Re: [IAEP] Physics - Lesson plans ideas?

2009-08-14 Thread Bill Kerr
one possibility would be to not attempt to teach physics but to make a game good for introduction and also for teamwork see http://xo-whs2009.blogspot.com/2009/08/wow-factor-physics.html http://xo-whs2009.blogspot.com/2009/08/wow-factor-physics.html

Re: [IAEP] GPA ain't the world (was: [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2009-08-11)

2009-08-14 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 20:17, David Van Asschedvanass...@gmail.com wrote: I think you are misunderstanding what I am saying... all I said was we need more data from the field Well, I also understood that you said that it wasn't obvious enough. Which surprised me after all the noise lately

Re: [IAEP] Yet more feedback from Boston! - Chat and Speak

2009-08-14 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 02:28, Caroline Meekscarol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: Neither wind nor rain nor flaming emails will deter me from telling you about what happened with kids and Sugar today in Boston! You however are free to use your delete key at any time. Today, working with 6th grade

[IAEP] community support

2009-08-14 Thread David Farning
http://getsatisfaction.com/sugarlabs is getting some questions from users. If you are interest in community support, here is your chance:) david ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [IAEP] GPA ain't the world (was: [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2009-08-11)

2009-08-14 Thread David Van Assche
Ok, I think what's happening here is a breakdown in communication. When I used the term obvious, I was talking about Christoph's email... I was stating that perhaps the message, as I understood it, was that we need more data from the field... and that _the message_ was not obvious enough in the

Re: [IAEP] GPA ain't the world (was: [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2009-08-11)

2009-08-14 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 17:12, David Van Asschedvanass...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, I think what's happening here is a breakdown in communication. When I used the term obvious, I was talking about Christoph's email... I was stating that perhaps the message, as I understood it, was that we need more

[IAEP] IN 5 MIN: Contributors Program Mtg! (Fri 2PM Boston time, #olpc-meeting)

2009-08-14 Thread Holt
Please join us in 5min reviewing the latest OLPC/Sugar community projects over IRC Live Chat: (2PM EDT Boston Time Friday) http://forum.laptop.org/chat Then type at bottom: /join #olpc-meeting AGENDA: * New projects libraries -- teaching them Community Outreach:

[IAEP] Google logo, Aug 14 Hans Christian Ørsted

2009-08-14 Thread Edward Cherlin
http://www.google.com/logos/ Compare Jul 10, 2009 Birthday of Nikola Tesla - (Global) -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. http://earthtreasury.org/worknet (Edward Mokurai

[IAEP] Request for new features for Measure

2009-08-14 Thread Claudia Urrea
Hello, I have been working with the Measure activity for a while now, using some un-expensive sensors (humidity, temperature, light, magnet, etc), which can be connected to the Mic port. I would like to get two other features added to measure. 1) Invert the curve of the reading of sensor: Some

Re: [IAEP] Request for new features for Measure

2009-08-14 Thread Walter Bender
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Claudia Urreaclau...@laptop.org wrote: Hello, I have been working with the Measure activity for a while now, using some un-expensive sensors (humidity, temperature, light, magnet, etc), which can be connected to the Mic port. I would like to get two other

[IAEP] New sugar meeting channel in Spanish

2009-08-14 Thread Pilar Saenz
Hi, Thinking about how to involve more Spanish speakers into IRC meetings, it's available a transbot between #sugar-meeting and the new #sugar-reunion channels. Spanish users can join #sugar-reunion and all sentences will be translated to english into #sugar-meeting channel and vice versa.

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] GPA ain't the world (was: [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2009-08-11)

2009-08-14 Thread Raul Gutierrez Segales
On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 15:06 -0400, Walter Bender wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:17 PM, David Van Asschedvanass...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Or are you saying the feedback is getting through and I'm just not seeing it? We all seem to agree that feedback is important. We mostly agree

Re: [IAEP] Physics - Lesson plans ideas?

2009-08-14 Thread Bill Kerr
I might try these next week and see how they go: does altering the size of an object affect its drop time? does joining objects together (large and small) affect drop time? does altering the length of a pendulum affect its swing time? before doing the above say what you think will happen after

Re: [IAEP] Physics - Lesson plans ideas?

2009-08-14 Thread K. K. Subramaniam
On Friday 14 Aug 2009 7:40:30 pm Caroline Meeks wrote: For Physics I think I want a really simple challenge that I can demo then have students solve it fairly quickly. then I want a couple levels of additional challenge where students can solve problems in different ways. For best results,