Caroline, Since you're working with a library a natural topic for a session would be a demo of the reading related Activities. You could start with either Get Internet Archive Books or Get Books to demonstrate just how many free books there are and how easy it is to get them copied to your computer. Then demonstrate the Read Activity and how it supports multiple bookmarks and annotation, show some nice picture books in DJVU format (like "Abroad") to demonstrate how much an ebook can be like a real book (better than Kindle!), download some books using Read Etexts and demonstrate text to speech with highlighting. Maybe show InfoSlicer. Show how many rare books are available. I've seen a bunch of stuff on PG and IA that I could read no other way. All the Oz books. More Jules Verne and H.G. Wells than I knew existed. A biography of German WWI ace Oswald Boelke. Books using the Bible to defend slavery, others using it to condemn slavery. Free science fiction books from the Baen Free Library.
I was thinking of maybe creating another FLOSS Manual on just reading-related Activities, where to get free books, how to create your own e-books, etc. Sugar has a lot to offer in that area, and I wonder if Sugar users realize that. James Simmons > Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:50:01 -0500 > From: Caroline Meeks <carol...@solutiongrove.com> > Subject: [IAEP] Need ideas for 1 hour Sugar introductory lessons > To: iaep <iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org> > Message-ID: > <b74fba2b1003140750i4a4af262h13a9a4a5e3a27...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > We are planning for April vacation week and working with the public library > a few blocks from the GPA school. > > We will be doing 1 to 5 1-hour sessions with a few students during April > vacation week. We will then extend that program to after school. > > My thought is to do focus on a different activity each session. Its a > recreational setting. We can ask for different age ranges for different > sessions when we advertise. > > I definitely want to do one with Physics. > > Do people have suggestions for what are some of the best 1 hour > introductions for kids? > > Thanks, > Caroline > > -- > 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
