Re: [IAEP] Khan academy content

2011-04-06 Thread Roland Gesthuizen
Instructional videos such as Khan Academy have a place, but we need to be aware of their limitations. The following blog post points some of these out with some good supporting examples. http://fnoschese.wordpress.com/2011/03/30/khan-academy-is-an-indictment-of-education/ Regards Roland On Wed,

Re: [IAEP] First day of Etoys class in Somerville

2011-04-06 Thread Steve Thomas
Caroline, Here is a Etoys Minute http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMDYf3_uovk video showing how to animate a mouth. FYI, I created the mouth images with the polygon tool (if you shift click on a polygon, you can see its handles) the circles in the handle let you move vertices and if you click on a

[IAEP] Sugar Labs website: call for content: case studies

2011-04-06 Thread Mike DeVine
Dear Sugar Labs community members, As I mentioned in my last email, we're going to be narrowing our focus in our content requests for the Sugar Labs site redesign; starting with Case Studies. If you have any copies of Case Studies related to Sugar, any links or any references who may have

[IAEP] Fundraiser for Replacing Textbooks project

2011-04-06 Thread Edward Cherlin
I have set up a fundraiser, http://www.crowdrise.com/Replacetextbooks/ to raise $10,000 for a server and other expenses at Sugar Labs to create collaborative, interactive, digital textbook replacements for up to a billion children at a time. That's a million pennies, or a thousandth of a cent per