[IAEP] Need ideas for 1 hour Sugar introductory lessons

2010-03-14 Thread Caroline Meeks
We are planning for April vacation week and working with the public library a few blocks from the GPA school. We will be doing 1 to 5 1-hour sessions with a few students during April vacation week. We will then extend that program to after school. My thought is to do focus on a different

Re: [IAEP] Need ideas for 1 hour Sugar introductory lessons

2010-03-14 Thread Edward Cherlin
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/0/0e/Gravity.odt Alan Kay's gravity lesson for ten-year-olds in Turtle Art and Record. On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 10:50, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: We are planning for April vacation week and working with the public library a few blocks from

Re: [IAEP] [Systems] wiki design

2010-03-14 Thread Josh Williams
On 3/13/10 8:00 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 13:36 -0700, Josh Williams wrote: That's true, you can always resize the window. I'm in the camp that it's better to set a maximum width because I think it's harder to read long strings of text. Also I don't enjoy resizing

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.87.7 Development Release --- Release Candidate

2010-03-14 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 03/11/2010 09:07 AM, Aleksey Lim wrote: On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 08:34:20AM +0100, Simon Schampijer wrote: Dear Sugar Community, This is our 0.88 Release Candidate! The Features have been landed, we are in UI and String freeze and only critical bug fixes can be landed by now. Many thanks

Re: [IAEP] Need ideas for 1 hour Sugar introductory lessons

2010-03-14 Thread Gerald Ardito
Caroline, I like Edward's idea. If you use it, you can build to Etoys. There is a nice lesson in the Peru lesson book on animating a caterpillar that is really good. If you don't have the book, let me know and I'll send it to you. Gerald On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Edward Cherlin

Re: [IAEP] Need ideas for 1 hour Sugar introductory lessons

2010-03-14 Thread James Simmons
Caroline, Since you're working with a library a natural topic for a session would be a demo of the reading related Activities. You could start with either Get Internet Archive Books or Get Books to demonstrate just how many free books there are and how easy it is to get them copied to your

Re: [IAEP] Need ideas for 1 hour Sugar introductory lessons

2010-03-14 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
I used a short introduction to TurtleArt https://sites.google.com/site/godiard/TurtleArt.ppt?attredirects=0d=1 Gonzalo Odiard On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: We are planning for April vacation week and working with the public library a few

Re: [IAEP] [Systems] wiki design

2010-03-14 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 09:23 -0700, Josh Williams wrote: Take a look now, I set the max width to 65em (which is the rough equivelent of what I had it at before). An em is a unit of measurement that's based off the current text size so it scales when you increase the font size. Looks great