hi, as part of the hatzor project that's being ran recently by various volunteers (see http://www.vaya.org.il/schools/ for details, if you need), we decided to try and teach programming in the school.
the language to be taught this year will by python, with an accent on writing ascii-art-based games. since am going to give the lessons, and i live in haifa (about 1.5 hours drive from the school there), i won't be able to get there more then once every 2 weeks (or even 3). thus, the idea is to have part of the lessons done remotely - and this is where y'all could help (if you're willing). since it is hard to conduct online classes with one teacher and several students, i was wondering if some of you would like ot participate in these "classes". note that in addition to the normal classes, we are going to hold "practice lessons" that will be conducted by two students from tel-hai college, who are doing this as a "perach" project (for those who don't know, "perach" gives scolarships to students that perform various types of community work during the semester). these two students already were involved when we gave an "intro to linux" course to a few pupils from ort hatzor during the summer. note that this is a school that doesn't have many resources, and as far as i understood, is not teaching programming as part of its normal teaching program (at least that is what the pupils told me) - which is what prompted the idea of teaching lessons. we are going to recruite pupils during the next few weeks, and start the lesons after the holidays (i.e. beginning of november). if someone wants to help, please let me know. i devised a basic study plan, that should suffice for the first few month, and the idea is that afterwards each pair of pupils will choose a project for themselves to implement - and then the studing will become more a one-on-one issue. thanks, -- guy "For world domination - press 1, or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy
