Manoj and Neema are in our offices today for technical training. Manoj and Neema were the star students in last week’s teacher training session. Unfortunately, Neema will only be w/ us today and return on Friday for more training. We’ve got Manoj for the next three days.
Here is the rough training schedule we have in mind
Monday (today)
- How to update the firmware, use test-all, and test individual hardware pieces
- how to install an os image and customize the bundles in it
- Fix two bad XO’s we have in our office
- Basic wireless networking
- Basic use of EToys
Tuesday
- Review flashing firmware and OS
- Add and Remove activities
- How to free up space on the XO
- Basic linux utilities and troubleshooting
- More Etoys
- Play w/ additional activities they haven’t had the opportunity to explore
- School Server – start and restart XS services. How to restore the XS from backup
Wednesday
- More School Server, more networking
- Time w/ Kamana if possible
- Explore issues Manoj is interested in
By Wednesday I hope to have a two-page cheat sheet for basic maintenance tasks for Manoj and Neema.
Suggestions are most welcome!
Manoj and Neema learning basic Forth

1 response so far ↓
1 Rodolfo Pilas // Apr 8, 2008 at 8:54 am
I am Uruguayan and I have been teached teachers about XO.
As you know Uruguay is the first country that are giving XO to all public school students.
However, I and my colleages, do not know how to update firmware or how to install an OS image.
Can you please publish a tutorial?
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