[IAEP] Fwd: [FM Discuss] Make Your Own Sugar Activities! in Spanish
John Curwood has set up MYOSA for translation into Spanish. I've created an account on the translation site to check everything out, and contrary to what I thought it is NOT a copy of the original book. Instead you can click on a translate link for each chapter and it shows you the original and the translated version side by side. You can also use an edit link which only shows the translated text. I don't speak Spanish so I won't be much help with the translation itself, but I'll try to make myself useful dealing with technical matters and answering questions on the original text. I've also subscribed to the book so I'll be notified when anyone updates the book. Again, in addition to registering at the site I'd recommend that you join the discuss mailing list for the site and monitor it. James Simmons To: disc...@lists.flossmanuals.net Subject: Re: [FM Discuss] Make Your Own Sugar Activities! in Spanish Message-ID: 1280958081.4033.6.ca...@curwood-laptop Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hi James, I've set up the Spanish translation for you (ActivitiesGuideSugar_es), it can be found at: http://translate.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/ActivitiesGuideSugar_es/WebHome It can also be accessed from the write page on http://translate.flossmanuals.net Just a note for those who ask you about helping translate: Anyone who wants to help translate will need to create an account with translate.flossmanuals.net before they can begin translating. Each FM site such as en.flossmanuals.net, nl.flossmanuals.net or translate.flossmanuals.net requires its own registration. Cheers, John ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Grants for Open Educational Resources
I intend to apply for creating digital textbook replacements. Anyone else interested? http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/22912 U.S. Department of Education includes OER in notice of proposed priorities for grant programs Timothy Vollmer, August 5th, 2010 Today the U.S. Department of Education took another big step in supporting open educational resources (OER). In the Federal Register, the Department released a notice of proposed priorities (NPP): The Secretary of Education proposes priorities that the Department of Education (Department) may use for any appropriate discretionary grant program in fiscal year (FY) 2011 and future years … This action will permit all offices in the Department to use, as appropriate for particular discretionary grant programs, one or more of these priorities in any discretionary grant competition. The set of proposed priorities specifically mentions OER. Essentially, if the priorities are adopted, it could mean that grant seekers who include open educational resources as a component of an application for funding from the Department of Education could receive priority. OER is included in Proposed Priority 13–Improving Productivity: Projects that are designed to significantly increase efficiency in the use of time, staff, money, or other resources. Such projects may include innovative and sustainable uses of technology, modification of school schedules, use of open educational resources (as defined in this notice), or other strategies that improve results and increase productivity. As mentioned, the NPP includes a definition of open educational resources: Open educational resources (OER) means teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use or repurposing by others. Interested parties may submit comments to the notice of proposed priorities until September 7, 2010. Information about how to submit a comment is described in the notice. -- 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] Grants for Open Educational Resources
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: I intend to apply for creating digital textbook replacements. Anyone else interested? How about affiliating with Sugar Labs as a Sugar Labs project? http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/22912 U.S. Department of Education includes OER in notice of proposed priorities for grant programs Timothy Vollmer, August 5th, 2010 Today the U.S. Department of Education took another big step in supporting open educational resources (OER). In the Federal Register, the Department released a notice of proposed priorities (NPP): The Secretary of Education proposes priorities that the Department of Education (Department) may use for any appropriate discretionary grant program in fiscal year (FY) 2011 and future years … This action will permit all offices in the Department to use, as appropriate for particular discretionary grant programs, one or more of these priorities in any discretionary grant competition. The set of proposed priorities specifically mentions OER. Essentially, if the priorities are adopted, it could mean that grant seekers who include open educational resources as a component of an application for funding from the Department of Education could receive priority. OER is included in Proposed Priority 13–Improving Productivity: Projects that are designed to significantly increase efficiency in the use of time, staff, money, or other resources. Such projects may include innovative and sustainable uses of technology, modification of school schedules, use of open educational resources (as defined in this notice), or other strategies that improve results and increase productivity. As mentioned, the NPP includes a definition of open educational resources: Open educational resources (OER) means teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use or repurposing by others. Interested parties may submit comments to the notice of proposed priorities until September 7, 2010. Information about how to submit a comment is described in the notice. -- 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] Grants for Open Educational Resources
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 13:19, Frederick Grose fgr...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: I intend to apply for creating digital textbook replacements. Anyone else interested? How about affiliating with Sugar Labs as a Sugar Labs project? Certainly. I have several pages on the Sugar Labs Wiki about it. This is the place to start. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Education_Team/Creating_textbooks http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/22912 U.S. Department of Education includes OER in notice of proposed priorities for grant programs Timothy Vollmer, August 5th, 2010 Today the U.S. Department of Education took another big step in supporting open educational resources (OER). In the Federal Register, the Department released a notice of proposed priorities (NPP): The Secretary of Education proposes priorities that the Department of Education (Department) may use for any appropriate discretionary grant program in fiscal year (FY) 2011 and future years … This action will permit all offices in the Department to use, as appropriate for particular discretionary grant programs, one or more of these priorities in any discretionary grant competition. The set of proposed priorities specifically mentions OER. Essentially, if the priorities are adopted, it could mean that grant seekers who include open educational resources as a component of an application for funding from the Department of Education could receive priority. OER is included in Proposed Priority 13–Improving Productivity: Projects that are designed to significantly increase efficiency in the use of time, staff, money, or other resources. Such projects may include innovative and sustainable uses of technology, modification of school schedules, use of open educational resources (as defined in this notice), or other strategies that improve results and increase productivity. As mentioned, the NPP includes a definition of open educational resources: Open educational resources (OER) means teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use or repurposing by others. Interested parties may submit comments to the notice of proposed priorities until September 7, 2010. Information about how to submit a comment is described in the notice. -- 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 -- 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] [support-gang] OLPC-SF Community Summit Oct 22-24 -- highlighting Sugar Labs / Realness
Hi For those of you who would like to attend the OLPC-SF Community Summit in San Francisco in October (see below for more info) here is the link to the Southwest Airlines site with their current sale. Thursday is the last day to book. Not all airports are included in the sale... for example, LAX is, but nearby BUR (Burbank) is not. If they have a sale fare anywhere near you, it is worth going a little further to take advantage of it. (Example I bought tickets for SFO-LAX in early Dec for $59 each. BUR would have been closer to home but $135-165 each). Wish I could go but I will be out of state that weekend. Alas!Caryl Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 12:43:46 -0400 From: h...@laptop.org To: ca...@laptop.org Subject: Re: [support-gang] [IAEP] OLPC-SF Community Summit Oct 22-24 -- highlighting Sugar Labs / Realness Can you explain this to olpc-so...@laptop.org before it's too late?! :) Caryl Bigenho wrote: Alas! There were several weekends under consideration. This is the only one I couldn't make. I will be traveling out of state that whole week. I really wish I could be there. For those of you that can attend, Southwest Airlines has a bargain fare sale going on right now (until Aug 5), so you might be able to get a good deal. Example... LAX-SFO is only $59 plus tax. Caryl Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 22:29:56 -0400 From: h...@laptop.org To: olpc...@lists.laptop.org; support-g...@laptop.org; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; m...@realness.org Subject: [IAEP] OLPC-SF Community Summit Oct 22-24 -- highlighting Sugar Labs / Realness Thanks to the great volunteers who joined the conf-call: Now comes the fun part pulling together what may well be the biggest community summit OLPC/Sugar have ever had -- with a core focus on Deployment Realness around the SF Bay area /and/ deep testimonials / skill-building / expert educator-implementor sessions from around the world. Hosted at San Francisco State University, right downtown, where Open Internet Culture began 40 years ago (or so it's argued!) Expected to be co-hosted in SF dovetailing right alongside the Internet Archive's Oct 21-22 Books in Browsers worldwide summit, not yet announced at http://archive.org reminding us all the keep our content strategies Real! Organizers are just now beginning to reach our to truly special guests around the world, so our polished event page http://olpcSF.org will go live well before end of August. Starting soon with http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea/OLPCSF_Community_Summit_2010 but with a High Impact main page much like http://Realness.org, opening a warm welcome, to large and small deployment professionals and volunteers worldwide. It will be so exciting to finally meet the California crowd all together, many of whom have still never met each other now the global silent heros of our EdTech movement -- not just Silicon Valley but also real Valley Girls like Caryl Bigenho hopefully inviting several up from her rapidly expanding OLPC-SOCAL Gang! The Scoop: SFSU's Prof of Open Source Free Beer Sameer Verma is in charge, with his truly exceptional OLPC-SF community, and welcomes all -- but please be patient as details emerge in the coming month. Just watch out world for The no-nonsense, no-grudges, no-paparazzi REAL-as-it-Gets OLPC/Sugar party you will never forget :-) ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ support-gang mailing list support-g...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Grants for Open Educational Resources
Squeakland's education team would be happy to participate in this endeavor. We have created content in Etoys that are self contained with not just text/content but also integrated modeling and guidance for self assessment. Is there a particular format that this program is looking for? Thanks! Let us know how we may be of service. Regards, Cherry On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 13:19, Frederick Grose fgr...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: I intend to apply for creating digital textbook replacements. Anyone else interested? How about affiliating with Sugar Labs as a Sugar Labs project? Certainly. I have several pages on the Sugar Labs Wiki about it. This is the place to start. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Education_Team/Creating_textbooks http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/22912 U.S. Department of Education includes OER in notice of proposed priorities for grant programs Timothy Vollmer, August 5th, 2010 Today the U.S. Department of Education took another big step in supporting open educational resources (OER). In the Federal Register, the Department released a notice of proposed priorities (NPP): The Secretary of Education proposes priorities that the Department of Education (Department) may use for any appropriate discretionary grant program in fiscal year (FY) 2011 and future years … This action will permit all offices in the Department to use, as appropriate for particular discretionary grant programs, one or more of these priorities in any discretionary grant competition. The set of proposed priorities specifically mentions OER. Essentially, if the priorities are adopted, it could mean that grant seekers who include open educational resources as a component of an application for funding from the Department of Education could receive priority. OER is included in Proposed Priority 13–Improving Productivity: Projects that are designed to significantly increase efficiency in the use of time, staff, money, or other resources. Such projects may include innovative and sustainable uses of technology, modification of school schedules, use of open educational resources (as defined in this notice), or other strategies that improve results and increase productivity. As mentioned, the NPP includes a definition of open educational resources: Open educational resources (OER) means teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use or repurposing by others. Interested parties may submit comments to the notice of proposed priorities until September 7, 2010. Information about how to submit a comment is described in the notice. -- 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 -- 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
[IAEP] Live Math 2.0 event with Alan Kay: Important Questions in Education Research, Saturday 2pm ET
*Important Questions in Education Research* [image: Viewpoints_Research_Institute.png] During the event, we will discuss the list of education research questions Alan Kay considers fundamental, ways questions can be addressed, and reasons why few researchers try. ** Login All Math 2.0 events are free and open to the public. Information about all events in the series is here: http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/events Saturday, August 7th 2010 we will meet in the LearnCentral public Elluminate room at 11am Pacific - 2pm Eastern time. *WorldClock for your time zone.http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8day=7year=2010hour=14min=0sec=0p1=207 * [image: webinar_buttons.png]https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?password=M.FCAF787B38E30D58F943EB7232EE27 *To join:* - Follow this link: *http://tinyurl.com/math20eventhttps://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?password=M.FCAF787B38E30D58F943EB7232EE27 * - Click OK and Accept several times as your browser installs the software. When you see Elluminate Session Log-In, enter your name and click the Login button - You will find yourself in a virtual room. An organizer will be there to greet you, starting about half an hour before the event. If this is your first Elluminate event, consider coming a few minutes earlier to check out the technology. The room opens half an hour before the event. Agenda During the event, we will discuss Alan's list of important questions in education research, and his vision of how to address the questions. Partial list of questions: - Should various levels of a child's society be able to choose some of what a child should learn? If so, what and why? - What kinds of learning are we going to try to help the child accomplish? Case-based recognition of situations, and actions to take? Deep understanding and fluency that resembles practitioners in a subject area? Etc. - What is the spectrum (or the dimensions) of children's abilities to learn a wide variety of subjects (e.g. from sports to physics)? - What is the similar spectrum (or dimensions) of internal and external motivations for putting effort into learning various subjects? - How can we ascertain what kinds of help are needed by the different kinds of children? - What are the trade-offs and pathways of teaching children how to learn vs. teaching subject matter? - What are the best kinds of situations/environmens/processes to help children learn difficult to learn ideas? ReferencesAlan Kay's reading list http://procod.com/preda/kay.html The Power Of The Context http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2004001_power.pdf - Alan Kay's tribute to his research community [image: pov-cover-smaller.png] Points of View: A Tribute to Alan Kay book http://vpri.org/pov/ Event Host *[image: Alan_Kay.jpg]Alan Kay* is one of the earliest pioneers of object-oriented programming, personal computing, and graphical user interfaces. His contributions have been recognized with the Charles Stark Draper Prize of the National Academy of Engineering “for the vision, conception, and development of the first practical networked personal computers,” the Alan M. Turing Award from the Association of Computing Machinery “for pioneering many of the ideas at the root of contemporary object-oriented programming languages, leading the team that developed Smalltalk, and for fundamental contributions to personal computing,” and the Kyoto Prize from the Inamori Foundation “for creation of the concept of modern personal computing and contribution to its realization.” This work was done in the rich context of ARPA and Xerox PARC with many talented colleagues. He has been a Xerox Fellow, Chief Scientist of Atari, Apple Fellow, Disney Fellow, and HP Senior Fellow. He is currently an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at UCLA. In 2001 he founded Viewpoints Research Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to children, learning and advanced systems research. http://www.vpri.org At Viewpoints Research Institute he and his colleagues continue to explore advanced systems and programming design by aiming for a “Moore’s Law” advance in software creation of many orders of magnitude. Kay and Viewpoints are also deeply involved in the One Laptop Per Child initiative. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Make Your Own Sugar Activities! in Spanish
Hi, as I said before I'm interested in help with the translation to Spanish. But I'm not quite sure about the mechanic of this job, I found this link: (http://translate.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/ActivitiesGuideSugar_es/WebHome) but I've to register, or what should I do?, tnks in advance. El 05/08/2010 02:13 p.m., Jennifer Martino escribió: Thanks for setting this up John and James! I have begun to translate a little, but look forward to seeing the contributions of others who have more technical knowledge than I do. This will be a great resource for the Latin American deployments (and others). Jennifer On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 2:44 PM, iaep-requ...@lists.sugarlabs.org wrote: Message: 1 Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 11:22:52 -0500 From: James Simmons nices...@gmail.com Subject: [IAEP] Fwd: [FM Discuss] Make Your Own Sugar Activities! in Spanish To: It's An Education Project List iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org, raf...@sugarlabs.org, Werner Westermann werne...@gmail.com, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com Message-ID: aanlktimezz4heo-4x9fwnmjmympczhv6-ao8qd4zw...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 John Curwood has set up MYOSA for translation into Spanish. I've created an account on the translation site to check everything out, and contrary to what I thought it is NOT a copy of the original book. Instead you can click on a translate link for each chapter and it shows you the original and the translated version side by side. You can also use an edit link which only shows the translated text. I don't speak Spanish so I won't be much help with the translation itself, but I'll try to make myself useful dealing with technical matters and answering questions on the original text. I've also subscribed to the book so I'll be notified when anyone updates the book. Again, in addition to registering at the site I'd recommend that you join the discuss mailing list for the site and monitor it. James Simmons ___ 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
