On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Dr. Gerald Ardito <gerald.ard...@gmail.com> wrote: > Daniel and others, > > This thread has really inspired me. I am going to work with my > students to develop Sugar activities. > I have James' book. Are there other resources I need?
I'd recommend using the Duplicate function in View Source. Have them make some changes to a favorite existing Sugar activity. regards. -walter > > Thanks. > Gerald > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 4:16 AM, Kevin Mark <kevin.m...@verizon.net> wrote: >> >> >> --- On Wed, 9/19/12, S. Daniel Francis <fran...@sugarlabs.org> wrote: >> >>> From: S. Daniel Francis <fran...@sugarlabs.org> >>> Subject: Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18 >>> To: "Kevin Mark" <kevin.m...@verizon.net> >>> Cc: "James Simmons" <nices...@gmail.com>, "iaep" >>> <i...@lists.sugarlabs.org>, "Sugar-dev Devel" >>> <sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org>, community-n...@lists.sugarlabs.org >>> Date: Wednesday, September 19, 2012, 11:27 PM >>> Hi Kevin, >>> >>> 2012/9/19 Kevin Mark <kevin.m...@verizon.net>: >>> > Hearing from the kids who are making Sugar activities >>> and more contributions, I'm really wanting to >>> > know what teaching environment made this possible? >>> >>> Summing my case all the cases I listened about, we usually >>> learn by our self. >>> Thinking about why Sugar, well, we could make desktop >>> applications, >>> but a free and decent way to share a program is difficult to >>> find and >>> there's not always a community where we can share what we >>> make. >> >> While I can't speak for Sugar Labs, this sound like a very good problems to >> address. "Scratch" has a website to 'upload' its programs. I would really >> love to see a way to help young sugar activity hacker have a place for them >> to 'hack' on their games/activities. Maybe Activities.sugarlabs.org or some >> website in .uy? And maybe a forum? (I'm not someone to do this sadly but >> would think that the very capable people around the sugar community would >> find this idea motivating) >> >>> Also I >>> think Sugar needs activities, unlike desktops, where >>> practically all >>> is already made. >>> >>> Just Edward suggested us to tell our stories, but at the >>> moment I'll >>> not get into many details and only answer your questions. >>> >>> > Are there activity hacking classes? >>> In Uruguay there is only one activity hacking teacher: >>> Flavio Danesse. >> >> OH wow. I have recently started to 'hack' on JAMedia and JAMediaTube. So I >> know his work. I wonder if making videos of his lecture would be something >> he could do and the kids could watch? >> >>> He is an IT teacher, and every year he organizes a workshop >>> where he >>> teaches volunteer students to program in Python. The group >>> "Python >>> Joven", in English "Young Python".. >> >> If you and others can make 'clubs' in your area, that would be great, maybe >> they can setup a web 'forum' for everyone to exchange ideas. >> >> >>> >>> Currently, his students contributing here are Agustin >>> Zubiaga and >>> Cristhofer Travieso, they told me about another student who >>> develops >>> applications for Android. >>> >>> > Is this kind of experimentation part of a turtleart >>> class? >>> For my part I can say "yes and no"... When I received my XO >>> with Sugar >>> I liked very much TurtleArt, but the teachers don't teach it >>> very >>> often, I had to look for documentation. >> >> Oh, that is sad, I'm surprised to read that. >> >> >>> >>> >Have kids 'goggled' about programming on their own time >>> and wanted to know about programming? >>> Now you are right, I learn practically all 'googling'. >>> Flavio's >>> students told me they also learn(ed) a big part of what they >>> know >>> searching and investigating by them self. >>> I think it's better because we can learn what we are >>> interested in, >>> also if it's not related with Sugar. >> >> yes that is true. learning what you want (being an auto-didact) is powerful. >> >>> >>> > Are there computer programming classes and teachers >>> that have assignments that ask the kids to explore? >>> >>> Programming is not often a subject at the school. >>> I know about optional workshops, like Flavio's. My parents >>> are >>> teachers, and about three-four years ago, when I was ten >>> years old, I >>> used to go to the highschool where my parents worked and I >>> listened to >>> a workshop about web design (basic HTML development) and >>> graphic >>> design (with GIMP). That workshop was not a way to get >>> young >>> programmers, but it removed me the fear of seeing a source >>> code as >>> something strange or made for be understood by non-human >>> people. >> >> Yes, many people have a fear of this 'scary' stuff. It something everyone >> who wants to learn about programming has to face. Turtleart and Scratch was >> suppose to help. >> >>> >>> Cheers. >>> ~danielf >>> >>> P.S: Sorry, I don't speak English very well. >> >> Thanks you very much for your answers. I think you write English very well! >> -Kevin aka kevix >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel