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Hermosas fotos, lástima que no tengo facebook, no puedo darle en me gusta. Felicitaciones por el trabajo. 2014-05-15 15:25 GMT-03:00 Mike Lee <[email protected]>: > And great photos from Turtle Art sessions in Kathmandu posted on Facebook: > > Introducing Turtle Art > > https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151995403127583&id=187845102582 > > > A photo from Turtle Art Day > > https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152402311569362&set=a.140818034361.110570.552694361&type=1&theater > > Turtle Art Day 2 > > https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151996917067583&id=187845102582 > > Winning Project of Turtle Art Day > > https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151996931477583&id=187845102582 > > > > > On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Walter Bender <[email protected]>wrote: > >> ==Sugar Digest== >> >> Happy 6th Birthday Sugar Labs >> >> 1. I just got back from Turtle Art Day in Kathmandu, Nepal. OLE Nepal >> helped organize a 2-day workshop with 70+ children from four schools. Many >> thanks to Martin Dluhos, Basanta Shrestha, Subir Pradhanang, Rabi >> Karmacharya, Bernie Innocenti, and Adam Holt, all of who contributed to the >> event. >> >> It was not a surprise that children in Nepal are like children everywhere >> else: they take to programming like ducks to water. We began by taking the >> children in small groups to learn some basics about controlling the turtle: >> one child plays the role of turtle, one holds the pen (a piece of chalk) >> and the rest, in a circle, instruct the "turtle" how to draw a square. They >> need to be very precise with their instructions: if they just say "forward" >> without saying how far forward, the turtle keeps walking. If they say >> "right", without saying how far to turn, the turtle keeps spinning after >> they draw a square, I ask them to draw a triangle then they are ready to >> start with Turtle Art. I've posted a few of the chalk drawing in the wiki: >> simple ones [1] from my session to more elaborate [2] from those working >> with another one of the mentors. >> >> After working with chalk, we went to the computers. On a laptop connected >> to a projector, I introduced Turtle Blocks, and again ask for a square. I >> show them that they can snap together blocks, e.g., forward 100, right 90; >> showed them the repeat block; and then I show them how to use the start >> block to run their program with the rabbit or snail (fast or slow). Over >> time, I introduced the pen and let them explore colors for awhile. Next, I >> introduce action blocks: make an action for drawing a square and then call >> that action inside of a repeat block followed by right 45 and you get a >> pretty cool pattern. This was followed by more open-ended exploration. I >> introduced a few more ideas, such as using "set color to heading" (the >> color is determined by the direction the turtle is heading); "set color = >> color + 1" to increment the color; and "set color = time" to make the color >> slowly change over time. I also introduced a few other blocks, such as >> show, speak, and random. Finally, I introduced boxes. For this, I use a >> physical box: I ask the children to put a number (written on paper) in the >> box; then I ask them what number is in the box. I ask them to take the >> number in the box and add 1 to it. Again I ask them what number is in the >> box. I repeat this until they get used to it; then I show them the same >> thing using Turtle. The example program I write with them is to go forward >> by the amount in the box, turn right, and add 10 to the number in the box. >> I asked them what they think will happen and then show them that it makes a >> spiral. When they run it with the "snail", they can see the number in the >> box as the program runs. Another block I explicitly introduced was the >> "show" block. We programmed an animation with "show image", "wait 1", "show >> image", "wait 1", ... They recorded dance steps using the Sugar Record >> activity and used those images in their Turtle projects. As often as >> possible, we tried to have a child show their work to the entire group. At >> the end of the second day, we had a table set up for an exhibition; we had >> to keep adding more tables as more and more children wanted to show off >> their projects. >> >> We originally planned on break-out sessions on Day Two, but we had a >> technical glitch on Day One, that slowed things down quite a bit. The >> children were running Sugar 0.82 on XO 1 laptops, which is nearly six-years >> old. They had them connected to the mesh network, which cannot scale >> properly to 70+ machines. The result was a lot of frozen machines. It took >> most of the day to figure out what was wrong. Once we turned off the >> radios, everything worked great. I also had to spin a stripped down version >> of Turtle Art, since a number of dependencies I use, such as some Python >> 2.7 features, were unavailable on 0.82. >> >> We did have one break-out session for robotics. I brought a Butia to >> Nepal and I wrote the typical program with the kids to have the Butia go >> forward until it got to the edge of the circle (everyone was sitting in a >> circle on the floor); whomever the Butia approached had to push a button so >> that the Butia would spin and then go in another direction. We then added a >> few embellishments: the Butia would say "ouch" or "that tickles" when the >> button was pushed; and we had it take a picture of the child who pushed the >> button. We saved the files so we could use them to make an animation in >> Turtle Art. >> >> Of note: One child approached me to say he is teaching himself to program >> Python. I showed him how to export Python from his Turtle Art projects. >> I'll be curious how he uses that feature. I am making a new set to "Turtle >> Cards" [3] to demonstrate the steps we took in explaining Turtle to the >> children. >> >> 2. While I was in Kathmandu, I had a chance to meet with the Nepali FOSS >> community, thanks to Shankar Pokharel, Ankur Sharma, and Subir Pradhanang. >> We had a nice talk about the challenges and opportunities facing FOSS in >> Nepal. >> >> 3. Just before my trip to Nepal, I was in Mexico attending Aldea Digital >> [4]. The central plaza in Centro Historico in DF is turned into the world's >> larget free Internet cafe for two weeks. I gave a lecture about Sugar and >> ran an impromptu Turtle Art session. (We installed Sugar in a VM on twenty >> Windows 8 machines and ran a session.) I also had a chance to meet Ian, the >> 9-month old baby of Carla Gomez: a future Turtle Artist. >> >> === In the Community === >> >> 4. Mike Dawson, formally of OLPC Afghanistan, wrote a nice commentary on >> the Keepod [5] in which he mentions Sugar on a Stick. >> >> 5. Google Summer of Code begins on the 19th of May. We'll be meeting >> every week in IRC on Fridays at 2PM EST. >> >> 6. There is still time to enter the Sugar Background Image Contest [6]. >> >> === Tech Talk === >> >> 7. Daniel Narvaez has been building F20 images for XO [7]: The XO-1 image >> boots into Sugar (latest from git) and wifi works. He has also built XO-4 >> images. >> >> 8. Daniel also built tarballs for 0.101.5 [8, 9]. We are now in string, >> API and UI freeze. >> >> 9. Please help us with testing of Sugar 102. See [10] for details. >> >> === Sugar Labs === >> >> 10. Please visit our planet [11]. >> >> -walter >> >> ---- >> >> [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Chalk1.jpg >> [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Chalk2.jpg >> [3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Turtle_Art/Turtle_Cards >> [4] http://aldeadigitalmx.com/ >> [5] >> http://www.ictworks.org/2014/05/14/keepod-wasting-40000-to-reinvent-linux-on-a-stick/ >> [6] http://contest.sugarlabs.org >> [7] http://shell.sugarlabs.org/~dnarvaez/oob/ >> [8] >> http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar/sugar-0.101.7.tar.xz >> [9] >> http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/sugar-toolkit-gtk3-0.101.5.tar.xz >> [10] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.102/Testing >> [11] http://planet.sugarlabs.org >> >> -- >> 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > >
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