Teachers training – On April 11th, We arrived 都江堰浦陽小學 and did a full day of training on XO with the local teachers.
OLPC Teachers Training – 1st Day
Category Archives: Sichuan – Blogs from the Field
OLPC Upgrades 100 XO PCs For Teacher Training
On April 10th, during the Easter holiday, OLPC organised a trip to Sichuan and upgraded 100 XO PCs and converted the firmwware from English to Simplified Chinese versions.
The 100 XOs are for the teacher training the next day.
The Heartfelt Lifesaving Effort Sichuan Earthquake Taxicab Army Poem by Driver He Ming
Two weeks ago, I met by accident taxicab driver poet He Ming who told me about how three thousand Chengdu taxicab drivers had the week before sped to Dujiangyan to help as soon as they heard about the earthquake. They helped rescue people and then brought bring them to Chengdu hospitals. On their own initiative, he told me. "When we heard about it, we just acted instinctively".
He showed me a write up about it in the Huaxi Dushibao (here it is
online at unn.people.com.cn/GB/14748/7241608.html one of the
Chengdu newspapers on May 22. He shared with me his poem about the taxi
drivers going to Dujiangyan on the day of the earthquake that he has
been sending around by text message.
Xinhua ran a story about him in mid January
news.tfol.com/10026/10157/12214/2008/1/17/10498186.shtml