There are still a few loose ends to tie with the Turtle Art modification. I am trying to make it into somewhat of a case study that can be hopefully a catalyst not just to rote imitation but also to some deductive or model-based thinking about thinking. Also, the exercise has raised a few questions for me about our process that I hope to address/document.
I realize that teachers don't have time to be developers, but I aspire that everyone will move towards all kinds of appropriation. Alas, I wish that OLPC had included the chapter on Modifying Sugar in their Help activity... -walter On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:10 PM, luis ACEVEDO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi Greg: > > TurtleArt-11.xo worked perfectly. My report with teacher´s > comment, screenshoots, and pedagogical support (only in spanish) here: > > http://patricioacevedo.blogspot.com/2008/09/mi-reporte-para-sugar-labs.html > > I want to try this features: > 1.- A Beep function in TurtleArtwithsensors. > 2.- A easy way for to write "Hello word". I received a report about > uruguayan´s kids writing letters with the turtle´s lines, but this way > is slow and not fun. > > > > Thanks > > Pato Acevedo > > www.patricioacevedo.blogspot.com >> Hi Luis, >> >> I believe that Walter updated TurtleArt with a square root function to >> address this. >> >> Was that a satisfactory response? Let us know how that worked for you >> and the people who requested it. Any comments or input appreciated. >> >> What else do teachers and users need? Let's see if we can address some >> more requests and start to improve the quality of the dialog at the same >> time. >> >> Walter, >> >> Essentially the same questions for you. Did that go the way you wanted? >> I get the impression you wanted teachers to modify the code themselves. >> Maybe you can elaborate on that. Perhaps you could have asked if anyone >> wanted to learn how to do it. >> >> In the cycle of praxis, there's the action and the reflection. If we're >> done with the action on this one (still want to hear the final ack) then >> a little reflection may be in order until we pick the next small >> challenge. >> >> At the same time we can think about what tools work best to address >> these in the future. I didn't see the bug ID come through dev.laptop.org >> but I may have missed it. I assume IRC didn't work for Luis either... >> >> Thanks, >> >> Greg S >> >> > Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:24:27 +0000 >> > From: luis ACEVEDO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > Subject: [IAEP] Teacher in OLPC-Sur list enchanted to see his idea >> > integrated into global Sugar update [First approach] >> > To: <[email protected]> >> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >> > >> > >> > Hello: >> > My name is Luis Acevedo, live in Santiago, Chile. I participate actively >> > in the mailing list OLPC-Sur and is closely monitoring the mailing list >> > Sugar Labs. Yesterday in the Sur- List we had a report about a required >> > feature for Turtle art activity. This is root square function. Teachers >> > found necessary this function in activities like figure 28 and others from >> > this page http://neoparaiso.com/logo/ejercicios-de-geometria.html >> > I suggested to obtain a ticket trac in http://dev.laptop.org/ and to try >> > in the irc channel. >> > Is there a other way like to contact directly the authors? Is this a >> > correct place for this questions? >> > I feel it is a first opportunity to move from discussion to action. >> > Thanks in advance >> > >> > Luis "Pato" Acevedo >> > www.patricioacevedo.blogspot.com >> > www.ucpn.cl >> > >> > > > ________________________________ > Lo que hay dentro de ti es lo que cuenta - ¿Qué tipo de atleta eres? > ________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
