Great things happen… the geoactivity was one of the use cases in Catharina Riedemann’s seminar “User-centered design of geospatial applications” in this years summer semester at the Institute for Geoinformatics.
The student group of Johannes Trame, Dustin Demuth and Christoph Mülligan found out that (weiterlesen…)
In addition to the already mentioned presentations on various conferences, we also presented our activity and ideas at the State of the Map 2010, which was taking place from the July 9th – 11th, 2010 in Girona, Spain. (weiterlesen…)
We presented our project on the GI-Forum Poster Exibition at this years AGIT Conference. We brought one of the XOs with the GeoActivity to Salzburg for a demo for interested audience. Here’s the poster (weiterlesen…)
On July 11th we presented the GeoActivity at this years ESRI Education User Conference taking place in San Diego, CA. The talk was scheduled in the Research session on spatial thinking. After the presentation we prepared a demo on the Hilton Hotel terrace (to have GPS connection) for the interested audience. Most of the peolpe have not seen the XO before, only heard about the project. Some interesting contacts and collaboration opportunities came up. For example with the GLOBE Program by NASA.
As Thomas and I stayed in Rwanda for two weeks, to test the Geo activity and the student’s spatial abilities (see spatial ability tests, geocaching, geotagging, collaboration and summarized outcomes), we are interested in how OLPC is going on in Rwanda.
Last year, (weiterlesen…)
In March, the French-German TV ARTE station broadcasted a documentary about the OLPC project. (weiterlesen…)
Like in the recent years, we are going to present our project on some conferences. So if you attend one of these conferences and are interested in our project, watch out for our presentations. We will be at:
State of the map 2010, Girona
Agit 2010, Salzburg (Poster Session)
ESRI EDUC 2010, San Diego
GIScience, Zurich
If you are interested in the exact times and dates of our presentations, drop us a comment and we will get back at you.
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OLPC announces new XO-Laptop for high-school students
1 Kommentar | Posted by Philippe in news
The OLPC foundation released a press information, which states, that they develop a new version of their XO-laptop, called XO-HS. It is designed for highschool students, so it features a faster CPU and a larger keyboard. In addition to the well known sugar environment it offers a GNOME desktop with some more productivity tools. You can find more information on this in the press release. 90.000 of the new XO-HS are to be shipped to Uruguay in the next months.
On the 11th of June, a group of students from the ifgi and some staff members from GL@PrimarySchool conducted another field test in a school around Muenster. The students are involved through the frame of a seminar, which is offered this semester by the GL@PrimarySchool staff. The topic of this seminar is ‘Geospatial learning with OLPC’, in this context, the students planned and conducted some usability tests for the XO-laptops, handheld-GPS and paper maps as well. The group was as well accompanied by 2 guys that were doing some recording for our upcoming GL@PrimarySchool image movie; stay tuned for further news on this. (weiterlesen…)
You may have already noticed it but we published a new blog site a few days ago presenting the GL@PS project team. It is reachable using the upper navigation bar, just like the tech blog.
