Speaking as a teacher, we could do the following: report back issues that make using the Sugar interface difficult when used it in the classroom (collaborate) develop and share lessons built around applications that work on Sugar (curriculum) share by word of mouth, blog and twitter with colleagues that we are using Sugar (communication) ask deep and hard questions about the learning that goes on when students use Sugar (pedagogy) work to answer these questions (research) and more ..
Regards Roland 2009/5/9 Caroline Meeks <solutiongr...@gmail.com> > > > On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 5:36 AM, Bert Freudenberg <b...@freudenbergs.de>wrote: > >> On 09.05.2009, at 02:16, Kurt Gramlich wrote: >> >> > >> > dear friends >> > >> > the German association FSuB e. V. has sponsored 1500 XOLiveCDs. >> > >> > This CDs are distributed within a Newspaper called LOG-IN. >> > So we will reach about 1500 schools in Germany with 36 pages of >> > information about OLPC. >> > >> > For those who are able to read German: >> > >> > http://log-in-verlag.de/PDF-Dateien/LOG_IN_156_PUB.pdf >> > >> > The XOLiveCd has more than 50 activities working out of the box. >> >> >> Thanks to FSuB for that. >> >> This issue of the "LOG IN" journal (which is primarily aimed at >> teachers) has many Sugar-related articles, about deployments, Sugar >> itself, Activities, and even the School server: >> >> "Laptops vs. Satchels" editorial by Joachim Wedekind and Bernhard >> Koerber >> "OLPC - from vision to global movement" by Christoph Derndorfer >> "The OLPC pilot in Ethiopia" by Hermann Härtel >> "Learning with Etoys" by Rita Freudenberg >> "Educational concepts vs. hardware" a discussion between Richard >> Heinen and Joachim Wedekind >> "Sugar - an operating system for learning" by Rita Freudenberg >> "Programming the XO" by Joachim Wedekind and Christian Kohls >> "First steps to visual programming with TurtleArt and Scratch" by >> Rüdeger Baumann >> "Networking the XO" - hardware, Sugar collaboration services, XS by >> Volkmar Hinz >> "The XO Live CD" - by Wolfgang Rohrmoser > > > Wow, who caused this to happen? Thank you! Thank you! > > This sounds great! Can we get them translated? Anyone (Sean) know how to > approach similar magazines around the world? > Maybe the editors of Log In has contacts. > > Is there a call to action included? What would we want teachers and school > administrators to do once they have tried Sugar? > > Cheers, > Caroline > > >> >> Thanks to all the authors and supporters! >> >> - Bert - >> >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> > > > > -- > Caroline Meeks > Solution Grove > carol...@solutiongrove.com > > 617-500-3488 - Office > 505-213-3268 - Fax > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead
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