[IAEP] Looking for a school to see technology in education in action in Orlando or Miami area
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. 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 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] It's a book!
A New Etoys Book is available: Learning with Etoys Imagine, Invent, Insprire After participating in a Doc Camp at Google, the Etoys EducationTeam is happy to announce a new book. Read It: Learn various ways Etoys can be used in the classroom. Use It: Adapt it for your learners. Share It: Tell others about it and help us spread the word. Available for download at: http://wiki.squeakland.org/index.php/LearningWithEtoysI3 We would love your feedback or your contributions to our next volume. The Etoys Education Team Rita Freudenberg r...@isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Has Anyone Heard from the Stanford Venture Lab Course
Hi everyone, I got the email last week and there are some links in it. There is also an assignment and you can watch a first lecture. I started by watching the lecture, filling in my profile and did send a message to the forum. I think that is what we are supposed to do. Greetings, Rita I'm copying the mail here again: Hello, and welcome to the Designing a New Learning Environment Course! The course TAs and I are very excited to learn, imagine, and create together over the next 10 weeks. Well, it’s actually the next 10 and ½ weeks, because the class will officially start on Monday, Oct 15. The first lecture, Learning Technology Design and Sustainability, is an introduction that will take you to schools around the world and share some of my goals for this course. The first assignment is simple but important: first, you should introduce yourself, your interests, and your experience on your personal Profile, your journal (located on your profile), and in the course Forums. This will help your classmates get to know you. Then, find friends who have similar interests as well as some different skills than yours. These could be useful for forming teams and completing the final project. To facilitate this, please login at http://venture-lab.org/users/sign_in and visit the class page at http://venture-lab.org/education/index where you should fill out your personal profile by clicking on your name on the menu and choosing profile or going to http://venture-lab.org/education/users/edit If you are taking other classes on Venture Lab at the same time, some of your personal information will be shared among all classes. However, different classes will be asking for extra information. So please fill out your profile in each class separately. Feel free to browse the site, add a post in your personal journal or answer Pamela's question about the class on the forum at: http://venture-lab.org/education/topics/2 I am asking you questions about your education and professional experience, language, how much time you intend to spend on the course, and a short personal statement for any other key information about yourself. This will help you and your teammates find the right people for help and collaboration during class and for the team project—each of us has been involved in some way with education and learning environments, which means that each of us has something valuable to contribute to this course. Share it! Feel free to invite others to join the class. You can join the course as an individual or with a team of people you already know. You will be able to set up teams during the second week of the course, and the recommended team size is 4-7 people. You will get an email next week announcing the official launch of the course. Throughout the course, to get each other’s attention in a hurry, for pressing questions, or to give another student recognition, ‘vote up’ important questions and comments in the appropriate discussion forum. Welcome! Paul Kim Am 16.10.2012 um 20:15 schrieb Caryl Bigenho: Thanks Zachary, I'll just send this on to the mailing lists and see if anyone has heard. I checked the class page and registration is closed. There is no way to contact them as far as I can see. Do you have the originating address for the one email you did receive? Caryl Hey Foks! Has anyone who signed up for the Stanford Venture Lab Education MOOC heard from them? The class was supposed to start yesterday. From: zachary.clif...@colorado.edu Subject: Re: Stanford Venture Lab Course To: cbige...@hotmail.com Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 11:14:28 -0600 I don't. That was the only email I received. I believe the class started yesterday, but I believe I am out of the loop as well. As far as I now, there might not even be a class anymore. Zachary Clifton Original message Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 09:52:51 -0700 From: Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com Subject: Stanford Venture Lab Course To: Zachary Clifton zachary.clif...@colorado.edu Hello Zachary, I am still not getting emails from the Stanford Venture Lab. Thanks for sending the one note you sent earlier. Have there been others? I can't find an email address to contact them to see if somehow I got left out. Do you have a link to the discussion forum mentioned in the message you forwarded? Caryl ___ support-gang mailing list support-g...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang Rita Freudenberg r...@isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Fwd: Computer Programming Tools in Schools with Etoys
Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail: Von: Kathleen Harness kathleenharn...@gmail.com Datum: 13. Mai 2012 21:00:05 MESZ An: etoys-education-team etoys-education-t...@googlegroups.com Betreff: Computer Programming Tools in Schools with Etoys Antwort an: etoys-education-t...@googlegroups.com Hello All, The current Computer Programming Tools in Schools Etoys collection is posted and announced on EtoysIllinois.org. http://etoysillinois.org/library?tags=Computer%20Programming%20Tools%20in%20Schools The lesson materials are available as word documents and as PDFs. Two new CPTS Etoys projects are: Spy vs Spy http://etoysillinois.org/library?sl=2026 Copter VH-ZGA http://etoysillinois.org/library?sl=2013 New collections of student projects are: Haiku http://etoysillinois.org/library?tags=Haiku Broken Glass http://etoysillinois.org/library?tags=Broken%20Glass FYI Please announce these opportunities on lists where you think there will be interest. Lenny Pitt, UIUC Director of Undergraduate Computer Science, received a Google grant to provide a three day CS4HS workshop and will use Etoys. This is the third year we have offered this workshop. http://etoysillinois.org/cs4hs/2012 I added more dates for our All-the-Etoys-You-Can-Learn-in-One-Day-Workshop. http://illinois.edu/calendar/search/2067?KEYWORDS=All-You-Can-Etoys Regards, Kathleen -- Unless this email contains personal or other matters that need to be kept confidential, a PLEASE CONSIDER: Moving/Posting your questions and discussions to the squeakl...@squeakland.org mailing list. This will allow a wider range of folks to have input on and understand what we are doing. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Etoys Education Team group. To post to this group, send email to etoys-education-t...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to etoys-education-team+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/etoys-education-team?hl=en Rita Freudenberg r...@isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Fwd: [squeakland] Etoys 5 release !
Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail: Hi Squeakland is proud to announce the release of Etoys 5, which you can now download from our website. Special thanks our developers, particularly Ricardo Moran, Bert Freudenberg, Scott Wallace (and my self) for their dedicated efforts in the last weeks. http://squeakland.org/download/ In the Etoys 5 you'll find new features, like single-stepping a script, attached watchers, a graph paper tool or the integration of ScratchConnect. You'll find a list of the new features, changes and bug fixes along with a list of contributors in our release notes. For the new features, we added a section with more detailed explanations on how to use it at the end of the notes. http://www.squeakland.org/download/releaseNotes.jsp Thanks to everyone who helped us to make this happen! Cheers, Karl Ramberg Squeakland Developers Team ___ squeakland mailing list squeakl...@squeakland.org http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland Rita Freudenberg r...@isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] DrGeo user manual
Am 28.07.2011 um 15:02 schrieb Hilaire Fernandes: Le 27/07/2011 14:47, James Simmons a écrit : Hillaire, One solution to create books in many formats other than LaTeX is Booki. You can create PDFs in many different formats for print on demand, PDFs for online reading, EPUBs and MOBIs, plus templated HTML. You can check out Booki at the FLOSS Manuals website: http://en.flossmanuals.net/ Looks neat, exploring it... Hi Hilaire, we are also using it to write the Etoys Reference Manual, where we now (since Dr.Geo is part of Etoys regularly) would need a paragraph in the Objects chapter about it ... :) http://booki.flossmanuals.net/etoys-reference-manual/_edit/ Greetings, Rita Thanks Hilaire -- Education 0.2 -- http://blog.ofset.org/hilaire ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep Rita Freudenberg r...@isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Advertising Sugar
Hi, if I want to advertize Sugar, is there any material that can be used? I've translated the Sugar Manual into German, and there are some nice text passages. But maybe there is more? Would it be ok to translate this into German, too? It will be used to impress decision makers ...:) Greetings, Rita ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Alternative 'favorites view' as an intro to programming
Hi Chris, do the students have former experience with programming? If not, I would show them Etoys or Turtle Art first, so that they have an understanding of what it means to send commands to the computer. Then you could built on this and starting to be more abstract about how you can send commands to the computer using text in files instead of tiles in a graphical environment. I think that the most difficult thing here is to get the students make the connection between the text they type and what happens on the computer. My own experience is not with 4th or 5th graders, but university students, and it takes some time for them to get it. Greetings, Rita On Jul 20, 2011, at 11:54 PM, Christopher Lindgren wrote: Hi, everyone, This is my first time emailing this list, but I've been reading for awhile now. I was wondering if I could request some help with an idea that I was thinking about doing with my SoaS project. I want to provide an engaging mini-lesson introducing the architecture of Sugar (python) to 4th and 5th graders. To do so, I thought that the favorites view modification would be a fun way to show them how there is code underneath this GUI, and you can change the code to change the WYSIWYG. Anyways, I am wondering how to go about this, using the latest mirabelle soas image? I have seen this wiki page: (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Hacking_Sugar#Emulation_Images), but I do not know how to view this source file. I only know how to do the View Source for the activities in Sugar. Any help will be greatly appreciated! Best, Chris Lindgren | fargoxo.wordpress.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
[IAEP] Sugar doc on flossmanuals - question about chapter Going beyond activities
Hi, I'm currently translating the sugar manual into German and I'm at the chapter Going beyond activities. I'm having problems understanding the second paragraph Reading with Sugar. This chapter refers to the Browse activity and then says to click the books link, and then click encyclopedia, picture books, or dictionaries. I don't see a books-link when I start the Browse activity. Am I using an old version? Is there any other Browse activity? It would be great if someone could tell me which activity the manual is referring to. Maybe the manual is outdated and needs to be reworked? Thanks, Rita ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges
Does anyone know about the license of the turtle confusion book? Would it be ok to translate it? Greetings, Rita On Sep 9, 2009, at 11:33 AM, Bill Kerr wrote: introduced turtle art and barry newell's 40 shapes to my students today about half way through the lesson someone asked, how do you do the circle? before I could say anything another student replied, that's easy - just use arc you've gotta laugh (an arc primitive wasn't there for the original logo, nor is it in scratch) On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Maria Droujkova droujk...@gmail.com wrote: Circle is one of the hardest in Scratch. Unless I am missing a command. Cheers, Maria Droujkova http://www.naturalmath.com Make math your own, to make your own math. On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Bill Kerr billk...@gmail.com wrote: Image attached Forty shapes to make in Scratch or some other version of logo, such as Turtle Art. It's hard to see the thumbnail but click on it for a larger view. This is one of the best sheets ever for teaching maths (designed by Barry Newell): the logo turtle or scratch cat acts as a transitional object between the concrete maths shape and the abstraction of the script that makes the shape the sheet includes both simple and complex shapes, increasing in order of complexity, there is a challenge there for everyone many of the more complex shapes are made up of combinations of the simpler shapes Source: Barry Newell's Turtle Confusion (1988) ___ 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 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Squeakfest program online - join us in Montevideo!
There are just 9 days left until Squeakfest Uruguay 2011 starts! Mariana Herrera did put together a great program, you can find the details now on our website: http://squeakland.org/squeakfest/schedule/ We will have presentations from the different organizations around the OLPC project in Uruguay, the whole Physical Etoys Group from Argentina is presenting, teachers and educators are talking about their experience, basic and advanced workshops are offered. From Squeakland Randy Caton, Marta Voelcker and myself will present at the conference, Steve Thomas and Walter Bender will give online presentations, Bert will join an online workshop. Looking forward to a great event! Greetings, Rita ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] ejabber school server
Hi, I have a question reagrding the school server installation. When I have a network server already (centos 5 for instance), would it be possible to just take the ejabber-package from the school server to connect the sugar laptops? Thanks, Rita ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Squeakfest Uruguay - Call for Papers
The official Squeakfest website is now live and ready for you to propose a presentation, workshop, or panel. http://squeakfest.org The dates for Squeakfest Uruguay in Montevideo are May 26, 27, 28. The theme for this year's conference will be How and why to use Etoys in the education Our overall goal is to show how teachers are using Etoys to teach their full curriculum. Whether language arts, math, science, or more, we hope to showcase the many ways Etoys can help teachers demonstrate abstract ideas easily. If you've got experience teaching with Etoys, we'd love to hear about it, as would the attendees of the conference. We're also very interested in non-classroom Etoys use, particularly as it relates to OLPC pilots. We'll be adding more information to the website as it becomes available, but for now, the important thing is to get your presentation information to us so we can begin to design the program for our three days together. Please complete and submit the online form no later than May, 14th, 2011. Please share this information with anyone you think would be interested in either Squeakfest conference. We hope to see you there! Take care, Rita___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Sugar on tablets
Hi, we are working on a project getting Sugar running on a tablet (Pegatron Lucid). The tablet has an intel processor, Sugar is running on Fedora 14. We only had few activities after the installation, but imported them later and most of them are working. Now it is getting interesting. On a tablet, some things need to be improved. One thing is the activation of the frame. It is really hard to put the mouse pointer with your fingers in the upper left corner to get the frame. And the other thing is the missing keyboard. This is really needed. I found the page on the sugar labs wiki about the onscreen keyboard: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Onscreen_Keyboard Is anyone working on this at the moment? Right now, we are using an external keyboard. We installed a jabber server and we could collaborate in the write activity between the tablet and an interactive whiteboard :) I cannot go into details about the planned project, discussion is still ongoing, but everything looks promising at the moment. If we are successful, we will put a certain number of these tablets + Sugar into our schools! This is a great chance for Sugar here in Germany! But we need your help to make it work! Greetings, Rita ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Another Etoys Question
On Feb 1, 2011, at 8:57 AM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Have they changed the passwords and user names since last summer? I helped write the original XO manual and worked on the Spanish translation of the Activities manual. Tonight I can't sign in and the Etoys book doesn't seem to be available in the Read mode. I asked for my password via email and it did not recognize either of my email addresses. Hi Caryl, thank you for the message! Yes, I had to sign in on booki and got a new account. I imported the Etoys manual into the new system. I assume that you need to register with booki before you can acces it. Please let me know if it works! You can find the url for the XO manual here: http://booki.flossmanuals.net/xo/edit/ Can you read/edit it? I'm wondering where to find the spanish translation you worked on ... Rita Caryl From: r...@isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 08:54:19 +0100 To: support-g...@lists.laptop.org CC: car...@me.com; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; sthom...@gosargon.com; support-g...@laptop.org Subject: Re: [support-gang] [IAEP] Another Etoys Question There is a new link for the manual here: http://booki.flossmanuals.net/etoys-reference-manual/edit/ Floss manuals updated the system, it is now called booki. It is better to use the new link, the old one will probably be removed sometime in the future. As for the translation, we'll have to find out how to setup a spanish version. We should do it on booki, too. I'll find out how to start it. Greetings, Rita On Jan 31, 2011, at 10:54 PM, Cherry Withers wrote: Ooops...so sorry...correction..I didn't write the chapter! Only the book section. Thank you Gerald, Carlos and for those who want to help! On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Dr. Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote: Cherry, I am going to be using the manual with some teachers soon. I will make updates from those sessions. Gerald On Monday, January 31, 2011, Cherry Withers cwith...@ekindling.org wrote: Hi Carlos, The manual is not completely done. It needs editing and we would appreciate all the feedback that we can get. If you'd like to spearhead the effort of translating it to Spanish, it will be most appreciated! The original manual was done using FLOSS Manuals. You can open an account for free and email them of your intent to start a book or manual and go from there:http://en.flossmanuals.net/ Thank you for all of your support! --Cherry On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Carlos Rabassa car...@me.com wrote: Cherry, interesting you mention the manual. What is the status of the manual? At one point I had volunteered to translate it into Spanish. Then there were other volunteers, then there was some other book and then no more talk. My offer is still on. Is there anything you think I could start translating about Etoys? Carlos Rabassa On Jan 31, 2011, at 8:49 PM, Cherry Withers wrote: Hi Caryl, I wrote that chapter on the manual. I would really like to know if there's anything at all that's unclear about what I wrote. I would also be happy to go through it with you on Skype at your convenience. Cheers, Cherry On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Steve Thomas sthom...@gosargon.com wrote: Caryl, From the supplies bin, drag out a book. Then click on the Triangle in the upper left corner of the book (when you hover over it it will say More Controls. You will then be able to add pages by clicking on the + in the Book header and you can also duplicate pages from the menu in the header. More details are in the Etoy floss manual Chapter 5 http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Etoys/Objects (search for book within the page). Stephen On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: OK, so I have watched the tutorials and even looked at 2 books I have about Squeak and still haven't found out how to make a multi-page book or slide show like we want to do for the Water Lessons. Innocent that I am, I assumed that clicking on the page symbol (looks like a page symbol used in other programs) would give me a new page. I got what I thought was a new page. Constructed it and saved. Then I discovered it created a new project, not a new page! Rats! Oh well, the page I lost was just the title page and it will be easy to remake it. However I would like to keep the second page I made, put the title page before it and then add several more pages after. Is there a link to instructions for doing this? I don't need to learn about loops, variables, tiles and stuff like that... already know that and can, and have, taught it. Caryl ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Another Etoys Question
There is a new link for the manual here: http://booki.flossmanuals.net/etoys-reference-manual/edit/ Floss manuals updated the system, it is now called booki. It is better to use the new link, the old one will probably be removed sometime in the future. As for the translation, we'll have to find out how to setup a spanish version. We should do it on booki, too. I'll find out how to start it. Greetings, Rita On Jan 31, 2011, at 10:54 PM, Cherry Withers wrote: Ooops...so sorry...correction..I didn't write the chapter! Only the book section. Thank you Gerald, Carlos and for those who want to help! On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Dr. Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote: Cherry, I am going to be using the manual with some teachers soon. I will make updates from those sessions. Gerald On Monday, January 31, 2011, Cherry Withers cwith...@ekindling.org wrote: Hi Carlos, The manual is not completely done. It needs editing and we would appreciate all the feedback that we can get. If you'd like to spearhead the effort of translating it to Spanish, it will be most appreciated! The original manual was done using FLOSS Manuals. You can open an account for free and email them of your intent to start a book or manual and go from there: http://en.flossmanuals.net/ Thank you for all of your support! --Cherry On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Carlos Rabassa car...@me.com wrote: Cherry, interesting you mention the manual. What is the status of the manual? At one point I had volunteered to translate it into Spanish. Then there were other volunteers, then there was some other book and then no more talk. My offer is still on. Is there anything you think I could start translating about Etoys? Carlos Rabassa On Jan 31, 2011, at 8:49 PM, Cherry Withers wrote: Hi Caryl, I wrote that chapter on the manual. I would really like to know if there's anything at all that's unclear about what I wrote. I would also be happy to go through it with you on Skype at your convenience. Cheers, Cherry On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Steve Thomas sthom...@gosargon.com wrote: Caryl, From the supplies bin, drag out a book. Then click on the Triangle in the upper left corner of the book (when you hover over it it will say More Controls. You will then be able to add pages by clicking on the + in the Book header and you can also duplicate pages from the menu in the header. More details are in the Etoy floss manual Chapter 5 http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Etoys/Objects (search for book within the page). Stephen On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: OK, so I have watched the tutorials and even looked at 2 books I have about Squeak and still haven't found out how to make a multi-page book or slide show like we want to do for the Water Lessons. Innocent that I am, I assumed that clicking on the page symbol (looks like a page symbol used in other programs) would give me a new page. I got what I thought was a new page. Constructed it and saved. Then I discovered it created a new project, not a new page! Rats! Oh well, the page I lost was just the title page and it will be easy to remake it. However I would like to keep the second page I made, put the title page before it and then add several more pages after. Is there a link to instructions for doing this? I don't need to learn about loops, variables, tiles and stuff like that... already know that and can, and have, taught it. Caryl ___ 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 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ support-gang mailing list support-g...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Problems Accessing Waveplace Tutorials
On Jan 28, 2011, at 8:39 AM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi Folks, Strange things happening tonight. I was working on the Etoys tutorials on the Waveplace website, but didn't notice my battery was low (MacBook) and it shut down during dinner. Now I am unable to access the lessons. I get pages without the buttons some with html but no buttons. Other sites work fine. Is it me or is it Waveplace? Hotmail has also been slow to come through although tonight. FB and Twitter seem fine. I was hoping to finish the tutorials tomorrow so I can put my Water Lesson for Haiti into Etoys this weekend. Hi Caryl, please try again, things should be ok now. Greetings, Rita P.S. It was a server problem. Caryl ___ 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] [FM Discuss] The great OLPC/Sugar manual Booki migration begins
On Nov 28, 2010, at 9:47 PM, James Simmons wrote: All the Sugar manuals we wrote using FLOSS Manuals have to be migrated from the current TWiki site to the new Booki site at: http://booki.flossmanuals.net Does this apply only to finished manuals, or do we need to import work in progress too? Rita If you are the maintainer of one of these books you can easily copy the book over by visiting the site, getting an account, and doing three things: 1). Join the Group One Laptop per Child/Sugar Labs. 2). Import the book using the My Manuals page. 3). Add the book to the Group. I could import all the books myself, but that would make me the chief maintainer of the books, an honor I deserve about as much as Bristol Palin deserved to win on Dancing With The Stars. If, after a reasonable amount of time (in other words, we have to migrate the book or risk losing it entirely) no maintainer comes forward I will import the books remaining. As before, anyone can update any book. The maintainer does not have any special privileges as far as I can see. Some advice: If you want to rename your book rename it in the TWiki Table of Contents page *before* you do your import. I don't know how this affects translations of books yet. I would guess that these books stay where they are for the time being. I have brought up the question on the FM mailing list. James Simmons ___ Discuss mailing list disc...@lists.flossmanuals.net http://lists.flossmanuals.net/listinfo.cgi/discuss-flossmanuals.net ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] newtechh...@coppell and Etoys info needed
Hi Folks, I had a great visit yesterday with the folks at New Tech High @ Coppell, TX. It is a great place, where facilitators guide learners in their project based learning. We were very impressed. But, I was surprised to discover they do not teach any computer programming at the school. If students want to take programming, they can do a concurrent enrollment at the local community college. Their classes are the traditional courses, taught in a very non-traditional way. Since last year they have been doing a great Contributors Project with XOs they are sending to the rescued slave children at the shelter run by the Touch A Life Foundation in Ghana. As a followup to the work they did last year, they want to create math games for these children to use on the XOs. They tried doing this last year with Scratch but were not satisfied with their product and felt they could do better. Their project director is a math teacher and she wants her students to try again this year to create math learning games for the children in their project in Ghana. I suggested she try Etoys this time and promised to get her more information on how to do it. Anything they create will be at a very elementary level as most of the children in the shelter have had no prior school experience. Their lessons in Etoys should be as language neutral as possible and the words they do use can be translated and used by deployments anywhere so this could be a very useful project. Hi Caryl, these are great news! You might want to connect with Christine Murakami, who did a wonderful project this year with her highschool students creating Etoys projects for kids in St. John. I'll forward this mail to her. How do you transfer an Etoys lesson to the XO (they will have both XO-1s and XO-1.5s) if they lessons are created: The lessons would be Etoys projects, which can be distributed via some storage device or on the internet. One central place for Etoys projects is the showcase on our website: http://www.squeakland.org/showcase/everyone/ You need an account to upload projects. Downloading is possible without login. On a Mac using Etoys downloaded from the web: On a PC using Etoys downloaded from the web: On Etoys to go downloaded from the web and, possibly used on both Macs and PCs (they have both at New Tech): Click on the Find-icon and choose Squeakland showcase from the menu. You can then choose everyone and accounts to find projects by contributors. Is there a good way to disseminate the projects so that the children won't accidentally erase them... perhaps by using SD cards or USB sticks? Cost is a factor. If internet access is a problem, then some other storage device would be helpful, I think. There could also be a folder on a server if they are connected and they could load the projects from there. Or... could they make a custom build for their project that would include their Etoys lessons in a way that they wouldn't accidentally be erased? I will probably have more questions as we go along, but this will help get us all started. Please ask, this project sounds really great! Greetings, Rita GrannieB (Caryl) For more info about newt...@coppell: http://www.coppellisd.com/newtech/lib/newtech/pdfs/demonstrationsiteprofile.pdf http://www.newtechnetwork.org/newtech_schools (watch the video linked in the upper right corner to see how the school works) ___ 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] Grants for Open Educational Resources
On Aug 5, 2010, at 11:30 PM, Cherry Withers wrote: Squeakland's education team would be happy to participate in this endeavor. We have created content in Etoys that are self contained with not just text/content but also integrated modeling and guidance for self assessment. Is there a particular format that this program is looking for? Thanks! Let us know how we may be of service. Regards, Cherry On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 13:19, Frederick Grose fgr...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: I intend to apply for creating digital textbook replacements. Anyone else interested? Like Cherry said, Squeakland edu team is interested. I do have some questions. Is there a special grant program you plan to apply for using the priorities in the article to have a better chance to get funding? Or will the grant program be announced later when the priorities are final? Do you plan to comment on the priorities? Greetings, Rita How about affiliating with Sugar Labs as a Sugar Labs project? Certainly. I have several pages on the Sugar Labs Wiki about it. This is the place to start. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Education_Team/Creating_textbooks http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/22912 U.S. Department of Education includes OER in notice of proposed priorities for grant programs Timothy Vollmer, August 5th, 2010 Today the U.S. Department of Education took another big step in supporting open educational resources (OER). In the Federal Register, the Department released a notice of proposed priorities (NPP): The Secretary of Education proposes priorities that the Department of Education (Department) may use for any appropriate discretionary grant program in fiscal year (FY) 2011 and future years … This action will permit all offices in the Department to use, as appropriate for particular discretionary grant programs, one or more of these priorities in any discretionary grant competition. The set of proposed priorities specifically mentions OER. Essentially, if the priorities are adopted, it could mean that grant seekers who include open educational resources as a component of an application for funding from the Department of Education could receive priority. OER is included in Proposed Priority 13–Improving Productivity: Projects that are designed to significantly increase efficiency in the use of time, staff, money, or other resources. Such projects may include innovative and sustainable uses of technology, modification of school schedules, use of open educational resources (as defined in this notice), or other strategies that improve results and increase productivity. As mentioned, the NPP includes a definition of open educational resources: Open educational resources (OER) means teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use or repurposing by others. Interested parties may submit comments to the notice of proposed priorities until September 7, 2010. Information about how to submit a comment is described in the notice. -- 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://www.earthtreasury.org/ ___ 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://www.earthtreasury.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 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Squeakfest call for presentations
The official Squeakfest website is now live and ready for you to propose a presentation, workshop, or panel. http://squeakfest.org The dates for Squeakfest USA in Wilmington NC are July 26, 27, 28. The theme for this year's conference will be Etoys in the STEM classroom. As we are in the place where the NSF project /Using Squeak to Infuse Technology /(USeIT) is reaching it's 3rd year, we will see and learn a lot about their experiences. If you've got experience teaching with Etoys, we'd love to hear about it, as would the attendees of the conference. We're also very interested in non-classroom Etoys use, particularly as it relates to OLPC pilots or homeschooling. We'll be adding more information to the website as it becomes available, but for now, the important thing is to get your presentation information to us so we can begin to design the program for our three days together. Please complete and submit the online form no later than June 11th, 2010. Please share this information with anyone you think would be interested in either Squeakfest conference. We hope to see you there! Greetings, Rita ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] events in Boston/New York in July?
Since we have Squeakfest this year in July in Wilmington, NC, our whole family is coming over to the east coast in July. We plan to travel to New York and Boston sometime between July 5 and July 16, and I would like to know if there are any OLPC or Sugar Labs events planned? It would be great if we could meet! And, of course, you are all invited to Squeakfest, where we could meet, too! Greetings, Bert + Rita Squeakland Foundation http://www.squeakland.org P.S. We also welcome any recommendations for cheap accomodation in New York / Boston :) ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Squeakfest 2010 - Save the Date!
Greetings, we are happy to announce that University of North Carolina Wilmington will be the host for this year's Squeakfest! We invite you all to a face to face gathering, sharing of experiences and materials relative to the usage of Etoys. We will have two great keynote speakers this year: Walter Bender from Sugar Labs and Julian Lombardi from Duke University. Squeakfest USA July 26, 27 and 28th Wilmington, NC University of Wilmington We'll have more info on the Squeakfest website shortly, but until then, please save the date! Please forward this email and share with friends and colleagues. This will be a gathering of users and practitioners of Etoys -- teachers, researchers, and developers to share and learn. Newcomers to Etoys are most welcome too! We hope to see you in Wilmington in July! More to come... Rita ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] SoaS change of direction: heads-up on convos in other lists
What's the reason that Etoys isn't part of the bundle anymore? Are there any technical problems? We do not expect the Sugar developers to fix them. I do like Tomeus suggestions below very much. Rita Von meinem iPhone gesendet Am 22.03.2010 um 10:35 schrieb Tomeu Vizoso to...@tomeuvizoso.net: On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 18:10, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: The problem with this approach is that it renders SoaS ineffective for new tryers of Sugar (i.e. the overwhelming majority of teachers and parents we are trying to reach). I don't think it will be any less ineffective than having 20 activities of which half have issues, crash or just don't run. Are people saying _only 6 activities work reliably?_ My question of which is it? was assuming there are more than 6 that run well, demo well, maintained, etc. So it meant which plan is it, 6 activities that allow downloading and installing of more, or the good ones? If there are only 6 good ones... would focus on making that list longer. Did APIs break with Sugar churn, Fedora churn? Developers upload without testing? (Rethorical! Flamefest warning! Those questions are bound to be a flamefest blaming people who don't deserve to be blamed... :-( ) I think some of or all of the above are to blame. I'm still trying to get time to test. I should do so in the next couple of weeks. Record is one of the classic ones with issues. It was broken horribly for SOAS-2 and possibly even v1 but there's been no real attempt to fix it. Part of it is also that to be in Fedora the precompiled binary crud needs to be removed and in a lot of cases Activity developers don't test it with the native libraries. Also I know Write isn't currently on the list because it doesn't work properly [1] but obviously it would be a good one to have as its a great demo of the collaboration. We also want to get away from the point where a few people are running around doing 20 hour days trying to get the release out the door. I know just prior to to the last release that Sebastian was re-spinning the release into the early hours of the morning to fix Activity bugs to get the release out the door on time for marketing the day before an exam. If people aren't going to spend the time to make sure their activity works prior to a release there's only only limited time the main people have to do the testing along with all the other release process as well as getting on with the rest of their life. So I think its better we ship with less Activities better tested that cover the core functionality. FWIW, Peter's words resonate with my feelings on this issue, but maybe this change could have been communicated differently (or maybe I'm misunderstanding its ultimate cause). How I see this issue is that the Sugar community has come to expect the SoaS maintainer(s) to test dozens of activities each release cycle and fix all the issues that may have crept in. Of course, this is an unreasonable expectation and the SoaS team has decided to reduce the scope of their work so it becomes more doable. What the SoaS team could have said instead of we'll ship half a dozen activities, is we have agreed on a criteria for activities that are to be included in a SoaS release. Such a criteria could have been something like: - the activity has been tested and works with the last Sugar release, - the community has voted this activity as sufficiently relevant to be present in SoaS, - the activity has a maintainer that will react to issues with the activity, answer questions, etc. - the activity has been packaged as a rpm and is part of Fedora. This may be more effective in tackling with the root cause, which I feel to be unreasonable expectation for the actual resources. The community would understand that the SoaS team currently doesn't have enough resources to include so many activities, and also would feel compelled to find more resources to maintain activities. Regards, Tomeu Peter [1] http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1767 ___ 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 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Calendar
Hi, I'm trying to setup a calendar for Squeakland like the one you are using on the sugar labs wiki. I do have some questions about that. So if the person, who did the sugar labs calendar, is reading this, please send me a short notice if you have time to help me! To have a calendar overview for Squeakland events could help to better coordinate Sugar Labs and Squeakland events Greetings, Rita Squeakland Foundation http://www.squeakland.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Interaction Design and Children - conference
There is a conference in Barcelona in June called Interaction Design and Children http://www.iua.upf.es/idc2010/call.htm Is anyone here interested in attending? Greetings, Rita Squeakland Foundation http://www.squeakland.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Walter's visit
Gerald Ardito wrote: As some of you know, I am a middle school teacher and doctoral student working with 150 XO laptops in a set of 5th grade classrooms. My research interest is to see how those devices and the Sugar software impact the learning environment of the classroom. We were fortunate enough to have Walter spend a day with us yesterday. He spent a session with each our 6 5th grade classrooms, teaching the children some basics of Turtle Art. He also then spent time with the teachers and our superintendent. The day was incredibly powerful and valuable to all of us. At one point, he was even mobbed by students for his autograph! I created a short video of the visit, which you can see here: http://animoto.com/play/2hVwpobfxD4cs1OMSBlDVg That looks like an amazing day! Gerald, did you ever try Etoys? Please let me know if you are interested, we have teachers who did great things with Etoys in their classroom! http://www.squeakland.org/ Greetings, Rita Enjoy! Thanks, Walter. Gerald ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Rita Freudenberg Squeakland Foundation http://www.squeakland.org/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Sugar on RedHat or Zentos?
Hi, does anybody know if there will be a Sugar on RedHat or Zentos? A colleague of mine would like to run Sugar on Sun Thin Clients. If noone is working on that right now, can you tell me how difficult it would be build the Sugar port? We can try to find a interested student at our university. Greetings, Rita -- Rita Freudenberg FIN-ISG Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg http://isgwww.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/isg/rita.html ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Squeakfest broadcast
Hi everyone, Squeakfest USA has started. We are broadcasting at: http://www.justin.tv/squeakland Greetings, Rita ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Squeakfest schedule online
Hi everyone, the schedule for Squeakfest USA is now online! Have a look at it here: http://squeakland.org/squeakfest/usa/schedule/ Registration is still open here: http://squeakland.org/squeakfest/usa/register/ Rita Freudenberg r...@squeakland.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] {Disarmed} Squeakfest Registration is open
Squeakfest Registration is Open! Registration is now open for both Squeakfest USA 2009 (Los Angeles: August 10,11,12) and Squeakfest Brasil 2009 (Porto Alegre: July 23, 24, 25). Squeakfest USA registration costs $100, or $125 if payment is received after August 1st. Squeakfest Brasil registration is free. Please register as early as possible so that we may better plan the events. To register for Squeakfest USA, click here http://squeakland.org/action/messageClick?id=525url=http://squeakland.org/squeakfest/usa/register/. To register for Squeakfest Brasil, click here http://squeakland.org/action/messageClick?id=525url=http://squeakland.org/squeakfest/brasil/register/. To find out more about Squeakfest, visit squeakfest.org http://squeakland.org/action/messageClick?id=525url=http://squeakfest.org. We hope to see you! -- Rita Freudenberg Squeakland Foundation http://www.squeakland,org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Usage scenarios for Sugar?
Sean DALY schrieb: Hi everyone, we have been contacted by a monthly tech publication in Europe willing to devote several pages to Sugar in their summer issue! More specifically, advising parents how to download run SoaS and do educational stuff with their kids during the summer holidays. Off the top of my head I suggested a scenario where Memorize is customized with family photos, a Turtle Art lesson, ... They could do an interactive postcard using Etoys! Like greetings from ..., they could make photos using the camera, import them into Etoys and script it. I will sendmore infomation on how to do that. Greetings, Rita Suggestions please! thanks Sean ___ 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
[IAEP] Squeakland Spring Newsletter
Hi everyone, our spring newsletter is out! If you aren't subscribed, you can read it here: http://squeakland.org/news/newsletter/web.jsp?id=10 If you'd like to subscribe, click here: http://squeakland.org/subscribe/ Greetings, Rita ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] 1500 XOLiveCD in German schools
Sean DALY wrote: A pity we weren't in that loop we could have arranged a sidebar about SoaS for example The deadline of the articles has been in december last year, and SoaS has not been that much on my radar, then ... Does anyone know how we can get a copy of that magazine? I did ask the editor, will tell you as soon as I get an answer. Rita Thanks Sean On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Caroline Meeks solutiongr...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 5:36 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 09.05.2009, at 02:16, Kurt Gramlich wrote: dear friends the German association FSuB e. V. has sponsored 1500 XOLiveCDs. This CDs are distributed within a Newspaper called LOG-IN. So we will reach about 1500 schools in Germany with 36 pages of information about OLPC. For those who are able to read German: http://log-in-verlag.de/PDF-Dateien/LOG_IN_156_PUB.pdf The XOLiveCd has more than 50 activities working out of the box. Thanks to FSuB for that. This issue of the LOG IN journal (which is primarily aimed at teachers) has many Sugar-related articles, about deployments, Sugar itself, Activities, and even the School server: Laptops vs. Satchels editorial by Joachim Wedekind and Bernhard Koerber OLPC - from vision to global movement by Christoph Derndorfer The OLPC pilot in Ethiopia by Hermann Härtel Learning with Etoys by Rita Freudenberg Educational concepts vs. hardware a discussion between Richard Heinen and Joachim Wedekind Sugar - an operating system for learning by Rita Freudenberg Programming the XO by Joachim Wedekind and Christian Kohls First steps to visual programming with TurtleArt and Scratch by Rüdeger Baumann Networking the XO - hardware, Sugar collaboration services, XS by Volkmar Hinz The XO Live CD - by Wolfgang Rohrmoser Wow, who caused this to happen? Thank you! Thank you! This sounds great! Can we get them translated? Anyone (Sean) know how to approach similar magazines around the world? Maybe the editors of Log In has contacts. Is there a call to action included? What would we want teachers and school administrators to do once they have tried Sugar? Cheers, Caroline Thanks to all the authors and supporters! - Bert - ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax ___ 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 -- Rita Freudenberg FIN-ISG Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg http://isgwww.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/isg/rita.html ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] 1500 XOLiveCD in German schools
Caroline Meeks wrote: Wow, who caused this to happen? Thank you! Thank you! That would be Joachim Wedekind: http://joachim-wedekind.de/ He's a media education professional, and active in the German OLPC community since 2007. In Summer 2008 he contacted my hsuband Bert and some others for a topical issue of the LOG IN journal. He didn't had time to write an article but I did... The sugar article is mostly based on the Sugar Users Guide from FLOSS Manuals. This sounds great! Can we get them translated? I did ask the editor about that, I will let you know. Anyone (Sean) know how to approach similar magazines around the world? Maybe the editors of Log In has contacts. I did ask them about that, too. Greetings, Rita Is there a call to action included? What would we want teachers and school administrators to do once they have tried Sugar? Cheers, Caroline Thanks to all the authors and supporters! - Bert - ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Rita Freudenberg FIN-ISG Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg http://isgwww.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/isg/rita.html ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] 70 minute interview with Bryan Berry on XO deployment in Nepal
Christoph Derndorfer wrote: Zitat von Ties Stuij cjst...@gmail.com: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Bill Kerr billk...@gmail.com wrote: hard to argue against someone who is doing such great work in Nepal but I thought Bryan overplayed the local factors too much: 10) Open Source software critical to high quality education – education has to be very customised, to the kids, the teacher, the environment and the country – not something you can design in New York city and will fit another country http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2009/04/olpc-nepal-project-overview.html The counterbalance to that is that The Enlightenment is what made us, what created modernity, what transformed diverse cultures into our modern culture I hope it doesn't become unfashionable to say that modernity is a good thing see http://learningevolves.wikispaces.com/nonUniversals I think you're misinterpreting Bryan as having said something culturally relativistic. Think more practical. The most practical example for Bryan's point is that if we wouldn't make stuff that is in line with the Nepali curriculum, week by week, subject by subject, it would be very hard to sell here. And would be pretty useless for the teachers. Also the level the teachers and children are at is pretty different. You can't just give the teachers Moodle and expect them to put in their wildest teaching dreams; not in a lot of other countries as well I guess but in our teacher training course we cover things like moving the mouse. We leave in the grade 2 activities for the grade 6 students, because a lot of them don't have a strong grasp of grade 2 material. This requires presenting the material in a different way, depending on the local situation, just as already within one classroom different kids will be better helped by different methods. Another example that I recently learned about (and something that I would have never thought to be the case!) is that something as simple as division in Mathematics is taught quite differently in Austria than in Germany. It might be the same concept all around the world but if we can't adapt interactive learning solutions to such a vital requirement in a country than there's little chance of teachers actually using it. So in this case it doesn't necessarily make sense for someone in Berlin (let alone New York) to design a Maths learning activity to be used in an Austrian school. Oh well, it's not even the same in different federal states in Germany ... But it would be interesting to show the nepali Etoys projects to german teachers and ask them, if they can imagine to use these in their class room (of course I have to translate the text before...). Rita Just my 2 eurocents, Christoph -- Christoph Derndorfer co-editor, olpcnews url: 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 -- Rita Freudenberg FIN-ISG Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg http://isgwww.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/isg/rita.html ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Squeakfest call for presentations
Greetings! The official Squeakfest website is now live and ready for you to propose a presentation, workshop, or panel. http://squeakfest.org The dates for Squeakfest USA in Los Angeles CA are August 10, 11, 12. The dates for Squeakfest Brasil in Porto Alegre RS are July 23, 24, 25. Also keep in mind that many of us will be attending nearby WCCE the following week (July 27 to 31). The theme for this year's USA conference will be Etoys in the classroom. Our overall goal is to show how teachers are using Etoys to teach their full curriculum. Whether language arts, math, science, or more, we hope to showcase the many ways Etoys can help teachers demonstrate abstract ideas easily. If you've got experience teaching with Etoys, we'd love to hear about it, as would the attendees of the conference, many of whom will be elementary teachers. We're also very interested in non-classroom Etoys use, particularly as it relates to OLPC pilots or homeschooling. We'll be adding more information to the website as it becomes available, but for now, the important thing is to get your presentation information to us so we can begin to design the program for our three days together. Please complete and submit the online form no later than June 1st, 2009. Please share this information with anyone you think would be interested in either Squeakfest conference. We hope to see you there! Take care, Tim -- Timothy Falconer Squeakland Foundation http://squeakland.org 610-797-3100 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] updating the Sugar manual for 8.4 release
Anne Gentle wrote: Installing Activities - http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Sugar/8_4/InstallingActivities All of this chapter's screenshots should be updateed to show where you download Activities now. Ok, the screenshot for Etoys is updated. By the way, there is no Etoys manual yet. Anne, could you add an entry for Etoys Activity, so that we can start writing a manual? greetings, Rita -- Rita Freudenberg FIN-ISG Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg http://isgwww.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/isg/rita.html ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] updating the Sugar manual for 8.4 release
Rita Freudenberg wrote: Anne Gentle wrote: Installing Activities - http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Sugar/8_4/InstallingActivities All of this chapter's screenshots should be updateed to show where you download Activities now. Sorry, I didn't update the InstallingActivities, but the FindingActivities site here: http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Sugar/8_4/FindingActivities Rita Ok, the screenshot for Etoys is updated. By the way, there is no Etoys manual yet. Anne, could you add an entry for Etoys Activity, so that we can start writing a manual? greetings, Rita -- Rita Freudenberg FIN-ISG Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg http://isgwww.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/isg/rita.html ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Linuxtag 2009 - how do we want to promote Sugar Labs
Am 12.02.2009 um 12:41 schrieb Holger Levsen: Hi, On Dienstag, 10. Februar 2009, Simon Schampijer wrote: I would like us to be present at LinuxTag (24-27 June 2009) [1]. What do you think about a shared booth with the german OLPC association, OLPC Deutschland e.V.? Hi all, while we're at it, how about Squeak joining you at LinuxTag at the booth, too? One of the members of the german Squeak association could be there for each day and show the Etoys activity working within Sugar at the OLPC-Laptop ... Best Regards, Rita regards, Holger ___ 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] WikiTeam Meeting 208-11-11 Notes
David Farning wrote: The biggest issue was lack of ownership and maintenance of the teams wiki space. We decided that every activate team should have a clear owner. We will mothball inactive teams until we can find a team leader to take responsiblity. * AccessibiltyTeam - mothball * BuildTeam - roll into Development * DeploymentTeam - dirakx * DesignTeam - Eben * DevelopmentTeam - Marco * DocumentationTeam - david * EducationTeam - Walter * InfrastructureTeam - Bernie * LocalizationTeam - mothball * MarketingTeam - Gregdek * Oversight_Board - Walter * ReleaseTeam - mothball * TranslationTeam - mothball I saw you mothballed the TranslationTeam, just as I started to get interested in what its tasks will be and how I could get involved. Is there a place where I can learn about was the intended goals and responsibilities of the translation team should be? Best regards, Rita * TestingTeam - Simon with help * WikiTeam - david (Does anyone else see the irony of the dyslexic guy owning both documentation and wiki?) Each team will have a mission statement, owner, and meeting time. There was discussion about the missions and roles of the EducationTeam and the DeploymentTeam. The general consensus was the EducationTeam will focus on 'Why' use Sugar. The Deployment team will focus on 'How' to use Sugar. Thanks david ___ 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
