Re: [IAEP] Volunteer help wanted: Elections officer, marketing, story-telling, and more
I would do some stories for marketing... On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 10:16 AM Devin Ulibarri wrote: > Dear Sugar community members, > > Sugar Labs is growing, and we need volunteer help with various tasks. > > To help keep track of the various roles and tasks where help is needed, I > created the following page on our wiki: > https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Help_Wanted > Some of the roles that I'd like to highlight are: > >- Elections Officer: Help run elections for Sugar Labs' board members; >This role will receive support from myself, as ED, and the board. >- Website help: sugarlabs.org is a static site, created with Jeckyll. >We could use some help updating it, improving it, and documenting a > workflow >- New volunteers for our Marketing Team: Help us bring Sugar Labs to >the people! >- Sugar Labs stories: Did participating in the Sugar Labs community >have a positive impact on your life? If so, we'd like to help you tell that >story. Simply send an approx. three paragraph draft, and we'll help you >edit and publish it. >- Don't have any time for the above? Well, the easiest way to support >with your time is to follow us on social media and share/boost our posts. >Help us spread the word! > > Best, > > Devin > > -- > > Learn more: https://sugarlabs.org > > Help us grow: https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Donate > ___ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- *Sandra Thaxter* *Humbly Serving * *Small Solutions Big Ideas* (617) 320-1098 san...@smallsolutionsbigideas.org .http://smallsolutionsbigideas.org <http://smallsolutionsbigideas.org> https://www.facebook.com/SmallSolutionsBigIdeasAfrica/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Announcing Candidates for the Upcoming SLOB Elections!
I support this slate. Good group. On Sun, Jan 5, 2020 at 11:34 AM Vipul Gupta wrote: > Hello folks, > I will be taking over the election of the open seats for the oversight > board (SLOB) as an independent administrator. Ibiam being a candidate in > the upcoming elections, will be stepping down as the administrator. Thanks > to Walter and Ibiam's help and guidance, I will be looking over the > election's proceedings, announcements and make sure everything runs > smoothly and that the integrity of the election is maintained. > > The deadline for the call of candidates is now over. There are five(5) > candidates for the three(3) seats on the oversight board (SLOB). The > candidates are as follows: > 1. Claudia Urrea > 2. Ibiam Chihurumnaya > 3. Peace Ojemeh > 4. Rahul Bothra > 5. Samson Goddy > > More details about the candidates and their vision is available here > https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/2020-2022-candidates > I will be announcing the dates of the election soon and will be happy to > answer all queries and questions you have. Looking forward to a fair > election and good luck to all the candidates. > > Best, > Vipul Gupta > Wiki <https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Vipulgupta2048> | Github > <https://github.com/vipulgupta2048> > ___ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- *Sandra Thaxter* *Executive DirectorSmall Solutions Big Ideas* (617) 320-1098 san...@smallsolutionsbigideas.org www.smallsolutionsbigideas.org <http://www.smallsolutonsbigideas.org/>. http://smallsolutionsbigideas.facebook.com ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Thomas, please add me to your LinkedIn network
Hi Thomas, I'd like to connect with you on LinkedIn. Sandra Thaxter Consulting Engineer Accept: http://www.linkedin.com/blink?simpleRedirect=dzAMd3oNe3gNcPkScP0Re38VdjR4imVLqnhxt6BSrCACc30RnPgQejwVc38OczcTdzcMdjwOejl9fkh9rmlQqipRllxCd4RjizRVpkJApn9xq7cCe39vsClyrmlJnSlQqnpKqjRHpipBt6BSrCBTpmUJt71BoSdxbm8JrnpKqlZJrmZzbmNJpjRDrCBHoS5Ot2p1emMOsz8UlP12l4xhgjRKpmJLl6hFripBt6BSrABQs6lzoQ5LpmMZoipzciRSdCtQd6cNqiQMsT1ydzgZpjYOtyZBbSRLoOVKqmhBqSVFr2VTtTsLbPFMt7hEmsgID=I5928503673222098944_500markAsRead= View Sandra Thaxter's profile: http://www.linkedin.com/blink?simpleRedirect=0Rd34VejkRd3R4in9BoCRBripeqlxWfmVBqSZkq7hRoipBrm5KfmlMulhEt7lx9z0MdlYQd3AUej0Ocz8PdPoPc3kUczARilYQcz0Ve3gOdj8Zt71BoSd1rCZFt65QqnpKqioUcBZOpm9JpmRvpnhFtCVFfmJB9ClQqnpKqntBryRBrm5Kbm8JrnpKqlZJrmZzbmNJpjRDrCBHoS5Ot2p1emMOsz8UlP12l4xhgjRKpmJLl6hFripSs6UZt2pzciRSdCtQd6cNqiQMsT1ydzgZpjYOtyZBbSRLoOVKqmhBqSVFr2VTtTsLbPFMt7hEmsgID=I5928503673222098944_500markAsRead= You are receiving Invitation emails. Unsubscribe here: http://www.linkedin.com/blink?simpleRedirect=1zciRSdCtQd6cNqiQMsT1ydzgZp6BB9B5zq6VTe6N2p5tidllGq6VylTpcejpecz5bbmp6el4PiQVVt4RSi6pVrP1RnQAOe6pabl5jqSJ4j6B6qzBSoCNQhRFHlk51gmtflm8RhThLumtnhB51fmhFrSMCe39vsClyrmlJnSlQqnpKqjRHpipBt6BSrCBTpmUJoDlPrDkJpyRJtCVFnSRJrScJr6RBfmtKqmJzon9Q9A4Vr39Oczxnc49ki551fmVBqSZkp6BJ9DdRpjRQ9CcNbnoSpTgQoP5Fbj1Ps68Sd3RBfP9SbSkLrmZzbCVFp6lHrCBIbDtTtOYLeDdMt7hEmsgID=I5928503673222098944_500markAsRead= This email was intended for Thomas Gilliard (retired consultant). Learn why we included this at the following link: http://www.linkedin.com/blink?simpleRedirect=e3wTd3RAimlIoSBQsC4Ce39vsClyrmlJnSlQqnpKqjRHpip1emMOsz8UlP12l4xhgjRKpmJLl6hFripIsBlBoSBSsCljsClJrThPtmcZoipzciRSdCtQd6cNqiQMsT1ydzgZpjYOtyZBbSRLoOVKqmhBqSVFr2VTtTsLbPFMt7hEmsgID=I5928503673222098944_500markAsRead= copy; 2014, LinkedIn Corporation. 2029 Stierlin Ct. Mountain View, CA 94043, USA___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] XS Community Edition 0.2 Release Invitation
Congratulations Everyone for an Amazing Accomplishment - and your Dedication to Continuing to provide quality software products for kids all over the world and their teachers. It helps build confidence in the field to have a new version with improved features. THANK YOU THANK YOU from all Small Solutions Big Ideas and our sites. On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 10:36 PM, Adam Holt h...@laptop.org wrote: Toronto-area School Server Hack Sprint This weekend, seven dedicated souls pulled together to solidify, plan and build -- getting to know each other much better en route. What will schools worldwide really want from a server in the coming 10 years? What's the most constructive community solid product we as volunteers can build within 1 year? Careful advanced planning helped us release version .1 Friday late, strengthening our minimal core of AP-like features on an XO-1.75: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Holt/XS_Community_Edition/0.1http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Holt/XS_Community_Edition/0.1 Next we tackled version .2 with a small set of extended services, also for XO-1.75 but with experimental support for x86 big iron: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Holt/XS_Community_Edition/0.2http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Holt/XS_Community_Edition/0.2 Further down our main page (http://schoolserver.org) thoughtful documentation has begun under Getting Started: * Get Started Hacking (developers, contributors) * Get Started Implementing (administrators) * FAQ What's new? In our prelim releases we're aiming towards a drop-in equivalent of February 2012's XS 0.7 but running on Fedora 17+ including ARM. Working forward, we want to refine core services for modularity (Squid, etc) and content/collaboration services (eg. Mediawiki, OPDS/Pathagar to curate ebooks, etc) in support of library-like offline clouds for very rural communities that won't have Internet for many, many years. We invite you to join, installing/testing scenarios most vital to your (micro)deployment and planet. Thanks all who can help think this through, joining our Thursday weekly voice calls where you can! Finally, sketching out v.3 and v.4 is underway, eg. for modularity, GUI console and fuller support for x86, XO-1.5 and XO-4: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Holt/XS_Community_Edition/0.3 Early spring we hope to meet again to make this happen much more =) -- Help kids everywhere map their world, at http://olpcMAP.net ! ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Sandra Thaxter san...@smallsolutionsbigideas.org san...@thaxter.net (617) 320-1098 www.smallsolutonsbigideas.org. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-10-06
Walter, thanks so much for the changes in tracking Sugar Activity frequency of use. I think this will be helpful. I am going to try to get to SF, but unsure how I will do it. Last minute I am afraid. I like the journal features On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: == Sugar Digest == 1. Assessment is a topic that comes up again and again in discussions of Sugar. While there are several efforts under way to gather statistics about activity usage (See [1, 2] and [3], for example), most of those efforts are in service of everyone except the learner. In the spirit of making learning visible, I modified an existing activity, Analyze Journal [4], written by Agustin Zubiaga Sanchez, in order give the Sugar user some feedback about their activity usage. Agustin had written the original activity to show free space in the Journal. I added two more views: one that displays a list of activities sorted by frequency of use; and one that shows statistics about block usage in Turtle Art activities. (The latter is based on a rubric developed jointly with Pacita Pena from Paraguayu Educa and Claudia Urrea from OLPC.) I am hoping that Analyze Journal and Portfolio (a previous effort to make learning visible) inspire the Sugar community to put more effort not just into gathering data for school administrators, but also in making reflection by the learners themselves part of the Sugar experience. One further note regarding Analyze Journal. I'd blogged recently about how youths who had grown up with Sugar were beginning to submit patches. In this case, the roles have reversed completely: I submitted the patch to Agustin. 2. In the keeping with spirit of the above discussion, a new datastore metadata tag [5] has landed in Sugar 0.98. The launch-times tag is updated whenever an activity is launched. This will enable the learner to answer questions such as how often have I used this activity?; do I use it in class, at home, or both? Again, the goal is not to subsume the functionality potentially provided by [2], but to make the data available within Sugar itself more rich. 3. There has been a discussion on the IAEP list [6] about various strategies for using Turtle Blocks in support of robotics. The LEGO WeDo was discussed as one of several options currently available. It got me thinking that it may be time to finally add support for multiple WeDo devices. It is still beta, but please test the latest wedo_plugin [7]. In addition to supporting multiple devices, it also is a bit more robust in regard to plugging in and removing devices while the program is running. (In the first version of the code, the device had to be plugged in when Turtle Blocks launched. Now devices can be added and removed while Turtle Blocks is running.) === In the community === 4. There are plans to hold the next OLPC SF summit in San Francisco the weekend of October 19-21. We are holding a Sugar Camp ''following'' the summit (Oct 22-24). Please register at [8]. === Sugar Labs === Visit our planet [9] for more updates about Sugar and Sugar deployments. -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org [1] http://git.sugarlabs.org/desktop/stats [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Platform_Team/Usage_Statistics [3] http://git.sugarlabs.org/ds-analysis-scripts [4] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Analyze_Journal [5] http://git.sugarlabs.org/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/commit/2a15fbc0f2269b1d61e5fa8ea723cb4848a8ee74 [6] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2012-October/015642.html [7] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/0/00/Wedo_plugin_2.tar.gz [8] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugarcamp_SF_2012 [9] http://planet.sugarlabs.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Sandra Thaxter san...@smallsolutionsbigideas.org san...@thaxter.net (617) 320-1098 www.smallsolutonsbigideas.org. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Turtle Blocks question
Kids from Bukokholo School Acted Out a One Laptop Per Child Promo for Kenyan Kids. Watch the beginning and the end of this clip : It is charming, funny and a great ad for OLPC In Kenya! This was done by the Small Solutions partner Hands of Charity. http://youtu.be/-ip8UP4RtTs On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 1:27 AM, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn alan...@hotmail.com wrote: I think that you cannot check what sensor is connected.. Butia have hotplug and show instantly that a sensor is connect. Lego not have that, and the only check possible: get a value, if no gives errors, maybe there are a sensor of that type connected.. The usual approach would be to add a device input to the blocks... device 1, device 2, device 3 That can works, but I don't like it taking into consideration that you have put the port where each sensor/motor is connected. I think in a special block that sets the brick that you want to use. For example: - you have 2 bricks connected -if you want to: read color sensor from brick 1 in port 1 -turn motor in port b of brcik 2 with power 100 The code will be: select brick (1) read sensor (color, port 1) select brcik (2) turn motor (port b, 100) See that all the blocks no have changes, only uses the select brick to set in the system, which brick get the next functions. The important of this change: when you have only 1 brick, the code no have changes! Opinions? Regards! Alan From: gerald.ard...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 14:45:48 -0400 To: walter.ben...@gmail.com CC: alan...@hotmail.com; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; support-g...@laptop.org Subject: Re: [IAEP] Turtle Blocks question Walter, Agreed. I am happy to continuing working with you on this. Gerald On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Dr. Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote: Walter, if we are crossing devices? Egon Spengler: Don't cross the streams. The usual approach would be to add a device input to the blocks... device 1, device 2, device 3... But also, I should do a better job of autodetecting which sensors are available. The whole thing should be more dynamic. -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 Attached is a BETA version of a new WeDo plugin that supports multiple devices. It follows a schema similar to what Alan proposes above. I only have one device, so it is not tested for multiple devices, however, it seems to work for one device and includes a new feature which tests for devices before each start, rather than just at launch, so devices and be plugged in and unplugged without having to restart Turtle Art. Feedback greatly appreciated. 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 -- Sandra Thaxter san...@smallsolutionsbigideas.org san...@thaxter.net (617) 320-1098 www.smallsolutonsbigideas.org. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Google Rise Awards
Sugar Labs Friends, I didn't see your proposal, but I suspect from looking at the winners, connecting to communities on the ground, who are grassroots organizations is more their focus. Small Solutions is thinking of applying to support the village XO projects in HIV/AIDS education, and the wonderful work of Peter Amunga (local Kenyan school teacher and playwrit) at Eshibinga with Jiggers. http://eshibinga.wordpress.com. But let's work together, keep each other informed. Sugar is wonderful. It's not that the green machine isn't but with out your Sugar work, we would be nowhere. Sandra Thaxter www.smallsolutionsbigideas.org san...@smallsolutionsbigideas.org (617) 320-1098 - Original Message - From: Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com To: Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at Cc: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; Brooks, Kevin kevin.bro...@ndsu.edu Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 12:36 PM Subject: Re: [IAEP] Google Rise Awards On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote: Hi Kevin, thanks a lot for the heads-up and for all the information on your Web site. Did you get any feedback as to why the proposal wasn't accepted? Because similarly to you it's my impression that Sugar-related activities should fit in quite well with RISE's scope... You'd think Sugar would be a good fit for Summer of Code as well, but apparently not. -walter Cheers, Christoph On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Brooks, Kevin kevin.bro...@ndsu.edu wrote: We submitted a Google Rise proposal last year, but were not funded. The competition does seem like a good fit for Sugar Camps, after school programs, etc., especially if working with populations underrepresented in the CS world. http://fargoxo.wordpress.com/grant-proposals/google-rise-proposal-2012/ Kevin -- Kevin Brooks Chair Department of English Dept 2320, Box 6050 Morrill 219A North Dakota State University Fargo ND 58108-6050 701-231-7147 http://english.ndsu.edu/faculty/kevin_brooks/ The computer's true function is to program and orchestrate terrestrial and galactic environments and energies in a harmonious way. -- Marshall McLuhan ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- 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 -- 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 - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2196 / Virus Database: 2437/5174 - Release Date: 08/03/12 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Umbrella Fund for Small Deployments
Friends, I know that I have not been an attendee at the SF Summits. But I am very much part of those looking for ways to support small deployments. The gathering of the leaders of OLPC sites in Kenya was just such an effort. Yesteday we (Small Solutions) met with the Vice President for Grants and Services of the* Essex County Community Foundation* http://eccf.org . It may sound like a group just serving local philanthropies, but in fact they also do support national and international projects. They setup funds for non-profits, indiviudals or interest groups. They pool these funds into a bigger investment fund which accrues with interest rate (better than money market rates). You do not have to be a 501c3 to create a fund with them. They act as the umbrella financially and you pay a small (comparatively modest) fee for their administration. They have a couple of hundred Massachusetts based groups they support, a smaller group of national and international. There are different types of funds, but the kind you would want is one that accrues, and you can withdraw at any time. You do need to setup some fund trustees, and follow some reguations about its management. For all of us who think we need to create our own 501c3 to get donations for our causes, this is a great low cost solution. Even if the fund is in the US, there is no reason that the funds cannot benefit organizations outside the US. Purchases are made from a US source as well. It is probably possible to setup a fund for just a single project. But I think that an umbrella fund with a management team is something SLOBS? (not sure who the SLOBS are myself) should consider. If you would like to contact or setup a call with Julie Bishop, she can be reached at j.bis...@eccf.org Sandra Thaxter Small Solutions Big Ideas Newburyport Massachusetts On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 19:51:48 + From: alsr...@sugarlabs.org To: cbige...@hotmail.com CC: olpc-...@lists.laptop.org; bk...@sfconservancy.org; t...@sfconservancy.org; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; sl...@lists.sugarlabs.org Subject: Re: [SLOBS] [Sur] New Co / Nueva Empresa On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:54:34AM -0700, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi... At the olpcSF meeting last October some of us met informally and discussed the need for exactly what you are suggesting: an organization that would act as an umbrella for groups that wanted to fund small deployments and make other contributions to the OLPC, Sugar, and open source software in education (OSSIE). As far as I know, nothing has been done to implement this idea yet. Some of the suggestions we had were: * It should be a completely separate entity from OLPC and Sugar Labs to insure independence. In fact, Sugar Labs was for me exactly such umbrella (pure community based organization to coordinate not only Sugar development but also any Sugar learning platform related work in the field) from the beginning. So, being independent from Sugar Labs sounds for me like being independent from the community :). Exactly... independent of all of the politics! It would also allow for the inclusion of other OSSIE projects folks might want to undertake. Anyway, if I got Bradley Kuhn right, right now, it is rather impossible to proceed operations like funding local mini/micro deployments from Sugar Labs level. So, it should be new organization in any case. * It should file as a registered 501c3 NGO that could act as an umbrella organization for the local groups that are meeting and raising funds for their deployments and other OLPC/Sugar Related activities. In addition to the NGO status, they could carry liability insurance so local groups under the umbrella would be able to qualify for free meeting space as a non-profit. I'm not confident in such cases, but will it be possible to operate on behalf of 501c3 NGO out of USA? Actually, the one of purposes to raise this question in SLOBs was the fact that a group of people (including me) is trying to process exactly such mini/micro (at least from the beginning) deployment in Peru. Each country has its own rules. An NGO in the USA could raise fund in the USA and for projects headquartered here, but the actual project could be deployed anywhere. Some of the mini-deployments I have mentored have done exactly this. * The name that we used for the group was Bumblebees. One reason for choosing that was it in no way indicates relation to OLPC or Sugar Labs. We didn't keep a list of who was there, but I do remember SJ, Craig Perue, and I think Mark Battley being there. They can probably fill you in with other info. It would be really helpful to local groups if this could happen. For olpc-SoCal, here in Southern California, it would allow us and other groups like ours to get free meeting space
Re: [IAEP] [OLPC library] OLPC/Sugar Doc Sprint Apr 6-10 @ OLPC HQ inBoston
I can host a few people here however Newburyport is a commute from Cambridge but the beach walks in the morning and local ambiance is great. Sandra Thaxter www.smallsolutionsbigideas.org san...@smallsolutionsbigideas.org (617) 320-1098 - Original Message - From: Edward Mokurai Cherlin moku...@sugarlabs.org To: iaep iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 6:13 PM Subject: [IAEP] [OLPC library] OLPC/Sugar Doc Sprint Apr 6-10 @ OLPC HQ inBoston 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 - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1913 / Virus Database: 2112/4799 - Release Date: 02/09/12 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Olpc-open] Fwd: Defining success
Marta, Thank you again for elucidating the broader issues around evaluating OLPC impact. I am going to keep these emails as they are so well written and your points so well made. Let us all broadly distribute this rich contribution. I like your direction, not just a grant to test, but to develop an system of evaluation for the 21st century. As we are in fact implementing learning that doesn't fit into the 19th century practices we inherited, It does go back to Piaget. In Kenya many leading educators agree that the system of exams and evaluation is failing Kenyan children, and that the system needs to connect learning to life. The school population in Kenya is so large that many children are being left behind. See the site http://amstref.org ... a Kenyan making math relevant. Sandra Thaxter www.smallsolutionsbigideas.org san...@smallsolutionsbigideas.org (617) 320-1098 - Original Message - From: Marta Voelcker To: 'Sandra Thaxter' Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 3:52 PM Subject: RES: [Olpc-open] Fwd: Defining success Hi Sandra and list, ( sorry for writing such a long message again J ) I liked your comments! I have a suggestion You wrote: What we need is a big grant to do some field research and get the data. I would say: or, a system that would do that! The system would keep versions of kids productions, and track kids´ progress, and also kids´ attitudes to get to the final product (collaboration, creativity, communication, leadership, initiative, problem solving) . not easy , I know. but if technology allows that each learner develops its own project, we should not evaluate all learners with the same test or exam, should we? So we need new systems of evaluation that might be based on kids productions and peer review. Things like the 21st century skills could be used to name some of the possible outputs, and there is research behind each one of the skills to support the choose of criteria of success. Another good point of developing a system instead of or besides conducting a research is that the system would stay for the schools as a resource to evaluate each child and keep their records through the time, also a database for the educational system evaluate the schools. But to do that there is the need of leaders (educational system reps) that think on the use of technology to innovate teaching and learning. I wonder what is the context on the deployments? they probably respond to regular country/state evaluation? Do any of them have as a clear goal to change and innovate on education? have they defined what is this change and the criteria to identify new outputs? At this moment, we have available the greatest technology ever made to enable the change in education. Change from traditional education ( 19th century) to the currently desired education, which in fact, is a change that is desired since the early decades of the 20th century, when child psychology evolved (Dewey, Piaget) and many things happened - since that time there are moves to renovate school , to prioritize teamwork, learning by doing, problem solving , creativity. but that was an impossible thing to do by the time that all students had to read the same book and go through the same exercises and questions because only one teacher ( without technology) was not able to guide a whole class of students with different motivation, learning in a different pace and creating projects about the subject. But now that technology could enable a systemic change on education, I have the feeling that few people remember that desire of change, or maybe they have tried so hard ( to change), before the technology, that they gave up and don´t want to try anymore? Or maybe few people understand what is the change and why is it desired... I´ve been studying this lately and realized that there are so many things and motivations involved. The willing for change is frequently present on National or state standards or guidelines for education, but is not present on the kids evaluation or assessment. There is an important need for teachers and families to understand what are the outputs of the new education. Once reps from an educational system have the courage to say: Yes we want to change! Let´s use technology to enable change! Then it would be possible to think, develop and continuously improve a system to evaluate attitudes, skills development. Or maybe not, maybe the system should be developed before, and then shown to leaders ( educational system reps) to convince them to experiment change (including change on evaluation using the new system) ? Marta De: olpc-open-boun...@lists.laptop.org [mailto:olpc-open-boun...@lists.laptop.org] Em nome de Sandra Thaxter Enviada em: segunda-feira, 30 de janeiro de 2012 10:38 Para: Samuel Klein; olpc
Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] New activity from OLPC France
Wonderful idea should be exciting to follow this development! Sandra Thaxter www.smallsolutionsbigideas.org san...@smallsolutionsbigideas.org (617) 320-1098 - Original Message - From: Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com To: Stefanie Nobel Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 7:47 AM Subject: Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] New activity from OLPC France On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Stefanie Nobel stefanie.no...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello, I’m glad to present you a new project from OLPC France. For the next six months we will develop a new playful software, which aims at educating children about a healthier nutrition. In this game children are taking care of an avatar by providing him with meals, which they have to prepare before. By doing so the children are meant to learn the importance of good nutrition for their healthy. The game will be supported by Danone Research. They will not only finance the project but also share their great knowledge on this topic with us. We’re just at the begining of the development but here is a short description of our first ideas: The game will be split in two parts: In one part the children can create their own recipes in a virtual environment, similar to a “cook studio”. There is also the possibility to share these recipes with other children. The other part is for validation: Here the meal will be “validated” by the avatar, (for example, a reaction might be, that the avatar can’t do homework because he has not sufficient energy). So at first we will have to define the relevant parameters, which you have to consider when you validate a healthy meal, for example: The need of the different nutritional values, The nutritional value of the aliment In natural and organic state and after the preparation of the meal The activities, the avatar/child do/did during the day The season and the weather The times of the meals during the day(this has an impact on the gain of the food) The health of the avatar/child The extent of hygienic conditions when preparing the food The next step will be to collect all those information and integrate it into a rough logic. So don’t hesitate to comment about this project and share your thoughts. We appreciate all kinds of input! FWIW, several of us have been thinking about a different angle on a cooking activity, one more geared towards chemistry and the science of the kitchen: getting the kids to experiment with recipes, for example, changing the 'resting time' when making noodles from flour and water, and observing how this changes the consistency, flavor, etc. The Activity would be more like a lab notebook and set of simple data analysis tools than anything else, but then the kids could presumably photograph their results with their XO and share their successes and failures, and aggregate data more widely. It be interesting to fold in nutrition into the mix: does Danone have data we can use re how cooking impacts the foods we eat? regards. -walter Stefanie ___ Sugar-devel mailing list sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Do nice guys finish first?
Alan, Thank you Alan for this important reminder of the mission of 'shared community' with a shared vision in which we all particpate without expectation of individual recognition or rewards. We do it because it is the right thing to do for the mission to which we are committed. Sandra Thaxter - Original Message - From: Alan Kay To: dfarn...@sugarlabs.org ; iaep Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 3:44 PM Subject: Re: [IAEP] Do nice guys finish first? This is a nice distinction! Cheers, Alan -- From: dfarn...@sugarlabs.org dfarn...@sugarlabs.org To: iaep iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Sent: Fri, December 11, 2009 11:41:16 AM Subject: [IAEP] Do nice guys finish first? Over the last couple of months I have been struggling with some of the shifts in Sugar Labs. My greatest concern has been the increasing emphasis on transactions over reciprocity. Transactions represent the notion that individuals take action with the expectation that they will be rewarded for their action. Reciprocity is the idea that if one gives freely, other will be inclined to do likewise. Both involve acting in one own self interest. The problem with transactions is that they tend to cause competition. In Sugar Labs that competition is for credit, attention and resources. Transactions involve bookkeeping -- either implicitly or explicitly. Transactions crowd out reciprocity. Reciprocity involves working on the Sugar Labs mission and giving that work freely to Sugar Labs with the expectation that other will build on your work to further the mission. Maybe it is a growth phase. 1 year ago Sugar Labs had little worth competing for. 1 year ago participants remembered the fresh wounds of the OLPC spinoff. 1 year ago conversations were about how can we work together to make Sugar awesome. I hope that Sugar Labs can get back to working together to make Sugar awesome. 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
Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Some Comments on Digital Textbooks In California
Hi Carol, this is very interesting and I believe in the broad spectrum it is a great turn of events.Maybe it will be possible for the US to get out from under the State of Texasacting asthe primary arbiter of textbook content. I agree that it is good news for XO technology, pedagogical approach and open content movement. I usethe digital distribution of informationas one of the compelling advantages of the XO and mesh and explain that there is a lot of information that can be provided without a persistent internet connection. I think it is a winning issue for the millions of isolated rural schools. Sandra Thaxtersan...@thaxter.net1-617-320-1098Jun 9, 2009 05:06:39 PM, carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi... Adam Holt alerted me to Gov. Schwarzenegger's proposal to go digital with textbooks statewide in California high schools, starting with math and science this year. Here is my retired teacher's view of the situation... (See: http://gov.ca.gov/index.php?/fact-sheet/12455/) The Good: Textbooks can be up to date and, hopefully, will be. Sets the stage for more competition in text books and being able to buy or download for free different chapters or lessons from different places. I'm thinking like iTunes. Before you had to buy the album, now you can just buy the song you want. Overall maybe the cost hasn't gone down but what I pay to get what I want has gone down quite a bit. I think levels the playing field some for organizations and individuals who want to put out truely free learning objects. The Bad Gov. Schwarzenegger suggests teachers can "print out pages for students who do not have computers." Who pays? Probably the teachers! This really shows no commitment to supplying the schools with computers Perhaps an opportunity for Sugar on a Stick and School Key (my old name for a more standard Linux desktop version for older students) and donated computers.Integrating with Moodle and Google Gears means the learning content they need that week can be automatically downloaded to the stick and then students could access it on very low end hardware, with or without internet. Without a solution like this I can see huge disparies between kids who have computers and fast internet connections and those without. Even printing costs aside, one kid is using video, interactive models, and adaptive quizes from home, and another is getting printouts to put in his backpack? The Ugly Textbook publishing is a big, competitive business. Lots of profits are to be made in publishing textbooks. What incentive will there be to publish free online books? You can bet they will not be free for long. Oh yeah, its going to be interestingI've heard some pretty interesting stories about how text book purchasing decisions are madeI wonder if the whole process will get a bit more sunshine on it.Thanks Caryl , this is certainly huge news for us. Hum... Maybe we do need Jerry Brown to run for governor. He had a huge commitment to educational technology when he was in office. Any comments? Caryl___IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.orghttp://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep-- Caroline MeeksSolution Grovecarol...@solutiongrove.com617-500-3488 - Office505-213-3268 - Fax ___support-gang mailing listsupport-g...@lists.laptop.orghttp://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
