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This past june 24 Moove-it won the contest “Best ideas for Ceibal 2010” organized by Rayuela and the Ceibal Plan (One laptop per child), presenting its idea “Together with Ceibal”.

Follow this link to read the official information (spanish) Rayuela Web site of Best ideas

Moove-it was selected by the Ceibal Plan as the company who will develop the first social network for more than 400.000 students of primary and high school.
The idea is to build a web-based tool which will allow students and teachers to interact inside and also outside the classroom. The platform will provide virtual classrooms where teachers can work directly with their groups using all the benefits of the Web, Internet and XOs. Students will also be able to use the tool to meet each other, share their interests or even play together.

This video shows a brief idea of what the “Ceibal Plan” is.

It feels really good to be part of something like this!

We showed the first prototype of the game developed for the “Plan Ceibal” (www.ceibal.org.uy). The game is web based and specially designed for children using a XO computer.

Plan Ceibal

The One Laptop Per Child Association, Inc. (OLPC) is a U.S. non-profit organization set up to oversee the creation of an affordable educational device for use in the developing world. Its mission is “to create educational opportunities for the world’s poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning.”

“Uruguay is the first country in accept the challenge”

Worldbank.org – Uruguay’s Plan Ceibal: The world’s most ambitious roll-out of educational technologies?

The Game

Moove-IT and El Abrojo (a Uruguayan Social Organization who works with poor children) are working in the development of an online game for the XO computers.

This game is financed by the IMM (Government of Montevideo) and his main objective is promote good habits between children. This tool is an online game in which the children works with themes relative to the daily environment care. Each child works in groups with their classmates and also with other schools in any location of the country.

They will be able to: build houses, create commercial areas, create rural areas, maintain clean the neighborhood, and manage parks, among others things.

The points are generated by answering simple questions and doing simple tests. The tests and the answers are validated by the collective. This means that players themselves determine whether an answer is correct or not.

Here you have an initial slide of the game with some screenshots. (The slide is in Spanish)

We will put this Game on production in April 20, 2010

In order to conmemorate the Worl Usability Day the Intendence of Montevideo is inviting every to participate of an event at “Sala Zitarroza” here in Montevideo.

We are proud to say that Moove-iT will be opening the event with me and Damian Moretti talking about “Usability in Social Networks: Facebook vs Twitter”. After us there’s a talk about “New tendencies in the Interaction Design” and the last one is about “Developments and Adaptations for the inclusion of childred with disabilities at the Plan Ceibal”. Plan Ceibal is “one laptop per child” applied here in Uruguay.

Hope you can join us, but if you can’t we’ll tell how it went anyway

AG

Hello everyone … in moove-iT we develop and management faltauno.com.
It is a social network specializes in organizing matches, managing a team and administer and manage a championship.

On August 1 begins the first championship was organized by faltauno.com “Copa CUTI” (www.cuti.org.uy).
This championship brings together all the software companies of uruguay.

We invite everyone to visit and see what are the best !