Hi Thomas
Thank you for your message and your enthusiasm concerning Thymio!
Concerning the French-speaking part of Switzerland, we have some teacher
training coming along (18th of November
<http://www.robotsenclasse.ch/formations-pour-les-enseignants/18-11-2015-le-robot-educatif-thymio-ii-decortique-pour-les-enseignant-e-s-des-cycles-1-et-2>
and 2nd of December
<http://www.robotsenclasse.ch/formations-pour-les-enseignants/2-decembre-2015-activites-pedagogiques-avec-thymio>)
and more to come in 2016. For the German-speaking part, we have not yet
the same level of movement, but there is movement! I would recommend you
to talk with Dawn Suter from Technology in learning
<http://www.technologyinlearning.ch/>. We also have two more contacts (I
will give you their name and address directly) who are teachers
interested in Thymio (not sure if they are on this mailing list).
Anyway, I will introduce you to them.
Welcome to the community, we are glad to know you are there, don't
hesitate to give us feedback on your use of Thymio and if we can be of
any help, we will!
Best.
Christophe Barraud
Président de l'association Mobsya
Robots au service de l'éducation
032 511 64 93
079 958 40 94
Le 10.11.2015 14:01, Thomas Schenker a écrit :
Hello everyone
First of all, many thanks to Stephane Magnenat and all others who
supported the realisation of the latest release. It’s really a nice
tool know. I appreciate to have the opportunity to set several actions
for one event. The decision to hide the timer function in the expert
mode is also a wise decision because it makes more sense to introduce
the timer together with the states. And finally, I appreciate the
printing feature which is very useful for a teacher.
I’m actually an electro and software engineer but I decided to find a
new challenge in my life. I’d been working in the field of embedded
systems development for more than 20 years. Finally, I started in
summer 2013 a special study program at the University of Applied
Sciences and Arts of Northwestern Switzerland FHNW. This program was
launched to gain experienced professionals to become teachers.
So far, I’ve finished 80% of my studies and will finish the rest by
next summer. My teaching subjects are mathematics, English and natural
science for secondary school level 1.
Last summer I started teaching at a secondary school in Schönenwerd in
canton of Solothurn (between Aarau and Olten).
For this school year a got basically IT lessons assigned. This means
I’m teaching IT for several classes. Because not much is done in
respect of ‘computational thinking’ at our school I decided to try
something new with Thymio.
I’ve just started with an introduction and some basic tasks with four
different classes. We have only one lesson per week. For the IT
lessens I have up to 12 students and I’ve got six Thymios. The Aseba
update came just in time. I’ve just installed the new release
yesterday and I’m looking forward to using it in the IT classroom
tomorrow.
In summer 2013 I got in touch with Francesco Mondada. We exchanged a
few e-mails. Maybe he might remember it. I was asking about the
production of Thymio because at that time I was still working in the
electronic department of a large machine company (Müller Martini
Electronics AG). I showed Thymio to some of my colleagues from the
development team I was working with till summer 2014. We were
discussing different aspects of production in our team when we
examined the interior construction of Thymio. I always found favour in
the idea of using Thymio for teaching. But during the last two years I
was too busy with my studies and my start as a teacher.
Finally I managed to start using Thymio in the classroom. I see that
Thymio is quite popular in the French spoken part of Switzerland but I
think there is not much activity in the German spoken part of
Switzerland. I have the impression that Thymio is probably better
known abroad than in the German spoken part of Switzerland. Many
schools prefer buying expensive Lego-Robots instead of an inexpensive,
compact Swiss made solution that is well suited for teaching basic
concepts.
*Therefore, my question to everybody receiving this e-mail:*
Is there anybody in the German part of Switzerland who is using Thymio
or favours the idea of using it. I would be glad to exchange my
experience with others. I’m also open if somebody just would like to
see how Thymio works in reality. Feel free to forward my request if
you know somebody who could be interested to get in touch.
I’d welcome any feedback and I send many thanks to the Thymio team who
is not getting tired of making further improvements.
Kind regards,
Thomas Schenker
Zofingen, Switzerland
_______________________________________________
Aseba-edu mailing list
[email protected]
https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/aseba-edu
---
L'absence de virus dans ce courrier électronique a été vérifiée par le logiciel
antivirus Avast.
https://www.avast.com/antivirus
_______________________________________________
Aseba-edu mailing list
[email protected]
https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/aseba-edu
