Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] New activity from OLPC France
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Stefanie Nobel stefanie.no...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello, I’m glad to present you a new project from OLPC France. For the next six months we will develop a new playful software, which aims at educating children about a healthier nutrition. In this game children are taking care of an avatar by providing him with meals, which they have to prepare before. By doing so the children are meant to learn the importance of good nutrition for their healthy. The game will be supported by Danone Research. They will not only finance the project but also share their great knowledge on this topic with us. We’re just at the begining of the development but here is a short description of our first ideas: The game will be split in two parts: In one part the children can create their own recipes in a virtual environment, similar to a “cook studio”. There is also the possibility to share these recipes with other children. The other part is for validation: Here the meal will be “validated” by the avatar, (for example, a reaction might be, that the avatar can’t do homework because he has not sufficient energy). So at first we will have to define the relevant parameters, which you have to consider when you validate a healthy meal, for example: The need of the different nutritional values, The nutritional value of the aliment In natural and organic state and after the preparation of the meal The activities, the avatar/child do/did during the day The season and the weather The times of the meals during the day(this has an impact on the gain of the food) The health of the avatar/child The extent of hygienic conditions when preparing the food The next step will be to collect all those information and integrate it into a rough logic. So don’t hesitate to comment about this project and share your thoughts. We appreciate all kinds of input! FWIW, several of us have been thinking about a different angle on a cooking activity, one more geared towards chemistry and the science of the kitchen: getting the kids to experiment with recipes, for example, changing the 'resting time' when making noodles from flour and water, and observing how this changes the consistency, flavor, etc. The Activity would be more like a lab notebook and set of simple data analysis tools than anything else, but then the kids could presumably photograph their results with their XO and share their successes and failures, and aggregate data more widely. It be interesting to fold in nutrition into the mix: does Danone have data we can use re how cooking impacts the foods we eat? regards. -walter Stefanie ___ Sugar-devel mailing list sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel -- 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] [Sugar-devel] New activity from OLPC France
Wonderful idea should be exciting to follow this development! Sandra Thaxter www.smallsolutionsbigideas.org san...@smallsolutionsbigideas.org (617) 320-1098 - Original Message - From: Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com To: Stefanie Nobel Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 7:47 AM Subject: Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] New activity from OLPC France On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Stefanie Nobel stefanie.no...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello, I’m glad to present you a new project from OLPC France. For the next six months we will develop a new playful software, which aims at educating children about a healthier nutrition. In this game children are taking care of an avatar by providing him with meals, which they have to prepare before. By doing so the children are meant to learn the importance of good nutrition for their healthy. The game will be supported by Danone Research. They will not only finance the project but also share their great knowledge on this topic with us. We’re just at the begining of the development but here is a short description of our first ideas: The game will be split in two parts: In one part the children can create their own recipes in a virtual environment, similar to a “cook studio”. There is also the possibility to share these recipes with other children. The other part is for validation: Here the meal will be “validated” by the avatar, (for example, a reaction might be, that the avatar can’t do homework because he has not sufficient energy). So at first we will have to define the relevant parameters, which you have to consider when you validate a healthy meal, for example: The need of the different nutritional values, The nutritional value of the aliment In natural and organic state and after the preparation of the meal The activities, the avatar/child do/did during the day The season and the weather The times of the meals during the day(this has an impact on the gain of the food) The health of the avatar/child The extent of hygienic conditions when preparing the food The next step will be to collect all those information and integrate it into a rough logic. So don’t hesitate to comment about this project and share your thoughts. We appreciate all kinds of input! FWIW, several of us have been thinking about a different angle on a cooking activity, one more geared towards chemistry and the science of the kitchen: getting the kids to experiment with recipes, for example, changing the 'resting time' when making noodles from flour and water, and observing how this changes the consistency, flavor, etc. The Activity would be more like a lab notebook and set of simple data analysis tools than anything else, but then the kids could presumably photograph their results with their XO and share their successes and failures, and aggregate data more widely. It be interesting to fold in nutrition into the mix: does Danone have data we can use re how cooking impacts the foods we eat? regards. -walter Stefanie ___ Sugar-devel mailing list sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel -- 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 -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] New activity from OLPC France
Walter, The type of lab notebook activity you describe could be extended beyond the cooking area. I can see students using this for all kinds of scientific investigations. My two cents. Gerald On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Stefanie Nobel stefanie.no...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello, I’m glad to present you a new project from OLPC France. For the next six months we will develop a new playful software, which aims at educating children about a healthier nutrition. In this game children are taking care of an avatar by providing him with meals, which they have to prepare before. By doing so the children are meant to learn the importance of good nutrition for their healthy. The game will be supported by Danone Research. They will not only finance the project but also share their great knowledge on this topic with us. We’re just at the begining of the development but here is a short description of our first ideas: The game will be split in two parts: In one part the children can create their own recipes in a virtual environment, similar to a “cook studio”. There is also the possibility to share these recipes with other children. The other part is for validation: Here the meal will be “validated” by the avatar, (for example, a reaction might be, that the avatar can’t do homework because he has not sufficient energy). So at first we will have to define the relevant parameters, which you have to consider when you validate a healthy meal, for example: The need of the different nutritional values, The nutritional value of the aliment In natural and organic state and after the preparation of the meal The activities, the avatar/child do/did during the day The season and the weather The times of the meals during the day(this has an impact on the gain of the food) The health of the avatar/child The extent of hygienic conditions when preparing the food The next step will be to collect all those information and integrate it into a rough logic. So don’t hesitate to comment about this project and share your thoughts. We appreciate all kinds of input! FWIW, several of us have been thinking about a different angle on a cooking activity, one more geared towards chemistry and the science of the kitchen: getting the kids to experiment with recipes, for example, changing the 'resting time' when making noodles from flour and water, and observing how this changes the consistency, flavor, etc. The Activity would be more like a lab notebook and set of simple data analysis tools than anything else, but then the kids could presumably photograph their results with their XO and share their successes and failures, and aggregate data more widely. It be interesting to fold in nutrition into the mix: does Danone have data we can use re how cooking impacts the foods we eat? regards. -walter Stefanie ___ Sugar-devel mailing list sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] TODAY: Germany, Austria, Swiss OLPC/Sugar Presentation (9PM Berlin Time, Mon Apr 18)
Call is 3PM Boston Time TODAY! Volunteer community organizers will rapidly summarize their truly great work from the last 3+ years -- backstopping deployments in Rwanda, Ethiopia and Europe: http://olpc-deutschland.de http://olpc.at http://olpc.ch A Red XO laptop will be awarded to the participant who asks/evokes/answers the best questions -- hope to see you there, full details coming from Christoph Derndorfer! /See you in just over 4 hrs -- please reply with your SkypeID if you can hopefully join -- backchannel being:/ http://forum.laptop.org/chat (#olpc-help on irc.freenode.net) Show off your German if you want, but today's call will be in English! Calendar of emerging future calls showcasing/connecting the (far too often unknown) work of Sugar/OLPC volunteers worldwide/: / http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OlpcMAP Kenya and Washington DC map jams/presentations coming soon this spring likely in May :) -- Help kids everywhere map their world, at http://olpcMAP.net ! ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] TODAY: Germany, Austria, Swiss OLPC/Sugar Presentation (9PM Berlin Time, Mon Apr 18)
Hi all, the slides I'll be using are now available at derndorfer.eu/files/permanent/olpc_dach_20110418.pdf Please also note the questions for the trivia contest at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OlpcMAP/OLPC_DACH_Trivia#Trivia_Questions See you in exactly 15min! :-) Christoph Am 18.04.2011 16:47, schrieb Holt: Call is 3PM Boston Time TODAY! Volunteer community organizers will rapidly summarize their truly great work from the last 3+ years -- backstopping deployments in Rwanda, Ethiopia and Europe: http://olpc-deutschland.de http://olpc.at http://olpc.ch A Red XO laptop will be awarded to the participant who asks/evokes/answers the best questions -- hope to see you there, full details coming from Christoph Derndorfer! /See you in just over 4 hrs -- please reply with your SkypeID if you can hopefully join -- backchannel being:/ http://forum.laptop.org/chat (#olpc-help on irc.freenode.net) Show off your German if you want, but today's call will be in English! Calendar of emerging future calls showcasing/connecting the (far too often unknown) work of Sugar/OLPC volunteers worldwide/: / http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OlpcMAP Kenya and Washington DC map jams/presentations coming soon this spring likely in May :) -- Help kids everywhere map their world, at http://olpcMAP.net ! ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Christoph Derndorfer co-editor, www.olpcnews.com e-mail: christ...@olpcnews.com ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep