Re: [IAEP] Video Editing Activity
SJ, Thank you for the pointers, and for introducing to Rob. Sure, we will copy iaep and sugar mailing list. Rob, Wish to ask you whether you made specs of the video editing activity with details of the user interface, and posted it somewhere. We wish to have a look on what all has been designed and developed, so that we don't reinvent the wheel, and thereby cut down on the opportunity cost. Will study pitvi closely. Regards, Manu On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: Hiya Manu, Rob is naturally a great person to talk to about this. you should also write to iaep and the sugar list, since it woudl be good to have people who are experienced with extracting video converting power out of the available hardware chiming in or helping with the code. and as you might expect, Erik B and Bakhtiar M have thought about what such an activity might look like since working on Record. SJ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Talking about Moodle use in the school
Sorry for the crosspost. I am hoping to drag people's attention towards an interesting thread in the k-12 forum, about exemplary and interesting use of moodle in high school. It is of course different from our scenarios, but some patterns stand out, and I think they are worth our attention... _content_ vs _participation_ vs _one-on-one communication_ vs _evaluation_. Link: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=127867 To avoid registration, use the login as guest button... or register and join the conversation! :-) Do remember that the discourse in the moodle community is much more positive and constructive than in our sometimes harsh (ummm, direct) mailing lists. Let's be nice :-) cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] The Children's Library On OLPC project
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 01:55, Samuel Kleinmeta...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I imagine a final use case in which children do have hundreds of books on their XO, not two or three; they are stored compressed, and uncompressed for reading; and the Journal stores the record of reading a book, but not the uncompressed book itself. What I would like to see one day is all the $HOME contents exposed in the object view, with or without hierarchical view. The actions related with books would be exposed in the actions view: reading, sharing, etc. When a stick or local library with thousands or tens of thousands of books is available, it could be searched; a collection of books to be copied to your XO identified and named; and this collection added to your XO (with the name you just gave your collection added as a tag). If the Journal could implement Calibre-style views, I don't see why it couldn't function as a library organizer. Aleksey has done work in this direction and I expect it to land in the Journal during the 0.88 timeframe. Regards, Tomeu SJ On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Jim Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote: Scotty, I've been thinking about your project and have some ideas. These may be similar to what Sayamindu has already proposed. You want to distribute a couple of thousand books from Internet Archive without using the Internet. As I have said before having over a thousand files on a USB drive isn't going to work. The Journal isn't equipped to deal with that. You had mentioned (I think) the idea of creating content bundles for this stuff, but content bundles as they exist now aren't going to work either. With a content bundle the entire contents of the bundle get unpacked and stored somewhere, and on the XO there isn't room for anything that isn't going to be used. You don't want to install 818 books about conduct of life on a kid's laptop. You want to give him something that will let him browse through all of those books and pick one or two to install in his Journal. One way to make these files manageable would be to collect them by theme or topic and put the collected books in zip files. The zip files would contain the books themselves, the GIF files showing book covers, and one file containing information about the books, possibly in the Dublin Core format, more likely in some subset thereof. In the Internet Archive database there are a lot of fields that would be useful if filled in, but more often than not are not. If you had these collections prepared you could write an Activity to browse their contents (using the Dublin Core file and the images). The student would insert a thumb drive containing one or more of these collections into his XO and fire up an Activity that would read the Dublin file and create a scrolling list of the titles, including cover images, title, author, etc. The student could sort this list by title, author, etc. then select a book he wants and create an entry for it in the Journal. You could prepare sticks which had the collections on them as well as this Activity. That way everything could be done through sneakernet. The Activity would be a lot like Get Internet Archive Books except it would work offline and would show the book covers. James Simmons On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 5:39 PM, scotty...@gmail.com wrote: Jim, I see all your points and they are good ones. I'm not sure if there's a target country at this point, but I think we got our list from OLPC. Not even positive about that. It's posted on our blog site, http://sixes.net/rdc2009/iacl-collection-for-xo. I'm pretty sure it's all English. It's a good idea to distribute a preconfigured server boot to linux CD and relatively easy. We should definately try to do that for US/Developed countries. Yes, PCs that could do this are in landfills, and using a system like this is a no brainer in any american or english classroom, probably in most developed countries there's at least an old pc w/ a network card laying about. However, my idea of using an XO was not to make it a permanent server. I just thought the teacher would have one most likely and that one could be configured to temporarily serve the library, then reboot back to sugar for other purposes when done. Probably a bad idea, but then again some of the OLPC folks have already looked into it at least somewhat - see http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS-on-XO. Beauty of this is even in the bush our solution might still work. Scotty Auble ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ IAEP -- It's
Re: [IAEP] GPA Notes 7/23/09
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Anurag Goel agoe...@gmail.com wrote: The kids used the following sequence to make the turtle point in different hour directions: seth() -- forward(100) -- back(100) Note: The kids started off by experimenting with different values for seth I feel most kids struggled with this because they had not learned too much about geometry, particularily concepts involving degrees and radii. However, kids experimented with a lot of different values to better predict increments. Some kids realized that if they input a really large number they would get the same result as importing a really small number (ex: 12 and 732). As expected, the kids did not understand why that was. Perhaps we need to give a brief geometry lesson before letting the kids play with heading directions. I had good luck with paper folding activities to go with clock activities, for example, making snowflakes with different number of segments. Clock is a highly multiplicative structure, and kids who have weak multiplicative reasoning (e.g. reunitizing) struggle with it. I have an online snowflake maker to introduce the activity: http://www.naturalmath.com/special-snowflake/index.php Just leaving 4 out of 12 clock numbers (3, 6, 9, 12) helps a lot, too, because quarters are easier cognitively, the angles are familiar and so on. However, this is the attenuation approach (simplifying the environment) and I don't like to attenuate too much. With paper folding, you can give kids angle experience in an interesting context. I started to sketch a Zoombini-like paper folding activity, where you need, for example, to construct (match) certain folds to build a stained glass window. You construct everything out of prime number folds. So, to make the clock (1/12th) fold, you need to use a 3-fold and a 2-fold twice. This relates to the splitting conjecture by Confrey et al, and the ways young kids can construct numbers multiplicatively instead of additively. However, you can't use 3-folds with paper at the start, so there is the added fun complexity here. In physical space, I use coffee filters for this work. Cheers, Maria Droujkova Make math your own, to make your own math. http://www.naturalmath.com social math site http://groups.google.com/group/naturalmath subscribe now to discuss future math culture with parents, researchers and techies http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/ Math 2.0 interest group home http://www.phenixsolutions.com empowering our innovations ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] The Children's Library On OLPC project
Sam, Aleksey Lim's Library Activity supports organizing books that are stored in the Journal. It is supposed to eventually work on .82 but for now only works on .84. I tried it and it does what Calibre does and more. If you need an organized Journal you can use Library, and the Journal function proper can be left alone. A Journal entry consists of a file plus metadata. There is no real advantage in NOT storing the book in the Journal. You can convert whatever book format you're reading into a zipped archive of same on reading it for the first time then mark the Journal entry with Read's activity id. This would give the Journal entry Read's icon and make it resumable by Read. I do something like this with Read Etexts when it reads a plain text file. I'm not trying to save disk space in this case; I need to add a pickle file to the archive to store annotations, so I create a new Zip file and store the text and the pickle in it. The XO does not have enough disk space to hold hundreds of books as PDFs. Plain text files would work, but kids like pictures and I don't blame them. As I see it, the child should choose what books go on his computer for himself, and delete books when he has lost interest in them. James Simmons On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Samuel Kleinmeta...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I imagine a final use case in which children do have hundreds of books on their XO, not two or three; they are stored compressed, and uncompressed for reading; and the Journal stores the record of reading a book, but not the uncompressed book itself. When a stick or local library with thousands or tens of thousands of books is available, it could be searched; a collection of books to be copied to your XO identified and named; and this collection added to your XO (with the name you just gave your collection added as a tag). If the Journal could implement Calibre-style views, I don't see why it couldn't function as a library organizer. SJ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] enhancing the reading experience in Sugar
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 04:49:19PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Hi all, during the last weeks we have seen very interesting discussions about how to improve the reading experience in Sugar. Several members of the community have provided very interesting feedback on top of the work of Jim, Sayamindu and Aleksey. How I see us moving forward: - making sure bugs are filed in Trac and new features in the wiki per http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Policy . Also, design proposals in http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Proposals would be great. - getting user feedback on Jim's activities and Sayamindu's Read improvements. Would be also good to get some feedback about Aleksey's Library activity. For the latter, I think we need to propose something to the OLPC Sur list that has a clear value to them. In the past this has worked with quite good results. What about a couple of short use cases that involve acquiring and reading ebooks in Spanish? I think that would work well. Also think it would be good to split the threads in sub-matters such as Collection distribution, Search and tagging, Content browsing, External device access, etc. so they can be followed more easily. +1 and form these proposals on Feature/* pages - in that case its much easier to track what people think and going to implement. -- Aleksey ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Slashdot: East Africa Gets High-Speed Internet Access Via Undersea Cable
Just an FYI if you hadn't heard: URL: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/23/2130218/East-Africa-Gets-High-Speed-Internet-Access-Via-Undersea-Cable Technology: East Africa Gets High-Speed Internet Access Via Undersea Cable Posted by timothy on Friday July 24, @01:53AM from the not-a-panacea-but-good-still dept. Abel Mebratu writes with this excerpt from the BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8165077.stm): The first undersea cable to bring high-speed internet access to East Africa has gone live. The fiber-optic cable, operated by African-owned firm Seacom, connects South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Mozambique to Europe and Asia. The firm says the cable will help to boost the prospects of the region's industry and commerce. The cable -- which is 17,000km long -- took two years to lay and cost more than $650m. -- Ubuntu Linux DC LoCo Washington, DC http://dc.ubuntu-us.org/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Board elections (was Re: Sugar Digest 2009-07-22)
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Tomeu Vizosoto...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 20:05, Walter Benderwalter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: 3. I put out a call for help with our Election Committee a few weeks ago. We need to hold an election for the Oversight Board in August. So far, I have gotten no volunteers. It is not appropriate that I run the election, as I am a member of the Board. It is not a lot of work, but it should be done a community member. Would be appropriate for me to do that if I stepped down from the present board and didn't presented myself for next year? I would do so if nobody else can take this job and the candidate list looks good enough to me (right now it's in a good start). Either role is great for you. In addition to the coding skill you bring to SL, your emphasis on leading by doing, reviewing, and improving sets a precedent for the rest of us. david If you are interested in being a candidate, please add your name to the list in the wik. [[Sugar_Labs/Governance/Oversight_Board/2009-2010-candidates]] Regards, Tomeu ___ Sugar-devel mailing list sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Contributors Program Mtg NOW! (Fri 2PM Boston time, #olpc-meeting)
Please join us (right now!) reviewing the latest OLPC/Sugar community projects over IRC Live Chat, 2PM EDT Boston Time Friday, right here right now :) http://forum.laptop.org/chat Then type at bottom: /join #olpc-meeting AGENDA: * New projects libraries -- teaching them Community Outreach: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects#XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries * Which projects might you enjoy Mentoring?! http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects http://rt.laptop.org/Search/Results.html?Query=Queue=%27contributors%27 * Fast Review of the 2 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals -- please join us advocating for and/or reviewing shortcomings of these proposals: 1. OLPC-ADNEN Cameroun - Cameroon Capacity reinforcement, Monitoring and evaluation of primary schools equipped with XO by PAQUEP Project in environmental and computer literacy in the context of pedagogical integration of ICT http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43257 http://upennuac.blogspot.com Requests 10 XO's for 12 months General Objective: Contribute to the promotion, the pedagogic integration of XO and the participation of pupils and teachers in the protection of the environment in 12 primary schools of the the PAQUEB project an 6 other motivated schools of Adamaoua region. Specifique Objectives: 1. Acquire one mobile library suitcase equip with 10 XO and 10 guides which can be use simultaneously in several schools to spreading IT education by the project team. 2. Contribute to the spreading of XO and Sugar environment in 12 primary schools an initiate about 6351 pupils from class 1 to 6 of the PAQUEB Project and in 6 other motivated schools of the region. 3. Not less than 6351 pupils and not less than 130 Teachers will be IT literate and will participate to the protection of the environment specifically the climate change in their council. 4. Not less than 6351 productions (photos numeric, mini project, posters, point of view, small articles on the environmental protection and participation of pupil in projects…) are shared with students and pupils of others schools of our country and other countries via Internet and other means of spreading knowledge. 5. Reinforce the pedagogic skills of teachers and the head masters of the 12 schools of the PAQUEB project and the 6 other motivated schools of the region. 2. REVISED - Wind Shear Detection for Small Airports - Northridge, California, USA http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43173 http://www.csun.edu/~rmehler Requests 4+ XO's for 12 months REVISED - Project Objectives: Both grad students and local public schools should contribute to the development and testing of an array of inexpensive sensors that, when placed around an airport, will automatically organize themselves into a mesh network that can detect and report wind shear: July 2009: determine hardware platform and peripherals, obtain same August – December 2009: work on network data exchange protocols, wind shear detection algorithms January – May 2010: system integration, testing, demonstrations June 2010: write, publish, wrap up. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Board elections (was Re: Sugar Digest 2009-07-22)
What's involved in running said election? IIRC, it was done with Selectricity last time, no? Is there more to setting it up than listing the names, setting a deadline and checking the results? (I assume nominees can supply their own press via the wiki, and it seems I remember a link between Selectricity and candidate bio's. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Board elections (was Re: Sugar Digest 2009-07-22)
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Kevin Coledc.l...@gmail.com wrote: What's involved in running said election? IIRC, it was done with Selectricity last time, no? Is there more to setting it up than listing the names, setting a deadline and checking the results? (I assume nominees can supply their own press via the wiki, and it seems I remember a link between Selectricity and candidate bio's. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep Well, there is making sure that the membership list is up to date; there was some concern that Selectricity had some flaws and security holes; not too much else. -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] etoys, moodle, gcompris, kde-edu and other sister projects
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Kurt Gramlichkurt.graml...@lugrav.de wrote: * Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org [090724 18:24]: Hi, we have certain relationships with other software projects with similar goals to us and the people working there may be asking themselves why their work isn't discussed more often in our fora, specially now that active members of our community have stepped into the classrooms themselves. Skolelinux Germany is watching you ;-) I am watching this list as much as possible. My goal is to bring free software into all educational environments. And definitely, I like and support Jonas' work to package sugar for Debian, so that we are able to integrate it into Skolelinux/DebianEdu. One of my goals is to have all the needed server related services from your project on our Skolelinx server. For example: the new version of Skolelinux Server in Germany has moodle installed; it is still missing ejabberd and other features. Our common presence at Linuxtag 2009 in Berlin has brought new motivation for our common goals. So, lets continue to work together! [...] Wonder what we could do so that these other projects feel more welcomed to our community and more collaboration opportunities are taken. Any ideas? At the risk of sounding downright boring. Sugar Labs is on a great trajectory. From my discussions with potential partners, their main concerns are: 1. Predictability and Dependability. These are functions of the project. Schools tend to make software purchasing decisions with a three to five year time frames in mind. 2. Stability. This is a function of the product. Partners want to know that the product is stable enough that they can effectively support it and support their value added stuff on top of it. 3. Impact. This is product * project. Partners want to know that their investments in the Sugar ecosystem will have a proportional effect on accomplishing their missions. Sugar Labs is steadily improving on all three fronts. david http://wiki.skolelinux.de/YoungsterMeeting2009 perhaps? Thanks, Tomeu Regards/AmicaLinuxement/Saludos/Viele Gruesse! Kurt Gramlich Projektleitung skolelinux.de -- k...@skolelinux.de GnuPG Key ID 0xE263FCD4 http://www.skolelinux.de ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Sugar Labs - Directions of Growth
Over the last couple of weeks we have been talking about how to grow Sugar Labs. Without looking at specific solutions, I would like to think about framing Sugar Labs growth in three directions: 1. Improve and stabilize the learning platform. 2. Grow towards the student. 3. Increase reach and impact. Growing in these directions will help Sugar Labs accomplish its mission. But, hand in hand with growth we must think about how our structure as a community based projects affects that growth. The two most important factors driving growth in a community project are: 1. A _product_ that is valuable enough for others to test, use, and improve. 2. A _project_ that encourages users to test, use, improve, and participate in the project by sharing their improvements with the project. 'Users' is a wide term. In the case of Sugar Labs, it can range from individuals, to companies, to national governments. Anyone who takes a Sugar deliverable and builds on it to help someone learn is a user. To take a step back, we can think of adding value to Sugar Labs. But, what is value? There are many definitions of value in a project such as Sugar Labs: Quality of code. Number of users. Number of headlines. Compliance to specific teaching pedagogies. The notion of value that I tend to looks at, from a 50,000 feet, is 'How does Sugar Labs create a large pool of users -- who benefit enough from using Sugar -- that they, and others, are willing to invest in improving Sugar'? As a rough model we can think of value as Educational Excellence(X), Technical Excellence(Y) and Reach and Impact(Z). Growth towards educational excellence represents extending the core product towards the learner. Possible steps include: Stable learning platform. Easy distribution mechanism -- the shift from ./configure; make; make to [rpm|apt-get] install was huge. Easy deployment process. Creation of base learning activities/content. Creation of specific learning curriculum to meet specific teaching needs. Going down this list, the groups involved involved tend to shift from developers to practicing educators. We need to think of growing to include educators rather than crowding out developers. As we move towards the right along the x-asis, each prior stage grows and improves along the y-axis In the larger context of adding value to the project, we can think of project visibility and desirability along the z-axis . As the product grows towards the user and the quality of the product increases, the marketing team is able to increase the visibility and desirability (z-axis) of the product and project to more and more people. Another way to look at this, is to examine how a tree grows:) Tree growth is most easily measured in how much taller or wider the tree become as a result of linear grow of the trunk or branches. In addition to growing in length, new branches grow off of the trunk or existing branches. As the length and number of the branches increase, the trunk and branches increase in width to provide both physical support and enough pores to transport water from the root to the leaves and transport energy from the leave to the roots. In this analogy, the length of the branches can represent market penetration. Sugar must become useful enough to penetrate deeply into the learning occurring at individual schools. As Sugar penetrates in to individual schools, those efforts can be branched to migrate sugar into additional schools. Finally, the education, deployment, development, and support teams must grow proportionally to support the deployments while pulling the ideas and improvements from the schools back up stream. david -- David Farning Sugar Labs www.sugarlabs.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Board elections (was Re: Sugar Digest 2009-07-22)
On Jul 24, 2009, at 17:51, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: Well, there is making sure that the membership list is up to date; there was some concern that Selectricity had some flaws and security holes; not too much else. Could we ask Software in the Public Interest, the group behind Debian and other FLOSS projects, to hold the election as a neutral 3rd party? They have held the Wikimedia elections in the past, and would probably be happy to help. -lf ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Board elections (was Re: Sugar Digest 2009-07-22)
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Luke Faraonel...@faraone.cc wrote: On Jul 24, 2009, at 17:51, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: Well, there is making sure that the membership list is up to date; there was some concern that Selectricity had some flaws and security holes; not too much else. Could we ask Software in the Public Interest, the group behind Debian and other FLOSS projects, to hold the election as a neutral 3rd party? They have held the Wikimedia elections in the past, and would probably be happy to help. -lf Sounds good. Does anyone know whom to contact? -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] FW: On Classroom 2.0: Saturday's LIVE Show - Telling Stories with Digital Threads with Special Guest Chris Bigenho
Hi... Here is an official announcement of an education session on Classroom 2.0 that some of you might want to join in. It is tomorrow (Saturday) morning. Caryl Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:16:50 + From: m...@classroom20.com To: ca...@laptop.org Subject: On Classroom 2.0: Saturday's LIVE Show - Telling Stories with Digital Threads with Special Guest Chris Bigenho A message to all members of Classroom 2.0 Date: Sat., July 25, 2009 Time: 9:00am Pacific/10:00am Mountain/11:00am Central/12:00pm Eastern Location: in Elluminate at http://tinyurl.com/cr20live (links to other time zones and meeting room can be found at http://live.classroom20.com/.) This Saturday, July 25th Kim Caise and Lorna Costantini will be hosting another Classroom 2.0 LIVE show. As an extension to the Classroom 2.0 community, Classroom 2.0 LIVE shows are opportunities to gather with other educators in real-time events, complete with audio, chat, desktop sharing, and sometimes even video. A Google calendar of shows is available at http://live.classroom20.com/calendar.html. If you haven't used Elluminate before, we encourage you to view this tutorial to prepare for the Elluminate session: Elluminate tutorial video. The topic this Saturday is: Telling Stories with Digital Threads with special guest Chris Bigenho. Please join us as Chris shares how he uses digital story threads in the classroom. Chris will share an amazingly emotional and real digital story of the Iranian unrest surrounding the recent elections using Twitter and other tools. More information and session details are at http://live.classroom20.com. If you've never participated in a live webinar, don't be afraid to come and observe. 'Dip your toes in’ the conversations until you feel comfortable enough to jump into the conversations with both feet! We want to encourage experienced Web 2.0 users to join us by contributing and extending the conversation by sharing real-life examples and tips/suggestions. On the Classroom 2.0 LIVE! site (http://live.classroom20.com) you'll find the recordings for our recent Elluminate: Special Features for the Classroom show with special guest Tammy Moore. Click on the Archive tab to view recordings. Special thanks to our sponsor, Elluminate, for providing the forum that allows us to do this! Visit Classroom 2.0 at: http://www.classroom20.com -- To control which emails you receive on Classroom 2.0, go to: http://www.classroom20.com/profiles/profile/emailSettings ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
