Important Links

Important Links for resources

Site: K-Net Meeting Place
Meeting Place: OLPC Little Green Machines!
Book: Important Links
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Date: Friday, 22 November 2024, 02:26 PM

Table of Contents

One Laptop Per Child

The main site for One Laptop Per Child.  Here you can find information regarding the OLPC Organization, news, and overviews of the software and laptop. 

One Laptop Per Child

Please visit at: http://laptop.org/en/

SUGAR Labs

SUGAR Labs

SUGAR Labs is the development team behind the award-winning SUGAR operating system on the XO Laptop.  You can learn more about their work at: http://www.sugarlabs.org/

One Laptop Per Child Canada

One Laptop Per Child is the first National OLPC Program in Canada.  To find out more information regarding their organization and The Belinda Stronach Foundation, please visit:

http://www.olpccanada.com/content.php?id=3

The OLPC Wiki

This is the main page for the OLPC Wiki, a comprehensive database with information on OLPC Projects, software, and hardware.  Users can also contribute information as well by registering for a user name and password.  For information, please go to:

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

ELDER Project

ELDER

ELDER stands for Educational Linux Distribution Electronic Resource - a K-NET  project that dedicates itself to providing curriculum ready, user friendly, supported and most importantly FREE educational software tools for teachers, parents and students.

You can learn more about ELDER at www.elderproject.knet.ca

I love my XO

I love my XO is a site where you can buy spare XO laptop parts.  If you have a broken XO and need spare parts, please visit at: http://www.ilovemyxo.com/

FLOSS Manuals

FLOSS Manuals is a collection of manuals about free and open source software together with the tools used to create them and the community that uses those tools. They include authors, editors, artists, software developers, activists, and many others. There are manuals that explain how to install and use a range of free and open source softwares, about how to do things (like design) with open source software, and manuals about free culture services that use or support free software and formats.

The FlOSS site contains many manuals regarding OLPC and SUGAR.

Visit FLOSS at: http://en.flossmanuals.net/read

Project Gutenberg - Free Ebooks

Project Gutenberg is a site where you can download over 33 000 free online books and read them on the XO, Kindle, or computer.  These include classics such as Sherlock Holmes, Pride and Prejudice, Oliver Twist, and much much more. 

Please visit Project Gutenberg at:   http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

SUGAR Activities

This is the site where you can download and view SUGAR activties for your XO laptop.  For more instructions on installing, please visit: http://meeting.knet.ca/mp19/mod/book/view.php?id=3133&chapterid=1047

For the SUGAR activities site, please visit: http://activities.sugarlabs.org//en-US/sugar/