On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Nicco Eneidi<[email protected]> wrote: > I'm looking at doing a presentation on Sugar Friday August 7th at a local > Rosie's Girls camp happening at our high school in Bennington, VT. Today I > was asked to do an impromptu workshop with these girls on how to make a > slide show using photos that they've taken over the last few weeks and I was > thinking that this would be the perfect opportunity to show them SoaS.
The ImageView activity will let yo do a slide show, but also, they could do the same with Turtle Art, along with adding captions, slide decorations, etc. Let me know if you are interested in the latter and I can help you get started. regards. -walter > Rosie's Girls is a take on Rosie the Riveter from World War 2 when women had > to take on non traditional roles in society especially in building ships and > planes in the factories for the military at the time. This camp is based > around introducing middle school aged girls to non traditional career paths > that they may get interested in and go into in the future. So far they have > done things like learning how to do basic car/engine maintenance, basic > carpentry skills with electric saws/tools etc, and learning how to weld. > They are also doing a lot of outdoor activities invovling sustainable/green > energy and building solar heaters etc. > > After working with them today and seeing how technically these girls are I > think presenting Sugar to them and using Turtle Art would be a wonderful way > of introducing them to basic programming among other things. I may be able > to get the district to purchase new usb drives for them too but I would need > them to be relatively cheap and fast. > > For my camp last week I had purchased the ruggedized 2GB Patriot drives from > newegg for about 15$/each but those are a bit overkill and expensive for > this. I'm also afraid to buy another drive not knowing if it will actually > work or not. > > Does anyone have any specific recommendations on drives that they absolutely > know will work and are under 10$/each? > > Thank You! > -Nicco > > -- > Niccolo Botticelli Eneidi > > _______________________________________________ > 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
