[Year 12 IT Apps] $200 laptop scheme starts production

[Tony Forster]

> Even better though - we'll have one at the VITTA conference!
> Tuesday Session 2405 at 2:30pm
> One laptop per child
> Presented by Joel Stanley.

Another photo, Joel with OLPC at Tech Museum of Innovation
http://tinyurl.com/yrz6fm

also Bill Kerr will present on Etoys, which ships on the OLPC at VITTA conf
1212 Monday 11:00
"Alan Kay, winner of the 2004 Turing Award, invented the first object 
orientated programming language, Smalltalk. His educational vision and 
activities, developed over 40 years, is just as interesting. This 
presentation will describe that vision, from Moore's Law to the One Laptop 
Per Child project."

and
2303 Tuesday 12:15
Lab session: "Squeak is a powerful drag and drop programming language which 
has been included on the One Laptop Per Child project. This session will 
demonstrate how to program in eToys in Squeak."

Bill's experience with OLPC/Etoys image http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/
Me, on running the OLPC image on a PC 
http://tonyforster.blogspot.com/2007_05_01_archive.html
(with more shots of Joel and his OLPC)
Me: Thoughts on the OLPC in the Pacific
http://tonyforster.blogspot.com/2007/08/thoughts-on-olpc-100-laptop.html

Tony Forster,
Computer Game Design, Programming, Multimedia and Mathematics Cluster.
http://schoolgamemaker.rupert.id.au/