On 12 May 2009, at 18:37, Caroline Meeks wrote: > For the next SoaS Beta I'd like to help users trying out Sugar, > especially educators, have an "ah ha" moment about how Sugar on a > Stick can open a huge world of books for their students. > > The US elementary schools I visit have a computer lab and they have > books. But they certainly don't have the budget to get as many > copies of as many different books as they would like. > > Maybe our new users will know that there are free books on the > internet. Good chance they have never actually tried it > themselves. Plus, having a book on the internet doesn't help their > students if they get one hour of computer time in the lab. > > But having a book on your Sugar Stick and being able to read it in > multiple locations is actually very useful! > > This is one of the many things I want educators to discover as they > play with their Sugar Sticks. > > I know we have wonderful library apps coming down the pike. What I'm > interested in right now is what is the art of the possible for the > next Beta in June? > > Suggestions so far: > > - Include the FLOSS Sugar manual in the SoaS Image > - Add a link to one or more free book sites in the startup page on > Browse
Whatever happened the 'great and glorious' Moodle? Lot's of noises were made about how well suted ti education it is, and much effort was made setting up servers and accounts, but where is the simple basic literature lesson plan that links to 5 or 6 decent pdf ebooks as reading material so folks can download and get going?? I was hoping http://schools.sugarlabs.org/ was going to be a growing resource of such top level educational example content, but it seems to be a barren wasteland – and that's one of the reasons I was OK with the default home page going to a local school server (at Martins request) rather that to schools.sugarlabs.org. Would be happy to rework the default home page with a javascript trick so that the school link tries for a local school server first, and then falls back to schools.sugarlabs.org if no local server is found – just didn't have time to do thins in the last cycle. Perhaps Moodle was a poor choice of content management system? Perhaps teachers are unwilling, unable, or unconvinced enough about Sugar to help provide lesson plans? > - Include a kids book in the SoaS Image. > > Other ideas? Is it possible to provide a handful of example pdf books into the Journal? Would be great if they could also be well named, with useful metadata (description/tags/preview), and starred for easy sorting/ finding. I've always thought the Journal could do with a few 'hello world' example entries to get people into the concept. --Gary > Thanks, > Caroline > > -- > Caroline Meeks > Solution Grove > [email protected] > > 617-500-3488 - Office > 505-213-3268 - Fax > _______________________________________________ > 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
