== Sugar Digest == 1. Danishka Navin pointed me to an article [1] about Sugar in Sri Lanka. Even though they don't mention Sugar, in fact, both Sugar and GNOME are being used on Hanthana [2], a Fedora-based Linux, using LSTP. The program is modelled on the Hanthana School Labs [3]. I wonder where else Sugar is being used that I am unaware?
2. In the spirit of procrastination, I wrote two new Sugar activities this week. The first is a simple activity around the concept of narrative. Claudia Urrea had come across a game in which nine picture are chosen at random (by throwing nine dice). The players then construct a narrative based on the pictures. Easier enough to implement Story in Sugar [4]. I took advantage of a nice source for SVG artwork, The Noun Project [5]. When shared -- with up to eight other users -- everyone sees the same pictures and hence can tell a story in a round-robin fashion. (One of these days, I will write the Exquisit Cadavar [6] activity, based on the Dadaist storytelling technique that is a nature fit with Sugar collaboration. There is a variant that combines pictures and text: you draw a picture illustrating my text; the next person writes text describing your picture, and so on. Stay tuned.) Meanwhile, on the flight to Korea last week, I got caught up on some reading [7]. Even though is it not clear that "you can make yourself smarter" using these techniques, nonetheless, n-back games are fun. So I wrote Recall [8]. There are three games, with six levels each. It is deceptively easy to get hooked. Enjoy. === In the community === 5. EduJAM! is under way in Montevideo. Tune into the webcast at [10] and join the code sprint at [11] on the 13th and 14th. 6. Next week is Squeakfest, also in Montevideo (May 17-19) and May 21-22 in Buenos Aires (See [12]). === Sugar Labs === Visit our planet [13] for more updates about Sugar and Sugar deployments. -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ---- [1] http://www.ft.lk/2012/05/12/reconstructing-sri-lankas-education-system-with-hanthana/ [2] http://www.hanthana.org/ [3] http://school.hanthana.org/lab/ [4] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Story [5] http://thenounproject.com/ [6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exquisite_corpse [7] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/magazine/can-you-make-yourself-smarter.html?_r=2&ref=magazine [8] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Recall [9] http://ceibaljam.org/?q=edujam2012 [10] http://www.ustream.tv/channel/edujam [11] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/EduJAM/CodeSprint [12] http://squeakland.org/squeakfest [13] http://plant.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
