[IAEP] [SLOBS] meeting reminder
We'll be meeting at 10AM EST (15:00 UC) on Friday, 20 Nov. in irc.freenode.net #sugar-meeting, Please join us. The agenda can be found in the wiki: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Minutes#Agenda%20items -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] turtleArt and materials for education
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 1:34 PM, roberto wrote: > Hello, i am about to start writing worksheet about possible uses of > turtleArt in math education. > > I'd like to solve the following problems, otherwise i'll be able to do > nothing :) > > - i've installed sugar on Debian 5.0 but, as you already know, a lot > of activities are missing; turtleArt is one of this, so i think i > cannot use it on my Debian (tell me if there is a workaround ...) > - is it possible to use t.A. as a standalone application on Debian or, > at least, GNU/Linux in general ? >From within Sugar, you can load turtle art from activities.sugarlabs.org (using the Browse activity). From outside of Sugar, either grab the .xo bundle and unzip it into ~/Activities/ or do a git clone from git.sugarlabs.org/projects/turtleart You can run a somewhat limited version of Turtle Art from the standard GNU/Linux desktop. But your work will not be saved (not yet at least) and you don't get collaboration. ./turtleart.py > - if the two roads above are unfeasible, then i'll switch to soas > > thank you > -- > roberto > ___ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] turtleArt and materials for education
Hello, i am about to start writing worksheet about possible uses of turtleArt in math education. I'd like to solve the following problems, otherwise i'll be able to do nothing :) - i've installed sugar on Debian 5.0 but, as you already know, a lot of activities are missing; turtleArt is one of this, so i think i cannot use it on my Debian (tell me if there is a workaround ...) - is it possible to use t.A. as a standalone application on Debian or, at least, GNU/Linux in general ? - if the two roads above are unfeasible, then i'll switch to soas thank you -- roberto ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] R: E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry)
Caroline, I'm unable to watch the YouTube video but if I was a teacher that wanted to have children create their own books I might recommend using View Slides to collect and organize image files created in other tools. For instance, children could get images from the Internet using Browse, create images using Record or one of the Paint programs, then use View Slides to import them into a slide show and arrange them into sequence by renaming them. Once you have images in sequence like that you could use View Slides to read them like a book, copy them to a thumb drive and read them on a non-Sugar computer using a program like Comix, or unzip them and use a command in Image Magick to create a PDF out of them. Once you have a PDF like that you could convert it to DJVU with another free utility. View Slides is consistently more popular than any of my other Activities and since there is very little legal content in .cbz format (and illegal content in .cbz format isn't that easy to find either) I've always wondered what people were doing with it. This might be part of an answer. James Simmons > Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:47:25 -0500 > From: Caroline Meeks > Subject: Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] R: E-Books for Sugar on a Stick > (Blueberry) > > Going along the same lines but in a different direction then TomeuThis > teacher asked for a simple book creation tool for kids. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TRcKP1MJQs > > Might not be hard to create a Turtle Art Template that prints in a way that > lets you fold the printed page to create a book. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Creativity dynamics embedded into the Sugar Learning Platform
Tomeu, Note that the demo you saw in youtube is just photoshop and aftereffects; There is no code at all!!! We need people that will help create prototypes of such integration of creativity tools into Sugar. I agree with you, once we have a working prototype, we can start testing right away, get feedback and refine. Cheers, Diego Uribe MS in Creativity and Change Leadership www.idemax.org On Nov 19, 2009, at 5:20 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 23:27, Diego Uribe wrote: >> Hello Community, >> >> I am Diego Uribe, creativity & innovation consultant and researcher at the >> International Center for Studies in Creativity, Buffalo, NY. >> Not too long ago, I approached Walter Bender with the challenge/opportunity >> of making Sugar a Trojan Horse for delivering specific creativity heuristics >> to young learners. > > This sounds very interesting, do we have already a place to test our > early modifications and get preliminar feedback as we go? I'm meaning > something more informal than the testing and research mentioned in the > grant, just something to get development started. A small after-school > class could be enough to get early feedback. > > Regards, > > Tomeu > >> That is, embedding at the core of the Sugar architecture creativity core >> dynamics (such as divergent thinking operators and convergent thinking >> operators) in such a way that a young learner will exercise by deliberate >> design his creativity skills while immersed and learning in the Sugar >> environment. An example of the above would be that when using the write >> activity, the system encourages the learner to produce several versions by >> suggestion possible ways in which he or she could do a transformation to his >> narrative (to better understand this, click: >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObwyI5AnZXE). The learner could then select >> the one he finds more original and useful among the many versions produced. >> The same dynamics could even be extend into the collaboration model and all >> other activities within the Sugar ecology. >> >> Note that this doesn't mean that as of now Sugar is not fertile creative >> environment; On the contrary, we are leveraging already the rich and >> flexible platform by embedding by design creativity heuristics. >> Simply put, let's not leave creativity to chance but make a deliberate act >> to make it happen. >> >> Before even considering redesigning the whole architecture, we want to test >> this by embedding one creativity divergent thinking tool, namely SCAMPER, >> into turtle art. >> SCAMPER is an acronym for a series of permutations that allow to produce >> large and diverse quantities of options: Substitute; Combine: Adapt; >> Modify/Magnify/Minimize; Put to other uses; Eliminate; Rearrange/Reverse >> >> We hypothesize that learners operating under the SCAMPER + Turtle art >> activity will produce more creative output than learners operating under the >> normal Turtle art activity. >> As of now, we have recently applied for a NSF Creative IT grant to fund the >> development, testing and research protocol of this idea. If we find >> empirical evidence that we can train creativity skills through embedded >> heuristics in Sugar, we have an unprecedented opportunity to effectively >> train learners creativity skills all around the world. >> >> However, we do not want to wait until we hear back from NSF to keep moving >> this initiative forward. This is an invitation to whomever is interested in >> collaborating to plug in, join the conversation and help advance this >> project. Feel free to contact me at: duri...@gmail.com >> >> Cheers >> >> Diego Uribe >> >> MS in Creativity and Change Leadership >> www.idemax.org >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ___ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> > > > > -- > «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. > What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David > Farning ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Fwd: [olpc-nz] Iso image for Tutorius
Just wanted to mention my admiration for the Tutorious team: they have pushed forward a big feature that affects shell and activities, have set up their instance of AMO for tutorials, have pinged periodically the community for feedback, have made a spin of SoaS so others can more easily test their work, have contacted the testing team at NZ for feedback, etc. And not because that's a lot of work, but because it's the _right_ work to do. Kudos to them and whoever is mentoring! Regards, Tomeu -- Forwarded message -- From: Erick Lavoie Date: Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 20:15 Subject: [olpc-nz] Iso image for Tutorius To: olpc...@lists.laptop.org Cc: sugar-narrati...@googlegroups.com We have a first image ready (tutorius-20091118.iso), available at: http://bobthebuilder.mine.nu/isos/ It is based on the soas04.iso from http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/2/ , therefore I do not expect it to run on the xo. We will try to package one for the xo in the next days. To create a tutorial inside the Calculate Activity: Start the Creator by pressing the "double bubble" icon near the Tutorial list under the Activity tab Add actions like BubbleMessage from the toolbox window shown on the right Add events like Gtk Event Catcher (choose the "clicked" event type) Repeat 2 and 3 until satisfied Save Quit To execute the tutorial created: Close and restart the Activity Select the tutorial from the list Known issues: To add an element from the toolbox, you must double-click on the icon of element To update the message of a BubbleMessage after having changed the string in the toolbox, you must click on the object itself to allow it to refresh A one letter name should be used for tutorial when the screen size is small, otherwise the tutorial list widget will go out of the screen The tutorial doesn't end correctly at the end, right now you need to restart the Activity to re-run a tutorial Those issues will be fixed in the next days and as we fix bugs, new images will be made available. There will likely be a new one available before the scheduled testing session on Saturday. I'll post again, with the link once it is available. Thanks and see you on Saturday (NZ time)! Erick ___ olpc-nz mailing list olpc...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-nz -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Creativity dynamics embedded into the Sugar Learning Platform
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 23:27, Diego Uribe wrote: > Hello Community, > > I am Diego Uribe, creativity & innovation consultant and researcher at the > International Center for Studies in Creativity, Buffalo, NY. > Not too long ago, I approached Walter Bender with the challenge/opportunity > of making Sugar a Trojan Horse for delivering specific creativity heuristics > to young learners. This sounds very interesting, do we have already a place to test our early modifications and get preliminar feedback as we go? I'm meaning something more informal than the testing and research mentioned in the grant, just something to get development started. A small after-school class could be enough to get early feedback. Regards, Tomeu > That is, embedding at the core of the Sugar architecture creativity core > dynamics (such as divergent thinking operators and convergent thinking > operators) in such a way that a young learner will exercise by deliberate > design his creativity skills while immersed and learning in the Sugar > environment. An example of the above would be that when using the write > activity, the system encourages the learner to produce several versions by > suggestion possible ways in which he or she could do a transformation to his > narrative (to better understand this, click: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObwyI5AnZXE). The learner could then select > the one he finds more original and useful among the many versions produced. > The same dynamics could even be extend into the collaboration model and all > other activities within the Sugar ecology. > > Note that this doesn't mean that as of now Sugar is not fertile creative > environment; On the contrary, we are leveraging already the rich and flexible > platform by embedding by design creativity heuristics. > Simply put, let's not leave creativity to chance but make a deliberate act to > make it happen. > > Before even considering redesigning the whole architecture, we want to test > this by embedding one creativity divergent thinking tool, namely SCAMPER, > into turtle art. > SCAMPER is an acronym for a series of permutations that allow to produce > large and diverse quantities of options: Substitute; Combine: Adapt; > Modify/Magnify/Minimize; Put to other uses; Eliminate; Rearrange/Reverse > > We hypothesize that learners operating under the SCAMPER + Turtle art > activity will produce more creative output than learners operating under the > normal Turtle art activity. > As of now, we have recently applied for a NSF Creative IT grant to fund the > development, testing and research protocol of this idea. If we find empirical > evidence that we can train creativity skills through embedded heuristics in > Sugar, we have an unprecedented opportunity to effectively train learners > creativity skills all around the world. > > However, we do not want to wait until we hear back from NSF to keep moving > this initiative forward. This is an invitation to whomever is interested in > collaborating to plug in, join the conversation and help advance this > project. Feel free to contact me at: duri...@gmail.com > > Cheers > > Diego Uribe > > MS in Creativity and Change Leadership > www.idemax.org > > > > > > > > ___ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] R: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry)
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 00:04, Jim Simmons wrote: > Tomeu, > > Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive already will host any book > that is in the public domain. (I think they'll take Creative Commons > stuff too). Most of the books are in English because that's the > native language of most of the volunteers, but that could change if it > needed to. I remember a factoid from a few years ago that by > such-and-such a date the most web pages would be in Chinese. I don't > know if that ever happened, but if a few people in non-English > speaking countries decided to scan in all their public domain books > and proofread the results that could change things very quickly. > > The Internet Archive has the complete works of Jules Verne translated > to Yiddish. They also have a bunch of books in Arabic that seem to be > popular downloads. PG has books in Esperanto. They really will take > anything in the public domain. > > Sugar already has readers for the most popular free ebook formats. We > have several apps to search for ebooks, with Sayamindu's > OPDS-supporting Get Books on the way. With any luck that will create > a demand for more free ebooks and the rest will follow. Agreed, I also think it's a matter of time, just would like to know what we can do to accelerate this process. Regards, Tomeu > James Simmons > > >> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:14:16 +0100 >> From: Tomeu Vizoso >> Subject: Re: [IAEP] R: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry) >> To: Sean DALY >> Cc: Sugar-Labs Mailing lists , iaep >> , Yama Ploskonka , >> Carlo >> Falciola >> Message-ID: >> <242851610911181014q1012314u88723bc85fb22...@mail.gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >> >> Can we make Sugar a good platform for publishing e-books? Anybody has >> already thought of what it would take? >> >> Regards, >> >> Tomeu > -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
