[IAEP] Computation for thinking with (was IAEP] Sugar Digest 2013-10-05)
On Oct. 5 Walter Bender wrote: In the early 1960s, while studying with Jean Piaget, Seymour Papert had the insight that computation was a thing to think with. Ken Iverson's Turing Award lecture was titled Notation as a Tool of Thought. http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm He, of course, used examples from his own language, APL (A Programming Language), which inspired the creation of Backus's functional programming languages (described in his Turing Award lecture), and many others. He quoted Concerning language, George Boole in his Laws of Thought [1, p.24] asserted “That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.” Mathematical notation provides perhaps the best-known and best-developed example of language used consciously as a tool of thought. Recognition of the important role of notation in mathematics is clear from the quotations from mathematicians given in Cajori’s A History of Mathematical Notations [2, pp.332,331]. They are well worth reading in full, but the following excerpts suggest the tone: By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race. A.N. Whitehead Ken's son Eric organized the annual Tool of Thought Conference to follow up on that idea. You can see an example applied to our work with Sugar, in Iverson's algebra textbook, which I have updated at http://booki.treehouse.su/algebra-an-algorithmic-treatment/ as part of the Sugar Labs program for Replacing Textbooks (with Open Educational Resources). Of course it would help if we could get the language concerned, J, packaged for Fedora and Sugar. In mathematics, the otherwise contentious Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, that the structure of language sets limits on what is readily thought, is simply understood as a given. Of course, it does not mean that we cannot go beyond those limits, just that it is very, very hard, and that in some cases we have to invent more language so that more people can do it. Historically, the clearest example is the difference between the Newton dot and Leibniz d notations for calculus. Due to the nationalist furore over precedence between Britain and Germany, British mathematicians refused to use the Leibniz d notation until Charles Babbage founded the Analytical Society to replace the dot-age of England with the d-ism of the Continent. Thus the proliferation of mathematical notations and of programming languages and paradigms ever since. There is a good deal more to this story, including the fact that Turtle Art tree-structured programming is superior in Computer Science terms and for children's use to textual programming, but I will leave that unless somebody asks me. -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/निशब्दगर्ज/نشبدگرج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Fwd: [Womeninfreesoftware] 9/21 Cambridge area software freedom event
Is anybody goint to this event to talk about education in and with Free Software for girls? -- Forwarded message -- From: Deb Nicholson d...@eximiousproductions.com Date: Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 2:29 PM Subject: [Womeninfreesoftware] 9/21 Cambridge area software freedom event To: Discussion re: increasing women's participation in free software womeninfreesoftw...@gnu.org Hi all, I'm going to be speaking about Technology and Dystopia at Software Freedom Day in Cambridge on Sept. 21st at Cambridge College. (http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Boston_Software_Freedom_Day) You'll hear updates from local groups and voices from the wider free software movement. Expect learning, celebrating and plenty of networking. This event is free and open to the public! Everyone is welcome: old FOSS friends reconnecting, new people being introduced to free software for the first time, and everyone in between. I hope you'll join me if you're local! Cheers, Deb ___ womeninfreesoftware mailing list womeninfreesoftw...@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/womeninfreesoftware -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/निशब्दगर्ज/نشبدگرج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Astrology at Spirituality for Kids
On Sun, August 25, 2013 8:14 pm, James Simmons wrote: Between Get Books and Read Etexts and the Browse Activities a child wishing to study his own religion or others has a wealth of material to look at. Personally I'd leave it at that. Sword is OK, and if there is something for studying the Koran that's OK too. If I could figure out how a Python program could make studying the Gita easier or more enjoyable I'd write one. You don't need to. We can use existing software such as Sword with any text in English. Sword also deals with Unicode, so we should be able to put in the Sanskrit Devanagari as well. There is also software for creating concordances, and there are dictionaries in the Public Domain. Let me know if you would like a set of links for all of that, and I will ask around to see who else would like to work on it. I have contacts with organizations doing electronic versions of Buddhist, Muslim, Sikh, and Daoist texts, would expect to be able to find many others without trouble. Some of them have their own software. If you would be willing to Sugarize some of it, we can talk. http://www.crosswire.org/sword/index.jsp The SWORD Project is the CrossWire Bible Society's free Bible software project. Its purpose is to create cross-platform open-source tools-- covered by the GNU General Public License-- that allow programmers and Bible societies to write new Bible software more quickly and easily. We also create Bible study software for all readers, students, scholars, and translators of the Bible, and have a growing collection of over 200 texts in over 50 languages. For example, they have a Bible in Hindi. I have not looked to see whether it is in Devanagari or Romanization. But I know that they do full pointed Hebrew and polytonic Greek, and that they offer Strong's Bible dictionaries in both. James Simmons -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/निशब्दगर्ज/نشبدگرج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Classroom research project in Indiana
I have been offered funding for a research project on XOs, Sugar, and OERs, and I would like to get information on similar projects. The funding would cover XOs and other equipment (power, WiFi, server), teacher training, and testing, at least, for one classroom, preferably in an inner-city school in Indiana. We would also try out some OERs from the Sugar Labs Replacing Textbooks program and from FLOSS Manuals, and write some more. I have asked the Indiana University eLearning Center and the Indiana DOEd eLearning people for their views and possibilities for collaboration. Indiana has a law allowing computers to be purchased from the textbook budget. So if we could get a statewide OER project to replace all of the textbooks, we could afford computers for all students at a net savings. The first question is how to get the hardware for this project, since the usual minimum purchase is 10,000 units. Obviously there are projects at education schools that have gotten past that obstacle. I would like to gather data on all existing classroom projects in the US in order to write a report on them for prospective partners. I would share it with this community, of course. Perhaps there are opportunities for collaboration between projects, as well. I assume that many such projects have developed materials that would be of use in this project, whether software, teacher training materials, lesson plans, or any other. The question of testing is a vexed one, as any of you know who have seen the nonsense published about the Peru study. Opponents of our work ignore improvements in cognitive skills, among other issues. More broadly, none of us entirely know what else we should be measuring. In general, in scientific inquiries, a good question is worth thousands of ordinary answers. I have also been approached for a very different OLPC project in another country which I will write about when I know something more definite. Well, I can say that there is involvement from an international foundation, and possibly UNESCO, and that there is talk of an international conference. But so far it is just talk. -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/निशब्दगर्ज/نشبدگرج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] XO Help and open source docs conference
If there is sufficient interest to get a team together, I can probably attend. I can drive over from Indiana. I see that our Janet Swisher will be speaking. So we could definitely organize a sprint. On Wed, April 10, 2013 8:39 am, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: Hi Gonzalo, thanks a lot for forwarding that invitation. Both the conference and the sprints sound like a great opportunity to update Sugar documentation (especially looking towards 1.00 / 0.100) and connect with others working in that area! Unfortunately I don't think I'll be able to attend myself as the prices for flights from Europe are very close to reaching their summer-high in mid-June (e.g. the absolutely cheapest option which I could find for Vienna-Cincinnati-Vienna would cost ~€830). Plus after the outcome of the documentation sprint in Boston last April (which left much to be desired) and our failure to be accepted at the Google DocSprint at the end of the year I think it might be a good idea to have new blood lead any such efforts. Daniel Francis has repeatedly expressed his interest in documentation lately, maybe someone can support him in putting together a team of kick-ass documentation ninjas for the event. :-) Cheers, Christoph On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Gonzalo Odiard godi...@gmail.com wrote: Forward information about OpenHelpConference invitation. Gonzalo -- Forwarded message -- From: Shaun McCance sha...@gnome.org Date: Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 11:18 AM Subject: XO Help and open source docs conference To: Gonzalo Odiard godi...@gmail.com, Brian Jordan br...@laptop.org, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org, Bastien Guerry b...@altern.org Hi guys, I'm the team lead for the GNOME documentation team, and the developer of the documentation viewer and tools used in GNOME. I'm emailing you because you're all listed as the developers of the XO Help activity. http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4051 For the last two years, I've been running a conference that focuses on documentation and support in open source and open communities. The third Open Help Conference is this June. http://openhelpconference.com/ We regularly get contributors to projects like Mozilla, OpenStack, FreeBSD, and of course GNOME. The two-day conference portion has a heavy emphasis on open, attendee-led discussions, with only a few presentations to spark the conversation. We also host a number of teams for doc sprints for three days after the conference. Sprint attendance is not mandatory, and each team runs its own sprint. The teams do get together to share thoughts and hang out. Do you think anybody within the Sugar and OLPC communities would be interested in attending? I think it's a shame that Sugar and GNOME people don't talk more often, and I'd love to meet anyone interested in documentation. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, Shaun -- Gonzalo Odiard -- Christoph Derndorfer volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [www.olpc.at] editor, OLPC News [www.olpcnews.com] contributor, TechnikBasteln [www.technikbasteln.net] e-mail: christ...@derndorfer.eu ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/निशब्दगर्ज/نشبدگرج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Fwd: Fwd: [squeakland] The Dynabook and modern computing
[I'm sorry, this got lost in cyberspace for a week.] I'll give the same answer here. Actually, it was agriculture that led to the idea of government as a protection racket and to kneecapping or worse of those who refused to pay their taxes. Hunter-gatherer cultures are tribal, not national, and far more cooperative. I have historical and archaeological data on this if anybody needs it. Or you could watch The Gods Must Be Crazy and its sequel for humorous examples. Run and tell everybody to come and help us eat this elephant. (Killed by poachers, who took the tusks and left the body.) On Tue, April 2, 2013 10:27 pm, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: It took me while to realize that I forwarded it to a wrong list... -- Forwarded message -- From: Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com Date: Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 11:57 AM Subject: Re: Fwd: [squeakland] The Dynabook and modern computing To: Yoshiki Ohshima yoshiki.ohsh...@acm.org Cc: Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de Ask him: how did the invention of agriculture influence civilization? Or: what is ultimately more powerful, competition or cooperation? Cheers, Alan From: Yoshiki Ohshima yoshiki.ohsh...@acm.org To: Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com Cc: Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de Sent: Tuesday, April 2, 2013 11:47 AM Subject: Fwd: [squeakland] The Dynabook and modern computing Benoit is asking this. -- Forwarded message -- From: Benoît Fleury benoit.fle...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 11:36 AM Subject: Re: [squeakland] The Dynabook and modern computing To: Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de Cc: IAEP SugarLabs iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org, squeakland list squeakl...@squeakland.org Thank you Bert for the link. I am not sure to understand this metaphor with agriculture. One way to think of all of these organizations is to realize that if they require a charismatic leader who will shoot people in the knees when needed, then the corporate organization and process is a failure. It means no group can come up with a good decision and make it stick just because it is a good idea. All the companies I’ve worked for have this deep problem of devolving to something like the hunting and gathering cultures of 100,000 years ago. If businesses could find a way to invent “agriculture” we could put the world back together and all would prosper. If someone could explain me what it means. Thanks, Benoit. On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: Time interviews Alan Kay: http://techland.time.com/2013/04/02/an-interview-with-computing-pioneer-alan-kay/ - Bert - ___ squeakland mailing list squeakl...@squeakland.org http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland ___ squeakland mailing list squeakl...@squeakland.org http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland -- -- Yoshiki -- -- Yoshiki ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/निशब्दगर्ज/نشبدگرج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Suggestions needed for Learning(Teaching) reading
On Wed, February 27, 2013 8:09 pm, Steve Thomas wrote: I will be heading to Haiti next month and the teachers are requesting feedback and ideas on teaching English at the school I will be visiting. I am looking for good resources on methods of teaching/lessons, software suggestions and non computer games and methods of learning. One of the best methods for teaching foreign languages is the microwave technique created by Earl Stevick of the US Foreign Service Institute, one of the top language schools in the world. It consists of short, carefully sequenced lessons that introduce single points of grammar, which are then reinforced in dialogs where students are encouraged to explore the possible range of variation in using the expressions they have just learned. Microwave was adopted by the Peace Corps for all of its language materials and courses in something like 80 languages. I was taught a little bit of the technique as an English teacher with the Peace Corps in South Korea in the 1960s. There is A Microwave Course in English as a Second Language (For Spanish Speakers) available for free download from the US government Educational Resources Information Center Web site. http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true_ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED035876ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=noaccno=ED035876 A teacher's manual exists, but I have not seen it offered for download. Obviously, this is not quite what the Haitian teachers want. It would require significant work to adapt it to the requirements of speakers of standard French or of Kreyòl Ayisyen, and to make it usable at other than the adult level. I can assist. I have been working on the similar Microwave Course in Spanish (for English speakers), and trying to get a Creative Commons license to permit wider use, adaptation, and republishing. We do not know who owns the copyright at present, since the original publisher, Lingoco, has gone out of business. I could do with some assistance in such issues of licensing. I have ordered Proust and the Squid and am looking at Maryanne Wolf video's suggested by Mike Lee. Thanks, Stephen -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/निशब्दगर्ज/نشبدگرج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] video of XOs in the Amazon
I added a paragraph on the documentary and the YouTube excerpt, with references, to the English-language version of the page. Can somebody let the children know so that they can translate it for the Spanish-language page? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestina,_Peru I have wanted to suggest this practice of having students write Wikipedia pages as a regular part of the curriculum for every OLPC deployment, starting with pages in the local languages on every local subject, and expanding to translations by students of various other languages as they become sufficiently capable. I will write this up for my blog, http://replacingtextbooks.wordpress.com/ This page mentions caywa, evidently a local crop for which there is no Wikipedia page in either Spanish or English. I do not find it in Spanish Wiktionary, either. Here is another page that mentions caywa without explanation. http://sachamama.livingroutes.org/2011/07/28/shukshuyaku/ Apparently the standard spelling is caigua, and the name is derived from Quechua kaywa. http://www.yanuq.com/buscador.asp?idreceta=1095 http://es.wiktionary.org/wiki/caigua So I added a link to Cyclanthera pedata «Caigua» redirige aquí Please thank the students for me, and let them know that I was delighted to have the opportunity for a collaboration with them. No hablo español realmente, pero sé leer. Qué los niños me escriben, por favor. Muchas gracias. On Thu, January 31, 2013 12:35 am, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn wrote: A great story! From: w...@laptop.org Subject: video of XOs in the Amazon Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:07:14 -0500 To: de...@lists.laptop.org Wikipedia pointed me to this excerpt from an upcoming film, web. It shows kids with XOs in the Peruvian Amazon creating on Wikipedia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XPnH_rF9ksfeature=youtu.be Cheers, wad -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/निशब्दगर्ज/نشبدگرج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Linux Foundation seeks video tutorials
Would anybody care to submit a tutorial about Linux on an XO or Sugar on a Stick? They are asking specifically about spreading Linux around the world. I have some ideas about what we could show. http://video.linux.com/100-linux-tutorials 100 Linux Tutorials Video Campaign Join us in building a collective knowledge base for Linux! The Linux Foundation is inviting you to share your knowledge of Linux with people who are just getting started. Help us remove barriers to learning Linux and transfer expertise around the globe. -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/निशब्दगर्ज/نشبدگرج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Factorisation visualisation was Sugar Digest 2013-01-25
You can't do functions with arguments in Turtle Art, and so obviously you can't do full recursion with stacked and shadowed arguments directly in Turtle Art, but you can implement much of recursion in any of the usual ways using the push and pop stack blocks or other dodges. Have a look at the fractal examples in the library. Or you could call Python to create a list to store partial results in. The case of tail recursion, where none of the recursive calls have to return because the recursive call is the last statement in the function, is easy. In pseudocode, with handwaving of some details that I leave as exercises, Set count to 0 Give variable n a positive integer value. Factorize If n=1, end ElseIf n is prime, push n; increment count Else find a factor m of n, and push that factor; increment count Factorize n/m ShowResult while count0 print pop m decrement count Of course in Logo you have full recursion. In the Etoys version of Turtle Art, you can use recursion in Smalltalk. On Sun, January 27, 2013 3:14 am, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn wrote: To: sthom...@gosargon.com From: fors...@ozonline.com.au Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 16:44:51 +1100 CC: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org Subject: [IAEP] Factorisation visualisation was Sugar Digest 2013-01-25 http://www.datapointed.net/visualizations/math/factorization/animated-diagrams/ Beautiful, thanks for sharing. If anyone does code this up, please allow for stepping (rather than playing) and allow kids to enter numbers and factors, so they can guess and look for patterns. Or kids could create their own versions in Turtle Art or Etoys as part of a lesson. Hi Clunky but working in Turtle Art at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Turtle_Art_factors.ta Its limited to 3 factors, I couldn't see any way to have an arbitary number of factors without recursion and I couldn't see any way to get recursion in Turtle Art Good! I change the .ta to this automatic version that begins in 1 and continues.. see .ta attached.. Tony -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/निशब्दगर्ज/نشبدگرج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Classroom of the Future (was Re: Looking for a school to see technology in education in action in Orlando or Miami area)
On Thu, January 10, 2013 11:35 am, Rita Freudenberg wrote: Hi, on behalf of my colleagues I'm looking for a school they can visit while they are attending FETC conference in Orlando at the end of this month. Here in Magdeburg, Germany, we are working in a project classroom of the future, dealing with the technological and educational challenges when using laptops in the classroom. Would your project be interested in discussing OERs and digital learning materials technologies, such as Etoys, EPUB3, and HTML5? We have established that computers with Free Software and OERs cost much less than printed textbooks, and we know in principle that OERs can be used to integrate Free Software into the curriculum in every school subject, including gym/PE. If the answer to the above question is yes, then consider this an application for me, as head of Replacing Textbooks at Sugar Labs, and a contributor to FLOSS Manuals and so on, to join your project. Columbus, Indiana, where I now live, has started to put computers in the classroom. California has a Free Digital Textbooks Initiative. Bangladesh and South Korea are well along in developing free digital textbooks and classroom computers. Indonesia has made a public commitment to do so, and has made a strong start on digitizing existing textbooks. India is sort of thinking about it with the underpowered Aakash computer. This is in addition to countries committed to OLPC projects, and other projects using other computers, other software, and other OERs. Creative Commons, UNESCO, and UNDP are all very active in OERs, although UNESCO needs some help to get started on K-12 materials. UNHWR would also be interested, for example in putting OERs into its school deployments in Palestinian refugee camp schools in Gaza and elsewhere. There will be an international conference on OERs in Bali, Indonesia this year. I expect that school tours can be arranged. http://conference.ocwconsortium.org/index.php/2013/2013 OCWC Global Conference 2013 Bali Ayodya Resort May 8, 2013 – May 10, 2013 OCWC Global 2013, hosted by APTIKOM Indonesia, will be held in Bali, Indonesia May 8-10. Partnering with the OCWC and APTIKOM for the realization of conference goals is a local organizing team which includes the National ICT Council of Indonesia, Ministry of Education and Culture, Ministry of Information and Communication, and the Indonesian Open University. Held annually, OCWC Global reunites the OCW/OER community for three days of showcasing new projects, debating issues of common concern, and exchanging useful practices in matters such as pedagogy, policy and technology. They are very much interested to see how these things work in other countries. If you know a school they could visit or a person they could talk to, please let me know. They are not only interested to see best practice, but also, what kind of problems arise. Since we are at the beginning of this here in our area, we want to learn what works and what to anticipate. For plan b, do you think I could just approach schools in the area and ask if they can visit? They are both computer scientists, but their first training was to become teachers. Now they work here at the university in Magdeburg in the teacher training group. Thank you for your help! Greetings, Rita Rita Freudenberg rita.freudenb...@ovgu.de -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/निशब्दगर्ज/نشبدگرج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Olpc-open] Healthcare - Potential Opportunity
For images of the eye under CC-BY-SA, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Eye On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 12:47 AM, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn alan...@hotmail.com wrote: I'm not sure why, but I not like much Etoys (with all my respect to my namesake Alan Kay :-) I prefer a pure-python activity. For example, a first activity could be: I know the Eye and use a similar image to this: (search: eye anatomy) External: (muscleds, etc) http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-x4oGiQWiUA/TMP2dRqClBI/AGY/PuehgCY8WJM/s1600/eye+anatomy+2.jpg And internal: http://www.floridaeyeclinic.com/images/aao-G04-large.jpg The first problem is obtain a good image (CC creative commons or similiar free license). Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:31:15 -0500 From: sthom...@gosargon.com To: andry...@gmail.com CC: olpc-o...@lists.laptop.org; alan...@hotmail.com; sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Subject: Re: [IAEP] [Olpc-open] Healthcare - Potential Opportunity Alan, If you have the materials (images, test, knowledge, etc.) I would be happy to work with you to create some materials in Etoys that could help educate folks about the eye and more importantly detect vision problems and provide suggestions and resources on how to deal with them. If you send me some materials I can put something together in Etoys fairly quickly. It would be available to all OLPC XO's and because its Etoys, it can also run on Windows, Mac and Linux (with no code changes). If it works for both of us, we could put together some quick prototypes to help build a more robust case. Stephen On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 12:09 AM, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com wrote: From: andry...@gmail.com To: olpc-o...@lists.laptop.org Subject: [Olpc-open] Healthcare - Potential Opportunity Hello, I'm new to this venue but am looking to contribute and/or determine if I might have some material that would benefit the community. I work for a healthcare company that specializes in vision and was wondering if there was any need for material on healthy vision or perhaps an interactive eye model to teach children about the different parts of the eye. It could be anything in this realm really - the sky is the limit. My company is constantly looking for ways to give back and if there was some interest in this I'd look to build a more robust case and inquire more deeply into whether the company would be willing to put some resources behind this. Is there anyone on this distribution list that would be able to point me in the right direction? I would suggest taking a look at the accumulated notes and links on these pages. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Vision_screening http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Visual_Acuity cjl ___ 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 ___ Olpc-open mailing list olpc-o...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/निशब्दगर्ज/نشبدگرج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
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[IAEP] SoaS in Fargo (was Re: IAEP Digest, Vol 56, Issue 23)
Tony Forster and I have been creating Turtle Art tutorials on various art, math, programming, and Computer Science subjects, which you can find at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/TurtleArt/Tutorials Please let us know whether any of this would be useful in your curriculum, and whether there are any other materials you would like us to help develop. Our topics range from preschool (You Be the Turtle) to a Turtle Art Turing Machine. On Mon, November 19, 2012 12:34 pm, Brooks, Kevin wrote: John, we run a SoaS after school program at two K-6 schools in Fargo. We have a computer science undergraduate making the sticks, and I'll warn you--our failure rate on sticks is often about 20%. We haven't been able to identify all the problems: sometimes them simply won't boot, other times they will boot and work for a session or two and then fail. Sometimes the kids just yank them out--we are pretty sure that isn't a good idea. ; ) We have a 14 week curriculum posted on our website, but we have modified it for this year. We haven't posted the new stuff. We just meet once a week for about 45 minutes a session. After a single day overview of Sugar we have focused on Turtle ARt for 5 weeks (going on 6). We are very happy with this curriculum. Last year we split our spring curriculum between Physics (which the kids love) and Etoys (which they don't). You'd think we would stick with Physics this year, but we might give Etoys another run. : ) Oh, I noticed you are aiming for 5-7 year olds; we work with the upper range: 10-12. We can still talk technical stuff and I could guess at some pedagogical issues with 5-7 years. I've had my own kids use Sugar. Feel free to call or Skype, John, if you want more details. Kevin http://fargoxo.wordpress.com Skype: kabbie13 On Nov 19, 2012, at 11:00 AM, iaep-requ...@lists.sugarlabs.orgmailto:iaep-requ...@lists.sugarlabs.org wrote: Message: 1 Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 19:10:09 -0500 From: John Landis j...@johnlandis.netmailto:j...@johnlandis.net To: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.orgmailto:iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Subject: [IAEP] Introduction: teacher interested in SOAS Message-ID: CACSFgESFW8Ogb5B+vbtjzFfwwat-eRPsLCVh8PCTvhC=bqn...@mail.gmail.commailto:CACSFgESFW8Ogb5B+vbtjzFfwwat-eRPsLCVh8PCTvhC=bqn...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi there, Not sure if this email list is the proper place to post, but I wanted to introduce myself to the community. I work in Philadelphia, teaching technology and media literacy at a K-6 (ages about 4-12) charter school. I'm interested in using Sugar on a Stick with my 5-7 year old students. I need a bit of guidance as I explore this new territory, both on the technical and the pedagogical side of things. So, first question: have I got the right community or should I be posting elsewhere? -John Landis ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/निशब्दगर्ज/نشبدگرج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/निशब्दगर्ज/نشبدگرج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18
I would go further. Can we invite the children to give us their stories? They should be wikified, blogged, made the subject of articles in the geek and education press, and spread even more widely than that. Better still, can we invite the schools where this children are learning and sharing to celebrate them using Sugar tools to create interactive presentations? On Wed, September 19, 2012 10:52 am, James Simmons wrote: Walter, First, congrats on the grandchild. Second, I am intrigued by the statement that 10% of Sugar Activities were written by children who grew up with Sugar. That is an incredible accomplishment, and it makes me wish that the ASLO website had a Collection of those Activities. If something like that existed I could see what kinds of Activities they were doing, how many were programs written for other environments using a Sugar wrapper, how many are purely Sugar Activities, who the developers are, what Sugar features are they using and not using, how popular the Activities are, etc. It would also give our younger developers a way to stand up and be counted. James Simmons -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/निशब्दगर्ज/نشبدگرج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Fwd: [Womeninfreesoftware] AdaCamp July 10 - 11 in DC, Applications are open
Anybody want to go and talk about all of our girls? -- Forwarded message -- From: Deb Nicholson d...@eximiousproductions.com Date: Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 10:46 Subject: [Womeninfreesoftware] AdaCamp July 10 - 11 in DC, Applications are open To: Discussion re: increasing women's participation in free software womeninfreesoftw...@gnu.org Applications for AdaCamp DC are now open - apply now! http://dc.adacamp.org/apply/ AdaCamp DC will be July 10 - 11, 2012, in Washington DC, co-located with Wikimania 2012. We are likely to have more applications than available slots, so apply now to have the best chance of attending. Applications close June 15 (May 11 for those requesting travel assistance). Who should apply AdaCamp DC will bring together a wide variety of people from open technology and culture, all of whom are working to support women in open tech/culture. We're looking for people who: * Participate in open technology and culture: any field involving open/grassroots/community participation and sharing the results of your work for free: open data, open source software, wikis, open government, open libraries, remix/fan culture, open video, and more * Can share information about women's experiences in that field, including talking about women's achievements and the challenges they face * Want to work together and share strategies to support and promote women in the field * Share the Ada Initiative's feminist approach to supporting and promoting women in open technology and culture * Are young and old; students, professionals and hobbyists; from a diverse range of backgrounds; and reflect the breadth of the open technology and culture field AdaCamp is open to people of all genders. However, since AdaCamp and the Ada Initiative exist to support and promote women in open technology and culture, prospective attendees who are not themselves women will need to demonstrate a high level of prior engagement and experience with the issues faced by women in those fields in order to be invited. Find out more about AdaCamp DC at the event webpage: http://dc.adacamp.org/ __ _ Supporters mailing list support...@lists.adainitiative.org http://lists.adainitiative.org/listinfo.cgi/supporters-adainitiative.org ___ womeninfreesoftware mailing list womeninfreesoftw...@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/womeninfreesoftware -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/निशब्दगर्ज/نشبدگرج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Fwd: Linux Foundation Announces 2012 Collaboration Summit Keynotes Program
Anybody attending? Anybody going to tell them about our collaboration tools? -- Forwarded message -- From: Linux Foundation Events no-re...@linuxfoundation.org Date: Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 16:07 Subject: Linux Foundation Announces 2012 Collaboration Summit Keynotes Program To: echer...@gmail.com Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit April 3 - 5, 2012 Hotel Nikko - San Francisco, CA Taking place annually since 2007, the Linux Foundation’s Collaboration Summit is an exclusive, invitation-only gathering of the brightest minds in Linux, including core kernel developers, distribution maintainers, ISVs, end users, system vendors and other community organizations. It is the only conference designed to accelerate collaboration and encourage solutions by bringing together a true cross-section of leaders to meet face-to-face to tackle and solve the most pressing issues facing Linux today. Interested in attending the Collaboration Summit? Space is limited at this event, and runs out every year, so request an invitation to attend today. The Collaboration Summit 2012 Keynote Line-up Includes: Frank Frankovsky, Facebook’s Director of Hardware Design and Supply Chain talking about Open Compute Imad Sousou, director of Intel’s OSTC, discussing the importance of Linux at Intel Feargal O'Sullivan, Global Head of Alliances at NYSE Technologies, Inc. talking about how they open sourced the OpenMAMA middleware system for the Financial Services industry at the Linux Foundation Linux Kernel Developer Panel featuring James Bottomley, Parallels; Keith Packard, Intel; John Linville, Red Hat and moderated by Greg Kroah-Hartman, The Linux Foundation Timo Jokiaho, CTO, System Software at Huawei Technologies discussing how Network Traffic Growth in the mobile industry is driving Linux and Open Source Innovation IBM’s Gerrit Huizenga will give a reality check on the state of Linux and the cloud in a presentation titled “The Clouds Are Coming: Are We Ready? Getting the Kinks out of the Software Supply Chain Panel featuring panelists Mark Gisi, Wind River Systems; Scott Lamons, Hewlett-Packard; Jack Manbeck, Texas Instruments and moderated by Phil Odence, Black Duck Software View the Schedule and Program Collaboration Summit 2012 Workgroups Conference Sessions will cover the following topics: Virtualization/Cloud Computing HPC/HA Tracing Legal Kernel OpenMAMA Tizen Yocto Project LSB Desktop SPDX Community Best Practices Filesystems UEFI Tools If you would like to attend this exclusive event, request an invitation today: Co-Located Events Linux Training Alongside the Collaboration Summit this year, we are please to offer the following Linux Foundation Linux Training Courses: LF384 Overview of Open Source Compliance End-to-End Process (Hotel Nikko, San Francisco) April 1, 2012 Enroll Now LF271 Practical Guide to Open Source Development (Hotel Nikko, San Francisco) April 2, 2012 Enroll Now LF326 Advanced Linux Performance Tuning (Hotel Nikko, San Francisco) April 2, 2012 Enroll Now Platinum Sponsor Gold Sponsors Silver Sponsor Bronze Sponsors If you have any questions, please email us at eve...@linuxfoundation.org. The Linux Foundation, 1796 18th Street, Suite C, San Francisco, CA 94107 To no longer receive any email from The Linux Foundation please click here to unsubscribe. -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] RFC:Simple Help widget for activities
On Wed, March 7, 2012 7:37 am, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
We receive many times request about adding help in the activities,
and if is true Sugar propose a exploratory approach,
not all the people learn in the same way,
and there are people who prefer a little guidance.
I yield to nobody in my preference for letting students discover as
much as possible about Sugar, or anything else, but as I noted in The
Undiscoverable on the Wiki, it is not always possible, particularly
when dealing with named functions in math and programming, and
sometimes in other areas. There are times when hints are required, and
times when outright explanation is required. You will find many
examples of both in The Undiscoverable, and in the draft Discovering
Discovery at http://booki.treehouse.su.
On the other hand, Donald Norman famously complained, in The
Psychology of Everyday Things/The Design of Everyday Things, about
doors that require a user manual, even of one word, whether Push or
Pull. One should apply his design principles, and others like them, to
every item that appears to require a help entry.
For the development we need a simple api, and easy i18n,
and a non obtrusive experience for the user.
None of which is easy to replicate when reinventing the training wheel. ^_^
Inspired by the DescriptionItem, I was experimenting with a widget to add
simple help to activities.
This is not:
* A manual
* Lessons
* Tips
Is a short startup help for the activity.
Use only text and the icons already used by the activity.
A example can be seen here:
http://dev.laptop.org/~gonzalo/images/simple_graph_help.png
In the activity we only need do:
helpitem = HelpButton()
toolbar.insert(helpitem, -1)
helpitem.show()
helpitem.add_section(_('Basic usage'))
helpitem.add_paragraph(_('First you need add data to create the
graphic'))
helpitem.add_paragraph(_('You can add data with this button'),
'row-insert')
helpitem.add_paragraph(_('...or remove data with this button'),
'row-remove')
helpitem.add_paragraph(_('To change the graphic title, just change the
activity title'))
We should get the result of your work, when it stabilizes, added to
Making Your Own Sugar Activities.
This proposal is late for sugar 0.96, but may be we can try it in one or
two activities,
and start thinking about this topic.
I really like the help in the Implode activity, but have the following
problems:
* I don't know if apply to other type of activities.
* Is modal
* need a lot of code to implement it.
Comments?
Thank you.
Gonzalo
--
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The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination.
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks
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Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] meeting announcement
On Sat, February 25, 2012 8:46 pm, Chris Leonard wrote: +1 Or, in the J terminology I am using in updating Ken Iverson's book, Algebra: An Algorithmic Treatment, : I sent Walter a note that Google is now offering grants to US 501c3s. I will see if I can get more detail for the meeting. There are other grant opportunities that we could pursue. cjl On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: Robert Fadel has got a great handle on the SL finances and is ready bring SLOBs and the community up to speed. Would Tuesday at 5:30PM EST (22:30 UTC) work? Usual place: irc.freenode.net #sugar-meeting. regards. -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 -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Google Summer of Code
On Wed, February 8, 2012 6:15 pm, Walter Bender wrote: It is that time of year again. We need to start soliciting participants in Google Summer of Code [1, 2]. We also need to organize our application to the program as a mentoring organization. Please contact me if you are interested in participating as a coder, a mentor, or administrator. Can we propose projects to integrate free software into Open Education Resources and thus into curricula? I would be delighted to mentor or administer such projects, and to coordinate between GSoC projects and FLOSS Manuals (for software manuals) and Sugar Labs (for Replacing Textbooks). I have several lined up in math and can come up with others in a variety of subjects. I have recently been doing the coding for Algebra: An Algorithmic Treatment, by Turing Award winner Kenneth E. Iverson. He wrote it for APL on printing terminals in the early 1970s, and I have translated it to his last language, J, on Linux, Mac, and Windows. regards. -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org [1] http://code.google.com/soc/ [2] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2012 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] [OLPC library] OLPC/Sugar Doc Sprint Apr 6-10 @ OLPC HQ in Boston
Can any of us arrange to stay with somebody in the area while we work together? On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 03:55, Holt h...@laptop.org wrote: Plz read all the wiki details RSVP here if you will contribute+attend, as we will very shortly reach capacity: http://j.mp/xomanual 20 People Expected in Person, from 4+ continents: Sameer Verma, Mike Lee, Walter Bender, Claudia Urrea, Richard Smith, Christoph Derndorfer, Reuben Caron, Mark Battley, Paul Fox, George Hunt, Chris Ball, Nancie Severs, CScott Ananian, Craig Perue, Saadia Baloch, Bill Stelzer, Bernie Innocenti, Dogi Unterhauser, Laura de Reynal, Adam Holt, etc -- even Sugar Labs' new finance officer Robert Fadel, and Pablo Flores if we are lucky! BONUS PREGAME: Apr 2-6 video tutorials sprint proposed for our favorite Sugar activities, thanks to Bill Stelzer, Mark Battley, Laura de Reynal, Christoph Derndorfer and a growing list of talented mediamakers. VIRTUAL ROMANCE AIN'T: Please talk to Caryl Bigenho ca...@laptop.org and our public list libr...@lists.laptop.org if you are motivated to write a particular chapter, but cannot attend in person, thanks!! A huge thanks to Master of Ceremonies Laura de Reynal who will be organizing nightly social events for all. She'll be working with Chris Ball (though he doesn't know it yet!) to organize several actual soccer/frisbee/etc matches too, get you limbered up, DO bring your April windbreaker sneakers, as I/she/we WILL be bouncing you out of the office on REGULAR occasions to fire up yr adrenaline =) -- Help kids everywhere map their world, at http://olpcMAP.net ! ___ Library mailing list libr...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] (no subject)
Please pass this on to OLPC Australia olpc...@lists.laptop.org , OLPC New Zealand olpc...@lists.laptop.org , OLPC Oceania olpc-ocea...@lists.laptop.org , Grassroots grassro...@lists.laptop.org On Fri, February 3, 2012 7:41 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Hello everyone, You may be interested in a review I have written of the OLPC Australia education programme: http://www.dhanapalan.com/blog/2012/02/01/creating-an-education-programme/ Thank you for this. Is Australia planning for the necessary conversion from printed textbooks to all-digital Open Education Resources? I say that it is necessary in part because the computers cost less than the printed textbooks, and also because we cannot integrate computer software into the curriculum until we go to digital OERs. Bangladesh has done so, and both Uruguay and South Korea have announced plans to do so. There are OERs on almost every subject at all levels, but outside Bangladesh there are no complete integrated suites covering all of the requirements, including teacher training. We need governments and school authorities to take this problem seriously, to plan for what is needed, and to think about how to organize and fund the conversion. It contains the video of a talk I gave at the linux.conf.au conference in January, and a more detailed explanation of that talk. Some of the key points: * We have a comprehensive education programme that highly values teacher empowerment and community engagement, with a focus on building sustainability. * The investment to provide a connected learning device to every one of the 300 000 children in remote Australia is less than 0.1% of the annual education and connectivity budgets. * For low socio-economic status schools, the cost is only $80 AUD per child. * Our programme is available to any school in Australia, for $380 AUD per child. * Our programme is schools-centric, with a strong focus on the teacher. * A teacher must undergo training and earn a certification to qualify to receive XOs for their class. * Training is conducted online, and hence scales very well. * We have an online community to provide peer-driven support, assisted by OLPC Australia personnel. * Technology development and deployment is guided by the principle that it must be manageable by non-technical personnel. * Our technology platform is open and not locked-down, providing maximum opportunity for children to learn and empowering schools/communities to own the deployment for themselves. * We are seeing real educational results from our efforts, and are engaged in longitudinal and detailed evaluation. * Our supporters include corporations and members of parliament at state and federal levels, but we can always use more help :) Please have a read if you are interested, and contact us if you would like to take part in our mission. We will be releasing more information on this educational programme in the coming months. Sridhar Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering Manager One Laptop per Child Australia ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Replacing Textbooks server working again
The Replacing Textbooks server, http://booki.treehouse.org/ is back up on its new hardware. Everything is functioning as before, as far as I can tell. -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Moving the Replacing Textbooks Server
The Replacing Textbooks server at booki.treehouse.su is going down for transfer to a new host, which I will announce when it becomes available. -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Fwd: What Sugar documentation do deployments need?
On Fri, January 27, 2012 12:07 pm, Pablo Flores wrote: This question is meant for people working on OLPC/Sugar deployment teams: What documentation do you think is important to have about Sugar and to keep updated? Thank you for this question. I would particularly like to hear from teachers and students on this. Have you asked on the OLPC-Sur list? This arises from the idea that's being discussed in the mailing lists about making a documentation sprint on April in Boston. Have you asked on the FLOSS Manuals FM-Discuss list? Initially we talked about updating http://laptop.org/manual/, as it got outdated with the recent changes to Sugar interface. After that, some ideas arose about developing solutions for making the manual's translations to other languages easier, of packaging it in different ways and of creating a pedagogic-oriented guide, among others. I am nearing completion of an algebra textbook with software that I plan to get Sugarized. Every math expression in the book can be executed via simple copy and paste, and the text suggests explorations going much further. I would like to know what deployments do think that would be useful for them. Thanks! Saludos, Pablo Flores ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] 3 Questions From A New Sugar User Age 21
On Thu, January 26, 2012 5:07 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On 27 January 2012 08:55, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: On 01/26/2012 01:40 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On 25 January 2012 03:13, Thomas C Gilliardsatel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: On 01/24/2012 07:49 AM, Ma Xiaojun wrote: 1. Can I install SoaS to hard disk? enter liveinst from the sugar-terminal Is there a reason why this isn't exposed in the GUI? Maybe it can be a CP applet? I think this is a valuable feature. Take a look at this new tutorial: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit/sck/liveinst It is listed here also along with some other tutorials: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#F16_Sugar_install_from_a_booted_Live_CD.2FUSB_with_liveinst Thanks. The problem, however, is that this is not easily discoverable. A newcomer shouldn't have to go searching through the wiki to find a way to install SoaS. I have added a link to these instructions on the page http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Downloads, which is transcluded on the page http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/ so that it will be easy to find in future. I also added a note about what computers SoaS runs on, including Intel Macs. And using the terminal is not exactly a friendly introduction to the platform But see Introduction to the Command Line (which I helped to write) at http://en.flossmanuals.net/command-line/ It is, as far as I know, the first and only shell command line manual for end users who do not plan to become sysadmins, and by far the friendliest. We had a non-programmer editor make sure that we never assumed too much, and that we kept to the proper tone and language. I assembled a glossary of the unavoidable jargon. :S Cheers, Sridhar -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
