On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 5:59 AM, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 23:58 +1000, Bill Kerr wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 4:39 PM, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >> Education Community >> >> 1. For all practical purposes this is blocked until we can >> put livecds >> and good documentation into educator's hands. >> >> >> see >> http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2008/07/evaluating-sugar-in-developed-world.html >> >> my year 10 students in Australia are beginning to evaluate the Sugar >> software >> > Thanks for the link. > > Bill, do you have time to help start engaging educators in Sugar and > Sugar Labs? I am trying to figure out how best to support micro sugar > deployments.
>From my own perspective (I'm currently in the process of deploying ubuntu + sugar as a secondary PC environment in my school): * It has to just work. There are some brave educators out there who might not have heaps of technical skills or linux knowledge, but will give something a try if it will be easy. There are also educators like myself who have the technical skills to mess around with things. Neither have much time to muck around with setting up the system, testing it, etc... * It has to be 'displayable.' Getting other (non-tech) teachers on board is very important. If you show how to use sugar in a collaborative language classroom, etc, and particularly how easy it is, other teachers will think 'wow' and start using it and spreading the word. In this context, a showcase of suggested lessons/lesson plans using sugar would be good. There is already a bit of this in curriki. I think what's needed is a 'one-stop-shop' for sugar: Here's sugar, here's how to set it up, and here's how to use it in your classroom. vik _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
