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On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 2:01 AM, Sora Edwards-Thro <s...@unleashkids.org> wrote: > Hello all, > > We're looking for programming help on student writing software; hope some > OLPC SF folks can become involved! I'm over on the East Coast, but I can > join in over Skype / respond to questions via email if folks are interested. > > Here are some more details: > Unleash Kids recently received recognition > <http://www.unleashkids.org/blog/> for our iloominate > <http://iloominate-haiti.herokuapp.com/edit> app (shout-out to Caryl > Bigenho for her input and Mike Dawson, whose Ustad Mobile project was also > recognized). The app helps teachers write books > <https://projectrive.wordpress.com/2014/12/27/lascahobas-workshops-final-review/> > for beginning readers by recommending easy words; now we're shifting our > focus to supporting student writers. > > There are already several excellent writing activities for the Sugar, > which we're including as we design lessons for a summer writing workshop > for our XO projects in Haiti: > > -Labyrinth <http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4078>, a > mindmapping activity that gets kids thinking > <http://www.unleashkids.org/2013/07/31/story-activity-continued-and-the-results/> > about how to lay out their ideas on paper > -Fototoon <http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4253>, > comic-book style creations; a perpetual favorite > <https://projectrive.wordpress.com/2013/08/16/first-week-of-classes/> > -Newspaper <http://seeta.in/j/products/37.html>, an example of how > templates can enable kids > <http://blog.unleashkids.org/2013/08/01/journal-mission-of-hope/> to > explore new formats > -Prompt <http://olpc-yokwe.tumblr.com/post/39897602954/prompt-activity>, > literally just presents students with a random image from a library for > them to write about...proof that simple stuff can be powerful > > We want to supplement these great activities with some new stuff, based on > teacher recommendations. A lot of the focus will be on creating templates > and scenarios that kids can use as inspiration - for example, we can > present the kids with a scene of people talking, where the speech bubbles > aren't filled in, and ask them to fill in the speech bubbles. That's one of > many ideas for an effective tool. > > We also hope to make use of the XSCE schoolserver installed on-site to > enable the kids to collaborate and share the finished products with one > another. > > Our most dire need is help with the programming, but we also welcome input > on any and all aspects. > > Thank you everyone! > > Sora Edwards-Thro > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 1:49 AM, Aaron Borden <adbor...@live.com> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> OLPC San Francisco will be hosting our monthly meeting Saturday, >> February 14th, from 10AM - 1PM at the downtown SFSU campus, 835 Market >> Street, Room 597 (the fishbowl). >> >> Our meetings are held on the second Saturday of every month. Everyone is >> welcome to join us for our monthly meeting! We'll be discussing the >> latest in OLPC events and give updates on our local (and global) >> projects. There will be plenty of XO laptops with the latest builds to >> play around with, too. Please post with any additional agenda >> items. >> >> Facebook https://www.facebook.com/events/325843320953044/ >> Google+ https://plus.google.com/events/crf7g4e84aag78ssn761danaj8s >> >> -- >> Aaron Borden >> Human and Hacker >> >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> > > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Gonzalo Odiard SugarLabs - Software for children learning
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