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Guerrilla Sessions
Filed Under (guerrilla sessions, macul08) by Steve Dickie on 07-03-2008
Yes, I’m blogging the Guerrilla sessions again, this is the last time, I promise. (at least for this year). I just left the XO-Laptop meetup. The XO’s were kind of cool, but they weren’t behaving right. They seemed to be having trouble networking with each other. Sherry seemed to think the MACUL network was inhibiting them in some way.
But, far cooler than the XO’s, sorry Sherry, we’re the two Pleo’s Karl brought with him. These little robotic dinosaurs will interact with each other or with people. Here’s a little video clip I shot of them with the iSight camera on my MacBook.
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March 7th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
The pleo’s were GREAT Barbara LaBeau and myself did a podcast with Karl Zinn about using the them in the classroom. We will be posting the session soon at:
Check out our WIT Podcast at:
http://labeau.podshowcreator.com/podcasts.aspx?feedid=1137
I’ll also edit another video of pleo’s and how they reacted during our podcast recording session.
March 8th, 2008 at 6:57 am
UHHH, stood up by animated dinos!
Seriously though, the people in the Guerrilla session were already into the obvious features of the XO’s that make them great…size, water proof, incredible display, conceptual learning software, web access, etc. The only thing we missed out on was connecting directly…but the chance to meet other folks interested and knowledgeable about the project was totally worth it. Maybe we can get a statewide group going…if not in person then virtually!
March 1st, 2009 at 8:44 am
[...] late to submit the idea. Or possibly, it is an idea more suited to an informal session, like the XO-Laptop meet up from last year. Another type of talk is one that MACUL might not want to officially endorse. Last [...]