Re: [IAEP] Quote, docs (was Re: Sugar Digest 2010-05-20)
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 00:52, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:42, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: ==Sugar Digest== One of the nice things as you walk through the museum is that on almost every wall is a quote about play. They have a nice collection of quotes on line as well (See http://www.museumofplay.org/about_play/quotes.html). I read them a favorite quote from Marvin Minsky, which seemed to resonate with them: The playfulness of childhood is the most demanding teacher we have. Thanks. I added that one to http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai/Quotes We talked about how we might engage them in some informal learning activities using Sugar. I have had such talks with The Tech Museum of San Jose and the Exploratorium, and intend to talk with others. The Tech invites interactive exhibit designs. I had written an NSF grant a while back: Adding depth to and building community within informal education, which was rejected, but is worth pursing nonetheless. Would you be intereted i joii i a a appi I'd proposed to explore how children's activities at informal learning venues can be extended by providing learners with inexpensive, ubiquitous access to learning software (Sugar on a Stick). By designing, developing, and testing a proof of concept that combines informal learning activities with in-depth follow up at home or in the classroom we still hope to demonstrate a learning ecology that increases public interest in, understanding of, and engagement with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Specifically, I proposed to leverage Sugar on a Stick to promote the use of Sugar in informal learning settings: prototyping Sugar-based exhibit kiosks in museums and libraries that will facilitate visitor interactions. Visitors will be given a Sugar-on-a-Stick USB storage device with which they can make bookmarks of exhibits that they visited, found interesting, or saved data from. Exhibit designers can use kiosks to collect visitor information and offer additional activities and data that visitors can work with when back at school or home. Activities can be downloaded to the Sugar-on-a-Stick device from the kiosk. The work done by visitors can be incorporated into the exhibit itself and featured on line, with the potential to reach a broader audience. I still hope to learn how the data- and instrumentation-rich facilities found in informal learning settings and Sugar might be combined to further engage the interest of learners in scientific and technological literacy. I hypothesized that by giving visitors the ability to take programs and data home with them, we will be able to challenge them with more in-depth and engaging problem solving. Giving them activities to take home, connecting these activities to other learning experiences and interests, and connecting these activities to a community of learners are significant enhancements to the status quo of informal learning. We need to evaluate the technical, logistical, and pedagogical impacts on the museum exhibit experience, library digital and human resources, and education programs s that we can develop an implementation guide for informal-learning professionals. === Help wanted === 2. We have a number of vacancies (See http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Vacancies). Many of these positions require organization as opposed to technical skills and only a commitment of a few hours per week. Clearly I should offer to take this one on: Document team coordinator: carries administrative tasks such as organizing regular meetings, keep the TODO list updated, keep the membership list, and makes sure that the team has clear goals and is kept focused. I'll look over the latest at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Documentation_Team and see if I have any questions. Excellent, thanks for stepping up! Look forward to attend the first meeting of your team. Regards, Tomeu regards. -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 -- 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] Quote, docs (was Re: Sugar Digest 2010-05-20)
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:42, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: ==Sugar Digest== One of the nice things as you walk through the museum is that on almost every wall is a quote about play. They have a nice collection of quotes on line as well (See http://www.museumofplay.org/about_play/quotes.html). I read them a favorite quote from Marvin Minsky, which seemed to resonate with them: The playfulness of childhood is the most demanding teacher we have. Thanks. I added that one to http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai/Quotes We talked about how we might engage them in some informal learning activities using Sugar. I have had such talks with The Tech Museum of San Jose and the Exploratorium, and intend to talk with others. The Tech invites interactive exhibit designs. I had written an NSF grant a while back: Adding depth to and building community within informal education, which was rejected, but is worth pursing nonetheless. Would you be intereted i joii i a a appi I'd proposed to explore how children's activities at informal learning venues can be extended by providing learners with inexpensive, ubiquitous access to learning software (Sugar on a Stick). By designing, developing, and testing a proof of concept that combines informal learning activities with in-depth follow up at home or in the classroom we still hope to demonstrate a learning ecology that increases public interest in, understanding of, and engagement with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Specifically, I proposed to leverage Sugar on a Stick to promote the use of Sugar in informal learning settings: prototyping Sugar-based exhibit kiosks in museums and libraries that will facilitate visitor interactions. Visitors will be given a Sugar-on-a-Stick USB storage device with which they can make bookmarks of exhibits that they visited, found interesting, or saved data from. Exhibit designers can use kiosks to collect visitor information and offer additional activities and data that visitors can work with when back at school or home. Activities can be downloaded to the Sugar-on-a-Stick device from the kiosk. The work done by visitors can be incorporated into the exhibit itself and featured on line, with the potential to reach a broader audience. I still hope to learn how the data- and instrumentation-rich facilities found in informal learning settings and Sugar might be combined to further engage the interest of learners in scientific and technological literacy. I hypothesized that by giving visitors the ability to take programs and data home with them, we will be able to challenge them with more in-depth and engaging problem solving. Giving them activities to take home, connecting these activities to other learning experiences and interests, and connecting these activities to a community of learners are significant enhancements to the status quo of informal learning. We need to evaluate the technical, logistical, and pedagogical impacts on the museum exhibit experience, library digital and human resources, and education programs s that we can develop an implementation guide for informal-learning professionals. === Help wanted === 2. We have a number of vacancies (See http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Vacancies). Many of these positions require organization as opposed to technical skills and only a commitment of a few hours per week. Clearly I should offer to take this one on: Document team coordinator: carries administrative tasks such as organizing regular meetings, keep the TODO list updated, keep the membership list, and makes sure that the team has clear goals and is kept focused. I'll look over the latest at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Documentation_Team and see if I have any questions. That would be excellent. There is a small team working on API documentation. For the next 6 months, they will be working on 'restructured text' API documentation for core sugar documentation. I believe that they have settled on sphinx as the preferred tool. I hope you find this a useful addition to the documentation team and useful addition to the Sugar Labs. david regards. -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 -- 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
Re: [IAEP] community team
Shall we start throwing out dates for the first meeting? How about June 1st or 2nd? On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 4:49 AM, Tabitha Roder tabi...@tabitha.net.nzwrote: I am watching this conversation with deep interest. In my attempts to develop a community of olpc and sugar volunteers in New Zealand I have experienced all sorts of extremes in emotion, energy drain, feelings of success and failure, and I still wouldn't give it up because I believe in what olpc and sugar have been striving for. Mostly I wish for more hours in the day; more hours for me and for the volunteers who have been trying to help along this journey with me. It takes a whole community and each of the players contributes in a different way. I have been frustrated when I have not been able to fill a role that requires a certain skill (e.g. translation, programmer, educator, funding guru, importing guru, etc) and disappointed with myself for not learning all these skills (obviously you can't learn everything). As a community of practice subgroup here in New Zealand we have tried to nurture each other and help each other learn so we all have more knowledge, we have shared challenges, learned the importance of regular interaction (we would have failed if it were not for the regularity of same place, same time, every week). We have had to define what we do and how will we do it, as well as build confidence in talking to others about what we do and why. This identity helps us. We have all had to work hard in our roles as volunteers, whether that be in recruiting others or in sacrificing time to investigate bugs or in other ways, or in financially supporting events to get olpc and sugar news out to others in New Zealand. As community lead for NZ I have had to learn how to set boundaries and minimums (this has been hard for me, but I have had to learn it for the good of the community). I have had to provide direction at times and step back and see what happens at other times. I have been surprised by some of those things. I have encouraged a culture of support and nurturing with the community. I have made mistakes and wished I had done better. My two cents: a community leader MUST have time, understanding of the nature of volunteers contributions in all their forms, and clarity in communication. Tabitha On 22 May 2010 20:15, Tomeu Vizoso to...@tomeuvizoso.net wrote: On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 03:59, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: El Tue, 18-05-2010 a las 11:41 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso escribió: We also need to ask the Wiki team to create a new instance of the team template, such as this: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Wiki_Team Perhaps we don't need a new template. The Community Team page could simply be this: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs The header already reads Community Home, and the content of the other subpages is already more or less appropriate. Sounds like a great topic for the kick-off meeting! Regards, Tomeu -- // 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 -- Anurag Goel ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] community team
In light of the olpc realness summit running until June 2nd, June 3rd seems appropriate and the best date for me. I'll be attending my sister's graduation on the 4th then flying to India on the 5th. Does June 3rd work for those interested in attending? Thanks, Anurag On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Anurag Goel agoe...@gmail.com wrote: Shall we start throwing out dates for the first meeting? How about June 1st or 2nd? On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 4:49 AM, Tabitha Roder tabi...@tabitha.net.nzwrote: I am watching this conversation with deep interest. In my attempts to develop a community of olpc and sugar volunteers in New Zealand I have experienced all sorts of extremes in emotion, energy drain, feelings of success and failure, and I still wouldn't give it up because I believe in what olpc and sugar have been striving for. Mostly I wish for more hours in the day; more hours for me and for the volunteers who have been trying to help along this journey with me. It takes a whole community and each of the players contributes in a different way. I have been frustrated when I have not been able to fill a role that requires a certain skill (e.g. translation, programmer, educator, funding guru, importing guru, etc) and disappointed with myself for not learning all these skills (obviously you can't learn everything). As a community of practice subgroup here in New Zealand we have tried to nurture each other and help each other learn so we all have more knowledge, we have shared challenges, learned the importance of regular interaction (we would have failed if it were not for the regularity of same place, same time, every week). We have had to define what we do and how will we do it, as well as build confidence in talking to others about what we do and why. This identity helps us. We have all had to work hard in our roles as volunteers, whether that be in recruiting others or in sacrificing time to investigate bugs or in other ways, or in financially supporting events to get olpc and sugar news out to others in New Zealand. As community lead for NZ I have had to learn how to set boundaries and minimums (this has been hard for me, but I have had to learn it for the good of the community). I have had to provide direction at times and step back and see what happens at other times. I have been surprised by some of those things. I have encouraged a culture of support and nurturing with the community. I have made mistakes and wished I had done better. My two cents: a community leader MUST have time, understanding of the nature of volunteers contributions in all their forms, and clarity in communication. Tabitha On 22 May 2010 20:15, Tomeu Vizoso to...@tomeuvizoso.net wrote: On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 03:59, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: El Tue, 18-05-2010 a las 11:41 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso escribió: We also need to ask the Wiki team to create a new instance of the team template, such as this: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Wiki_Team Perhaps we don't need a new template. The Community Team page could simply be this: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs The header already reads Community Home, and the content of the other subpages is already more or less appropriate. Sounds like a great topic for the kick-off meeting! Regards, Tomeu -- // 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 -- Anurag Goel -- Anurag Goel ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] community team
Please include the timezone when you decide a time so I can work out what time that translates to in NZ please. Thanks Tabitha On 25 May 2010 08:42, Anurag Goel agoe...@gmail.com wrote: In light of the olpc realness summit running until June 2nd, June 3rd seems appropriate and the best date for me. I'll be attending my sister's graduation on the 4th then flying to India on the 5th. Does June 3rd work for those interested in attending? Thanks, Anurag On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Anurag Goel agoe...@gmail.com wrote: Shall we start throwing out dates for the first meeting? How about June 1st or 2nd? On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 4:49 AM, Tabitha Roder tabi...@tabitha.net.nzwrote: I am watching this conversation with deep interest. In my attempts to develop a community of olpc and sugar volunteers in New Zealand I have experienced all sorts of extremes in emotion, energy drain, feelings of success and failure, and I still wouldn't give it up because I believe in what olpc and sugar have been striving for. Mostly I wish for more hours in the day; more hours for me and for the volunteers who have been trying to help along this journey with me. It takes a whole community and each of the players contributes in a different way. I have been frustrated when I have not been able to fill a role that requires a certain skill (e.g. translation, programmer, educator, funding guru, importing guru, etc) and disappointed with myself for not learning all these skills (obviously you can't learn everything). As a community of practice subgroup here in New Zealand we have tried to nurture each other and help each other learn so we all have more knowledge, we have shared challenges, learned the importance of regular interaction (we would have failed if it were not for the regularity of same place, same time, every week). We have had to define what we do and how will we do it, as well as build confidence in talking to others about what we do and why. This identity helps us. We have all had to work hard in our roles as volunteers, whether that be in recruiting others or in sacrificing time to investigate bugs or in other ways, or in financially supporting events to get olpc and sugar news out to others in New Zealand. As community lead for NZ I have had to learn how to set boundaries and minimums (this has been hard for me, but I have had to learn it for the good of the community). I have had to provide direction at times and step back and see what happens at other times. I have been surprised by some of those things. I have encouraged a culture of support and nurturing with the community. I have made mistakes and wished I had done better. My two cents: a community leader MUST have time, understanding of the nature of volunteers contributions in all their forms, and clarity in communication. Tabitha On 22 May 2010 20:15, Tomeu Vizoso to...@tomeuvizoso.net wrote: On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 03:59, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: El Tue, 18-05-2010 a las 11:41 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso escribió: We also need to ask the Wiki team to create a new instance of the team template, such as this: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Wiki_Team Perhaps we don't need a new template. The Community Team page could simply be this: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs The header already reads Community Home, and the content of the other subpages is already more or less appropriate. Sounds like a great topic for the kick-off meeting! Regards, Tomeu -- // 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 -- Anurag Goel -- Anurag Goel ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] community team
Yes, please, all meetings listed in UTC. There are now proposals for Deployment and Community meetings. What are the scope of the two meetings? Is there overlap? Are both going ahead? Attending meetings is a big commitment from Australia/NZ, they are typically 4am local time, we understand that mid Atlantic timing suits most people. Just want to know whats worth setting an alarm clock for. Tony Please include the timezone when you decide a time so I can work out what time that translates to in NZ please. Thanks Tabitha On 25 May 2010 08:42, Anurag Goel agoe...@gmail.com wrote: In light of the olpc realness summit running until June 2nd, June 3rd seems appropriate and the best date for me. I'll be attending my sister's graduation on the 4th then flying to India on the 5th. Does June 3rd work for those interested in attending? Thanks, Anurag On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Anurag Goel agoe...@gmail.com wrote: Shall we start throwing out dates for the first meeting? How about June 1st or 2nd? On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 4:49 AM, Tabitha Roder tabi...@tabitha.net.nzwrote: I am watching this conversation with deep interest. In my attempts to develop a community of olpc and sugar volunteers in New Zealand I have experienced all sorts of extremes in emotion, energy drain, feelings of success and failure, and I still wouldn't give it up because I believe in what olpc and sugar have been striving for. Mostly I wish for more hours in the day; more hours for me and for the volunteers who have been trying to help along this journey with me. It takes a whole community and each of the players contributes in a different way. I have been frustrated when I have not been able to fill a role that requires a certain skill (e.g. translation, programmer, educator, funding guru, importing guru, etc) and disappointed with myself for not learning all these skills (obviously you can't learn everything). As a community of practice subgroup here in New Zealand we have tried to nurture each other and help each other learn so we all have more knowledge, we have shared challenges, learned the importance of regular interaction (we would have failed if it were not for the regularity of same place, same time, every week). We have had to define what we do and how will we do it, as well as build confidence in talking to others about what we do and why. This identity helps us. We have all had to work hard in our roles as volunteers, whether that be in recruiting others or in sacrificing time to investigate bugs or in other ways, or in financially supporting events to get olpc and sugar news out to others in New Zealand. As community lead for NZ I have had to learn how to set boundaries and minimums (this has been hard for me, but I have had to learn it for the good of the community). I have had to provide direction at times and step back and see what happens at other times. I have been surprised by some of those things. I have encouraged a culture of support and nurturing with the community. I have made mistakes and wished I had done better. My two cents: a community leader MUST have time, understanding of the nature of volunteers contributions in all their forms, and clarity in communication. Tabitha On 22 May 2010 20:15, Tomeu Vizoso to...@tomeuvizoso.net wrote: On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 03:59, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: El Tue, 18-05-2010 a las 11:41 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso escribi�: We also need to ask the Wiki team to create a new instance of the team template, such as this: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Wiki_Team Perhaps we don't need a new template. The Community Team page could simply be this: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs The header already reads Community Home, and the content of the other subpages is already more or less appropriate. Sounds like a great topic for the kick-off meeting! Regards, Tomeu -- // 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 -- Anurag Goel -- Anurag Goel Please include the timezone when you decide a time so I can work out what time that translates to in NZ please.brbrThanksbrTabithabrbrbr clear=allbrbrdiv class=gmail_quoteOn 25 May 2010 08:42, Anurag Goel span dir=ltra href=mailto:agoe...@gmail.com;agoe...@gmail.com/a/span wrote:br blockquote class=gmail_quote style=margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;In light of the olpc realness summit running until June 2nd, June 3rd seems appropriate and the best date for me. I'll be attending my sister's
