Re: [IAEP] Khan academy content
Instructional videos such as Khan Academy have a place, but we need to be aware of their limitations. The following blog post points some of these out with some good supporting examples. http://fnoschese.wordpress.com/2011/03/30/khan-academy-is-an-indictment-of-education/ Regards Roland On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 6:41 AM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi... When I first saw the Khan Academy videos, I didn't like them. They just seemed to be the traditional Sage on a Stage style of teaching not at all collaborative or constructionist. But then, I watched his TED talk ( http://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_reinvent_education.html ) and, now, I am a convert. Taken alone... forget it! But combined with his program of practice exercises and awards ( http://www.khanacademy.org/exercisedashboard ), the Khan Academy material is excellent! Also, teachers who flip their classes and use a collaborative setting in their classrooms should find a lot more time for individual student attention where needed. Students who get it right away can also re-enforce their learning by helping others. Better understanding and achievement for all students should be a logical result. Caryl Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 15:12:56 -0400 From: ndoi...@andrew.cmu.edu To: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Subject: Re: [IAEP] Khan academy content You can download around 1000 of the Khan Academy videos in OGV format (playable on XO laptops) from Archive.org Here's an English/Spanish index of relevant categories http://mapmeld.com/khan_categories.html If you're skeptical or haven't seen his videos, his talk sparked a great discussion about math education on Hacker News: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2307532 For more recent videos, including YouTube, there's this media guide: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/MediaGuide Regards, Nick Doiron On Mon, April 4, 2011 3:57 pm, Chris Leonard wrote: I haven't really looked into this, but I thought it might be of interest to some on the list. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/04/the-khan-academy-and-educ_n_8443 90.html http://www.khanacademy.org/ One might imagine these videos being stored on the School Server for local access. According to the page below it is all cc-by-sa https://sites.google.com/a/khanacademy.org/forge/home/mission-principles- and-values I was very happy to see this statement begin to translate the lessons into Arabic, Bengali, French, German, Hindi-Urdu, Indonesian, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish so they could be distributed globally. This page covers their localization process: http://www.khanacademy.org/contribute cjl ___ 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 An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- -- Roland Gesthuizen - eLearning Coordinator - Keysborough Secondary College Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has. --Margaret Mead ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] First day of Etoys class in Somerville
Caroline, Here is a Etoys Minute http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMDYf3_uovk video showing how to animate a mouth. FYI, I created the mouth images with the polygon tool (if you shift click on a polygon, you can see its handles) the circles in the handle let you move vertices and if you click on a green triangle you can add a vertice. From the menu in the polygon's Halo you can set the lines to curved. The project The Walkershttp://squeakland.org/showcase/project.jsp?id=7698 by P. A. Dreyfuss shows a great example of what you can do animating polygons. Note: this project uses some extra code in the polygon object, but it can be done in Etoys by simply placing each frame in a holder and animating that way. The advantage of using holders IMO is that the kids can see what's happening more easily. Also you may want to check Morphinghttp://www.squeakland.org/showcase/project.jsp?id=7112 by Kazuhiro Abe. I think kids will like this and at the appropriate time, with the appropriate guidance they could even write the morphing script themselves. But for now, they could simply re-use the script to create cool effects. Stephen On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.comwrote: Thanks Thomas thats incredibly helpful and I'll try these out tomorrow. On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Steve Thomas sthom...@gosargon.comwrote: Caroline, Your students asked: Etoys questions include: 1. How do we make a mouth that moves? When you first open Etoys click on the Gallery of Projects then in the second row, first item from the left is a Bouncing Ball Animation basically it behaves like flip animation (where you draw the different positions on the edge of each piece of paper and flip through the pages to animate). Have the kids make different drawings of the mouth and place each one in a Holder. Then open the Holder's viewer go to the collections category and you can iterate through the items in the Holder and set the Mouth graphic to the Holder's player at cursor graphic To get the Holder's player at cursor graphic tile you need to click on the - How do you control the placement of a speech/thought bubble. One girl made a very large heart with a face and the speech bubble appeared right at the top, it would look much better if it were over on the side and closer to the mouth. But I don’t see how to control how it is positioned. Unfortunately you can not control the placement. What you could do is grab an image of the speech bubble and move the grabbed image to a different spot. - How do you make moving eyes (from the object catalog)part of an object so when you move the object with a script the eyes move too? If you place the eyes on top of the object you want to embed them in, then get the halo for the eye and click on the menu icon (top row, second from left), then select embed and choose the name of the object you want to embed them in. OR get the Halo of the item to which you want to add eyes then from the menu icon enure accept drops is checked. Now anything you place on that object will be embedded in it. NOTE: you may want to turn off accept drops once done, also if you move an object (using the move icon, instead of the pick up icon from the Halo, it will not embed). - How do I control when a speech bubble appears and disappears. I seemed to be able to get it to appear fairly easily with the various options in the script but it then seemed to disappear again immediately. Hmmm, can you share an actual project when this happens? Usually to get a speech bubble to disappear I use the stop saying or thinking tile. not sure why it would disappear otherwise. I'll try and post an Etoys minute some time tomorrow night to show how these things can be done. Stephen On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: Report is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z2wFRkZPOxKpREA6sV1-XVdxjm7bC9jP50KWkdL6d64/edit?authkey=CP7cjcgLhl=en# We are working in a computer lab in a housing project in Somerville run by the Haitain Coalition of Somerville. We are using etoys to start with to help support collaboration between Waveplace and the Somerville Haitian Coalition. The students did very impressive work for the first day. We are using E-toys on a USB stick that works on both PC and Linux and hopefully mac in a day or two. The goal is to have it also automatically backup to dropbox. This currently works on XP, hopefully ubuntu will be next. We could use help from E-toys users. I have a bunch of how do I do this in E-toys questions in the report. We could use help in writing the backup script for ubuntu. Check out the report. It has nice screen shots. :) Thanks, Caroline -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax ___
[IAEP] Sugar Labs website: call for content: case studies
Dear Sugar Labs community members, As I mentioned in my last email, we're going to be narrowing our focus in our content requests for the Sugar Labs site redesign; starting with Case Studies. If you have any copies of Case Studies related to Sugar, any links or any references who may have links, please ping us back. Thanks in advance, - Mike DeVine ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Fundraiser for Replacing Textbooks project
I have set up a fundraiser, http://www.crowdrise.com/Replacetextbooks/ to raise $10,000 for a server and other expenses at Sugar Labs to create collaborative, interactive, digital textbook replacements for up to a billion children at a time. That's a million pennies, or a thousandth of a cent per child. There are of course significant other expenses in the overall program, mostly for buying computers to run Sugar and let students work with our digital materials and others. I estimate the total cost at $25 billion annually, to be provided by governments and aid agencies, mostly. When we succeed in getting rid of poverty and its associated ills, and bring the rest of the world up to the standard of the developed countries, that will add about $200 trillion to global GDP. Among the ills associated with poverty, especially the dire poverty of those living on $1 a day, or 50 cents a day, or less, are disease, death, helplessness, hopelessness, government corruption, oppression, and so on. What's it worth to you to put a dent in these problems, and get the children ready to finish the project and then tackle the next round of _hard_ problems? Can you pay forward, for those less fortunate, $10? $25? $50? More? Don't spam this message, but do pass it on where appropriate. -- 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
