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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> MHVLUG is proud to announce our June 2008 meeting: CAL Computer Assisted
> Learning.
>
> How to apply CAL in K-12 and beyond using the OSS packages of Scratch,
> Etoys (OLPC), and Alice Computers are now part of School from
> Kindergarten though college. But how is the computer used? Is it
> taught as a device or as a tool? Is the computer a tool to solve math
> and science problems or just a host for the web browser and word
> processor?
>
> This talk will try and answer those questions by demonstrating OSS
> tools that can be used in the classroom (on MS-Windows, Apple and
> Linux based systems) to teach math science and programming. I will
> discuss my experience teaching 60 kids from 3th grade to 5th math and
> science ( all within 15 minutes per group ). The programs that we will
> explore are:
>
> * Scratch Scratch a wonderful introduction to programming a computer.
> * Etoys which is part of the “One Laptop Per Child†project, and the
> main focus of the talk
> * Alice A visual programming language for High School and first
> year Collage courses.
>
>
> -Sean
Pfft, what a meeting for me to miss! I've been personally trying to
think of ways to convince my district to move more and more to OSS for
their lot of computers. It's quite a hard thing to do, I will admit to
that. If anyone takes notes on a laptop regularly about the
presentations, would they be kind enough to email them to me? This is
something I'm quite interested in.
I've been away from the meetings for a long while-- and somewhat not by
choice. I joined my school's V Lacrosse team this year, and practices
went till six for the last few months, so I was completely booked from
that. And, this Wednesday, despite my season being over, is an awards
ceremony for it. After that, I should finally rise from the dead, and
be able to participate in the meetings :D
Just wanted to say sorry about that. Hopefully I'll see you all in July.
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Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium
Jun 4 - Sqeak! and eToys
Jul 2 - KVM (Tenative)
Aug 6 - Zenos
Sep 3 - TBD
