Re: [IAEP] SugarLabs Candidacy - Supporting Info
Caryl makes a good point when she asks, What goals would you try to have Sugar Labs achieve if you are elected? Summarizing my statement in the wiki [1], I have three goals: (1) helping Sugar Labs maintain its focus on the learner, primarily by amplifying the voice to the Learning Team and the many teachers with whom I interact; (2) helping the local labs program finally take off as a primary vehicle for growth, by establish more clarity of process (with the SFC) and purpose within the community; and (3) helping to sustain our volunteer community, which remains at the heart of Sugar Labs, by giving it a voice and helping to find resources for more face-to-face time between developers and users. [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Walter/2011_position_statement regards. -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] SugarLabs Candidacy - Supporting Info
I want to follow up on requests made for candidates to have plans if elected to the SugarLabs board. To keep it short, I'll write three lists with two items each. 1) Outreach to other education programs - Mozilla Drumbeat. Connect http://hackasaurus.org and Mozilla's growing education community with our Sugar community. - Citizen science groups. When I was supporting an OLPC class in Cambridge, Cornell's program was interested but wanted to reach more Sugar users. 2) Supporting science classrooms - Explain how to build simple sensors for programs such as Flower Bridge ( recently featured on http://blog.laptop.org ) - Write lesson plans for experiments that use only a few materials, such as these: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Ndoiron/SocialCalc also available in Mongolian: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Ndoiron/SocialCalc/Mongolian 3) Encouraging literacy over the web - Identify English and Spanish reading materials appropriate for school, and make the list prominent on SugarLabs wiki and homepage. - Suggest materials from NaNoWriMo, get students' work posted on school servers or on a major deployment's website http://ywp.nanowrimo.org/how-does-nanowrimo-work-for-educators Regards, Nick Doiron ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] SugarLabs Candidacy - Supporting Info
Hi Nick, These things are all really good and much needed. But these are personal goals. What goals would you try to have Sugar Labs achieve if you are elected? For example something about facilitating the distribution of SoaS via model deployments, exposure at teacher's conferences such as ISTE, NAIS, and the like. Good grief... if I had the time I would run myself! Caryl Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:47:20 -0500 From: ndoi...@andrew.cmu.edu To: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Subject: [IAEP] SugarLabs Candidacy - Supporting Info I want to follow up on requests made for candidates to have plans if elected to the SugarLabs board. To keep it short, I'll write three lists with two items each. 1) Outreach to other education programs - Mozilla Drumbeat. Connect http://hackasaurus.org and Mozilla's growing education community with our Sugar community. - Citizen science groups. When I was supporting an OLPC class in Cambridge, Cornell's program was interested but wanted to reach more Sugar users. 2) Supporting science classrooms - Explain how to build simple sensors for programs such as Flower Bridge ( recently featured on http://blog.laptop.org ) - Write lesson plans for experiments that use only a few materials, such as these: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Ndoiron/SocialCalc also available in Mongolian: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Ndoiron/SocialCalc/Mongolian 3) Encouraging literacy over the web - Identify English and Spanish reading materials appropriate for school, and make the list prominent on SugarLabs wiki and homepage. - Suggest materials from NaNoWriMo, get students' work posted on school servers or on a major deployment's website http://ywp.nanowrimo.org/how-does-nanowrimo-work-for-educators Regards, Nick Doiron ___ 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
