Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Stanford Online Education Course
--- On Fri, 9/14/12, Yama Ploskonka yamap...@gmail.com wrote: From: Yama Ploskonka yamap...@gmail.com Subject: [support-gang] Stanford Online Education Course To: Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to help AT laptop.org support-g...@lists.laptop.org, iaep IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org, s...@lists.laptop.org Date: Friday, September 14, 2012, 1:30 AM (Sur: este mensaje en inglés, en referencia a los cursos de Stanford - copio a esta lista ya que hubo interes allí, aparte de la discusión en IAEP y SG) On 09/11/2012 12:39 PM, Samuel Klein wrote: Yama - please tell us more about that class and your project and team! And what did the teacher think of the class - is it going to be offered in the same way in the future? Did you as participants help suggest changes? SJ The main instructor (Chuck Eesley) actually used a blog as one of the main communication routes http://eesley.blogspot.com/ I did have some interaction with the teaching team, but little - contrary to my nature :-) I tried to take as little of their time as possible, being very aware that they probably could not afford to communicate much with me directly, as they had to spread themselves around. Actually, that brings us to the *medium*. This was no class with an instructor teaching (there were some videos at the core, but the learning didn't happen /there/). This was a /learning environment/, sort of the agricultural metaphor give them good soil, water, and they will grow to amaze you (my words). Experiential Education, Chuck calls it, and those of you that have suffered my pronunciamientos are probably familiar with my own repeated use of the term over the years - actually, Experiential Education is what I came to learn to the United States originally. That is certainly an interesting experience in hand-on learning. I can see the education/learning divide that OLPC/Sugarlabs discusses. Learn by doing. But each person in this virtual classroom did not come with the same education -- equal opportunity is what the internet provides better than real-life but somethings still need to be in place like skills of drive, motivation, reflection, cooperation, etc. You seem to have those. I do not know if signing up http://venture-lab.org/ allows you access the archives, you would see that the tools used were many, and all of them interactive. Highly impressed as I am, my deepest respects will go to Farnaz, who appears to have been our sysop. On the fly updates to the interface were done several times a week, and I only noticed one outage of less than 15 minutes during the several months. Now, it was evident that the organizers were learning as they went, there were several delays, changes in the schedule, and many, many complaints in the forums - followed by quick action and respectful response. I chose to see any inconvenience as reflecting reality of a startup progress. This class was so real, so connected with what a tech startup feels like, that very soon there was a blur, many of us wondering, 'is this a class or is it an actual tech startup?'. Fact is, were you to teach /anything/, it has to be /real/ to sink in. This was *REAL*. Thus it was *learning*, not make-believe as in education. The final insult :-) was that we were told with less than 24 hours the appointed time to pitch to a real investor (one that had been in one of the little videos that fed the class). Talk about the rubber meeting the road... At the beginning of the course there were a couple little projects. My take from those was that, if I were to be successful, I had to invest of myself. Thus, when time came to set up the real teams, I was very proactive. My strategy was to go for a big team - it paid off, though some people complained later. My reasoning was that, as you know about volunteers, :-), they burn out, they are busy, etc. Having many assured some would be available at any time. The original idea was mine, reduced-wires home automation, but soon it took life of its own, and I truly can say that International Living Systems ( http://15ils.com ) has developed the concept to they point that it completely belongs to the team. It was my choice to do something that is probably /not/ a good startup concept: make the team very international. At our max we had 30 people, in 17 different countries, 11 time zones. The FLOSS world is full of such diverse teams, so you knew about how they worked. It was a blast. Our listserv had a peak of several messages per minute when preparing one particular
[IAEP] [SLOBS] scheduling our next meeting
I forgot to send out a reminder about yesterday's meeting and thus we did not have a quorum. I'd like to try again early next week. How about Tuesday, 18 September at 17:00 EST, (21:00 UTC). Topics include our year-end summary for the SFC and Endangered Languages Project. 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
Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] scheduling our next meeting
+1 On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 7:57 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: I forgot to send out a reminder about yesterday's meeting and thus we did not have a quorum. I'd like to try again early next week. How about Tuesday, 18 September at 17:00 EST, (21:00 UTC). Topics include our year-end summary for the SFC and Endangered Languages Project. regards. -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ SLOBs mailing list sl...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/slobs ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Mañana Dia del Software Libre
Saludos a todos, Con motivo del Software Freedom Day, quiero invitarlos a todos, amigos y ciudadanos a celebrar con nosotros (en tu ciudad mas cercana) porque lo que hacemos, lo hacemos todos los días gracias a nuestra pasión compartida por la *libertad*, de entre cosas el software. slds, -- Laura V. ID SomosAZUCAR.Org Skype acaire IRC kaametza ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Ma�ana Dia del Software Libre, Tomorrow Software Freedom Day
Saludos, Greetings We are celebrating Software Freedom Day in Melbourne Australia 110 Grey Street East Melbourne from 10am, Saturday OLPC laptop demonstration, all day OLPC/Sugar talk at 11:45am Tony Saludos a todos, Con motivo del Software Freedom Day, quiero invitarlos a todos, amigos y ciudadanos a celebrar con nosotros (en tu ciudad mas cercana) porque lo que hacemos, lo hacemos todos los d�as gracias a nuestra pasi�n compartida por la *libertad*, de entre cosas el software. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Need Help! Unable to Update XO-1s for Project in Rural Montana
Hi Folks, I'm sure someone else has had this problem before and that it has been solved, but, I am completely stumped at the moment and need a little assistance. I haven't a clue where to look since I have already looked all the places I thought the answers would be. The teacher who was going to use the XOs at Arrowhead elementary school in rural MT last year went out on maternity leave and the machines were stored in a locked cupboard for about 8-9 months. When I picked them up to check them over and update the software, I found that both the battery and the clock battery were completely discharged. I could not do a regular update. They were looking for Mesh networks and had all sorts of crazy dates. The updates failed, but the old software remained. So for one of the machines I went to the OLPC wiki and followed these instructions: 1) Downloaded and updated the Firmware to Q2E46, which is the one that 12.1.0 installs when it does an update. 2) I went into Terminal and set the clock to the correct utc time as the wiki suggests. 3) Then I tried to reflash using the file downloaded from the wiki for 21012.o0 as suggested on the wiki (this wouldn't work at all before updating the firmware). It appeared to install the software correctly, but at the end of the process, it went only to the XO man surrounded by the ring of dots. It never did get to the setup with naming and choosing colors and the like. If I do a force-quit (the only thing available) and then restart, it stalls in the same place. There are 10 of these XO-1s in the set and I need to get them updated this weekend, if possible. A young couple… brand new teachers, wants to use them at the same school this year. He will be teaching middle school science and math and is very excited about using them with his science classes. His wife teaches elementary music and a K/1 combo class. She wants to try Tam Tam and some of the nice programs for beginning readers. I just need a little suggestion about what to try next. I thought I had this figured out, but I was wrong! I look forward to your replies and suggestions! BTW, these are XO-1s. Caryl ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] scheduling our next meeting
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 07:57:27AM -0400, Walter Bender wrote: I forgot to send out a reminder about yesterday's meeting and thus we did not have a quorum. I'd like to try again early next week. How about Tuesday, 18 September at 17:00 EST, (21:00 UTC). Fine for me. Topics include our year-end summary for the SFC and Endangered Languages Project. regards. -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ SLOBs mailing list sl...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/slobs -- Aleksey ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
