Nombre: Santiago Bernaola - Policiales Uruguay
Autor: Santiago Bernaola
Desde: Agosto de 2008
Dirección: http://elgatoinforma.blogspot.com/

No, no estoy hablando del programa de 1410 AM Libre que va en la tarde y es más que recomendable, digo que yo les avisé el impacto que el Plan Ceibal estaba teniendo en los niños, y, por transitiva, en la blogósfera. Allá por abril encontré un artículo más que interesante, llamado Rising Voices pero como no tenía ganas de publicar nada acá antes, lo dejé pendiente. Acá voy a citar alguna cosa interesante (está en inglés, el que no sepa que entre aquí y lo traduzca), pero lo recomendable es que lo lean en su contexto original, haciendo clic aquí.

Blogs are an excellent educational tool as demonstrated by the use of Google Blogger in Villa Cardal, Uruguay. The kids had some issues and requested changes to make the system easier to use. Setting up the system on the XO was difficult due to Blogger's many features and bandwidth intensive resources. Technicians needed to assist in actually posting the blog entries to the internet. Very few (if any) current blogging systems are easy enough for use by young children in the low bandwidth environment they have in third world countries. The Educational Blogger Project will address these problems. Essentially, it stores posts locally using Moodle (or similar service) and allows for kids to collaborate, gives teachers the control they need and optimizes the process for the XO environment. It also allows teachers to release posts to Google Blogger, WordPress or other blogging systems. The Educational Blogger Project significantly facilitates the use of blogs on the XO environment and makes it available for more widespread use. The ultimate goal is to create an system that can be set up easily on any XO and used by kids around the world.