There is a group that is designing a Portfolio activity to complement the Journal. The basic idea is to engage the student in a process of selection (from the Journal), reflection about how/why the work is significant, and the creation of a narrative to tell the story. Not a report card, but a powerful assessment tool, nonetheless. More details as we progress with our sketches.
regards. --walter On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure that such an idea actually requires a special activity, > or a "report card" template with preset fields. It seems to me that > the item of importance is the ability for the teacher to give each kid > an immutable object which they may then view on their XO, and take > home to show their parents. This object might be a .pdf, or it might > be an image, or it might be something else, but the teacher could > create such an object in Write, or in a spreadsheet activity, or in > whatever suits their needs best. > > It seems to me that the more interesting part of this problem is the > distribution method. Unlike a homework assignment where the teacher > could share an activity, or (in the future) send an object to everyone > in the class group, there is need to distribute files individually to > the kids by some unique identifier. Perhaps this is the place where > an "Evaluate" activity does have it's place. If done well, a fresh > instance of the activity could provide a way for a teacher to fill out > evaluations (or import in their desired format!) and identify which > kid each belongs to. Then, upon sharing that single evaluation > activity with the class, each kid would receive *only* their own > evaluation from the shared instance. That instance would then, every > time they open it, simply be a viewer for that particular evaluation. > This is a good example where the master-slave (usually discouraged in > Sugar) would actually work. > > - Eben > > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Yamandu Ploskonka > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Following with the "Printing support" thread, I found out that the >> "only" item that _needs_ printing in the conventional school setup is >> the report cards. >> >> Since I militantly believe that XO-supported education we should not >> depend on printing at all if it were possible, I would want to submit a >> proposal to have grading information be accessible through the XO. >> >> While that is a simple part of student management software that >> doubtlessly will be part of the server, and thus accessible as a web >> page, still there would be a need for that information to be copied >> _into_ the XO for those kids who would have no access to the server from >> their homes. >> >> Thus, in its proposed incarnation, the "Work Report" activity would >> exist in the XO, be fed its information updates from the school server. >> The child and family would have that info as an available reminder of >> the teacher's feedback and child-specific suggestions. >> >> From a security standpoint the server notices via mac address the ID of >> the child's computer to upload info to. >> >> There would be an associated activity, "Teacher Reports", available for >> the teachers' XOs, where the teacher can comment on student work. >> Simple fields, "what is good about this work", "what needs improvement", >> "other suggestions". >> >> While I personally would avoid there be a "grade" field, I am aware I >> will be overruled on this, so I concede. >> >> In most cases anyways the report card follows a definite format and is >> already pre-printed to be filled out by hand. I am sure that >> improvements on this are possible, but since this is very much a >> nationally-defined format, it might not make sense to worry at this >> stage. Last time I was there in 2000, Uruguay High Schools printed >> reports on dot-matrix plain paper already. >> >> Yama >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar mailing list >> Sugar@lists.laptop.org >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar >> > _______________________________________________ > Sugar mailing list > Sugar@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar