Hi, Sanchit
Since the deployment does not have access to the internet, challenges
will need to be designed in advance and installed on the school server
(via BERNIE or download from the internet (e.g. to a usb key).
I plan to try elgg on the school server to give a social media
environment local to the deployment.
Tony
On 04/18/2015 11:21 AM, Sanchit Kapoor wrote:
Hi,
I understand that Project Bernie will help those people who don't have
access to the internet but still I was thinking that we could provide
a Forum or Q & A sort of portal where users can clear their doubts, if
any, or better yet let them give suggestions to improve the site as well?
The users will also be learning how to create basic sugar activities
so we could use this to organize some sort of monthly competitive
event based on what they are learning (python, javascript, html,
english, history). We can let the teachers in the school create
quizzes and host the quiz on the school server. The question is what
type of contest it can be. I think if the deployment is used on a
school server this can be achieved. Just a suggestion, though.
Thanks
On 17 April 2015 at 13:11, Richa Sehgal <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi,
I was very busy with labs and assignments over the past few days,
and would like to apologize for not replying sooner.
Great efforts! I tried different things and would like to discuss
some of these:
I tried opening the 4 sections of "Python Programming". So, for
"Inventing your own games with Python" and "Making Games with
Python and Pygames", the link opens and shows the index. But the
internal links of this index are all showing "Internal Server Error".
The section "Hacking Secret Ciphers with Python", is opening and
the links within are also working. All the text is displayed but
the images are not showing up.
In the "command line" section, all the links are showing:
"Internal Server Error".
The "Web technology" section looks good! But as has been stated,
there are three options on the top of the page, "Prev", "Index"
and "next". And the "Index" link takes us back to the original
starting page "http://www.projectbernie.org/";. While it should
take us back to the chapters page.
Some of the chapters have attachments. But when I tried to open
them, it showed "You don't have permission to access on this server".
"Eloquent Javascript" is opening pretty nicely. But the "Exercise
Hints" page says that "The hints below might help when you are
stuck with one of the exercises in this book." But there is
nothing written below that.
Thanks
Richa
On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Tony Anderson
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
That's about right. The school servers are located at
deployments which do not have access to the internet and so
must rely on open educational resources which can be hosted
locally. The proectbernie site is intended to show what
content is available from the school server loaded from the
BERNIE hard drive. Naturally, this is done by linking to the
source site on the internet. At the deployment,streaming is
minimized, instead videos are downloaded to the XO laptops so
that they can be viewed independent of the school server,
e.g.when a user takes the laptop home beyond the range of the
local area network.
Tony
On 04/14/2015 10:31 PM, DancesWithCars wrote:
It would seem "representative of" is different from streaming
700 gig to whomever, so maybe it is a menu frontend to see
what is on the menu, then you order the 1T drive, it arrives,
then you have the videos...
On Apr 14, 2015 9:13 AM, "Vibhor Sehgal"
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi,
I visited Introduction to Web Technology under the Web
Technology track.
(http://www.projectbernie.org/explore/web.html)
I chose the first chapter Getting Started, competed all
the sections. I was navigating to next section through a
next option on top of the page. It has a prev/index/next
option. On the last section of first chapter, when i
wanted to go to the next chapter Markup basics , the next
option was not working. I clicked on the index option,
thinking it will take me back to the list of chapters
page( http://www.projectbernie.org/explore/web.html),
however it took me to the home page
(http://www.projectbernie.org/
<http://www.projectbernie.org/>).
So i again had to go to the list of chapters page to
select the new Markup basics chapter.
Maybe, this could be improved and a hyperlink direct to
the list of chapters
(http://www.projectbernie.org/explore/web.html) can be
provided on the last section of the chapter or every page
in the chapter, so that students can select and change
the chapter easily.
Secondly, Eloquent javascript chapters are giving
Internal server errors. I tried first few, they were
all giving errors.
Thanks
Vibhor
On Apr 14, 2015 2:11 PM, "Tony Anderson"
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
The Project Bernie website has been updated
(www.projectbernie.org <http://www.projectbernie.org>).
This site provides a representative view of what a
school server loaded from BERNIE provides
to an XO at a deployment.
The update releases the first edition of the
'hands-on computing' courses in the Explore section
of the Class page.
There is an introductory course that introduces the
Bash shell in the Terminal Activity, shows how to
navigate the file system, and use the nano text
editor. It is expected that learners would work their
way through this one before beginning one of the tracks.
There are three tracks each introducing a text
programming language: Python, Shell Scripts, and
Javascript (with HTML5 and CSS3).
There are two proposed projects for GSOC15 which are
intended to augment the Web Technology track: Web
Confusion - the first course and Interactive
Javascript Shell - the second course.
I would appreciate any feedback so that the offerings
can be made more useful. Special thanks to Al
Sweigart (http://inventwithpython.com/) for his three
books on Python for kids, William Shotts
(http://linuxcommand.org) for The Linux Command Line,
and Evan Goer for “The Pocket HTML Tutorial
<http://www.goer.org/HTML/>” which they have made
available under a Creative Commons License.
Tony
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