Re: [IAEP] Sugar for Service Learning
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:04 AM, Roland Gesthuizen rgesthui...@gmail.com wrote: Often I think that institutions like a Science Museum just need just a couple of laptops running Sugar. With 30 they tend to be boxed and only get handed out when it is 'safe' to do so. With just one they miss out on the collaboration feature (akin to handing out a mobile phone and just inviting them to play with the address book function), With at least two, things can start to cook .. The management of The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose agreed with my suggestion of a roomful of XOs. I see no difficulty securing them to work surfaces. One of the experiment developers at the Exploratorium agreed with my idea of incorporating XOs into exhibits. So we'll find out. Imagine a public foyer with a ring of six OLPC computes or Sugar enabled NetBooks that kids can click and play with, glued or secured to a round oard .. painted out with a world map or UN logo, .. and perhaps a central solar charger / crank charger. Some laminated cards with background info and some basic Try this Sugar instructions, perhaps also a face and profile for each laptop that gives a case study or background to a current OLPC owner in different 'third world countries'. Also good ideas. Just a thought but it could be used to inspire other science museums to give the idea a try. I would love to chat this over with the local science museum (Joel / Bill / Tony?). A couple of years ago I volunteered to help with the education resource activities on for CSIRAC, the last first-generation computer. http://museumvictoria.com.au/CSIRAC/ I'll help with any such project. Regards Roland 2008/12/16 Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: Earth Treasury is starting a project to create digital textbooks and teacher training materials. Ed, can you please include a URL when you make statements like this? It was announced on this mailing list. As it happens, you can now look at Creating textbooks in the SL Wiki. Sugar Labs, Alan Kay's Viewpoints Research, The Doug Engelbart Institute at SRI, FLOSS Manuals, Creative Commons, and OLE have expressed strong interest. Currently I am without an XO, Only temporary, I hope. How did this happen? The B2 is temporarily in pieces, and a B4 was stolen along with my regular laptop. The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose would like in principle to be a test site, Now this would be fantastic. They are committed in principle, as I said. That came about during the Program for the Future conference last week, when Peter Friess complained during a presentation that Apple won't let The Tech have prototype iPhones and such like to display. Since OLPC and Google handed out prototypes fairly widely during development, I assured him that we could make a deal. We are arranging to meet for substantive discussions. The Exploratorium and Zeum in San Francisco have expressed some interest, also. I would love to see an XO being a digital oscilloscope or a microscope at the Exploratorium. I would like it even better if someone were willing to buy each institution 30 or more XOs, so that they could bring in whole classes from schools for one-to-one computing. Say, 100 from GiveMany for SF, for the Exploratorium, the Zeum, and the CA Academy of Sciences; and 100 for Silicon Valley, for The Tech, The Children's Discovery Museum, and...I don't know. I'm sure we'll find a place. Well, d'oh! The Computer History Museum. Similarly, I would like to do the Children's Museum in Indianapolis, the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, the Smithsonian, and so on and on. SJ -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has. --Margaret Mead ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org
Re: [IAEP] Sugar for Service Learning
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_as_Service_Learning I've spoken to a number of people about creating an on ramp and eventually a marketing channel by having developed country students, with good computer and internet access, help our project by testing Sugar. My particular angle on it is having them burn a Sugar on a Stick, but we should probably extend the vision to G1G1 people, and having people create emulations. Caroline, a nice idea. Please edit away! I will try to act as gardener, I think this is a big topic and it'll take some trys to figure out how to structure it logically. Perhaps you can start with groups of students/testers that have helped very briefly in focused Sugar or activity tests. Any leaders out there for this concept? Any teachers with High School students who want to be our first Alpha testers and creators of a service learning program? Earth Treasury is starting a project to create digital textbooks and teacher training materials. Ed, can you please include a URL when you make statements like this? Currently I am without an XO, Only temporary, I hope. How did this happen? The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose would like in principle to be a test site, Now this would be fantastic. SJ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Sugar for Service Learning
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: Earth Treasury is starting a project to create digital textbooks and teacher training materials. Ed, can you please include a URL when you make statements like this? It was announced on this mailing list. As it happens, you can now look at Creating textbooks in the SL Wiki. Sugar Labs, Alan Kay's Viewpoints Research, The Doug Engelbart Institute at SRI, FLOSS Manuals, Creative Commons, and OLE have expressed strong interest. Currently I am without an XO, Only temporary, I hope. How did this happen? The B2 is temporarily in pieces, and a B4 was stolen along with my regular laptop. The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose would like in principle to be a test site, Now this would be fantastic. They are committed in principle, as I said. That came about during the Program for the Future conference last week, when Peter Friess complained during a presentation that Apple won't let The Tech have prototype iPhones and such like to display. Since OLPC and Google handed out prototypes fairly widely during development, I assured him that we could make a deal. We are arranging to meet for substantive discussions. The Exploratorium and Zeum in San Francisco have expressed some interest, also. I would love to see an XO being a digital oscilloscope or a microscope at the Exploratorium. I would like it even better if someone were willing to buy each institution 30 or more XOs, so that they could bring in whole classes from schools for one-to-one computing. Say, 100 from GiveMany for SF, for the Exploratorium, the Zeum, and the CA Academy of Sciences; and 100 for Silicon Valley, for The Tech, The Children's Discovery Museum, and...I don't know. I'm sure we'll find a place. Similarly, I would like to do the Children's Museum in Indianapolis, the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, the Smithsonian, and so on and on. SJ -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Sugar for Service Learning
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_as_Service_Learning I've spoken to a number of people about creating an on ramp and eventually a marketing channel by having developed country students, with good computer and internet access, help our project by testing Sugar. My particular angle on it is having them burn a Sugar on a Stick, but we should probably extend the vision to G1G1 people, and having people create emulations. This is basically a pointer to the starting page and a request for help in creating a set of pages that are rich resources for students who want to both help us, and learn about computer science, educational theory and education in developing countries. Please edit away! I will try to act as gardener, I think this is a big topic and it'll take some trys to figure out how to structure it logically. Any leaders out there for this concept? Any teachers with High School students who want to be our first Alpha testers and creators of a service learning program? Earth Treasury is starting a project to create digital textbooks and teacher training materials. We will need subject-matter experts on every current school topic, and on all of the new topics that the XO+Sugar enables. For example, I would like to create a folder of minimal TurteArt (sic) files exhibiting the principal concepts of programming, and then files that use those concepts to do something interesting. I then propose to put a narrative together inviting students (including teachers) to discover how to do each of these things, with optional hints, and then explaining the significance of each discovery. Currently I am without an XO, and the Journal doesn't work on Ubuntu, so I am trying to set up a workaround using qemu. I'll send examples as soon as I can. The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose would like in principle to be a test site, but we have to a bit of organizing first. I have to go down there and discuss funding possibilities with them for a roomful of XOs. Thanks, Caroline -- 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 -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
