Looma ~ interactive A/V education for any school

In your travels, have you paused a few moments in one of the almost-countless resource-starved schools of our world?

If not, it's hard to imagine how difficult it is for a child to emerge from that well of poverty.

This summer's team of volunteers is bringing Looma a small step closer to opening a window of knowledge and hope for those schools and those children--as an interactive computer/projector used collaboratively by the entire classroom.

For six weeks the volunteers will

    improve the flexibility and accuracy of Looma's wand-controlled 'user interface'

    create a multi-level, interactive GIS map of Nepal to greatly expand students' knowledge

    explore many options to improve the 'user interface' for the teachers and students

    assemble a multi-element dictionary as a basis for reference, team games...

    organize the data structure and game format for teaching vocabulary

    develop the options and an example for annotating textbooks with e.g. tooltips, pop-ups, text-to-speech

    further refine and expand the Looma software application

The original six Looma prototypes are being updated with a much faster Odroid computer, better power supply, simpler wand/camera (pixy-cam) interface, and greatly expanded supplementary 'content' (videos, photos, PDFs...).

Depending on conditions in Nepal (post earthquake) and elsewhere, some Looma will be deployed for further field trials.