I need to be able to have speech translated on the fly to text for deaf children in classrooms around Australia. If anyone either has some suggestions or some experience in this, please either email me or leave a comment. If you have expertise and would like to work on something like this, get in touch!
Month: November 2008
Volunteers needed for OLPC projects in PNG – February 2009
This is a general call for anyone interested in volunteering to help with OLPC deployments to remote areas in PNG (Papua New Guinea). There is a lot of information on the progress of trials throughout the Pacific including PNG here. Flights and accommodation are intended on being provided and volunteers should be prepared to work hard and also have an amazing experience! I personally volunteered for a week in Niue (Pacific) and had an incredible time that was also really satisfying to help all the children there.
You would be working with David Leeming and Ian Thomson from SPC, who are wonderful, and they have a lot of experience rolling out OLPC throughout the Pacific in line with the cultural, education and other needs of the communities there.
To volunteer, please sign up on the OLPC Friends Volunteer WIKI page, where David and Ian will be looking for people.
You can also get more OLPC related resources including forums and mailing lists from the OLPC Friends website. Remember, it is a growing community driven organisation, so put your boots on and help out 🙂
Australia’s first OLPC trial – technical documentation
I’ve been involved in rolling out Australia’s first OLPC XO trial, which has been awesome! Although the details aren’t public knowledge yet I thought I’d post all the technical documentation (with permission) which I’m sure will help others! We have done what is I believe a world first in actually connecting up classrooms that are geographically dispersed with video and other collaborative activities for specialist education support of children in remote/rural areas. We are using this trial specifically for literacy education purposes as well as general classroom use of course.
All the documentation is here!
The full details will be available very soon, including a video of some of the children, teachers and implementers involved.
Open Education Workshop 2008
This Friday I’m helping host Open Education Workshop 2008, an ASK-OSS and NSW DET supported event about all things open in education (Open Resources, Open Source, Open Standards, Open Collaboration, etc). It should be a great event and will hopefully pave the way towards more Open Education in Australia for 2009!
The event includes great speakers from education in Australia and abroad as well as loads of case studies, and time for strategic discussion and planning. Should be great!
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Women in IT around the world!
Recently I was involved in a project profiling awesome women in IT from all around the world. It was a cool project and some really awesome women from all kinds of backgrounds. It was a lot of fun and I’d recommend checking it out. I think there are some great role models there for young people to encourage them to get into IT, and of course it helps fix some of the issues around bad stereotypes in IT 🙂
I’m helping them do an easier to browse html implementation of this (probably in WordPress) but in the meantime, enjoy!
