[IAEP] getting things done (was Re: [Sugar-devel] Language Learner, a GSOC 2010 idea proposal)
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:22, Christoph Derndorfer christoph.derndor...@gmail.com wrote: snip slight general rant I generally feel like there's still a real lack of activities aimed at teaching, learning and practicing basic skills such as writing, speaking, using the keyboard/touchpad, learning basic Mathematics, etc. This is *exactly* what primary schools all around the world are doing yet I think we haven't done a great job at addressing this when it comes to providing appropiate activities. /slight general rant This gives me an opportunity for ranting myself ;) From time to time someone shows frustration because SLs hasn't been able to achieve something. This in itself is a great thing to happen because shows an opportunity to get closer to our goals. But isn't actually useful unless we accompany that burst of energy with the will of putting in place whatever is needed for that something to be achieved. In this particular case, we could ask the Activity team coordinator to call for a meeting and add it to the agenda. If the team likes the goal but it turns out that there aren't available resources for tackling the specific work that derives from that goal, we could see if the Community team wants to add to their TODO list finding people interested in working on that kind of activities. We again request the community manager to add to their meeting agenda this item, the community team meets and sees if their recruitment strategy is adequate or if it can be improved in order to find activity developers. It may seem that I'm proposing adding bureaucracy for the sake of it or that I want to put bosses on top of volunteers, but rather what I'm saying is that unless we give visibility to issues, explicitly discuss things and people take ownership of responsibility areas, most things won't happen. So I want to know: do people agree that a team structure with named coordinators and members could help us do more and better, or are people happy with just hoping that someone will fall from the sky and do the right stuff? Regards, Tomeu Cheers, Christoph -- Christoph Derndorfer co-editor, olpcnews url: www.olpcnews.com e-mail: christ...@olpcnews.com ___ 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] Fwd: Helping kids develop mobile applications?
This was posted to mobile-devel-l...@gnome.org by Stormy. I figure, while not directly gnome mobile sugar uses alot of the gnome mobile stack. Someone from San Francisco might be interested or able to do a combined sugar and gnome-mobile event. Peter -- Forwarded message -- From: Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org Date: Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:34 PM Subject: Helping kids develop mobile applications? To: GNOME Mobile mobile-devel-l...@gnome.org If anyone is interested, let me know. I've been pinged by someone working with kids to develop mobile applications. He'd like to set up an event this summer in San Francisco. It will most likely happen in a school with a Linux lab. can you recommend some open-source mobile application development tools. i'm doing an innovation competiton to engender mobile apps from underserved communiites. It would be great to see GNOME participate, if/when it happens. Stormy ___ mobile-devel-list mailing list mobile-devel-l...@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-devel-list ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Weekly Infrastructure Meeting Reminder
Weekly Infrastructure meeting: Volunteer Infrastructure Gang (http://olpcorps.org/ ), Sugarlabs Infrastructure Team (http://sugarlabs.org/ ), and TreeHousers (http://me.etin.gs/treehouse/ ) #startmeeting #info Date: 2010-03-30 #info Time: 20:00 UTC (16:00 EST, 21:00 CET) #info Agenda: http://openetherpad.org/WwWmUiMz5U #info Location: #treehouse on irc.oftc.net #link http://embed.mibbit.com/?server=irc.oftc.netchannel=%23treehouse #endmeeting Agenda: #topic agenda #info * last meeting #info * aslocamp @ RIT update (http://www.rit.edu/academicaffairs/centerforstudentinnovation/ ) #info * remote power control for a...@rit #info * update actividadesVM (http://activities.olpcorps.net/ ) #info * update monitoringVM (http://monitoring.sugarlabs.org/ ) #info * update schooltoolVM (http://schooltool.sugarlabs.org/ ) #info * update rtVM (http://rt.sugarlabs.org ) #info * mapspress and somosazucar (http://mapspress.olpcorps.org ) #info * update about washington dc wikipedia servers #info * test fairy - treehousers (http://idea.sugarlabs.org ) #info * access fairy - treehousers #topic last meeting #info Usefull Links: #info LastAgenda: #link http://openetherpad.org/0MCJmP85OM #info LastLog: #link http://me.etin.gs/treehouse/treehouse.log.20100323_1606.html #info LastMinutes: #link http://me.etin.gs/treehouse/treehouse.mlnutes.20100323_1606.html #info NextAgenda: #link http://openetherpad.org/tCl6T4lXnR cu dogi ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Fwd: Helping kids develop mobile applications?
This was posted to mobile-devel-l...@gnome.org by Stormy. I figure, while not directly gnome mobile sugar uses alot of the gnome mobile stack. Someone from San Francisco might be interested or able to do a combined sugar and gnome-mobile event. Its certainly worth considering making Sugar available for mobile phones so its worth staying in touch with gnome mobile. Wayan Vota and others argue that mobile phones are a more appropriate educational platform than laptops for developing countries. http://edutechdebate.org/mobile-phones-and-computers/ Their high market penetration is a definite plus, the small display and limited keyboard a minus. It would be good to see educational activities like Etoys and TurtleArt along with Bluetooth or Wifi collaboration and show source available to the 100 millions of phones in the developing world. Thanks Walter for mentioning David Cavallo in a recent post. I have been reading about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergent_Design which asserts that educational reform in developing countries needs to be rooted in the existing skills and needs of the local culture. Clearly mobile phones fit this criterion. Tony ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Fwd: Helping kids develop mobile applications?
Someone already put Squeak on an iPhone (iPod Touch more accurately): http://news.squeak.org/2008/06/11/squeak-on-the-iphone/ Not too far fetched to get Etoys on iPhone soon enough. :-) On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:07 PM, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: This was posted to mobile-devel-l...@gnome.org by Stormy. I figure, while not directly gnome mobile sugar uses alot of the gnome mobile stack. Someone from San Francisco might be interested or able to do a combined sugar and gnome-mobile event. Its certainly worth considering making Sugar available for mobile phones so its worth staying in touch with gnome mobile. Wayan Vota and others argue that mobile phones are a more appropriate educational platform than laptops for developing countries. http://edutechdebate.org/mobile-phones-and-computers/ Their high market penetration is a definite plus, the small display and limited keyboard a minus. It would be good to see educational activities like Etoys and TurtleArt along with Bluetooth or Wifi collaboration and show source available to the 100 millions of phones in the developing world. Thanks Walter for mentioning David Cavallo in a recent post. I have been reading about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergent_Design which asserts that educational reform in developing countries needs to be rooted in the existing skills and needs of the local culture. Clearly mobile phones fit this criterion. Tony ___ 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] Jaime Escalante
Hello All, I have sad news tonight, Jaime Escalante has lost his battle with cancer. He passed away today. I knew Jaime when we were both working at Garfield High in East Los Angeles, and contacted him a couple of years ago about the possibility of sharing some of his mathemagic with OLPC. We arranged for him to have an XO to play with in the hopes that he would come up with some ideas that could be developed for use in Sugar. Unfortunately, his health problems got in the way, and it was not to be. Here is the Los Angeles Times article about Jaime. It will give you an idea of the kind of teacher he was: http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-jaime-escalante31-2010mar31,0,7083760.story Caryl ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
