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PaleXO: Khalid Ibn Al Waleed School Visit - Aqraba, Nablus
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Palestinian XO Laptop Community. Monday, 22 March 2010. Khalid Ibn Al Waleed School Visit - Aqraba, Nablus. Today, March 21st 2010, marks our second visits to Palestinian schools in the Westbank. Last Thursday we visited Abu Falah School in Abu Falah village near Ramallah. Today we've been to two schools, a group went to Bodros school near Ramallah, and another to Khalid Ibn Al Waleed School. I'll leave it to Bodros group to update you with a summary and Pictures. I've joined a bit late due to the fact t...
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PaleXO: PaleXO's Visit to Amir Qais for Girls School
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Palestinian XO Laptop Community. Saturday, 10 April 2010. PaleXO's Visit to Amir Qais for Girls School. Last Sunday, 4 April 2010, we left from Birzeit at 5:30am picking up the guys from Ramallah at 6:00am and heading to Hebron, Tarqoomya, where Amir Qais school is located. Arriving around 8:30am. Teachers there welcomed us warmly and took us to the lab where we started updating about 90 XO laptops. So we had to make the class more advanced and let the girls play with the newly installed activities. ...
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PaleXO: PaleXO Visiting Farkha School
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Palestinian XO Laptop Community. Saturday, 3 April 2010. PaleXO Visiting Farkha School. A group of 5 PaleXOers visited Farkha school near Salfeet on Thursday 01/04/2010 which has 28 student. Students were very happy to see us at the school. While preparing the classroom, some of them came smiling to welcome us and say hi and then went back quickly to their classrooms. We noticed that the students tried to explore the new activities. They opened some activities by their own and played with them. T...There...
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PaleXO: PaleXO's Visit To Slafeet Elementary School For Boys
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Palestinian XO Laptop Community. Tuesday, 30 March 2010. PaleXO's Visit To Slafeet Elementary School For Boys. At 7:30 in the morning a bus with half the volunteers headed from Ramallah to Salfeet picking up the rest of the group from Birzeit. We arrived to the school around 8:30 am and started working on updating the laptops directly. We found the laptops in their original boxes they were delivered in. They were never touched before! One problem we faced was that the English teacher left just after the ...
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PaleXO: Visiting Ola Al Qeblatein Girls School at Nahaleen, Beitlahem 04/04/10
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Palestinian XO Laptop Community. Monday, 5 April 2010. Visiting Ola Al Qeblatein Girls School at Nahaleen, Beitlahem 04/04/10. Ola Al Qeblatein School was an amazing school. We would like to thank the headmistress of the school and all of their staff for their welcoming and great generosity. Mrs. Labiba Odwan, the math teacher, was waiting for us enthusiastically at the school door and was very happy with our visit. We connected each section to a different mesh. Section A was on mesh 6, and section B...
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PaleXO: April 2009
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Palestinian XO Laptop Community. Saturday, 4 April 2009. Writing In Arabic in Sugar. To get Arabic Language working on OLPC Sugar OS, follow the following steps:. For more information please refer to this link. First of all you have to be a root to use 'yum' package manager, so follow these commands:. Yum install scim scim-gtk. Yum install scim-m17n scim-tables. Yum install m17n-db-arabic.noarch. Cp olpc/.xsession-example olpc/.xsession. Then add the following lines to the file:. Export GTK IM MODULE=scim.
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PaleXO: April 2010
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Palestinian XO Laptop Community. Saturday, 10 April 2010. PaleXO's Visit to Amir Qais for Girls School. Last Sunday, 4 April 2010, we left from Birzeit at 5:30am picking up the guys from Ramallah at 6:00am and heading to Hebron, Tarqoomya, where Amir Qais school is located. Arriving around 8:30am. Teachers there welcomed us warmly and took us to the lab where we started updating about 90 XO laptops. So we had to make the class more advanced and let the girls play with the newly installed activities. ...
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PaleXO: Budros Elementary School Visit - Budros, Ramallah
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Palestinian XO Laptop Community. Monday, 22 March 2010. Budros Elementary School Visit - Budros, Ramallah. On the 21st of March, we have visited two schools in the west bank which were Khalid Ibn Al Waleed School and Budros School. Khalid Ibn Al Waleed summary is posted in the previous post. The students loved Tuxmath activity. They started counting on their hands and typing the answer. The activity is exciting and challenging. Once one student got it, they go and help each other. We provided 24 new acti...
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PaleXO: June 2009
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Palestinian XO Laptop Community. Friday, 19 June 2009. Installing Sugar on your non-XO Laptop. There's a couple of ways you can do that, either using Virtual Machines and install the OS on it, or you can just use your already existed Linux distribution and install Sugar on it, so if you are already using any Linux distribution I would recommend that. Check the Universe repository to enable it, if it is not already enabled. You may have to enter your password to access it:. Sudo dpkg - configure -a. Then ...
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PaleXO: March 2010
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Palestinian XO Laptop Community. Tuesday, 30 March 2010. PaleXO's Visit To Slafeet Elementary School For Boys. At 7:30 in the morning a bus with half the volunteers headed from Ramallah to Salfeet picking up the rest of the group from Birzeit. We arrived to the school around 8:30 am and started working on updating the laptops directly. We found the laptops in their original boxes they were delivered in. They were never touched before! One problem we faced was that the English teacher left just after the ...
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