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Select Libraries
(See also editable World University and School's Library Resources page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources).

Select Photos
Derndorfer, Christoph. 2011. "The children of the Moon: Imaging the Moon with a XO" presentation. September 10. flickr.com.

Derndorfer, Christoph. 2011. XO Telescope. September 10. flickr.com.

One Laptop per Child - Nepal. 2011. OLE Nepal. flickr.com/photos/olpc/.

Select References
Arboleda, Rodrigo. 2011. OLPC Will Remain a Non-Profit. May 20. Cambridge, MA: blog.laptop.org.

Adhikari, Saurabh. 2011. $490+ per XO laptop is the real cost of small OLPC deployments. February 21. Cambridge, MA: OLPC News.

Battro, Antonio M. 2011. Comments on a critique by professor Jeffrey James of the One-Laptop Per Child Program. May 8. Cambridge, MA: blog.laptop.org.

Battro, Antonio M. 2011. Computers as reading prostheses. July 9. Cambridge, MA: blog.laptop.org.

Cherlin, Edward. 2011. The Peace Corps Challenge to End Poverty. May 25. Cambridge, MA: OLPC News.

Derndorfer, Christoph. 2011. 2011 Sugar Labs Oversight Board Elections. November 2. Cambridge, MA: OLPC News.

Derndorfer, Christoph. 2011. 1 Million XOs Missing in Action, Lack of Measurements to Blame. June 27. Cambridge, MA: OLPC News.

Derndorfer, Christoph. 2011. OLPC Association Moves Beyond XOs and Acknowledges the Importance of Teacher Training. October 14. Cambridge, MA: OLPC News.

Derndorfer, Christoph. 2011. OLPC News in the Post-Wayan Era. August 12. Cambridge, MA: OLPC News.

Derndorfer, Christoph. 2011. Controlling LEGO WeDo robots via Scratch on an XO laptop. July 18. Cambridge, MA: OLPC News.

Derndorfer, Christoph. 2011. Uruguayan Pupils Using Butiá Robots at the sumo.uy 2011 Event. October 26. Cambridge, MA: OLPC News.

Eckersley, Peter. 2011. Why We Need An Open Wireless Movement: Call To Action. April 27. www.eff.org.

Hosman, LJ. 2011. Successful solar installation in Lascahobas, Haiti to charge 500 laptops!!!!!. August 15. ict4dviewsfromthefield.wordpress.com.

How Khan Academy Can Help OLPC. 2011. How Khan Academy Can Help OLPC. June 3. Cambridge, MA: OLPC News.

Kabe, Pritam. 2011. OLPC: Great intentions crippled by flawed philosophy and approach. July 30. Cambridge, MA: OLPC News.

Karsenti, T., & Collin, S. 2011. One laptop per child is a primary reason for educational success in Eastern Townships, Canada. (Excerpt from Benefits and challenges of using laptops in primary and secondary school: An investigation at the Eastern Townships School Board. Summary of main results, by Karsenti, T., & Collin, S. (2011). Montreal, QC: CRIFPE.). Montreal, QC, Canada: CRIFPE.

Lee, Mike. 2011. Using Ebooks with the OLPC XO: Next OLPC-LCDC Meetup. February 17. Cambridge, MA: OLPC News.

Leeming, Dean. 2010. OLPC Orientation Workbook for Education Officials. December 13. Cambridge, MA: OLPC News.

Negroponte, Nicholas. 2010. Laptops Work. November / December. Boston, MA: Boston Review.

Nixon, James. 2011. OLPC jumps ARM bandwagon with $165 laptop at CES. January 7. onenewspage.com

OLPC Should Incorporate Khan Academy Videos. 2011. OLPC Should Incorporate Khan Academy Videos. May 27. Cambridge, MA: OLPC News.

OLPC Association welcomes Roberto Interiano. 2011. OLPC Association welcomes Roberto Interiano. November 16. Cambridge, MA: blog.laptop.org.

Quillen, Ian. 2011. What motivates education revolution?. April 2. (In Education Week). Cambridge, MA: blog.laptop.org.

SJ. 2011. Bhagmalpur school project update. June 5. Cambridge, MA: blog.laptop.org.

SJ. 2011. Book Server 0.01: Pathagar + Sheeva Plug for offline reading. October 28. Cambridge, MA: blog.laptop.org.

SJ. 2011. Children as Mission. July 29. Cambridge, MA: blog.laptop.org.

SJ. 2011. Distributed libraries: Book Servers and aggregation. November 18. Cambridge, MA: blog.laptop.org.

sj. 2011. Nick Doiron on the MakerFaire scene. September 21. Cambridge, MA: blog.laptop.org.

SJ. 2010. The case for learning, with or without school. December 8. Cambridge, MA: blog.laptop.org.

SJ. 2011. Educacion 2.0 : the next decade. August 29. Cambridge, MA: blog.laptop.org.

SJ. 2011. butiábot: XO Linerider robot in action. May 7. Cambridge, MA: blog.laptop.org.

SJ. 2011. Khan Academy videos and OLPC. June 6. Cambridge, MA: blog.laptop.org.

SJ. 2011. LEGO WeDo and OLPC Peru: national collaboration. February 12. Cambridge, MA: blog.laptop.org.

SJ. 2011. o11s – an open source village-scale wifi solution August 4. Cambridge, MA: blog.laptop.org.

SJ. 2011. OLPC Map and Map XO may updates. June 1. Cambridge, MA: blog.laptop.org.

SJ. 2011. OLPC retrospective in the latest Linux Journal. November 1. Cambridge, MA: blog.laptop.org.

SJ. 2011. Promoting the Knowledge Economy in the Arab World. August 17. Cambridge, MA: blog.laptop.org.

SJ. 2011. School Server wishlist from Nepal. May 29. Cambridge, MA: blog.laptop.org.

sj. 2011. Sugar Digests and mailing list summaries. August 22. Cambridge, MA: blog.laptop.org.

SJ. 2011. Tamil Nadu seeks 6.8M laptops for older students. June 24. Cambridge, MA: blog.laptop.org.

SJ. 2011. Tamin-Lee in Africa: Part 2. August 2. Cambridge, MA: blog.laptop.org.

sl4shd0rk. 2011. OLPC Project To Air-Drop Laptops. November 03. hardware.slashdot.org.

Toyama, Kentaro. 2011. What we'd like to hear from Nicholas Negroponte, as imagined by the ICT4D Jester. January 7. Cambridge, MA: OLPC News.

Verma, Sameer. 2011. OLPC: Are We There Yet?. November. linuxjournaldigital.com.

Vota, Wayne. 2011. OLPC Academy: The newest OLPC volunteer program for college students. February 9. Cambridge, MA: OLPC News.

Vota, Wayne. 2011. Breaking News: OLPC Association Eating its Own Supporters. November 3. Cambridge, MA: OLPC News.

Vota, Wayne. 2011. olpcMAP: 2 million XO Laptop OLPC deployments, mapped!. January 3. Cambridge, MA: OLPC News.

Vota, Wayne. 2011. OLPC News at 5 Years - A Time for Transition. August 4. Cambridge, MA: OLPC News.

Vota, Wayne. 2011. OLPC Programs are a $25 Billion Dollar Global Economy. July 27. Cambridge, MA: OLPC News.

Vota, Wayne. 2011. The OLPC XO-3 will include a laser ray gun!. July 20. Cambridge, MA: OLPC News.

Vota, Wayne. 2011. [http://www.olpcnews.com/people/negroponte/xo_helicopter_deployments_nich.html XO Helicopter Deployments? Nicholas Negroponte Must be Crazy!]. June 29. Cambridge, MA: OLPC News.

Vota, Wayne. 2011. XO-1 Laptop Triage: 5 Quick OLPC Repair Tips. August 8. Cambridge, MA: OLPC News.

Vota, Wayne. 2011. XO-1.75 Laptop Innovation: OLPC Goes ARM and Touchscreen!. (Edward McNierney, chief technology officer of One Laptop Per Child showed off the XO-1.75 XO laptop at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas). January 7. Cambridge, MA: OLPC News.

Warschauer, Mark. 2011. Infrastructures for Low Cost Laptop Use in Mexican Schools. April 27. Cambridge, MA: OLPC News.

Yujuico, Emmanuel and Betsy D. Gelb. 2011. Cautions from one laptop per child in marketing technological innovation to LDCs. (http://www.olpcnews.com/commentary/academia/cautions_from_olpcs_experience.html). London, UK: LSE Research Online.

OLPC Afghanistan

OLPC Africa

sj. 2011. Kenyan teachers on strike, XOs and volunteers take over. September 9. Cambridge, MA: blog.laptop.org.

sj. 2011. Nkubito Bakuramutsa on Rwanda’s school vision for the future. September 8. Cambridge, MA: blog.laptop.org.

sj. 2011. Princeton-Engineers Without Borders collab grows in Ghana. August 11. Cambridge, MA: blog.laptop.org.

OLPC Armenia

Derndorfer, Christopher. 2011. OLPC Armenia starts with 3,600 pupils and Plan Ceibal's advice. August 24. Cambridge, MA: OLPC News.

OLPC Asia

SJ. 2011. Grassroots work in East Timor. August 1. Cambridge, MA: blog.laptop.org.

OLPC Australia

Derndorfer, Christopher. 2011. Video of OLPC Australia's Program in Action. July 13. Cambridge, MA: OLPC News.

SJ. 2011. In Australian outback, OLPC school triples numeracy ability in 1 year. November 19. Cambridge, MA: blog.laptop.org.

OLPC Boliva

SJ. 2011. Santa Cruz, Bolivia: working with Gimp, Etoys, and Scratch. August 5. Cambridge, MA: blog.laptop.org.

OLPC Cambodia

OLPC Colombia

OLPC Costa Rica

OLPC Ethiopia

OLPC France

Derndorfer, Christoph. 2011. A look back at Sugar Camp #2 in Paris. September 21. Cambridge, MA: OLPC News.

OLPC France's long distance Wi-Fi installation in Nosy Komba. 2011. OLPC France's long distance Wi-Fi installation in Nosy Komba. November 9. Cambridge, MA: OLPC News.

OLPC Haiti

Baikie, Bruce. 2011. World's largest single-school XO laptop solar power deployment. August 19. Cambridge, MA: OLPC News.

OLPC Jamaica

Vota, Wayne. 2011. OLPC Jamaica: One Laptop Per Teacher, Educator, and Child. March 7. Cambridge, MA: OLPC News.

OLPC Mexico

SJ. 2011. Sugar translation into Téenek (Huastec). October 4. Cambridge, MA: blog.laptop.org.

OLPC Mongolia

OLPC Nepal

SJ. 2011. Health activity updates from Nepal. November 19. Cambridge, MA: blog.laptop.org.

OLPC Oceania

OLPC Oceania. 2011 Learning Nature by XO-enabled Wiki on Solomon Islands. March 4. Cambridge, MA: OLPC News.

SJ. 2011. Niue reports phasing out olpc, citing Internet costs. November 21. Cambridge, MA: blog.laptop.org.

SJ. 2011. OLPC Oceania expands to Kosrae, with US support. August 12. Cambridge, MA: blog.laptop.org.

OLPC Papua New Guinea

OLPC Peru

sj. 2011. Life in a Day film publishes XO clip from Peru. August 24. Cambridge, MA: blog.laptop.org.

OLPC Rwanda

sj. 2011. New OLPC Rwanda site. August 30. Cambridge, MA: blog.laptop.org.

sj. 2011. Rwanda adds laptop security, gets new XO-1.5s. July 14. Cambridge, MA: blog.laptop.org.

Vota, Wayne. 2011. OLPC Rwanda is now the largest non-South American deployment in the world. July 21. Cambridge, MA: OLPC News.

Vota, Wayne. 2011. What is the status of OLPC Rwanda in 2011?. September 14. Cambridge, MA: OLPC News.

OLPC Uruguay

OLPC USA (Birmingham, Alabama)

SJ. 2011. Update from the Field: Birmingham, Alabama surveys. July 5. Cambridge, MA: blog.laptop.org.

Select Video and Audio
Derndorfer, Christoph. 2011. A Game Built Around Turtle Art and Some Wires. October 28. Cambridge, MA: OLPC News.

Derndorfer, Christoph. 2011. Interview with OLPC Association's Director of Learning Claudia Urrea. October 31. Cambridge, MA: OLPC News.

Derndorfer, Christoph. 2010. Measuring a Lemon Battery with an OLPC XO Laptop. October 1. Cambridge, MA: OLPC News.

A Laptop per Child - Uruguay. 2011. A Laptop per Child - Uruguay. Journeyman Pictures.

Negroponte, Nicholas. 2011. Social Good Summit : Day 1 : Nicholas Negroponte. (HOW TO ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION FOR ALL, IN ONE YEAR: SOLVING THE PROBLEM OF 70 MILLION CHILDREN WORLDWIDE NOT EVEN REACHING FIRST GRADE).

Negroponte, Nicholas. 2009. TEDxBrussels - Nicholas Negroponte - 11/23/09. Brussels, Belgium: TEDx Brussels.

Vota, Wayne. 2011. XO-1.75: Faster Sugar and Android Support But No Touchscreen. January. Cambridge, MA: OLPC News.

OLPC Haiti

Baikie, Bruce. 2011. Solar PV System for Charging Haiti School Children Laptops. Youtube.com.

Select Websites
One Laptop per Child. 2011. One Laptop per Child Vision. Cambridge, MA: One Laptop per Child.

One Laptop per Child - Resources. 2011. [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/ClassActs/Resources One Laptop per Child - Class Resources]. Cambridge, MA: One Laptop per Child.

One Laptop per Child - Sugar. 2011. One Laptop per Child - Sugar. Cambridge, MA: One Laptop per Child.

One Laptop per Child - Sugar Activities. 2011. One Laptop per Child - Sugar Activities. Cambridge, MA: One Laptop per Child.

Select Wikis
OLPC Oceania

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

Programming and OLPC

Etoys_(programming_language): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etoys_(programming_language)

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Open Access Resources: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Open_Access_Resources

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