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XS Learning with Sameer Verma
In January 2013, Sameer Verma from SFSU, during a trip to India, visited Goa – a detour that happened mostly because of Harriet Vidyasagar’s efforts to keep all the working OLPC projects in India visible to the outside world, while simultaneously ensuring that we got the best minds to get a firsthand look at the […]
Posted in: Sugar-OLPC
Sugar Training for Nirmala-KG Teachers
November 15, 2012
by Salil Konkar
The Sugar Training Workshop for the teachers at Nirmala Kindergarten was held between 5th and 8th November 2013, two and a half hours each day for the four days. Besides giving an overview of Sugar, the training also focused on some specific activities that cater to children of the age group that we were dealing […]
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Second Sugar-OLPC Project in Goa
October 25, 2012
by Monsoon Grey
Nirmala Institute of Education (NIE), our primary partners in the OLPC project here in Goa, have around 18 XO-1s with them, which were initially kept there with the idea of using them for centralised Teacher Training workshops for Sugar for the Goa OLPC projects. But, since we have only the Merces school project on the […]
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Walter’s Talk at GIM
September 12, 2012
by Monsoon Grey
During his visit to India (see earlier post Walter Bender’s India Visit) Walter spoke at various public events. While in Goa, he also addressed the students of the Goa Institute of Management at their campus in Sanquelim, Goa. Here is the 3-part video of ‘Learning to Change the World’ – his talk at the Goa […]
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Walter Bender’s India Visit
September 12, 2012
by Salil Konkar
Walter Bender, founder of Sugar Labs, was in India during August 2012. Read the summary of his visit in his own words in this blog post.. I’ll be posting here about specific aspects of his visit and the follow up action and enthusiasm that it has triggered in the Sugar/OLPC community here, but till then, […]
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Learning Shapes with the Turtle
July 12, 2012
by Monsoon Grey
On Monday 9th and Wednesday 11th of July 2012, we had two Turtle Art sessions with the children of Class 4 at Our Lady of Merces High School, Merces, Goa, India. Class 4 in this school has two divisions, each with around 55 children, so the two sessions were necessary for us to cover the […]
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New Activities for the New Year
July 8, 2012
by Salil Konkar
On Saturday July 7th, 2012, we conducted a Teachers’ Update Training session at Our Lady of Merces High School, Merces, Goa for the primary school teachers who have been involved with the OLPC project at the school. Besides Harriet Vidyasagar who has been with the Merces OLPC project since its inception, Bindi Dharia, an intern […]
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Merces OLPC Reloaded
July 2, 2012
by Gayathri Rao Konkar
After a year of uncertainty the grey clouds have finally lifted from the OLPC program at Our Lady of Merces High School, Merces, Goa. We had a good visit to the school this morning – July 2nd 2012. The new principal Loretta Colaco, who has joined the school very recently, was very supportive. But the […]
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A Visit to Khairat
June 28, 2012
by Salil Konkar
The beginning of the monsoon and the first rains could only make the much awaited visit to Khairat village more exciting. Nothing could have prepared me for the sheer enthusiasm and energy of the teacher Sandeep Surve who almost single handedly ensures that the OLPC project at the small village school in Khairat is a […]
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Monsoon Grey 
January 29, 2013
by Salil Konkar
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