Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] Help needed by grants writer for Town of Lake Park, Florida, USA
Thanks for the heads up. I wrote her directly as well as tried to answer some of her questions. I think the first question we need to know is what her goals and time frame is. On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Frederick Grose wrote: > Here is a help request received by h...@laptop.org and forwarded by Adam > Holt (Thank you, Adam). > It suggests some points for more clarity in our communications. I've added > the questions to the FAQ for SoaS. Please help answer the questions > appropriately at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/FAQ. > > I'll link the SoaS FAQ more prominently on the SoaS page. > > I'll respond the the help ticket in r...@laptop.org. Assistance welcome. > > --Fred > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: > Date: Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 7:19 PM > Subject: [laptop.org #43435] I'd like to participate... [Sugar for > 500-1000 kids in Lake Park, Florida/FL, USA?] > To: > Cc: fgr...@gmail.com > > > Fred, > Can you possibly respond? > --A! > > > On Mon Jul 06 14:38:41 2009, vmar...@lakeparkflorida.gov wrote: > > I'd like to participate, but it took so long just to figure out where to > > go - and I might not be in the right place now. Your website is not > > very user friendly - when it says "contact us" I should be able to find > > a link or an email. > > > > > > > > I have probably 500-1000 children who could benefit from the Sugar Labs > > project (particularly Sugar Stick), but I can't find out > > > > (1) How much each stick costs; > > > > (2) What I have to get to make it work - I don't have a tremendous > > amount of time to float around your website; > > > > (3) Do you have a space where there is information in a concise, easy to > > digest format? > > > > (4) Can I try some of it out? > > > > (5) Is the platform another cost? > > > > (6) Is it learning games, homework help, search engines? > > > > (7) My son sent me this link - I am a grants writer who is able to put > > this into lots of hands, depending on the cost and the efficacy. It > > looks really interesting, and I am a strong proponent of self directed, > > computer aided learning. > > > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > > > If I have not reached the appropriate individual, could you forward my > > message on? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Virginia Martin > > > > Grants Writer > > > > Town of Lake Park > > > > 535 Park Avenue > > > > Lake Park, Florida 33403 > > > > Telephone: 561-840-0160 > > > > Fax:561-881-3314 > > > > Email: vmar...@lakeparkflorida.gov > > > > Under Florida law, e-mail addresses are public records. If you do not > > want your e-mail address released in response to a public records > > request, do not send electronic mail to this entity. Instead, contact > > this office directly by phone or in writing. > > > > > > > > > -- > OLPC Support, Volunteer-Driven (http://support.laptop.org) > > > ___ > Marketing mailing list > market...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing > > -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Help needed by grants writer for Town of Lake Park, Florida, USA
Here is a help request received by h...@laptop.org and forwarded by Adam Holt (Thank you, Adam). It suggests some points for more clarity in our communications. I've added the questions to the FAQ for SoaS. Please help answer the questions appropriately at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/FAQ. I'll link the SoaS FAQ more prominently on the SoaS page. I'll respond the the help ticket in r...@laptop.org. Assistance welcome. --Fred -- Forwarded message -- From: Date: Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 7:19 PM Subject: [laptop.org #43435] I'd like to participate... [Sugar for 500-1000 kids in Lake Park, Florida/FL, USA?] To: Cc: fgr...@gmail.com Fred, Can you possibly respond? --A! On Mon Jul 06 14:38:41 2009, vmar...@lakeparkflorida.gov wrote: > I'd like to participate, but it took so long just to figure out where to > go - and I might not be in the right place now. Your website is not > very user friendly - when it says "contact us" I should be able to find > a link or an email. > > > > I have probably 500-1000 children who could benefit from the Sugar Labs > project (particularly Sugar Stick), but I can't find out > > (1) How much each stick costs; > > (2) What I have to get to make it work - I don't have a tremendous > amount of time to float around your website; > > (3) Do you have a space where there is information in a concise, easy to > digest format? > > (4) Can I try some of it out? > > (5) Is the platform another cost? > > (6) Is it learning games, homework help, search engines? > > (7) My son sent me this link - I am a grants writer who is able to put > this into lots of hands, depending on the cost and the efficacy. It > looks really interesting, and I am a strong proponent of self directed, > computer aided learning. > > > > Thanks! > > > > If I have not reached the appropriate individual, could you forward my > message on? > > > > > > > > > > Virginia Martin > > Grants Writer > > Town of Lake Park > > 535 Park Avenue > > Lake Park, Florida 33403 > > Telephone: 561-840-0160 > > Fax:561-881-3314 > > Email: vmar...@lakeparkflorida.gov > > Under Florida law, e-mail addresses are public records. If you do not > want your e-mail address released in response to a public records > request, do not send electronic mail to this entity. Instead, contact > this office directly by phone or in writing. > > > -- OLPC Support, Volunteer-Driven (http://support.laptop.org) ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] FW: Texas Tech University work with XO/Sugar
Hi Sean, Prof. Rich Rice from Texas Tech University did some revisions on their XO/Sugar video from Science Spectrum in Lubbock, TX and it is now ready to go on the Daily Motion site. (See below). http://richrice.com/5365/iplay-short.mov I have also sent Prof. Rice and 13 of his colleagues in the Computers and Writing Community "Sugar on a Stick". http://writingprogram.ucdavis.edu/cw2009/ Three of the colleagues are on the Committee on Computers in Composition and Communication (March 2012) http://www.ncte.org//committees/7cs Pay attention to Point 2]... Include in these activities attention to open source and community source projects and software, calling attention to best practices, when possible, and providing guidelines on issues and strategies... Douglas Eyman, Assistant Professor of English, George Mason University, and Senior Editor of Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy Robert “Bob” Whipple, Associate Professor of English and A.F. Jacobson Endowed Chair in Communication, Creighton University Tammy S. Conard-Salvo Associate Director, Writing Lab Purdue University Many of these professors are on Summer Break so the feedback from them on "Sugar on a Stick" will probably trickle in over the next month and a half and should pick up in the later part of August as their perspective Universities go back into session. I will be looking to engage these Professors along with their students in projects that will embed the writing process and command of language skills into the Sugar Learning Platform. In the University World this would be described as Writing Across the Curriculum, in the world of Sugar-Writing Across the Activities is something we should strive for. Any and All ideas on how we might accomplish this would be appreciated. Best, JT > From: rich.r...@ttu.edu > To: jtis4...@hotmail.com > Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 18:28:17 -0500 > Subject: RE: [IAEP] Texas Tech University work with XO/Sugar > > John, > > I re-edited to shorten the video some and to put in music that is not > copyrighted. If you like, you could put up the file > http://richrice.com/5365/iplay-short.mov on dailymotion/sugarlabs. The video > would now be able to fall under CC. Playing with sugar sticks now. > > Rich > > Dr. Rich Rice, Associate Professor > TTU Department of English > http://richrice.com > > > From: John Tierney [jtis4...@hotmail.com] > Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 7:33 PM > To: Rice, Rich > Subject: FW: [IAEP] Texas Tech University work with XO/Sugar > > Hi Rich, > > I had forwarded an email with the link to the Science Spectrum video: > http://media.English.TTU.edu/faculty/rice/5365/iplay.wmv > > Sugar Labs Marketing Coordinator Sean Daly was interested in trans-coding the > video to an Open Source format and was wondering if it has a Creative Commons > designation so it could be put up with other Sugar Labs videos on the > Daily Motion site: > http://www.dailymotion.com/sugarlabs > > Your guidance on this would be appreciated. > > Thanks! > John Tierney > > P.S. Tammy should have a "Sugar on A Stick" for you > at C&W if the logistics work-out. > > > Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 22:56:22 +0200 > > Subject: Re: [IAEP] Texas Tech University work with XO/Sugar > > From: sdaly...@gmail.com > > To: jtis4...@hotmail.com > > CC: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; market...@lists.sugarlabs.org; > > sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org > > > > Wow I can't wait to see that (can't on this machine) > > > > I'm interested in transcoding this to Ogg Theora, do you think we > > could ask him for a higher-quality source version I could transcode? > > > > is it CC, could we put it up on the Dailymotion site? > > > > Texas is Dell Foundation country. Hmmm... > > > > Sean > > > > ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 5:23 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 21:33, Caroline Meeks > wrote: > > Quick report on today's progress. I also have this on the wiki. > > > > There is implied (I hope) help wanted on both the technical issues and on > > pedagogical ideas and how to implement them. I'm flying off to CA for a > > family event so I will be fairly out of touch but should still be reading > > email. > > > > Thank you for your support! The teachers are very excited about the > > possibilities! > > > > Critical Path Technical Issues > > > > Our biggest issue is collaboration. We either need to get local > > collaboration, jabber collaboration or a local XS working > > > > * Ticket 1014 http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1014 - Jabber keeps dying, > > then it falls back to Salut, that only finds one computer, then it tried > > Jabber again, works briefly, dies. > > > > * Ticket 1012 - not collaborating locally > > I think this is an excellent opportunity to get one more technical > contributor involved in Sugar Labs. Can you see if via local linux > user groups, student associations, etc. you can find someone with > linux experience that wants to spend some hours helping us debug this > issue? Walter and Anurag, a CS major at BU, will both be at the GPA with me tomorrow. Thanks, Caroline > > > I would say we need someone local that is not afraid of IRC, trac or > wiki, familiar with the command line and with enough patience and will > to learn. > > Regards, > > Tomeu > > > We met with 2 grades of teachers. > > > > 2nd Grade > > > > Next Tuesday we will work with the 2nd Graders on their science and > social > > studies. The theme of the week is responsibility and the environment. > They > > will be learning about their community and preping for a cleanup of the > > local Charles River. > > > > The goal of the first project will be to label a map of where they do the > > clean up with what they find during their cleanup. > > > > We have half an hour on Tuesday. After kids get their keys and boot up, > > enter their name and colors we will have them go to Turtle Art. We will > > prepare maps and preload them on the sticks and show them how to bring > them > > into Turtle Art. Then we'll show them how to have the turtle label them. > > Next week, after their cleanup they can label what they find on the > > clean-up. > > > > [edit] 3rd Grade > > > > We are hoping that the kids can create a US version of the Uruguay > > geography/facts game. Any ideas on how to make that easy to do? The > vision > > is they will learn things in class then make them into questions to put > into > > the game. We will meet with the third grade on Thursday afternoons. > > > > -- > > Caroline Meeks > > Solution Grove > > carol...@solutiongrove.com > > > > 617-500-3488 - Office > > 505-213-3268 - Fax > > > > ___ > > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > > -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Sugar Digest 2009-07-06
===Sugar Digest=== 1. It was great to catch up with some old friends at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit. John (J5) Palmieri and Chris Blizzard, both of whom were part of the original Sugar team were there, along with major contributors to the GNOME and KDE communities. Collabora was well represented, as were the Cairo and Gstreamer communities. This was the first time that GUADEC and Akademy were combined their summits into one congress. It was clear there is much more in common between the two major GNU/Linux desktop communities than there are differences. While I largely talked about Sugar and the interdependency between FLOSS and learning, I also used my keynote as an opportunity to draw attention to the need for: better SVG support; a unified approach to collaboration on the desktop; a better and unified datastore architecture; and an amplification of our collective efforts in internationalization. I tried to make the distinction between simplifying complex things and using simple tools to reach to complexity and suggested that the current trends of the desktop accomplish neither goal. The latter, "learning-centric" approach should be our goal, since we take pleasure in complex things. I didn't have time to dwell on "the cloud", but Richard Stallman (rms) touch on the topic of Internet services in his talk. He saw them as a threat to freedom since the end user essentially cedes total control to the service provider. My issue is more narrow: we tend to be users, not creators of services. Yet there are many services that can amplify our ability to be expressive and engage in a critical dialog about that expression, so they have a role. As usual, I used Sugar (and Turtle Art) to give my presentation. While most people had heard of Sugar, it seemed that few had actually seen it in action. The overall reaction was positive and we will undoubted get some new contributors as a result of this renewed exposure to the desktop community. (We already have a volunteer to work on the touch-screen interface.) My keynote was sandwiched between Robert Lefkowitz (r0ml) and rms, who have markedly different positions re Free Software. I was sitting between the two of them at a post-talk press conference, which was—for me—entertaining. In regard to Sugar, rms acknowledged the point that learning can play an important role in appreciating, hence sustaining freedom—it was nice to make that connection. One concern r0ml raised was that there are powerful intermediaries between the developer and the user that are the real power brokers. I argued that Sugar on a Stick was an example of disintermediation in the context of schools—the IT department need not be involved at all. A related point that r0ml made is that most people cannot program, so Free Software is a limited use to them. In response, rms said that they are still free to use it an redistribute it and even hire someone to make modifications. I went further, saying that they are free to learn to program and that the next generation ''will'' learn to program, since computation is our most powerful tool of expression. We owe it to them to help them achieve literacy. It was a pleasure feeling the heat as I walked the kilometer along the promenade between the hotel and the auditorium after all the rain and cold we have had this spring and summer in Boston. Thanks are due to my host David Neary, who introduced me to a great tapas restaurant—the sardines were really tasty. ===In the community=== 2. Representatives from Sugar Labs Colombia will be at the Free Software area in Campus Party Colombia [ http://www.campus-party.com.co/index.php/software-libre.html] this week. (Campus Party is the largest technology event in Colombia.) On Wednesday night, they will introduce Sugar Labs and the Sugar Labs Colombia Foundation at an one-hour conference, "OLPC y Sugar en Colombia Construyendo software para aprender a aprender." They'll be demonstrating Sugar on a Stick, Sugar LiveCDs, Sugar on a variety of hardware platforms, including the OLPC XO, the Intel Classmate, etc. 3. Squeakfest [http://squeakfest.org] will be held in Los Angeles 10–12 August and in Porto Alegre 23–25 Julho. 4. There will be a Sugar track at the Free Software Week [ http://www.freesoftwareweek.org/] in Bolzano, Italy, the week of 9 November 2009. We will start the Sugar Hackfest the weekend before in order to accommodate the restricted schedules of some of our community members, e.g., students. 5. Bastien Guerry reports that James Clayson is organizing a conference about Constructionism [ http://www.aup.fr/news/special_events/constructionism2010.htm] at the American University of Paris in 16–20 August 2010. Sugar Labs should consider how it could participate. ===Tech Talk=== 6. Roadmaps: There a two roadmap discussions underway: Sucrose 0.86 and Sugar on a Stick V2. Both are detailed in the wiki. Your timely input would be appreciated. ===Sugar Labs=== 7. Gary Martin has generated a SOM from the
