how can I procure an XO tablet for education purposes and localisation?. I live in Ghana
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 9:00 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Send Educators mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/educators > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Educators digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: OLPC and Physics and astronomy??? (Edward Cherlin) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 12:41:33 -0400 > From: Edward Cherlin <[email protected]> > To: Educators and OLPC <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Educators] OLPC and Physics and astronomy??? > Message-ID: > < > cadmpiaz35kj0o1g5efi9huzxfy5fses1nz4zknxrpxjqqy8...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Alan Kay has talked about how and why to do this using Etoys or > Scratch. You can take videos on the XO, import and dissect them with > the software, and compare the results with models built in any of the > implementations of Turtle Art, including the one in Etoys. SocialCalc > should work for data analysis. > > We could ask about turning Tracker into a Sugar Activity. Maybe James > Simmons can tell us how to go about it. > > On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Caryl Bigenho <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi... > > > > I'm enrolled in an online Physics course from Georgia Tech that uses > > "Tracker" (http://www.cabrillo.edu/~dbrown/tracker/)* to help us do our > > labs. We import videos (mostly ones we take) of objects in motion and > use it > > to analyze and give us results. It is pretty complex, but maybe someone > in > > Sugar Labs could figure out a way to make a Sugar equivalent that would > let > > students import videos made in Record. > > > > We also do further analysis in a spreadsheet (Google Sheets will work), > but > > that might be too much of a stretch. > > > > Caryl > > * Cabrillo College is a community college near Santa Cruz, CA > > > >> From: [email protected] > >> To: [email protected] > >> Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 00:03:29 +0000 > >> Subject: Re: [Educators] OLPC and astronomy > >> > >> This weekend I had an out of this world experience. The centre of Milky > >> Way passed right over the top of me. Out away from the city lights I was > >> able to see the clusters and nebulae with the naked eye. Focus on the > dust > >> lanes instead of the glow makes it all leap into 3D. Who needs a > telescope? > >> Even my 11.5 degree wide angle binoculars were no match for the naked > eye. > >> That's the experience I'd like to share. The irony is that the more > remote > >> the Southern Hemisphere location the better the view. But Northerners > have > >> the advantage when it comes to M31. The big visual challenge becomes > seeing > >> our own Local Group. > >> > >> Indeed, if it were possible in some alternative physics to go into > >> intergalactic space, wouldn't that be precisely what we'd see with a > Dobson? > >> .. ie . surrounded by nothing but faint ghostly glows of galaxies, with > only > >> the nearest one actually discernible to the naked eye. A Dobson > telescope is > >> a spacecraft that can take us there. And a dark sky site beats any > >> telescope. > >> > >> We lump space travel, cosmology, physics and everything else into > >> astronomy. Kids like colour and movement so are often disappointed with > the > >> static views of the real thing. I queued up for hours to get a glimpse > of > >> Mars through Sydney Observatory and Astronomy Club telescopes on nearest > >> approach only to find that the view from my own vintage C-5 from > mid-city > >> was pretty similar. > >> > >> So I think there is a huge amount of strategic thinking to do about what > >> learning/experience objectives we should be seeking. > >> > >> Tom Benjamin > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: [email protected] > >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Edward Cherlin > >> Sent: Tuesday, 9 July 2013 5:34 AM > >> To: Educators and OLPC > >> Subject: Re: [Educators] OLPC and astronomy > >> > >> I am sorry to take so long in replying. > >> > >> In addition to the astronomy software for OLPC XOs (such as Star Chart, > >> http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4300 ) and the > possibility > >> of attaching a telescope, we would like to develop interactive learning > >> materials on every aspect of science, the history of scientific > discovery, > >> scientific method, and the tools of science, such as data acquisition, > >> modeling, and data analysis. We have conventional XO and Sugar > materials at > >> FLOSS Manuals (http://en.flossmanuals.net/, including Make your own > sugar > >> activities and Etoys Reference Manual, where I am a contributor), and > we are > >> looking into the use of HTML5 (discussion on the Sugar-Devel mailing > list, > >> where you would be welcome), or possibly EPUB3, for integrating software > >> into the learning process. Etoys Book and Stack constructions, based on > >> Apple's Hypercard, are also options being discussed on various Squeak > >> mailing lists. The Sugar Labs program that I manage, Replacing > Textbooks, is > >> dedicated to those ideas and others of their kind. > >> > >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks > >> > >> We could discuss a range of topics related to astronomy at every age > >> level, with many possibilities for presentation. Here is one on Galilean > >> gravity, based on ideas from Alan Kay, in a Libre Office document file. > (I > >> don't do Windows. ^_^) > >> > >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/0/0e/Gravity.odt > >> > >> I am a big fan of Astronomy Picture of the Day, and of its Spanish > >> translation, Observatorio: Una imagen diaria del Universo > >> (http://observatorio.info/ ). Hoy hay nombres nuevos por los sat?lites > de > >> Pluton, descubiertos en 2011 y 2012 por el Telescopio Espacial Hubble. > >> > >> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Jos? Raeiro <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > Hello, > >> > > >> > I studied astrophysics and I would like to help with whatever I can. > >> > I'm also a science educator and gave several talks, courses, etc. I > >> > taught a 5-years course at the Popular University of Porto. > >> > > >> > Is there any astronomy tool in the standard software pack that comes > >> > with OLCP? > >> > > >> > I can help on the creation of content or I can work together with > >> > coders to produce an astronomic software tool. > >> > > >> > I believe a planetarium would be essential to this project, since most > >> > of the target-public live in dark skies. > >> > > >> > I would also like to discuss the creation of a $20 telescope in the > >> > same philosophy of OLPC. > >> > > >> > Kind Regards, > >> > > >> > Jos? 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