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* XO Security [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Antitheft_HowTo]
* XO Security [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Antitheft_HowTo]
* Deployment "whitebook"
* Deployment "whitebook"
* Provide a service that allows teachers/volunteers (who don't speak english) in the field to communicate via email with technical support voluneers by using the translating service [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pootle pootle]. Incoming and outgoing "tagged" emails would be translated in and out of the server on arrival / departure of the XS.
* Provide a service that allows teachers/volunteers (who don't speak English) in actual deployments to communicate via email with technical support volunteers by using the translating service [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pootle Pootle]. Incoming and outgoing "tagged" emails would be translated in and out of the server on arrival / departure of the XS.
* [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Book_reader Library /Book Reader]. Thousands of books stored on server, because of limited XO storage, children are able to pull either one whole book at a time, or bits of the book as they go and read them on the xo.
* [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Book_reader Library /Book Reader]. Thousands of books stored on the XS which children are able to pull over the network either as whole book or bit by bit as they read them on their XO's.
**Additionally, they can "check out" books and bring them home on their laptops to read at home, or while not connected to the XS.
**Additionally, they can "check out" books and bring them home on their laptops to read at home, or while not connected to the XS.
** Run said books through pootle, so children have access to books not in their native tongue.
**This may prove to be more economical than the proposal of distributing text via SDcards as it would allow for a wider range of content per available Gigabyte. One 40 gig hard disk library would hold 10 times as much content as ten, 4-GB SDcards replicated with identical content.
*In class quizzing. Teachers ask questions, students respond using their XO, quiz results stored on XS. (Think the [http://www.iclicker.com/dnn/ I>clicker]).
** Run said books through Pootle, so children have access to books not in their native tongue.
*In class quizzing. Teachers ask questions, students respond using their XO, quiz results stored on XS. (Think the [http://www.iclicker.com/dnn/ I>clicker]) I believe similar concepts were proposed by [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Acj3840 Alex Jones]
**Possibility of parsing of information, possible graphical heuristics.
**Possibility of parsing of information, possible graphical heuristics.
**Is this already a feature of Moodle? (quiz module) / Possible integration or extension of idea with Moodle.
**Is this already a feature of Moodle? (quiz module) / Possible integration or extension of idea with Moodle.