[Edu-sig] PyCon Follow-up

[Jonah Bossewitch]

Hi everyone,

First, I want to let you know that I had a great time at our conference 
this year, despite all the blogo-grumblings to the contrary. Meeting up 
with many of the educators in the python community is one of the many 
reasons why.

I mostly lurk on this list, but it occurs to me that I should be sharing 
more of my work here.

Here is a model I have been working on for a while that captures some of 
the conversation I got into with educators this weekend:

http://jonahboss.fastmail.fm/wikimania/wikimania_poster.pdf

and it's elaborated on here:
http://jonahboss.fastmail.fm/wildwildwiki/chap2_wiki_justice_final.doc

and will soon be published in the forthcoming U. of Mich anthology on 
wikis in education: Wiki Writing:Collaborative Learning in the College 
Classroom

I've also been writing alot about the OLPC project:

Two academic essays:

Plato and the Laptop: Prescribing Educational Technology for Society’s 
Ills <http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/viewfile/18940>

Free Laptops: Creating, Producing and Sharing a Revolution 
<http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/viewfile/18259>

A slideshow presentation:

http://jonahboss.fastmail.fm/presentations/teach_think_play2007/html/ttp2007_olpc_bossewitch.html 


and some (hopefully) positive and constructive posts for OLPCnews:

Have Faith in One Laptop Per Child Miracles 
<http://www.olpcnews.com/implementation/plan/have_faith_in_one_la.html>

Portable Culture Machines 
<http://www.olpcnews.com/content/education/portable_culture_mac.html>

OLPC Personalization Stickers 
<http://www.olpcnews.com/implementation/plan/olpc_personalization_stickers.html> 


OLPC Leadership: Musicians or Instrument Makers 
<http://www.olpcnews.com/content/education/sharing_share_alike_user_content.html> 


Sharing and Not-Sharing Alike 
<http://www.olpcnews.com/content/education/sharing_share_alike_user_content.html> 


Finally, I wanted to add that I will likely be attending the New Media 
Consortium summer conference in Princeton - 
http://www.nmc.org/2008-summer-conference. Our group has found that 
community to be very supportive of the use the purposeful use of tech in 
ed. We also find their Horizon report helpful too - 
http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2008-Horizon-Report.pdf

warm regards,
/Jonah