moku...@earthtreasury.org wrote:
On Wed, June 29, 2011 2:29 pm, Valerie Taylor wrote:
Is there a minimum set of Sugar teacher/tutor training, hardware and
software that could be implemented by a community supported remedial
program that works with kids outside regular elementary school? Is
this something that could be considered and/or suggested?
That is a whole set of questions bundled up into one. XOs and their Sugar
distributions are the minimum standard set. The maximum is whatever is
currently on Activities.sugarlabs.org.
You can buy individual used XOs on eBay for about $150 each. If some NGO
would be willing to buy 10,000 units and make them available in smaller
quantities to other NGOs, we could talk about all sorts of programs.
Prices would likely be in the $200-$250 range. The initial investment
would be about $2 million up front, with delivery date to be determined
later. Nobody has so far been willing to operate on those terms.
A local program provides small group time as their primary learning
activities and has some computers that they use already. Most of the
software is the usual proprietary kids educational products. Their
regular program would lend itself to including basic Sugar Labs
Activities.
Sugar on a Stick
Besides to the fedora Soas Project,
You should look at this polished SugarLabs (Ubuntu Based) Project :
It uses alsroot's sugar sweets 0.88.1, and shares some features with
the XO-1 OLPC Dextrose software
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http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Trisquel_On_A_Sugar_Toast#trisquel-sugar_4.5.1_i686
---More Information:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Trisquel
---Importable Virtualbox appliance:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Emulator_image_files#Trisquel-Gnome-sugar_4.5_Release_Candidate
---dd write to 2 GB USB:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Trisquel_On_A_Sugar_Toast#dd_writable_2GB_USB_.img
---Testing:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Community/Distributions/Trisquel#trisquel-sugar_4.5.1_i686
FYI Sugar-desktop is available in all of these Linux Distributions
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#Community_Distributions
Sugar-Activity Information is available from these links:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sck/activities
Tom Gilliard
satellit
Are there guidelines for when Sugar Labs Activities can be beneficial
even if it isn't possible or practical to provide the all-inclusive
OLPC environment?
Always. ^_^
In this case, the computers could probably loaded with Linux and
Sugar, and would be stand-alone (without a classroom or school
server). I don't know if the machines are networked so that groups and
neighborhoods could be available.
Any of the above.
Is anyone doing this now? Does Sugar Labs encourage this? What is a
minimum setup that could be considered? What are the "gotcha's" for
doing something like this?
Various NGOs have various programs around XOs and Sugar in other forms.
Sugar Labs encourages this.
Sugar on a Stick
There are some technical issues. SoaS is not easy enough to create. It
does not work on every computer. Therefore preplanning and testing is
necessary. Mostly, the issue is that prospective teachers do not have
enough guidance on how to use Sugar effectively. That is one of the
targets for the Replacing Textbooks program. Of course, you can buy
pre-recorded SoaS USB units, although I don't know which versions of SoaS
are available.
To replace textbooks, is there a strategy for moving to wider use of
Sugar as part of the process?
Of course. The idea is to integrate Sugar into every topic where it is
practical in every subject. That is the equivalent of more than 100
textbooks, with more than 10,000 topics.
Thanks
..Valerie
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