On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:05 PM, Christoph Derndorfer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm giving two presentations about OLPC in Switzerland later this week > and so I'm currently in the process of planning them as well as > (re-)designing the accompanying slides. > > I realized that I'm not entirely happy about the part where I talk about > Sugar which essentially hasn't changed since mid-2008 (slides 35 to 42 > in this slide-deck: > http://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/Fahrplan/attachments/1487_26c3_derndorfer.pdf) > Now I'm looking for suggestions on how to improve / revamp that section. > > One of the two talks will be in front of an audience mainly consisting > of teachers and IT administrators from Swiss and German schools and > cantons. Hence I'm particularly interested in hearing what people who > have presented in front of such an education-focused crowd talked on > when it comes to Sugar.
I typically try to make the point that the culture of FOSS is a culture that sets the expectation of engagement and that is synergistic with the goals of learning. Walk them through an activity that enables the end user to make modifications: Memorize, Abacus, Turtle Art, etc. -walter > > Thanks in advance, > Christoph > > -- > Christoph Derndorfer > co-editor, 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 > -- 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
