The grassroots bootcamp continued today with: * A discussion led by Jonathan Austin (from the upcoming Birmingham, Alabama deployment) on training volunteers, getting funding, and building local communities. This led into side discussions on grassroots finances and more...
* Chris Ball gave us all a crash course on Pippy, a learn-by-example programming Activity, and how it can be used to develop Activities and scripts for the XO. Again, the topic was so compelling that a cluster could be found huddled in the back corner talking about internationalization of Pippy, even after plates of food had been placed less than 10 feet away. Special guests included Pam Cooney from World Computer Exchange and Cynthia Solomon from the OLPC Learning Team, one of the co-creators of Logo. Cynthia and Francesca Slade also led a roleplay during the afternoon where the rest of us pretended to be 8-year-olds learning Scratch (actually learning Scratch in the process). I don't know about the rest of the "students," but Chris Carrick, Nikki Lee, and I ended up engrossed in exploring forensic ballistics* with a Scratch activity that Chris had created to go alongside... All this and more (including - yes, you guessed it, transcripts!) are at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Grassroots_bootcamp/Results#Tuesday All errors/emissions/typos in these notes are almost certainly my fault. Please correct/clarify if you see an occasion to improve any of these notes. Cheers! -Mel Chua *we were strange 8-year-olds, yes. _______________________________________________ Olpc-open mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open
