Re: [math4] Activity: adding/subtracting whole numbers
On Friday 28 August 2009 08:23:50 am John Posner wrote: > Assuming that the "BlockHead" project recovers from its "something went > wrong" error, what is the correct "push" command to execute? My guess: > >git push g...@git.sugarlabs.org:BlockHead/mainline.git master > > (I'll define an "origin" alias later.) Wesley's origin was aliased to gitori...@git.sugarlabs.org:yourproject/yourbranch.git So I'm guessing you want to substitute 'gitorious' for 'git'. Also, I prefer the 'git remote' command to set up an alias, rather than editing .git/config. Something like: git remote add origin gitori...@git.sugarlabs.org:BlockHead/mainline.git Shawn. ___ FourthGradeMath mailing list FourthGradeMath@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/fourthgrademath
Re: [math4] Getting sugar environment on Ubuntu 8.10
On Friday 31 July 2009 09:59:37 am John Posner wrote: > I've installed a brand new Ubuntu 8.10 on my HP Pavilion dv2000 laptop. > According to > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Ubuntu, I should be > able to install the "sugar" and "sugar-activities" packages as follows: > >sudo apt-get install sugar sugar-activities > > ... but I get this error: > >E: Couldn't find package sugar Do you have the "universe" repository enabled? Check your "Software Sources" utility and make sure you have all of the checkboxes on the "Ubuntu Software" tab checked, especially universe. Shawn ___ FourthGradeMath mailing list FourthGradeMath@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/fourthgrademath
Re: [math4] i18n
On Thursday 18 June 2009 08:07:44 pm Mike Major wrote: > i'm struggling right now with how to display some text on the screen > with some graphics. the easiest way would be to just include it in the > svg graphics. [1] Given that SVG is XML, and that SVG text is drawn with the tag, it seems like it would be a simple matter to include some placeholders in the graphics and then use gettext to retrieve the local strings and substitute them in. It should all be UTF-8, so non-latin characters shouldn't be an issue. > the questions here is: should i be concerned about i18n? i know this is > a open source project and you never know where it might end up. Given the target market of the OLPC, I think it's unlikly that English-language deployments will comprise even a small fraction of your program's use. Personally, I'm trying to do as much as possible without text to minimize the amount of translation required. Shawn. ___ FourthGradeMath mailing list FourthGradeMath@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/fourthgrademath
Re: [math4] teacher recruitment letter
On Tuesday 17 March 2009 10:14:51 am Mel Chua wrote: > In case it helps, here is the email I'm using to ask for edu folk. It is > mostly copypastes of Caroline and Greg because they're more eloquent and > I'm getting RSI. ;) Good letter. One thing that we should think about, to help motivate teacher participation, is how we can deliver the project applications on other platforms -- primarily Windows. I understand the controversy with regard to porting Sugar to Windows, but I think we'll get a LOT more interest and support from teachers if what they're working on is something they can use in their own classrooms which, at least for the teachers where I live, means on computers running Windows. Is there a reasonably easy way to ensure that math4 applications can run on both the real target environment and on Windows? Is there some subset of the Sugar APIs we can use to make this easy? Is being limited to that subset going to unacceptably constrain the math4 apps? Perhaps we can explore other options, like Sugar on a Linux VM that's relatively easy to distribute and install? I'm not sure what the options are, but I am sure that enabling the participating teachers to use the math4 apps with their own students will really help the project. Shawn. ___ FourthGradeMath mailing list FourthGradeMath@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/fourthgrademath
Re: [math4] FourthGradeMath Digest, Vol 2, Issue 16
On Saturday 14 March 2009 08:30:59 pm Caroline Meeks wrote: > Greg's point is that if we use the standard process that Shawn used in > industry, we'll never get anywhere. Its not scalable, its expensive and > isn't crowd sourcing friendly. I don't agree that it's either unscalable or crowd-source unfriendly. Doing it in a room with a whiteboard isn't feasible, but mailing list discussions certainly are. Scaling it up just requires getting plenty of educators on board, and they become part of the crowd. There are a *lot* of great 4th grade teachers who have decades of experience teaching these concepts to a lot of kids with different learning styles. It sounds to me like we need to recruit some and get them involved with the discussion. I'm traveling for a couple of weeks, but when I get back I'm going to start talking to some of the teachers in my area. Shawn. ___ FourthGradeMath mailing list FourthGradeMath@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/fourthgrademath
Re: [math4] FourthGradeMath Digest, Vol 2, Issue 15
On Saturday 14 March 2009 10:48:17 am Greg Dekoenigsberg wrote: > The only hesitation I have here is if we allow long pedagogical > discussions to slow down work. Avoiding slowdowns is important, but there's also a risk of quickly producing poor content. I spent a couple of years writing K-12 math ed software while in college, (almost 20 years ago now, so I no longer have any of the old software, and my recall of the details is fuzzy) and one of the things I learned is that giving a programmer a task like "write a program to teach this concept" is rarely very effective. What comes out is something that makes sense to the guy/gal who wrote it, but isn't necessarily at all enlightening to the target audience. What did work well was to get a small number of outstanding math teachers in a room along with a couple of math ed-focused university profs and a developer or two to keep the discussion within the bounds of feasibility. We'd have the teachers discuss how they taught concepts and then brainstorm as a group on how to use the interactive and dynamic capabilities of software to enhance the proven teaching approaches. This didn't take long; in the course of a two-hour meeting we typically scoped out a dozen or more program concepts in adequate detail for the developers to run with them. I think a mailing list discussion would work just as well. The key is to have some really good fourth-grade math teachers involved. If the project doesn't have any yet, we need to recruit some. Shawn. ___ FourthGradeMath mailing list FourthGradeMath@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/fourthgrademath
