On Sun, 2015-05-17 at 15:14 +0200, Sean DALY wrote: > Peter - Walter's edits were for the Activities descriptions, mine were > for the introduction, no reconciliation necessary > > > Sean > > > > On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Peter Robinson > <[email protected]> wrote: > Walter sent some edits, I believe most of those have gone in, > we need > to update titles still I believe. > > This is what we currently have, the Activities list and layout > are now set. > > http://spins.stg.fedoraproject.org/en/soas/ > > We can tweak the text but I need to have the edits > co-ordinated,
Hi all, The attached text file starts from http://spins.stg.fedoraproject.org/en/soas/, taken during Sunday, with contributions from Sean & Walter/Sam added. There is still some work to do, additions, subtractions or comments please! Regards, Iain > I > don't have time to to do that so please liaise with Walter to > come up > with the final edits so I can submit them early next week as a > single > final edit. > > Peter > > > > On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Sean DALY > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Peter - are the intro edits I sent going in? > > thanks > > Sean > > > > > > On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Peter Robinson > <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> > >> It's already in process > >> > >> On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Sam P. > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Hi Peter, > >> > > >> > I think Walter send out a good copy [1] with headers - > maybe we could > >> > use > >> > those headers? > >> > > >> > Thanks, > >> > Sam > >> > > >> > [1] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2015-May/050190.html > >> > > >> > On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 7:09 PM Peter Robinson > <[email protected]> > >> > wrote: > >> >> > >> >> On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 6:15 AM, Sam Parkinson > >> >> <[email protected]> > >> >> wrote: > >> >> > Hi Peter, > >> >> > > >> >> > Peter Robinson wrote: > >> >> >> Hi Sam, Gonzalo et el, > >> >> >> > >> >> >> I've worked with the Fedora web team to update it > some based > >> >> >> partially > >> >> >> on Sam's details below. > >> >> >> > >> >> >> Details are here: > >> >> >> http://spins.stg.fedoraproject.org/en/soas/ > >> >> >> > >> >> >> Let me know of any feedback, I personally think it > looks really fab! > >> >> > > >> >> > Yeah, it does. > >> >> > > >> >> > Is there a way to have different headers? Some of the > headings (esp. > >> >> > Education) are not aappropriate for Sugar. > >> >> > >> >> Yes, provide me details in concise details and we'll > review them and > >> >> get them integrated. I knew it wasn't perfect but we > needed to get the > >> >> majority of the bits in place. > >> >> > >> >> Peter > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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-develTitle: Fedora SoaS Desktop ...
Sugar on a Stick is a Fedora-based operating system featuring the award-winning Sugar Learning Platform and designed to fit on an ordinary USB thumbdrive ("stick").
Sugar sets aside the traditional “office-desktop” metaphor, presenting a child-friendly simple graphical environment. Sugar automatically saves the child's progress to a "Journal" on your stick, so teachers and parents can easily pull up "all collaborative web browsing sessions done in the past week" or "papers written with Daniel and Sarah in the last 24 hours" with a simple query rather than memorizing complex file/folder structures. Applications in Sugar are known as Activities, some of which are described below.
It is now deployable for the cost of a stick rather than a laptop; students can take their Sugar on a Stick thumbdrive to any machine - at school, at home, at a library or community center - and boot their customized computing environment without touching the host machine’s hard disk or existing system at all.
...Understanding and creating content
Write
Make a story, poem, report or anything with Write. Use formatting tools to add images or colors. Wwork together with friends.
Labyrinth
Put complex ideas on the computer. Use Labyrinth activity to mind map about new concepts, to explore new ideas or to reflect.
FotoToon
Use images and text to create comic strips. FotoToon provides many options to add motion, speech and though to creations.
Paint
Paint provides to tools to make artistic creations. Use brushes, stamps, shapes, text and images to create beautiful pictures.
Learning by doing
Turtle Blocks
Learn programming concepts with snap together blocks. Create art, animations and interactive programs in a graphics focused environment. Export your creations as SVG, PNG, or Logo and/or Python.
Physics
Create real life simulations using shapes, motors, ropes and bolts to explore physics in the world. Work collaboratively on your simulation with friends.
Pippy
Program applications in a simple yet powerful environment. The Python back end provides unlimited opportunities within a simple language and environment. (Programs created in Turtle Blocks can be imported into Pippy from which new Sugar activities can be created.)
Develop
Make Sugar activities within Sugar itself. Develop provides templates for new games, native and web activities as well as simple environment to edit existing activities.
Exploring the wider world
Browse
Access the internet with Browse activity. Bookmark sites to research with friends and save sessions to the Journal to keep organized.
Get Books
Download electronic books from all over the web. Explore the classics and modern books with ease.
Read
Explore reports, documents, books and comic books with the Read activity. Bookmarking and commenting tools integrate with the Journal to allow limitless possibilities.
Multimedia
Chat
Chat provides a simple interface for collaborative discussion between two individuals or among a group as large as an entire classroom.
Music, correction required
Use images and text to create comic strips. FotoToon provides many options to add motion, speech and though to creations.
Record
Record is the basic rich-media capture activity for the laptop. It lets you capture still images, video, and/or audio.
Imageviewer
A simple and fast image viewer tool for Sugar. It has standard features, like zoom, rotate, etc.
Reflection on what you've learned
Journal
The Sugar Journal provides an interface into a datastore of everything you've created in Sugar. It also provides access to files in the GNU/Linux file system and a variety of web services. The Journal also acts as a lab notebook: it contains metadata about our activities, including a description of your work and commentary on your work from others.
Portfolio
The primary approach to assessment within Sugar is to make learning visible to the user. The Portfolio provides a means to create periodic snapshots in slideshow form of representative work that shows what the learner can do, not just what s/he knows.
