Showing posts with label OLPC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label OLPC. Show all posts
Monday, November 30, 2009
Creating our Marketing Campaign for One Laptop Per Class Campaign
We need to make at least 200 paper airplanes to release into atrium on Thu Dec 10th during club hours. Please use the Nick's Plane design in the video or your best version otherwise.
For more on the design visit: http://www.paperairplanes.co.uk/nickplan.php
This paper airplane is a superb glider it is very well balanced indeed even when made by the most inexperienced child. It can be quickly made from a sheet of A4 paper and I really like it. I drew this page up and placed it on the internet within a day of learning to make this paper airplane.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Thanks for OLPC for our 2008 Contribution
January 13, 2009
Thank you for your contribution of $597 to the One Laptop per Child Foundation. Further we confirm that no tangible benefits were received by you, the donor, in exchange for the gift referenced above. Your order number is 13PSPJ55814IM1IOEJFCR32FGAB8Q6
The mission of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) movement is to ensure that every school-aged child in the lesser-developed parts of the world is able to engage effectively with their own personal laptop, networked to the world, so that they, their families and their communities can openly collaborate as they learn and learn about learning together.
The OLPC Foundation is focused on enhancing and sustaining learning among those children, their families and communities in lesser developed communities by ensuring rich, diverse and open access to innovative learning materials and by encouraging interactive learning, communication and exploration with their XO laptops. For this purpose, the Foundation provides grants and other support for the development and use of collaborative learning resources and other initiatives that enrich children’s learning.
Your contribution will help us move forward with these important programs for children. Please tell your friends and colleagues about the One Laptop per Child program (www.laptop.org) and encourage them also to support our mission.
Sincerely,
Robert D. Fadel
One Laptop per Child Foundation
Saturday, December 27, 2008
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: XOXOXO
We bought THREE, count 'em THREE, XO laptops from our campaign from Dec 16 - 23.
My paypal account charged me $15.57 in fees which I am covering and I donated another $20 from myself. We raised a total of $642.
We have $45 remaining. I asked for a single donation on Twitter of $144 to buy a fourth. We'll see what happens. Otherwise, I will keep the $55 for next year's campaign unless someone really needs their donation returned. I'll gladly do that.
My paypal account charged me $15.57 in fees which I am covering and I donated another $20 from myself. We raised a total of $642.
We have $45 remaining. I asked for a single donation on Twitter of $144 to buy a fourth. We'll see what happens. Otherwise, I will keep the $55 for next year's campaign unless someone really needs their donation returned. I'll gladly do that.
Greetings from Amazon Payments,
Your Dec 27, 2008 payment to OLPC Foundation for $597.00 has completed successfully. Here are the payment details:
Payment details:
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Transaction ID: 13PSPJ55814IM1IOEJFCR32FGAB8Q6VHHGA
Recipient: OLPC Foundation
For: Donation to provide children in developing countries with a laptop
Amount: $597.00
Date: Dec 27, 2008
Payment method: Mastercard XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-7018
Reference: Donation to provide children in developing countries with a laptop
Thank you for using Amazon Payments.
CHECK OUT 2008 THANK YOU'S
FROM ACTUAL KIDS WHO GOT AN XO LAPTOP
HERE'S THE FINAL COUNT
NEXT YEAR / 2009:
I will send out an announcement. Best way to keep in touch is through our blog. Check back in November or contact me directly. I invite you all to participate. We will start November 1 next year. I learned SO MUCH that will make next year's campaign SING! and GENERATE LOTS OF DONATIONS! I would love to have a meeting to organize things in September of 2009. If you're interested add your email and name to the comments below.
CONGRATULATIONS TO EACH AND EVERY CLASS MEMBER ON OUR MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.
FROM ACTUAL KIDS WHO GOT AN XO LAPTOP
HERE'S THE FINAL COUNT
2:30 Section
$324 in total donations from 40% of a class of 20 students
from Daniela, Caroline, Melissa, Lynda (and her mom), Kashif, Victor
and special thanks to Yaroslav. Oh and I forgot to add Jessica Gil!!
4:10 Section
$228 in total donations from 38% of a class of 26 students
from Nicaury, Terentiy, Claumery (special thanks to her office), Craig,
Jou-man/Erica, Nuzzy, Ivana, Gabrijela, Jiaying, Kayla, Maimouna and Xiang.
Also Prof. Sarah Ryan and I made contributions to the overall effort.
NEXT YEAR / 2009:
I will send out an announcement. Best way to keep in touch is through our blog. Check back in November or contact me directly. I invite you all to participate. We will start November 1 next year. I learned SO MUCH that will make next year's campaign SING! and GENERATE LOTS OF DONATIONS! I would love to have a meeting to organize things in September of 2009. If you're interested add your email and name to the comments below.
CONGRATULATIONS TO EACH AND EVERY CLASS MEMBER ON OUR MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.
Saturday, December 20, 2008
OLPC Mission Part 1
Let's say you can't donate. Then be part of the marketing of our video!
To help promote our video over the next three days, got to YouTube and rate and comment on it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSWu6CLVL6Y
Also Nicholas Negroponte, founder of OLPC, throws the XO laptop! Check it out!
BARUCH XO CAMPAIGN GOES PUBLIC!!
Thanks to all who participated in making the concept, the video and making it all happen with your time and your dollars! What can $199 buy? A World of Difference!
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
One Laptop Per Class and other models for giving back
Hey I am going to miss the Fa08 generation of ANT1001!!
To the 2:30 section representin' SEEK, keep playing and loving and being great with each other all the way to graduation - NO JOKIN!! No one left behind! This is your greatest opportunity to shine beyond anything you've known before. But it takes 4 years!! Come on!
To the 4:10 section, I learned SO MUCH from you about other countries that I never had known. Taiwan, Albania, Serbia, Bangladesh, and Brooklyn much much more!! Your group presentations rocked my world!! And your listening to one another -- priceless!
Special thanks to you! Yes you! who is reading this. Without you, none of what happened was possible. Get that!!
The ONE LAPTOP PER CLASS video will be edited by Jeffrey from the 2:30 section.
What we are up is launching a yearly campaign called ONE LAPTOP PER CLASS where each Baruch class (700+) will be asked to by a $199 laptop. We already raised $199 + $280 from our two sections alone!! And we haven't collected all the donations yet.
TO MAKE A DONATION: click here
If each student and faculty of each class participates the cost is less than $10 per person for a class size of 20 - 100. We are doing the final edits on a viral video to entice other colleges and universities to join us by Dec 31st this year and to create buzz for next.
We just started finals today and we have already raised the funds for at least 2 laptops from both sections. The viral video is based on the Mastercard priceless commercial ads + Mike Wesch's Students Today videos. It will be launched in a day or two to catch the Dec 31 deadline for this year's OLPC.com campaign.
ALSO
Check out Darius Goes West
http://www.dariusgoeswest.org/
To the 2:30 section representin' SEEK, keep playing and loving and being great with each other all the way to graduation - NO JOKIN!! No one left behind! This is your greatest opportunity to shine beyond anything you've known before. But it takes 4 years!! Come on!
To the 4:10 section, I learned SO MUCH from you about other countries that I never had known. Taiwan, Albania, Serbia, Bangladesh, and Brooklyn much much more!! Your group presentations rocked my world!! And your listening to one another -- priceless!
Special thanks to you! Yes you! who is reading this. Without you, none of what happened was possible. Get that!!
The ONE LAPTOP PER CLASS video will be edited by Jeffrey from the 2:30 section.
What we are up is launching a yearly campaign called ONE LAPTOP PER CLASS where each Baruch class (700+) will be asked to by a $199 laptop. We already raised $199 + $280 from our two sections alone!! And we haven't collected all the donations yet.
TO MAKE A DONATION: click here
If each student and faculty of each class participates the cost is less than $10 per person for a class size of 20 - 100. We are doing the final edits on a viral video to entice other colleges and universities to join us by Dec 31st this year and to create buzz for next.
We just started finals today and we have already raised the funds for at least 2 laptops from both sections. The viral video is based on the Mastercard priceless commercial ads + Mike Wesch's Students Today videos. It will be launched in a day or two to catch the Dec 31 deadline for this year's OLPC.com campaign.
ALSO
Check out Darius Goes West
http://www.dariusgoeswest.org/
In this multi-award-winning documentary, fifteen-year-old Darius Weems and eleven of his best friends set off across America with the ultimate goal of getting his wheelchair customized on MTV’s Pimp My Ride. The result is a rarely seen testament to the explosive idealism of today’s youth, as well as a vivid portrayal of adventure, of brotherhood, and of the character and strength it takes to shed light on an uncertain future.
Not only does Darius Weems bravely face his own inevitable fate with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD), but through his unflinching humor and his extraordinary laugh, he sparks a revolution in the lives of everyone who crosses–and then shares–his courageous path.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD/ THE XO COMPUTER
When I first got to Baruch in 2006, I heard a question raised about our prized diversity at Baruch from President Waldron. She said we know we are the most diverse institution but how does that translate to our culture or school on the whole?
Students from both sections of ANT1001 today agreed to launch a plan to invite the Baruch Community to participate in a ONE LAPTOP PER CLASS campaign (classes of 20 or more). We can donate money for an XO laptop for a child in the Third World that is being nationally advertised on TV and radio.
(How many classes do you think there at Baruch?)
DIVERSITY AT BARUCH AND FOR THE WORLD
As a diverse school representing over 121 countries, we as Baruch College have a unique opportunity to give laptops to educate the children of the world. The buy one get one campaign is $349 a pair but its only $199 to give a laptop. Let's just give laptops!!
With 20 students in a class, that $10 per person. $20 for two.
With 30 students, it's only $6 per person or $12 for two.
There are 57 students combined in both sections. 95% of those present were willing to support the campaign and/or contribute to a laptop. I am going to contact OLPC and see if THEY'LL set up a system for us. I already sent the email just now.
We have a committee of 8 students (Daniela, Enki, Bilal, Kashif, Ellie, Nuzzy, and Diana and maybe Angel) working to organize things.
ON THU DEC 11: We are creating a viral video on Thu and if approved it would be shown on the video kiosks on campus and linked as an announcement on Baruch sites and emails.
VIRAL CAMPAIGNING
We are on to an effective viral campaign. It could be city wide universities and colleges or even nationwide. Every child should have access to an education no matter where they are from. By tapping our own diversity at Baruch we can bridge the gaps that divide us (between students/faculty/staff, between nations/ethnicities, sexes, abilites, etc.).
If we play it right, we should contact OLPC with this as a idea to launch at all universities and colleges with Baruch as the leader.
I am writing for your support and participation. Regarding collecting money, given the short notice, we will simply use Amazon.com this year and create an old-fashioned (paper and pen) system of accounting for how much each class raises as well as posting it on our blog.
DATES
The span of the campaign would be from Fri Dec 12 to Wed Dec 23. If anyone wanted to contribute through Dec 31 online that would be fine too as long as they could note that on our blog.
I am aiming for at least 400 laptops this year. Next year? let's see how we do this year!
The mission of the OLPC campaign is to be able to provide laptops children can take home every night in an entire school. I think we could do something amazing (Obama like) in just 10 days.
CAN I COUNT ON YOUR SUPPORT?
This is a SIMPLE viral, online and email campaign. No paper flyers. I want to send an announcement inviting all faculty and staff to participate in all three schools by Friday.
Students from both sections of ANT1001 today agreed to launch a plan to invite the Baruch Community to participate in a ONE LAPTOP PER CLASS campaign (classes of 20 or more). We can donate money for an XO laptop for a child in the Third World that is being nationally advertised on TV and radio.
(How many classes do you think there at Baruch?)
DIVERSITY AT BARUCH AND FOR THE WORLD
As a diverse school representing over 121 countries, we as Baruch College have a unique opportunity to give laptops to educate the children of the world. The buy one get one campaign is $349 a pair but its only $199 to give a laptop. Let's just give laptops!!
With 20 students in a class, that $10 per person. $20 for two.
With 30 students, it's only $6 per person or $12 for two.
There are 57 students combined in both sections. 95% of those present were willing to support the campaign and/or contribute to a laptop. I am going to contact OLPC and see if THEY'LL set up a system for us. I already sent the email just now.
We have a committee of 8 students (Daniela, Enki, Bilal, Kashif, Ellie, Nuzzy, and Diana and maybe Angel) working to organize things.
ON THU DEC 11: We are creating a viral video on Thu and if approved it would be shown on the video kiosks on campus and linked as an announcement on Baruch sites and emails.
VIRAL CAMPAIGNING
We are on to an effective viral campaign. It could be city wide universities and colleges or even nationwide. Every child should have access to an education no matter where they are from. By tapping our own diversity at Baruch we can bridge the gaps that divide us (between students/faculty/staff, between nations/ethnicities, sexes, abilites, etc.).
If we play it right, we should contact OLPC with this as a idea to launch at all universities and colleges with Baruch as the leader.
I am writing for your support and participation. Regarding collecting money, given the short notice, we will simply use Amazon.com this year and create an old-fashioned (paper and pen) system of accounting for how much each class raises as well as posting it on our blog.
DATES
The span of the campaign would be from Fri Dec 12 to Wed Dec 23. If anyone wanted to contribute through Dec 31 online that would be fine too as long as they could note that on our blog.
I am aiming for at least 400 laptops this year. Next year? let's see how we do this year!
The mission of the OLPC campaign is to be able to provide laptops children can take home every night in an entire school. I think we could do something amazing (Obama like) in just 10 days.
CAN I COUNT ON YOUR SUPPORT?
This is a SIMPLE viral, online and email campaign. No paper flyers. I want to send an announcement inviting all faculty and staff to participate in all three schools by Friday.
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