On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Gary C Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 18 Jan 2009, at 11:34, Gabriel Eirea wrote: > >> Gary, >> >> That work is wonderful. However, I believe there is a very important >> role that is missing. It is the role of the theacher as a designer of >> activities with specific pedagogic goals. It is somehow in the >> intersection of the Content Writer, the Designer and the Developer, >> but I believe the role is distinct and deserves special attention. > > Gabriel, I've added an Educator role today to the Getting Involved > wiki page as per your and others input – let me know if you have any > additional feedback (I might make some additions to the Educator icon, > but I think it's close):
So that would be the place to put the Earth Treasury digital textbook creators, then? http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Creating_textbooks > http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/GettingInvolved > > Please do take a look at the role description and see if it's missing > something or needs rewording. > >> What plans does Sugar Labs have with respecto to working with >> teachers, not only hearing what they have to say but incorporating >> them in the design and development teams? > > With my Activity developer hat on for a moment, I picked up work on > porting Labyrinth (a mind-map editor) to make it sugar friendly and > improve its UI (still a work in progress). Mind-mapping was a specific > request from teachers in Uruguay. Walter is also pushing real hard > with regard to opening up TurtleArt/Portfolio as a case study in > lowering the entry level for making code changes – it's a two way > thing – developers need ongoing actionable communication with > educators, and some educators need to be willing to get involved in > activity development. > > Being cheeky here... I know it's relatively new, but there seems to be > no teachers yet brave enough to put their name on the EducationalTeam > list ;-) > > http://sugarlabs.org/go/EducationTeam/Contacts > > The todo list is pretty sparse as well: > > http://sugarlabs.org/go/EducationTeam/TODO > > Doesn't look like there has been an EducationTeam meeting yet, any one > know if one is planned soon? > > Regards, > --Gary > >> Regards, >> >> Gabriel >> >> >> 2009/1/18 Gary C Martin <[email protected]>: >>> On 18 Jan 2009, at 02:22, Bernie Innocenti wrote: >>> >>>> Gary, >>>> >>>> your work on http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/GettingInvolved is >>>> TOTALLY AWESOME! >>>> >>>> Thank you very much for taking care of it. >>> >>> Thanks Bernie, glad you liked it! >>> >>> The example role texts still in need of some additional edits (more >>> Sugar, teacher, education, student targeted language I think). I did >>> make additions/changes in that direction already – the original >>> Fedora >>> text was very much aimed at hardcore FOSS geeks :-) >>> >>> There are some roles not so well covered by the page yet (also hinted >>> at in Rob Costello's email). Specifically QA/testing/BugSquad >>> (currently falls under the developer role); educational-content/ >>> teaching-material (currently falls mostly under the content writer >>> role – is this core SL or are we trying to enable teachers to do >>> this). >>> >>> To all: Edits welcome! :-) Try and look at the roles you think you're >>> currently involved with, and make sure their descriptions hint at the >>> kind of things you do and skills you needed. I can always build some >>> new role icons if folks think they can't fit in anywhere else (might >>> be worth adding a single 3 span strip below current roles, as a catch >>> all). >>> >>> --Gary >>> >>>> -- >>>> // Bernie Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/ >>>> \X/ Sugar Labs - http://www.sugarlabs.org/ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >>> > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- 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://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai (Ed Cherlin) _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
