UBUNTU O/S-Go Open Source

John French explains..

Here's how to get your open source on. It's very doable. First link
explains how to install ubuntu linux on your machine while keeping
windows on it (you get the option which one you want to boot into when
you switch the machine on. ).

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/installing


Here's the ubuntu studio website.
http://ubuntustudio.org/

It's basically a souped-up version of ordinary ubuntu. Once you've
done the basic ubuntu install, you can upgrade to studio by doing what
this guy says:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudio/UpgradingFromFeisty

Dreams and Teams

This is a link for an action packed ICT/projects based
website portal. It uses seemingly everything RSS, podcast
blog etc

Thanks to David Mathias, British Council for this

http://www.dreamsandteams.org/

DSIL WEBSITE

This us the homepage of this innovative school based
on constructionist education methods. Lots of projects
and information here

http://e-school.kmutt.ac.th/

DSIL

CODE team will visit and meet with the school at the end of
April to talk, observe and have fun!
6 Month Open Source project begins from April.

OScar, a open source car design project

Ever wondered what a car worked on by over 100 engineers from around
the world would look like? This social car takes into account how people see
mobility and issues like car sharing as well as carbon emissions.

http://www.theoscarproject.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

A Definition

Open Source
a way of developing products based on participation from interested parties.
Typically open source will have an unconventional approach to intellectual
copyright, often forgoing the idea of private ownership

http://freemusic.freeculture.org/

FreeCulture.org Launches the Free Music Project
Eric Steuer, March 2nd, 2007

The very good people of FreeCulture.org have launched a new website called the Free Music Project, where people can upload music available for free and legal sharing and remix. The site is working with the One Laptop per Child project; selected songs will be included on OLPC laptops to be distributed to children in the developing world.

“This is a groundbreaking opportunity to locate the best free music out there and share it with millions of people of all ages around the world,” said Elizabeth Stark, board member of Freeculture.org and founder of the Free Culture group at Harvard. “Freely licensing recordings allows artists to gain extremely valuable global exposure through projects such as OLPC.”

http://search.creativecommons.org/#

This is a gateway for shared information
that is copyright free on the web

Powerpoint games

http://it.coe.uga.edu/wwild/pptgames/ppt-games-paper.html

easy to understand!

http://why-the-internet-membership-revieweqr.blogspot.com/2007/02/constructionism-logo-and-seymour-papert.html

Distributing lessons via website

Http://www.thaigifted.org
Found this in The Nation, Tuesday, September 19,2006

This one offers curricula, news and articles with more than 600
lessons in the 'bank'. It comes from the (former)Ministry of Education
and is not new, but we may looks at how they deliver lessons
on this site and what layout was used here, and its success.

"teachers can choose from various levels and fields to
suit each of their students, boosting their creativity"

A Look At The OLPC Software

Hello!

Please browse these links for some ideas. Also, welcome to DSIL
staff and students if you are joining this blog!

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This company "Pentagram' have been working on the OLPC interface.
They explain how it works here.

http://blog.pentagram.com/archives/2006/12/new_work_one_laptop_per_child.php

Linux operating system also have some information here

http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/11/30/206212

Try out the OLPC environment here by following the lengthy instructions!

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Using_QEMU_on_Windows_XP