the OLPC Lending Library and Drupal content management system at San Francisco State University. It discusses the OLPC mission to provide educational opportunities through low-cost laptops, as well as deployments worldwide. It also describes SF State's implementation of Drupal for various websites and communities of practice.

1. OLPC Lending Library & Drupal Content Management System Presentation: Education Technology Advisory Committee San Francisco State University December 2009 Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor Information Systems Department San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA 94132 USA

2. hint hint : underlying message Collaborative Commons: A Big Picture View

3. the OLPC story

4. Somebody is finally thinking of the children! To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning. — OLPC Mission Statement, It's an education project, not a laptop project. — Nicholas Negroponte

5. far and wide

6. Multiple hats...

7. July 2007 The first time I actually saw the OLPC XO laptop.

8. 1.4 million + See Google Maps Deployments worldwide Also see: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Property:Number_of_manufactured_laptops

9. Sabbatical leave Research agenda Teaching perspective travels

10. Jamaica

12. Resident artist in Khairat , India

13. Khairat school is India's first pilot site. See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India

14. Khairat school is India's pilot site. See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India

16. District: Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh

17. Railway Station: Shahganj

19. Children: 1087

20. Teachers: 11

21. Internet: none

22. Computers: none http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Bhagmalpur

23. What's a laptop?

24. Under a tree...

25. OLPC Headquarters (1CC) 1 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts

26. Little green machines...

27. Cost Electricity Networks Content Languages Pedagogy Age Security Theft Appropriateness ... The challenges

28. Cost US $140 at the factory My Lenovo Thinkpad cost me > US $2500

29. Electricity Non-traditional sources...

30. Yo Yo Charger http://www.potenco.com/products

31. Hand Crank Charger http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Peripherals/Hand_Crank

32. Pedal power OLPC Afghanistan http://www.olpc.af/images/HPM/dscf1324.jpg

33. Solar Panel http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Product_News#Solar_Panels 5 Watt/14Volt panel

34. Moo power... http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Cow_Power

35. Networks Offline technology Rise of the Sneakernets High Capacity Solid-State Storage

36. Content Open content standards (SCORM, IMS-CP) Creative Commons English Wikipedia < 4GB 1.6 million books from the Internet Archive Moodle in tight spaces (yes, that Moodle)

38. Languages Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Aymara, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Melayu, Basque, Bengali, Bengali (India), Bislama, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, Dzongkha, English, English (South African), English (US), Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, French (Canada), Friulian, Fula, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Khmer, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Kreyol, Macedonian, Malayalam, Maltese, Marathi, Marovo, Mongolian, Nauruan, Nepali, Norwegian, Norwegian Bokmål, Papiamento, Papua New Guinea Pidgin (Tok Pisin), Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Punjabi, Quechua, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Solomon Islands Pidgin, Sotho, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Templates, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur, Vietnamese, Walloon, Wolof, Yoruba, pseudo L10n Approx. 90+ languages Tutorial: http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/452 Translate: http://translate.sugarlabs.org/

39. Pedagogy http://www.sugarlabs.org/ Constructivism, Constructionism, Social Media, ...

40. school...to go

41. not that different...

42. Educational device or trojan horse? Surprise! Its a REAL computer. It can do REAL computer things!

43. OLPC San Francisco Bay Area http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sf

46. Jamaica (Sameer Verma/Univ. of the West Indies)

47. Madagascar (June Kleider)

48. India (Humaira Mahi & Sameer Verma/SFSU)

49. Senegal (Drew and Lick-Wilmerding Schools)

50. South Africa (EduWeavers)

51. San Francisco (Starr King Elementary)

52. OLPC-SF resident expert

53. OLPC-SF and SF State University

54. In the quad...

55. On the student union...

56. OLPC-SF at SFSU Downtown Center

58. Volunteers?

59. Course projects?

60. More...

61. hidden agenda

64. HSS 127

66. Charger

68. the Drupal story... it began with a meeting with Jonathan Rood in 2000...

69. Home-grown portals - circa 2000 CE Homegrown Linux + Apache+ MySQL + PHP portal

71. http://is.sfsu.edu (Departmental needs)

72. http://imsa.sfsu.edu (Student organization)

73. http://bie.sfsu.edu (Federal Grant)

74. http://southasia.sfsu.edu (Campus institute)

75. http://cob.sfsu.edu/blog (Dean's blog)

77. Weighted scoring model

78. Three contenders (Drupal had the highest score)

82. Bay Area Drupal Camp hosted at SFSU by IMSA ( http://imsa.sfsu.edu )

84. Meets once a month

85. A platform to share initiatives, techniques, code

87. Multi-site

88. Locally hosted, but centrally supported?

90. Map of projects Note the common underlying technologies

92. Content: Creative Commons

94. Virtualization

95. Cloud

99. Brown bag it! Fostering a collaborative commons on campus Food and ideas go well together Host a Brown Bag session today!