Hello David. We certainly will continue on giving feedback and asking form help from the community!.
p.s: our work is serving as base for other countries of LA to organize their on Local Labs Rafael Ortiz On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 2:01 PM, David Farning <dfarn...@sugarlabs.org>wrote: > Great work! > > This is exciting stuff. Keep pinging us when and where you need help. > Any issues the 'Global' Sugar community can help the Colombia with > will also apply to other regional deployment. > > david > > On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Rafael Enrique Ortiz > Guerrero<raf...@sugarlabs.org> wrote: > > Hello all. > > > > SugarLabs Colombia is now legally established! and we are going to tell > you > > about what we have been doing. > > In the last months we have been consolidating works, making contacts, > doing > > project proposals divulging, and seeking ways to bring the spirit of > Sugar > > and free software to children in our country, trying to transmit our > ideas > > (ideas that cheer us) to more people. Results have been very good so > far. > > > > In this moment we have in our hands our first deployment escenario.Along > > with the bunaima fundation, we have a project approved by Bogota's > secretary > > of education, for installing and using Sugar in 12 public schools: 7 from > > Ciudad Bolivar > > (María Mercedes Carranza, > > Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, Ciudad Bolívar Argentina, Bosco I, Rafael Uribe > > Uribe, Paraíso Manuela Beltrán y Buenos Aires) and 5 in other > > localities (Sorrento, Florentino González, Marco Fidel Suárez, San > > Pablo y Morisco). In these schools Sugar will be installed in informatics > > classrooms of primary grades. > > > > This step is the continuity of a process begun with 30 professors, which > > have been already trained on Sugar use. Now with the possibility of > having > > installed software, we are starting our second phase: making a follow-up > of > > classroom works using investigation projects as pedagogical tool. > > > > Next six months will be accompanying professors in their use of Sugar for > > classes development and we will be helping them with use of wikis, blogs > ans > > LMS (i.e moodle) . > > towards the end of this process we hope that teachers will be an active > > part of Sugar's community and we hope to have results of projects made > by > > children of these schools. Of course we are counting that this experience > > can be replicated on other institutions and schools of Bogota and > Colombia. > > > > We will be telling you the advances and difficulties in this process. > > > > Regards, > > Rafael Ortiz > > > > _______________________________________________ > > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > >
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