Not OT at all. And it would be a good idea to the list's address to the pupils and encourage them to ask.
guy keren wrote: > 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. > Hooray! I'm so excited! Python in school, in Israel! > 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". > I live at Qiryat Motzkin. Sun-Thu I serve in the army around Tel-Aviv, so I can only get anywhere on Fridays. But getting there every Friday is not out of the question. Every 2 weeks is surely possible. About online classes - Friday is again perfect, other days are tricky. What is the schedule of lessons you were thinking about? > 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. > Hmm, that's actually better than a school which does teach programming because we are less bound by the MoE's silly ways of teaching programming :-). What is the status of this course from the school's point of view? > 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. > Do you have the plan online? > thanks, Another question: how is their English? I promised to translate the Python tutorial but didn't start yet. Are translations of anything desired as helper materials here? -- Good and sweet year :-)
