Mission Statement: To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning. When children have access to this type of tool they get engaged in their own education. They learn, share, create, and collaborate. They become connected to each other, to the world and to a brighter future.
And a video..
In this workshop we dreamed up a campaign for OLPC called Key by Key. It's got corporate sponsers, a scrabble competiton, a smartphone game, social media action, the works... a whole 'nother blog post.
Currently they ask people to donate by the laptop. We think there’s a better way. By asking people to donate individual keys, we generate smaller donations, but many more of them. I'll post more about this global idea soon. That ladies and gentlemen is the beginning.
Currently, I'm working on a way for local communities to get involved. So, I'm introducing KeyBee, a non-profit spelling bee for elementary school children. Tying into the KeybyKey idea of donating piecemeal, students will be able to generate donations by studying hard and spelling words correctly. After the bee, family and friends will have to cough up .5 or .10 cents per letter per each word spelled correctly, eventually adding up to a ton of money to donate towards laptops. It pays to study, right?
To get the ball rolling students will receive an info packet flash cards letting them know about who, what, how, and why there are helping and how to become a spelling bee champion.
Phew- there's the gist of the thinking, here's the start of the design. Fronts and Backs of the flashcards.
Ready. Go.
Geez, what a long post. :) More tomorrow!
Ak.
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