Latest posts by David Sasaki from June, 2009
Ceibal Jam!: Creating Local Applications for Educational Needs in Uruguay
Ceibal Jam! is a community of volunteer programmers, instructors, and technologists who have all come together to develop educational applications for the XO laptops that are now in the hands of every single primary school student in Uruguay.
Making Uruguay's 300,000 Laptops Count – Part I
Engineering a single laptop to serve the educational needs of young students throughout the developing world was probably the easiest piece of the puzzle. Helping teachers incorporate the new machines into the classroom has been a much larger - and more important - struggle.