One Laptop Per Child the Gift that Gives Twice for Christmas in 2008
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Give a Laptop. Get a Laptop. Change the World.
Once again you can give a laptop and get a laptop in the innovative Give One Get One program. This year it is easier because the One Laptop per Child Foundation has paired up with Amazon.com to fulfill the orders.
We donated (from my Squidoo earnings) and made a difference last year and hope to do again this year.
Did we give him his Laptop?
One Laptop per Child : Zimi's Full Story
Donating a Laptop in 2007
Last year as part of the Give One Get One program, we donate a laptop to a child in a developing country and got one for our daughters to share.While they initially had wanted one for each of them, they eventually decided that it was pretty neat sending a laptop to a child in another country.
What we did last year really hit home as they watched the video stories of thanks from the children who have received laptops. As they watched the clips they asked, "Did we give him his Laptop?"
10 Reasons to Like the XO Laptop
- It's child friendly and intuitive. Everything is scaled to fit a child, from the integrated handle to the sealed, rubberized keyboard.
- It's spillproof, rainproof and dustproof.
- It's also drop-proof.
- It's fanless so it's silent.
- It's light, weighing 3.2 pounds.
- It's long-lived. One battery charge will power six hours of heavy activity, or 24 hours of reading.
- It has a built-in video camera, microphone and memory-card slot, graphics tablet and game-pad controllers.
- It can easily configure from a standard laptop to an e-book reader and a hand-held video game player.
- It's relatively inexpensive - $200.
- It's a way of giving a computer to the educationally under-served children in poor countries.
Making a Difference in the Lives of Children
The mission of One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is to empower the children of developing countries to learn by providing one connected laptop to every school-age child.By giving a laptop, you are helping bring education to children in some of the world's most remote areas.
You are connecting them to each other. To us. To hope. And to a better future.
Image Source: One Laptop Per Child. Nigerian Girl with XO. Creative Commons. Some Rights Reserved.
One Laptop Per Child from Wikipedia
The XO-1, previously known as the $100 Laptop, 'Childrens Machine, and 2B1', is an inexpensive subnotebook computer intended to be distributed to children in developing countries around the world, to provide them with access to knowledge, and opportunities to "explore, experiment and express themselves" (constructionist learning). The laptop is developed by the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization and manufactured by Quanta Computer.
The subnotebooks are designed for sale to government-education systems which then give each primary school child their own laptop. Pricing was set to start at $188 in 2006, with a stated goal to reach the $100 mark in 2008. In actual implementation, prices have remained $199 each for both the winter 2007 and winter 2008 Give One, Get One campaigns (and thus $398 per...
One Laptop per Child XO Laptop in the Amazon Spotlight
Learning from the XO Laptop
Both of my daughters aged 8 and 6 now have gotten a lot of use out of their XO laptop. Even better was that they figured out how to use the laptop on their own.They have had a lot fun recording silly video clips (most of which will be embarrassing years from now). They have also had fun writing and typing stories.
For our girls, the XO laptop was one of the Christmas gifts that we got them last year that they have continued to use on a weekly basis.
Are they saying "Thank You" to us?
Thank You to the 2007 G1G1 Donors
I had my daughters watch this clip, knowing that we'd donated last year. I could tell that it made a big difference to them, I know watching them watching the videos had a bit impact on me.
Give a Laptop. Get a Laptop. Change the World.
Give a Laptop.
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About One Laptop Per Child
It's an education project, not a laptop project.Professor Nicholas Negroponte
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is a non-profit organization founded by MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte and a team of educators, developers and technologists dedicated to educating children in developing nations with the goal of eradicating poverty.
OLPC has developed the XO laptop, the first laptop ever created specifically for the purpose of educating children in developing countries. The XO is a children's machine, designed to tap into a child's innate capacities to learn, share and create. The rugged design and sealed casing make the XO the only laptop capable of being used in outdoor classrooms and in harsh environmental conditions, powered with human energy.
Skills: The Right to Education
- Skills: the right to education
- Watch Skills: the right to education,, a video from olpcfoundation. OLPC, One Laptop per Child, Laptop, Children, Rights on Dailymotion. Every child deserves an education. www.laptop.org
- Skills: the right to education on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
- The latest video from One Laptop Per Child.
OLPC Mission: Part 1 Mission
The Five Principles of One Laptop Per Child
- The kids keep the laptops.
- Focus on early education.
- No on gets left out.
- Connection to the Internet.
- Free to grow and adapt.
OLPC Mission: Part 2 The XO Laptop
Learn How to Change the World
For the first time ever, OLPC is offering individuals, companies and other organizations the chance to send laptops to the country or classroom of their choice.
With a donation of 100 or more XO laptops, any group can give children in a specific place the chance to learn, share, dream and connect to each other and to the world.
- One Laptop per Child (OLPC): Participate > Give Many
- Learn more about Giving Many.
Predictions about One Laptop Per Child
My prediction:
Comfortdoc, at 10am on November 20, 2008 predicts:
I predict there will be many more happy children receiving XO laptops this year.
Reader predictions:
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dannystaple, at 8am on December 10, 2008 predicts:
I think this makes sense. This year there will be plenty of these sold.
Reggie_Marigold, at 9pm on November 21, 2008 predicts:
I predict you're 100% corret!
Fetching predictions now... please stand byOne Laptop Per Child helps to eliminate poverty, create peace and work on the environment.
One Laptop Per Child Websites
- One Laptop per Child (OLPC)
- One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is a new, non-profit association dedicated to research to develop a low-cost, connected laptop, a technology that could revolutionize how we educate the world's children.
- One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)
- One learning child. One connected child. One laptop at a time. The mission of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is to empower the children of developing countries to learn by providing one connected laptop to every school-age child.
- One Laptop Per Child News
- Your independent source for news, information, commentary, and discussion of One Laptop Per Child's "$100 laptop" computer, the OLPC Children's Machine XO, developed by MIT Media Lab co-founder Nicholas Negroponte.
- MIT Media Lab & $100 Laptop
- One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is a non-profit association dedicated to research to develop a $100 laptop a technology that could revolutionize how we educate the world's children.
- The OLPC Wiki
- The Wiki created for the One Laptop Per Child project.
- One Laptop per Child Foundation
- Learn about the mission of the OLPC Foundation, its organization and leadership.
Masi Oka for One Laptop per Child
One Laptop Per Child with Happy Children
Give a Laptop, Get a Laptop in the Amazon Spotlight
One learning child. One connected child. One laptop at a time.
One learning child.
One connected child.
One laptop at a time.
Children and their Laptops on Flickr
Simply give a Laptop
You can bring the light of learning to a child who would otherwise be left without adequate access to information and education with a donation of one or more XO laptops.A donation of $200 will pay for and deliver one XO laptop to a child in a developing nation. A donation of $400 will pay for and deliver two XO laptops, and so on. Your entire contribution will be tax-deductible.
This is a donation. You will not receive a laptop.
Give One on Amazon
You can make a direct donation of a laptop on Amazon.com.
This link will take you to a place on Amazon where you can give a direct donation of a laptop.
Laptop Recipients - Children in the Least Developed Countries
The least developed countries according to the United Nations list alphabetically include:
Afghanistan
Angola
Bangladesh
Benin
Bhutan
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cambodia
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Comoros
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Djibouti
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Gambia
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Haiti
Kiribati
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Lesotho
Liberia
Madagascar
Malawi
Maldives
Mali
Mauritania
Mozambique
Myanmar
Nepal
Niger
Rwanda
Samoa
São Tomé and Principe
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Solomon Islands
Somalia
Sudan
Timor-Lesté
Togo
Tuvalu
Uganda
United Republic of Tanzania
Vanuatu
Yemen
Zambia
The Least Developed Countries on Wikipedia
Least Developed Countries (LDCs) are countries which according to the United Nations exhibit the lowest indicators of socioeconomic development, with the lowest Human Development Index ratings of all countries in the world. A country is classified as a Least Developed Country if it meets three criteriaUN-OHRLLS The Criteria for the identification of the LDCs. based on:
*low-income (three-year average GNI per capita of less than US $750, which must exceed $900 to leave the list)
*human resource weakness (based on indicators of nutrition, health, education and adult literacy) and
*economic vulnerability (based on instability of agricultural production, instability of exports of goods and services, economic importance of non-traditional activities, merchandise export concentration, handicap of economic smallness, and the percentage of population displaced by natural disasters)
Countries may "graduate" out...
More Articles about the One Lap Top Per Child 2008
- One Laptop Per Child recruits via viral widgets and a digital storefront
- One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) has launched its second "Give One, Get One" donation campaign, which encourages consumers to buy a laptop and raises funds for projects in developing countries.
- Fudzilla - One Laptop Per Child sales to launch in U.S. at Amazon
- Fudzilla, news one step ahead, IT news and reviews on graphics, memory, CPU and motherboards. Breaking the stories in hardware IT word.
- One Laptop Per Child Initiative on Amazon
- On November 17th, the One Laptop Per Child initiative will come to Amazon. The mission of OLPC is to make sure kids in the developing worlds are able to learn effectively on their own personal laptops.
- One Laptop Per Child Relaunches 'Give 1 Get 1' Program - Laptopical.com
- For the second time, the OLPC association has launched its Give 1 Get 1 program to help distribute their green mini-laptops to children in developing countries.
Give a Laptop. Get a Laptop.
Give a Laptop to a child
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Ready to Give One and Get One?
Last year Americans bought 100,000 laptops for children across the world. In addition the Give One Get One campaign raised over $35 million and delivered 500,000 laptops to children in countries like Afghanistan, Iran and Lebanon.Give One Get One is the perfect gift for those looking to do more for the holiday; the XO is the gift that gives more.
If you were already thinking purchasing a computer for your child for the holidays, consider getting to One Laptop per Child. For $399 you can purchase two of the revolutionary XO laptop--one for a child in a developing nation and a second one for a child in your life.
Give a Laptop. Get a Laptop on Amazon.
This year you can give a laptop and get a laptop easily and directly through Amazon.com.
Give One Get One in the Amazon Spotlight
Articles on One Laptop Per Child
- AFP: One Laptop Per Child: the dream starts to deliver
- Low-cost computers meant to usher poor children worldwide into the digital age are being mass produced in China as US nonprofit One Laptop Per Child strives to deliver on its promise.
- Freedom to Tinker
- One Laptop Per Child reviewed by 12-Year-Old.
- Hands-On with One Laptop Per Child's XO Laptop - LAPTOP Magazine
- Hands-On with One Laptop Per Child's XO Laptop . We visited the OLPC Labs to get our hands on the much-hyped laptop. Created with children of the developing world in mind, this notebook might just change the face of mobile computing.
- Laptop With a Mission Widens Its Audience
- A review article from the New York Times.
- AMD and OLPC tout "world's greenest" laptop
- AMD and OLPC have been talking up how environmentally friendly the XO laptop is for a while now, but today they've announced that they have the certifications to prove the device's "green" credentials.
One Laptop Per Child is an Education Project
One Laptop Per Child is an education project, not a laptop project.
Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop Per Child On YouTube
Why give a laptop to a child in the emerging world? If you replace the word "laptop" with "education" the answer becomes clear. You don't wait to educate until all other challenges are resolved. You educate at the same time because it's such an important part of all the other solutions.
Make education for the world's children a priority, not a privilege.
Tom Brady talks about OLPC
More One Laptop Per Child Interviews
Seymour Papert Interview - One Laptop per Child (OLPC)
Walter Bender Interview - One Laptop per Child (OLPC)
Nicholas Negroponte Interview - One Laptop per Child (OLPC)
60 Minutes - One Laptop Per Child in the Amazon Spotlight
60 Minutes - One Laptop Per Child (May 20, 2007)
Amazon Price: $17.95 (as of 07/10/2009)
A DVD of the 60 Minutes Episode that aired in 2007 on the Innovative Program.
Lesley Stahl interviews MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte for this interview that aired May 17, 2007.
G1G1 offer 2007
- One Laptop Per Child Twofer Program Extended
- From FOXNews.com One Laptop Per Child Twofer Program Extended, Nonprofit computer foundation's 'Give One, Get One' program extended from Nov. 26 to end of year.
- OLPC Extends 'Give One, Get One' Program
- From PC World - In the spirit of the holiday season, the One Laptop Per Child Program (OLPC) is extending its "Give One, Get One" (G1G1) promotion until December 31.
- OLPC Gives Holiday Shoppers More Time to 'Give One, Get One'
- From Linux News - One Laptop Per Child, a nonprofit dedicated to giving PCs to children in developing countries, is extending its "Give One, Get One" promotion through the end of the year.
- OLPC Extends Give One, Get One Program Until End Of Year
- OLPC Extends Give One, Get One Program Until End Of Year | November 26, 2007
The XO connects them to each other, to the world and to a brighter future.
Shop Early for Christmas and Give One Get One from Amazon
One Laptop Per Child in Squidu
- One Laptop Per Child - Give One Get One
- A new thread for this years campaign started by hlkljgk.
- Give One Get One (G1G1) - One Laptop Per Child
- My original post from last year about the Give One Get One Campaign.
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Although the first Give 1 Get 1 promotion concluded at the end of 2007, it's still possible to get your own XO today. Amazon will be running the G1G1 promotion for 2008, and you can get yourself an XO laptop for Christmas! Get the laptop for yourself...
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dannystaple wrote...
I thought this was an amazing idea form the very first time I heard of it. I hope that O3B (the other 3 billion) project and this will seriously revolutionise the world. Laptop hardware costs are being driven down by this and the market here too. This is an amazing idea, and it is possible that other cool toys like the Eee PC would not have been possible without it.
Posted December 10, 2008
Reggie_Marigold wrote...
A delightful lens. Warms the heart and brings tears to the eye. A lovely gift you've given your children. I'm going to tell my friends.
Posted November 21, 2008
Benefiting Save the Children
This lens benefits the Squidoo Charity Fund and Save the Children, the leading independent organization creating lasting change in the lives of children in need in the United States and around the world.This year again a donation will be made to the One Laptop Per Child Foundation by this lensmaster.
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