Hi All,
Thanks to Caroline for inviting me to sit in on a class using Sugar
for the first time at Gardner Public School.
Here are my notes and observations. At the risk of wordiness, I'm
writing this stream of conscious straight from the school.
I got to the GPA school at 10AM, chatted with Walt
On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 15:40 -0400, Greg Smith wrote:
> Thanks to Caroline for inviting me to sit in on a class using Sugar
> for the first time at Gardner Public School.
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Best event report ever!!!
Thanks, you should be on http://planet.sugarlabs.org . Do you have a
blog with an RSS feed?
Whoa. I am humbled. Greg, your notes give me a new standard to reach for.
> Send me your questions. What do you want to know about the SW and how
> its used by kids?
I'm intrigued by the process of how the kids learn how to save and
retrieve files, and what they think of that interaction flow. (T
Hi Greg,
First, thanks for the great write up!
On 8 Jul 2009, at 20:40, Greg Smith wrote:
> Seemed like a lot to me but most kids did it with a little help at
> some steps. The other hard work flow was creating two images, one
> right after the other. Here are the steps for that:
>
> - Open pai
Here are some of the specs for the GPA computers that I noted down earlier
this summer:
-HP Evo 500
-1.7 GHZ
-512 MB RAM
I feel that most hardware issues are due to lack of memory.
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Gary C Martin wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> First, thanks for the great write up!
>
> On
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 08:25, Anurag Goel wrote:
> Here are some of the specs for the GPA computers that I noted down earlier
> this summer:
>
> -HP Evo 500
> -1.7 GHZ
> -512 MB RAM
>
> I feel that most hardware issues are due to lack of memory.
Why that feeling? 512MB should be more than needed f
Hi Mel,
Thanks for the kind words and insightful comments.
I thought about how to ask these questions in the class today, but I
wasn't successful.
On the first one, they don't actually give out assignments and review
kids work. They just play and do what we describe in the reports. The
question
> On idle thought #1: Give me a few icons to use as examples. Then I'll
> try to find time to just point to it and ask the kids: "what do you
> think that does". The truth is that I'm not sure how they figured out
> that the computer can talk! I'm guessing its from the Speak icon but
> that's reall
