[IAEP] Need ideas for 1 hour Sugar introductory lessons
We are planning for April vacation week and working with the public library a few blocks from the GPA school. We will be doing 1 to 5 1-hour sessions with a few students during April vacation week. We will then extend that program to after school. My thought is to do focus on a different activity each session. Its a recreational setting. We can ask for different age ranges for different sessions when we advertise. I definitely want to do one with Physics. Do people have suggestions for what are some of the best 1 hour introductions for kids? Thanks, Caroline -- 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
Re: [IAEP] Need ideas for 1 hour Sugar introductory lessons
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/0/0e/Gravity.odt Alan Kay's gravity lesson for ten-year-olds in Turtle Art and Record. On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 10:50, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: We are planning for April vacation week and working with the public library a few blocks from the GPA school. We will be doing 1 to 5 1-hour sessions with a few students during April vacation week. We will then extend that program to after school. My thought is to do focus on a different activity each session. Its a recreational setting. We can ask for different age ranges for different sessions when we advertise. I definitely want to do one with Physics. Do people have suggestions for what are some of the best 1 hour introductions for kids? Thanks, Caroline -- 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 -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://www.earthtreasury.org/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Systems] wiki design
On 3/13/10 8:00 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 13:36 -0700, Josh Williams wrote: That's true, you can always resize the window. I'm in the camp that it's better to set a maximum width because I think it's harder to read long strings of text. Also I don't enjoy resizing the window just for sites that do this. Anyway, I'm not opposed to having it set at 100% width if you think most of the wiki users would prefer that. I was convinced of the superiority of a resizable layou until reading your argument. Indeed, very long lines of text are hard to read and look bad. On the other hand, even on my 1440 pixel wide-screen display, our production wiki looks normal, while yours seems too narrow. It might be because I'm using larger fonts, and you specified the width in pixels. Perhaps you could use point units instead? Take a look now, I set the max width to 65em (which is the rough equivelent of what I had it at before). An em is a unit of measurement that's based off the current text size so it scales when you increase the font size. While I agree with you on the principle, it might turn out to be too hard to get the fixed layout look good on all of the oddly shaped displays that exist today. The official Wikipedia site also uses 100% width, perhaps for the same reason. If we can't make it look good then we should just go without setting a maximum width. I personally use wine for ie6 and then I have an xp virtual machine for ie 7, vista VM for ie 8, and an old ubuntu VM for FF3. I use my girlfriends old ibook for safari 3. Wow, that's quite an impressive range... You missed my favorite, but Safari should come close. Before reading further (or remembering your screenshot) I thought your favorite was Konqueror :) . I actually use chromium dev builds for my daily browsing, but I don't test the windows version unless I'm embedding fonts and I don't test the linux version at all. Thanks the screenshot was helpful, I'll be working on the issue later next week. BTW if you normally have that many tabs open, I strongly recommend you try out tree style tabs for firefox - it's a super handy ad on. Thank you, it's really fantastic... but it won't suffice: I'm too happy with Chromium to switch back to Firefox as my default browser :-) Chrome is nice I can't really argue with you there. Josh ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.87.7 Development Release --- Release Candidate
On 03/11/2010 09:07 AM, Aleksey Lim wrote: On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 08:34:20AM +0100, Simon Schampijer wrote: Dear Sugar Community, This is our 0.88 Release Candidate! The Features have been landed, we are in UI and String freeze and only critical bug fixes can be landed by now. Many thanks to the community members that helped in the last days to clean up the review queue and fixing bugs! Now it is time for another big round of testing and fixing the bugs found. Let's go and make this release a big success! See [1] for more 0.88 schedule details. All the details about the code changes in this particular release can be seen at [2]. We are currently doing nightly soas builds [3]. there is also Karmic based ppa with 0.87.7 http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Ubuntu#Sugar-0.88_on_Ubuntu_9.10_.28karmic.29 Thanks Aleksey for mentioning the Ubuntu Karmic ppas. The current build does not contain the 0.87.7 release yet, I will send another note when it landed, though you can certainly start to test the latest build and find possible bugs that has not been fixed with this release. The nightly soas build does contain the 0.87.7 release now. Please test away! http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/soas/ Thanks, Simon ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Need ideas for 1 hour Sugar introductory lessons
Caroline, I like Edward's idea. If you use it, you can build to Etoys. There is a nice lesson in the Peru lesson book on animating a caterpillar that is really good. If you don't have the book, let me know and I'll send it to you. Gerald On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/0/0e/Gravity.odt Alan Kay's gravity lesson for ten-year-olds in Turtle Art and Record. On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 10:50, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: We are planning for April vacation week and working with the public library a few blocks from the GPA school. We will be doing 1 to 5 1-hour sessions with a few students during April vacation week. We will then extend that program to after school. My thought is to do focus on a different activity each session. Its a recreational setting. We can ask for different age ranges for different sessions when we advertise. I definitely want to do one with Physics. Do people have suggestions for what are some of the best 1 hour introductions for kids? Thanks, Caroline -- 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 -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://www.earthtreasury.org/ ___ 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
Re: [IAEP] Need ideas for 1 hour Sugar introductory lessons
Caroline, Since you're working with a library a natural topic for a session would be a demo of the reading related Activities. You could start with either Get Internet Archive Books or Get Books to demonstrate just how many free books there are and how easy it is to get them copied to your computer. Then demonstrate the Read Activity and how it supports multiple bookmarks and annotation, show some nice picture books in DJVU format (like Abroad) to demonstrate how much an ebook can be like a real book (better than Kindle!), download some books using Read Etexts and demonstrate text to speech with highlighting. Maybe show InfoSlicer. Show how many rare books are available. I've seen a bunch of stuff on PG and IA that I could read no other way. All the Oz books. More Jules Verne and H.G. Wells than I knew existed. A biography of German WWI ace Oswald Boelke. Books using the Bible to defend slavery, others using it to condemn slavery. Free science fiction books from the Baen Free Library. I was thinking of maybe creating another FLOSS Manual on just reading-related Activities, where to get free books, how to create your own e-books, etc. Sugar has a lot to offer in that area, and I wonder if Sugar users realize that. James Simmons Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:50:01 -0500 From: Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com Subject: [IAEP] Need ideas for 1 hour Sugar introductory lessons To: iaep iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Message-ID: b74fba2b1003140750i4a4af262h13a9a4a5e3a27...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 We are planning for April vacation week and working with the public library a few blocks from the GPA school. We will be doing 1 to 5 1-hour sessions with a few students during April vacation week. We will then extend that program to after school. My thought is to do focus on a different activity each session. Its a recreational setting. We can ask for different age ranges for different sessions when we advertise. I definitely want to do one with Physics. Do people have suggestions for what are some of the best 1 hour introductions for kids? Thanks, Caroline -- 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
Re: [IAEP] Need ideas for 1 hour Sugar introductory lessons
I used a short introduction to TurtleArt https://sites.google.com/site/godiard/TurtleArt.ppt?attredirects=0d=1 Gonzalo Odiard On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: We are planning for April vacation week and working with the public library a few blocks from the GPA school. We will be doing 1 to 5 1-hour sessions with a few students during April vacation week. We will then extend that program to after school. My thought is to do focus on a different activity each session. Its a recreational setting. We can ask for different age ranges for different sessions when we advertise. I definitely want to do one with Physics. Do people have suggestions for what are some of the best 1 hour introductions for kids? Thanks, Caroline -- 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 -- Gonzalo Odiard Responsable de Desarrollo Sistemas Australes ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Systems] wiki design
On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 09:23 -0700, Josh Williams wrote: Take a look now, I set the max width to 65em (which is the rough equivelent of what I had it at before). An em is a unit of measurement that's based off the current text size so it scales when you increase the font size. Looks great for me now. It takes up almost all of my screen. -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
