Re: [support-gang] Basic Electricity Text in French?
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 06:09:25PM -0400, George Hunt wrote: Hi everyone, While working with Adam Holt in Haiti, I met a few go-getter teens who already are doing basic house wiring. They could help diagnose battery and solar array problems if they had a little more background. I learned basic electricity reading and re-reading the first few chapters of the Amateur Radio Relay League Handbook. I could use some help finding something similar for french speakers. Creole is the spoken language, but the instructional language is French and the students are easy with learning out of a book in french. Unfortunately I don't know enough French to find equivalent sources on line, or available for purchase on the web. I did find open source basic electricity texts in english (though perhaps too verbose) as examples of what I think is needed: • http://openbookproject.net/electricCircuits/index.htm • http://www.nmsea.org/Curriculum/4_6/Electricity/dc_electricity.htm • http://educypedia.karadimov.info/library/How_Electricity_Works.swf Thanks for help, George do you have specific things that would be useful to learn? topics? what grade level? would a text in Creol not be more useful to more students or is everyone expected to know french at some point. I got the impression that not many folks have a great fluence in french. -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux ==.| http://kevix.myopenid.com..| | : :' : The Universal OS| mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/.| | `. `' http://www.debian.org/.| http://counter.li.org [#238656]| |___`-Unless I ask to be CCd,.assume I am subscribed._| court, n.: A place where they dispense with justice. -- Arthur Train ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [support-gang] Basic Electricity Text in French?
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 01:40:00PM -0400, George Hunt wrote: Thanks Xavier, The first reference looks best for my purposes -- but maybe more practical than I was hoping for. (I ordered it online, and shipped to my NYC address). I'm really wanting to find a book that starts from the beginning: 1. What is a conductor, an insulator? 2. What is a circuit, DC, AC 3. What does a battery do? 4. What is a electromagnet? How is a magnet used to generate AC? 5. Why does a capacitor store a charge? 6. Why transformers? What do they do? Concepts of current, voltage, resistance, power. 7. ETC. . . Maybe Tony Foster's idea of using the XO and turtle art is where I'll have to go in the end. At least I see real benefit in hands on experimentation. George Sameer did a video on Youtube with his kids making a lemon battery -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux ==.| http://kevix.myopenid.com..| | : :' : The Universal OS| mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/.| | `. `' http://www.debian.org/.| http://counter.li.org [#238656]| |___`-Unless I ask to be CCd,.assume I am subscribed._| Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. -- Rich Kulawiec ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
