[IAEP] Teclópolis = Ciudad de Teclados = Keyboards City
S046 -Teclópolis = Ciudad de Teclados https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1P9399IsLdPbnGPiVvU16A-78FqILlSCM8jiBwx06wC0 E046 -Teclopolis = Keyboards City https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1tQJXX4qqRy-cGnCXSDe-_I-bsfikH9gy5jAQ7XDOVBA Carlos Rabassa Montevideo, Uruguay ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] OER Glue online event Wednesday, March 30th at 9:30pm ET
Join Joel Duffin and Justin Ball, creators of the OER Glue platformhttp://www.oerglue.com/, in discussing the latest in open course design architecture. *How to join* - Follow this link at the time of the event: * http://tinyurl.com/math20eventhttps://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?password=M.FCAF787B38E30D58F943EB7232EE27 * - Wednesday, May 30th 2011 we will meet in the LearnCentral online room at 6:30pm Pacific, 9:30pm Eastern time. WorldClock for your time zone.http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=3day=30year=2011hour=21min=30sec=0p1=207 - Click OK and Accept several times as your browser installs the software. When you see Elluminate Session Log-In, enter your name and click the Login button - If this is your first time, come a few minutes earlier to check out the technology. The room opens half an hour before the event. All events in the Math 2.0 weekly series: http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/events About OER Glue [image: external image chalkboard.jpg] OER Glue is a *uniquely open approach* to online learning that lets content be used where it already resides rather than requiring it to be copied into a new system. OER Glue can be used to *efficiently assemble courses* and teach online by “glueing together” open education resources (OERs) and integrating with popular online services including Google Documents, Blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and discussion and assessment tools. OER Glue’s web browser add-on approach allows it to wrap context and navigation tools around online content and to *integrate content and services from multiple sources in a coherent manner*. In order to ensure that resources remain available, OER Glue integrates with services such as internet archive. The following scenarios describe the experience of using OER Glue: Student Use of OER Glue http://blog.oerglue.com/student-use-of-oer-glue/ | Teacher Use of OER Glue http://blog.oerglue.com/teacher-use-of-oer-glue/ Key aspects of OER Glue are: - *Student engagement* – OER Glue increases student engagement and satisfaction by supporting online instruction that utilizes timely, authentic content and popular Web 2.0 tools. - *Instructional effectiveness* – OER Glue supports effective instruction by helping teachers find and develop learning activities and assessments that are aligned with their instructional goals. - *Teacher efficiency* – OER Glue helps teachers efficiently assemble, deliver, and update online courses. - *OER* – OER Glue helps authors easily find and adapt relevant high quality free online resources for their courses. - *Glue* – People are frustrated with the poor user experience of existing systems that require you to copy your content into them, but enthusiastic about the new Web 2.0 tools that continue to emerge. OER Glue lets you use content where it already is and to easily integrate third party tools in a coherent manner to teach online. Event Hosts [image: Joel_Duffin.jpg][image: justinball.jpg]*Joel Duffin*, CEO of OER Glue, is a entrepreneur and software developer with a love for designing software and understanding how people learn. Joel enjoys scheming about how to design and leverage software systems and online content to encourage youth to engage in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Joel blogs http://www.joelduffin.com/ about technology and STEM education. *Justin Ball*, CTO of OER Glue, is an entrepreneur with several successful startups and one major failure under his belt. He became involved in the OER space under the direction of David Wiley at OSLO and then COSL and participated in the construction of the various projects generated there. He used to write C++ and .Net then moved to python and finally found Ruby. In the rare moments when he isn't writing code, talking about code or measuring his code productivity in profanity per hour, you can find him on his bike in the mountains or on the roads surrounding Cache Valley. Justin can be found pontificating at http://www.justinball.com ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Revamping the Sugar Labs website: request for comment
Dear Sugar Labs community members, You may be aware that Sugar Labs marketing people have worked these past few months with a team from the MIT Sloan MarketLab to analyze the effectiveness of our website, as perceived by members of the community. Many of you responded to their survey and some took time out for interviews. Your participation in this study is greatly appreciated. The study is complete [1] and they have made specific recommendations, in particular how to better assist teachers in getting started with Sugar. As a result, with the assistance of a team from the Rochester Institute of Technology, we have begun work on a revamped website [2]. A key component will be a standardized navbar across our separate sites and sections. This is in its early stages, but now is the time to solicit your feedback and ideas, especially in light of the MarketLab findings. Please look over this document [3] prepared by Christian Marc Schmidt and the RIT students, Mike Devine and JT Mengel. Mike and JT will be asking for your input in the coming days; please cooperate with them and in particular help us find good visual content of Sugar in the field! We plan to go live in early May, in time for SugarCamp at the Uruguay Summit 2011 [4]. Many thanks in advance. Sean Sugar Labs Marketing Coordinator [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team#MIT_Sloan_MarketLab_Study [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Website [3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Sugarlabs_workshop_20110318.pdf [4] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Uruguay_Summit_2011 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] GetBook activity
Gonzalo, I finally had a chance to try out your Get Books. While I think there are some good improvements over my original Get Internet Archive Books, especially displaying an image for selected books, it falls short in a few places. For example: 1). There is no need to leave behind a Journal entry when using Get Books. If you look at Get IA Books you'll see that the only Journal entries it creates are the books it downloads. It's simple to change your Activity to do the same thing, and it will free up some space on the toolbar too. 2). When you do a search using more than one word it generally does not work. For instance, search for boys aviation in my Activity and it will return The Big Book of Aviation For Boys by Joseph Lewis French. Yours returns nothing. Search for sugar activities in mine and you'll get Make Your Own Sugar Activities! by James Simmons. Yours returns a title that seems to have nothing to do with either word. What you want to be able to do is search for words in either author or title and return those results containing all the words, in any order. Mine does that, but yours does not. 3). Searching for charles dickens in yours returns lots of results but made the Activity and Sugar itself hang. 4). My Activity supports downloading DejaVu, PDF, and EPUB. Yours does not support DejaVu for the Internet Archive, which is unfortunate because for the XO it is the best available format. PDFs use more memory, and EPUBs from IA are full of errors. Supporting other OPDS services is great, but not if the child has to open Terminal. change to root, and create a file. You really need to store the configuration info in a directory that is writeable by the Activity, and provide a dialog to do the config. If you want to test this with other OPDS catalogs, I understand that calibre can publish such a catalog in addition to the website it creates. I would have tried testing like that myself if I knew the format of the config file. Also, I didn't think the catalog feature was that useful. If you let the child enter more than one search word as I described you don't really need it. James Simmons On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: Hello, I am trying to continue the work done by Sayamindu in the GetBooks activity and I have a initial version to test and get feedback. This is a unofficial testing release New Features: * Old and New toolbars support. * Reworked user interface. * Filter by language (working only in Feedboks server) * Display of book cover * Initial support to OPDS Catalogs. * Support for configuration of local deployments The configuration can be done adding a file /etc/get-books.cfg and allows: * enable/disable off cover display * enable/disable language filter * add or remove OPDS sources. You can download it from http://dev.laptop.org/~gonzalo/GetBooks-6.xo I have used code from a modified activity from Ceibal project. I think the Catalogs button is not optimal (the icon and the menu), but i want it in the first toolbar. Any idea is welcomed. Also i want know if the deployment need any other configuration/feature. Send me any other idea/comment. Gonzalo ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] GetBook activity
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 7:55 PM, James Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote: Gonzalo, I finally had a chance to try out your Get Books. While I think there are some good improvements over my original Get Internet Archive Books, especially displaying an image for selected books, it falls short in a few places. For example: Thanks James, I really appreciate your feedback. 1). There is no need to leave behind a Journal entry when using Get Books. If you look at Get IA Books you'll see that the only Journal entries it creates are the books it downloads. It's simple to change your Activity to do the same thing, and it will free up some space on the toolbar too. Ok, I agree. 2). When you do a search using more than one word it generally does not work. For instance, search for boys aviation in my Activity and it will return The Big Book of Aviation For Boys by Joseph Lewis French. Yours returns nothing. Search for sugar activities in mine and you'll get Make Your Own Sugar Activities! by James Simmons. Yours returns a title that seems to have nothing to do with either word. What you want to be able to do is search for words in either author or title and return those results containing all the words, in any order. Mine does that, but yours does not. You are not using OPDS in IA server, right? I think the OPDS implementation is not very good. Obviusly i can steal code from your application (again). 3). Searching for charles dickens in yours returns lots of results but made the Activity and Sugar itself hang. 4). My Activity supports downloading DejaVu, PDF, and EPUB. Yours does not support DejaVu for the Internet Archive, which is unfortunate because for the XO it is the best available format. PDFs use more memory, and EPUBs from IA are full of errors. Ok. Supporting other OPDS services is great, but not if the child has to open Terminal. change to root, and create a file. You really need to store the configuration info in a directory that is writeable by the Activity, and provide a dialog to do the config. Is not the idea. The configuration is to enable to the deployments to add/remove servers. Really, there are not too much server today, but I am trying to improve Pathagar to use it. May be later we can add a screen to configure it, but I don't think is necessary now. If you want to test this with other OPDS catalogs, I understand that calibre can publish such a catalog in addition to the website it creates. I would have tried testing like that myself if I knew the format of the config file. Also, I didn't think the catalog feature was that useful. If you let the child enter more than one search word as I described you don't really need it. I think different (tm) here. Is not very useful to you or to me because we know what are searching. I can search Jules Verne or Dickens because I know them. But if you are a child, can look to adventure or science fiction books and open a door to authors or book you don't know. James Simmons On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: Hello, I am trying to continue the work done by Sayamindu in the GetBooks activity and I have a initial version to test and get feedback. This is a unofficial testing release New Features: * Old and New toolbars support. * Reworked user interface. * Filter by language (working only in Feedboks server) * Display of book cover * Initial support to OPDS Catalogs. * Support for configuration of local deployments The configuration can be done adding a file /etc/get-books.cfg and allows: * enable/disable off cover display * enable/disable language filter * add or remove OPDS sources. You can download it from http://dev.laptop.org/~gonzalo/GetBooks-6.xo I have used code from a modified activity from Ceibal project. I think the Catalogs button is not optimal (the icon and the menu), but i want it in the first toolbar. Any idea is welcomed. Also i want know if the deployment need any other configuration/feature. Send me any other idea/comment. Gonzalo ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] OER Glue online event Wednesday, March 30th at 9:30pm ET
Note: This is 30 March 2011. On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Maria Droujkova droujk...@gmail.comwrote: Join Joel Duffin and Justin Ball, creators of the OER Glue platformhttp://www.oerglue.com/, in discussing the latest in open course design architecture. *How to join* - Follow this link at the time of the event: * http://tinyurl.com/math20eventhttps://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?password=M.FCAF787B38E30D58F943EB7232EE27 * - Wednesday, March 30th 2011 we will meet in the LearnCentral online room at 6:30pm Pacific, 9:30pm Eastern time. WorldClock for your time zone.http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=3day=30year=2011hour=21min=30sec=0p1=207 - Click OK and Accept several times as your browser installs the software. When you see Elluminate Session Log-In, enter your name and click the Login button - If this is your first time, come a few minutes earlier to check out the technology. The room opens half an hour before the event. All events in the Math 2.0 weekly series: http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/events About OER Glue [image: external image chalkboard.jpg] OER Glue is a *uniquely open approach* to online learning that lets content be used where it already resides rather than requiring it to be copied into a new system. OER Glue can be used to *efficiently assemble courses* and teach online by “glueing together” open education resources (OERs) and integrating with popular online services including Google Documents, Blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and discussion and assessment tools. OER Glue’s web browser add-on approach allows it to wrap context and navigation tools around online content and to *integrate content and services from multiple sources in a coherent manner*. In order to ensure that resources remain available, OER Glue integrates with services such as internet archive. The following scenarios describe the experience of using OER Glue: Student Use of OER Glue http://blog.oerglue.com/student-use-of-oer-glue/| Teacher Use of OER Glue http://blog.oerglue.com/teacher-use-of-oer-glue/ Key aspects of OER Glue are: - *Student engagement* – OER Glue increases student engagement and satisfaction by supporting online instruction that utilizes timely, authentic content and popular Web 2.0 tools. - *Instructional effectiveness* – OER Glue supports effective instruction by helping teachers find and develop learning activities and assessments that are aligned with their instructional goals. - *Teacher efficiency* – OER Glue helps teachers efficiently assemble, deliver, and update online courses. - *OER* – OER Glue helps authors easily find and adapt relevant high quality free online resources for their courses. - *Glue* – People are frustrated with the poor user experience of existing systems that require you to copy your content into them, but enthusiastic about the new Web 2.0 tools that continue to emerge. OER Glue lets you use content where it already is and to easily integrate third party tools in a coherent manner to teach online. Event Hosts [image: Joel_Duffin.jpg][image: justinball.jpg]*Joel Duffin*, CEO of OER Glue, is a entrepreneur and software developer with a love for designing software and understanding how people learn. Joel enjoys scheming about how to design and leverage software systems and online content to encourage youth to engage in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Joel blogs http://www.joelduffin.com/ about technology and STEM education. *Justin Ball*, CTO of OER Glue, is an entrepreneur with several successful startups and one major failure under his belt. He became involved in the OER space under the direction of David Wiley at OSLO and then COSL and participated in the construction of the various projects generated there. He used to write C++ and .Net then moved to python and finally found Ruby. In the rare moments when he isn't writing code, talking about code or measuring his code productivity in profanity per hour, you can find him on his bike in the mountains or on the roads surrounding Cache Valley. Justin can be found pontificating at http://www.justinball.com ___ 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
