NDLI: Etoys for One Laptop Per Child

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Freudenberg, B. Ohshima, Y. Wallace, S.
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	We present an overview of the “OLPC Etoys” system, describe the intensive two-year development effort that produced the system, and discuss lessons learned. OLPC Etoys is an end-user authoring system for children, which was chosen to be distributed with the OLPC XO laptops at an early stage of the OLPC project.Since we planned to derive OLPC Etoys by evolving an existing, mature system (“Squeakland”), it was expected to be a relatively straightforward undertaking. However, the OLPC XO platform’s special hardware characteristics, the evolution of the Sugar software stack, and the fundamentally international and multilingual nature of the project, all conspired to make the development effort challenging.Over the two-year course of the project, we successfully kept up with the challenges, and delivered usable Etoys systems for every OLPC release. We steadily improved the UI, added a few high-leverage features, and fixed bugs, with a small and widely-distributed team and with help from the community.
Starting Page	57
Ending Page	64
File Size	2294659
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9780769536200
DOI	10.1109/C5.2009.9
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2009-01-19
Publisher Place	Japan
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Portable computers Hardware Home computing Physics computing Authoring systems History Uncertainty Joining processes International collaboration Computer bugs Squeak Education Collaborative learning Computer literacy OLPC Etoys
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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