> Hi Folks, > > I had a great visit yesterday with the folks at New Tech High @ Coppell, TX. > It is a great place, where "facilitators" guide "learners" in their project > based learning. We were very impressed. But, I was surprised to discover > they do not teach any computer programming at the school. If students want > to take programming, they can do a concurrent enrollment at the local > community college. Their classes are the traditional courses, taught in a > very non-traditional way. > > Since last year they have been doing a great Contributors Project with XOs > they are sending to the rescued slave children at the shelter run by the > Touch A Life Foundation in Ghana. As a followup to the work they did last > year, they want to create math games for these children to use on the XOs. > They tried doing this last year with Scratch but were not satisfied with > their "product" and felt they could do better. > > Their project director is a math teacher and she wants her students to try > again this year to create math learning games for the children in their > project in Ghana. I suggested she try Etoys this time and promised to get > her more information on how to do it. Anything they create will be at a very > elementary level as most of the children in the shelter have had no prior > school experience. Their lessons in Etoys should be as language neutral as > possible and the words they do use can be translated and used by deployments > anywhere so this could be a very useful project.
Hi Caryl, these are great news! You might want to connect with Christine Murakami, who did a wonderful project this year with her highschool students creating Etoys projects for kids in St. John. I'll forward this mail to her. > > How do you transfer an Etoys lesson to the XO (they will have both XO-1s and > XO-1.5s) if they lessons are created: > The lessons would be Etoys projects, which can be distributed via some storage device or on the internet. One central place for Etoys projects is the showcase on our website: http://www.squeakland.org/showcase/everyone/ You need an account to upload projects. Downloading is possible without login. > On a Mac using Etoys downloaded from the web: > > On a PC using Etoys downloaded from the web: > > On Etoys to go downloaded from the web and, possibly used on both Macs and > PCs (they have both at New Tech): Click on the "Find"-icon and choose "Squeakland showcase" from the menu. You can then choose "everyone" and "accounts" to find projects by contributors. > > Is there a good way to disseminate the projects so that the children won't > accidentally erase them... perhaps by using SD cards or USB sticks? Cost is a > factor. If internet access is a problem, then some other storage device would be helpful, I think. There could also be a folder on a server if they are connected and they could load the projects from there. > > Or... could they make a custom build for their project that would include > their Etoys lessons in a way that they wouldn't accidentally be erased? > > I will probably have more questions as we go along, but this will help get us > all started. > Please ask, this project sounds really great! Greetings, Rita > GrannieB (Caryl) > > For more info about newt...@coppell: > > http://www.coppellisd.com/newtech/lib/newtech/pdfs/demonstrationsiteprofile.pdf > > http://www.newtechnetwork.org/newtech_schools (watch the video linked in > the upper right corner to see how the school works) > > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
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