Zitat von Werner Westermann <[email protected]>: > Hello, regards from Santiago. > > We are beginning a short Sugar pilot deployment in the K-3 level (8-9 > years), using Mirabelle SoaS: > > http://cl.sugarlabs.org/go/Piloto_Florence_Nightingale_Macul > > We have focused on curricular work, exploring, selecting, prioritizing Sugar > activities with the teacher. But we haven't thought of the initial encounter > with Sugar. > > What do you suggest to do in class to get in touch on Sugar?, Any ideas, > metaphors that could motivate of the environments, activities, journal, > etc?, what activities to work on first?, preferring a exploratory or rather > approach at first?
3 weeks ago at the Waveplace schools on St. John we only started with Sugar classes on the second or third day. Things we explored in 10 to 20 minute slices at the beginning of each day (we had 90min after-school sessions at the schools) were: * how to stop Activities + not having too many Activities running at once (since many first time users manage to bring their machines / XOs to a halt by having multiple copies of Activities running, depending on the hardware you're using this might be less of an issue however especially young children can also get confused by multiple instances of the same Activity) * the Journal * the different views (especially the 2 views on the Home View can be very confusing in my experience) combined with collaboration (using Chat as a simple example) * Activity-of-the-day We started each day by asking the children whether they had discovered something particularly interesting by themselves on the previous day. That led to some good discussions and their fellow pupils asking them how to do things. Similarly we asked some children who quickly had a good understanding of things to explain how to do certain things, e.g. the aforementioned collaboration in Chat, to the rest of the class. Last but not least: I've found (both on St. John and at the Austrian pilot project) that having a projector and screen on-hand to demonstrate how to use Sugar and some Activities was tremendously useful. Not sure how well equipped the classrooms you'll be working in are but if there's any chance to use a projector (even if it means having to bring one along every single day) then I'd wholeheartedly recommend it. Hope that helps, Christoph -- Christoph Derndorfer co-editor, olpcnews url: www.olpcnews.com e-mail: [email protected] _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
