On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 4:46 AM, Timothy Falconer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Waveplace has finished its beta "Squeaky Tales" courseware ... 30 lessons > (with videos) that teach how to teach Etoys on the XO. To see examples, or > to become a beta tester, visit: > > http://waveplace.com/resources/tutorials/
Thanks. I put this on the Teacher Training page on the Sugar Labs Wiki. > We took everything we learned in our first pilot (in the Virgin Islands) and > started completely over. The pacing is much better, as is the storytelling > component, which was crucial in St John. We're using the beta courseware in > our three pilots this summer, and will then start completely over and make a > physical textbook and DVD series (in English, Spanish, and French). All > will be sold at cost for physical materials. (We're a non-profit.) > > In other news, we held our first intensive teacher workshop last week in > Immokalee, Florida. The teachers are very enthusiastic. For the next two > months, they'll be using the courseware to teach 42 children, each of whom > received their very own XO last week. Larry Abramson from NPR spent a day > with us, listening as we taught the teachers and later the children. > > Lastly, we've just finished prep work for our 4th pilot ... this time on the > Pacific coast of Nicaragua in a school that currently has no electricity. > If all goes well, we'll be starting that pilot in mid-July. When this > pilot finishs, Waveplace will have given both XOs and training to more than > 100 children and 20 teachers. > > For more on the Immokalee and Nicaragua pilots, or to hear about our Haiti > pilot, read the current issue of our newsletter: > > http://waveplace.com/news/newsletter/web.jsp?id=7 > > You can also subscribe to it by visiting: > > http://waveplace.com/subscribe/ > > Take care, > Tim > -- > Timothy Falconer > http://bigfractaltangle.com > 610-393-1889 mobile > Immuexa Corporation > http://immuexa.com > 610-797-3100 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Grassroots mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots > > -- Edward Cherlin End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business http://www.EarthTreasury.org/ "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay _______________________________________________ Grassroots mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots
