[IAEP] Fwd: The Computer-Based Math Education Summit
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Michael Belcher i...@computerbasedmath.org Date: Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:44 Subject: The Computer-Based Math Education Summit To: echer...@gmail.com Thank you for supporting computerbasedmath.org. I wanted to let you know about the first Computer-Based Math Education Summit taking place 10-11 November 2011 at The Royal Institution, London. We're bringing together a broad range of stakeholders in math and STEM--real users of math, employers, and those in government as well as educators and technology providers--to answer this question: In an era of ubiquitous computing, how should we rebuild math education from the ground up, to keep pace with and drive progress in the real world? Would you like to join us? As a supporter of computerbasedmath.org, we're very interested in inviting you. For more and to register your interest, please visit: http://www.computerbasedmath.org/events/londonsummit2011 I sincerely hope you will be able to join us and I look forward to seeing you in November. Regards, Michael Belcher PS: If you know of anyone else who you think could contribute to this event, please let me know. - If you wish to change the email address we have on file for you, please go to: http://www.wolfram.com/emailchange/?email=echer...@gmail.commid=WR2306370 If you wish to be removed from the Wolfram Research mailing list, please go to: http://www.wolfram.com/unsubscribe/?email=echer...@gmail.commid=WR2306370 - This message was sent to echer...@gmail.com by Wolfram Research, Inc. Mailing address: 100 Trade Center Dr., Champaign, IL 61820, USA -- 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://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Fwd: Fractions - OER Project - Day ~4
We started a private discussion, and decided to share it. -- Forwarded message -- From: Steve Thomas sthom...@gosargon.com Date: Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 16:11 Subject: Re: Fractions - OER Project - Day ~4 To: Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com Cc: Valerie Taylor vtay...@gmail.com, Randy Caton rca...@cnu.edu, Peter Hewitt p...@mulawa.net, doncohenmath...@gmail.com IAEP list is fine. (FYI, this is a blanket statement you can apply to all future requests) Stephen On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: Would it be alright to take this discussion onto the IAEP list? On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 15:29, Valerie Taylor vtay...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Steve Looks good. This can be used in many settings across a broad range of applications in all grade levels. Lots of room for exploration. I'm new to this process. I'm not a programmer (although I was in a former life). I am really interested in OLPC, Activities, and changing education. I work with educators using technology to support teaching and learning. Is it possible to demonstrate or run web-based subsets of these (or other activities)? Yes. we have several ways to generate HTML from programs. Scratch can produce multimedia presentations. I would like to learn and then help other educators learn about the underlying framework by seeing activities in action. Most of the existing XO teacher training materials start with 1. install Sugar if it isn't in your Linux distribution and download the current version of ... Yikes! Most educators need to know a lot more about what it can do before taking on serious hardware and software projects. Your video helped but it still starts way too far into the process for most educators. I'm planning to create some documents that start from an educator perspective and leave most of the technical stuff until folks are really sold that this is an interesting and important way to teach and learn. ..Valerie On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Steve Thomas sthom...@gosargon.com wrote: Here is my blog post on a fraction artifact I have been working on our project. Randy also came up with a great project, will blog about it soon. Let's try to have a https://join.me/ conference to talk and share ideas. I can meet for an hour between 12-1 EST M-F (except Thursday). Please let me know what works for you. Thanks, Stephen -- 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://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks -- 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://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [squeakland] Call for Posters and Demonstrations: Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing
Turtle Art would be great for this, especially my version with icons instead of words on the blocks. Unfortunately, I am not in a position to do a presentation. On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:27, Yoshiki Ohshima yosh...@vpri.org wrote: At Fri, 10 Jun 2011 09:27:03 -0700, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: Hello, There is a symposium called Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing (VL/HCC). They are looking for posters and demos, including graphical educational systemss such as Etoys. If anybody interested in showing such systems, please submit applications. -- Yoshiki Sorry, I forgot to include the link: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~vlhcc2011/submitting/posters-demos/ -- Yoshiki ___ squeakland mailing list squeakl...@squeakland.org http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland -- 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://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [squeakland] Etoys Video's for Khan Academy
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 14:47, karl ramberg karlramb...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 12:37 AM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: I have a page at Sugar Labs called The Undiscoverable, which mentions Etoys but does not give many details. I would like help filling it in. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/The_Undiscoverable http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/The_Undiscoverable/Etoys A couple Holders act as collections Variable types Would you add those to the page with your comments on why they are Undiscoverable and what hints would help? I looked at http://projecteuler.net/ and thought it is a step in the right direction, One can use Etoys to achieve solve these problem, Without a goal it's easy to loose focus and see tutorials as they come without context. With a goal in mind a tutorial can help you achieve that goal Karll -- 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://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Curriculum and learning resources
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 18:31, Kenneth Wyrick k...@caltek.net wrote: great to hear about waveplace activities and plans. i'm in the process of joining the ranks of the olpc movement, here in SoCal Welcome. October 2010 I finally created http://teknowledgy.org which is a box colocated here in LA at http://calpop.com where I'm developing curriculum and learning resources for various floss related projects in a business context of entrepreneurship In my capacities as author and editor at FLOSS Manuals, and Project Manager for Replacing Textbooks at Sugar Labs, I would like to find out more about your curriculum and learning resources, and see whether we can work together. What do you have now, and what do you plan to create? Who are the target users? What licenses do you publish under? -- 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://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [FM Discuss] Español - Spanish / Traducciones - Translations
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 18:47, ana.cichero ana.cich...@gmail.com wrote: #you can find at the bottom an english copy of this email Below you will see an English translation of this message. Hola, El material que se produce para olpc está la mayoría en inglés y la mayoría de los usuarios hablan español. Cuando hablamos de usuarios adultos, sobre todo habituados al uso de internet esto no es un inconveniente. Pero, cuando hablamos de niños las traducciones tal y como las resuelve por ejemplo google ( al día de hoy porque es evidente que el sistema mejora cada día ) son inadecuadas para la formación en el dominio de la lengua propia que es clave de la formación de la inteligencia del niño. El vínculo entre dominio de la propia lengua e inteligencia, que no tiene porqué ser evidente para el que no tiene estudios sobre aprendizaje, pueden chequearlo en cualquier manual. Todas las teorías coinciden al respecto, usar mal las preposiciones o tiempos verbales, es como aprender mal a hacer las cuentas, deja secuelas cognitivas negativas. En olpc-sur veo varios interesados que se ofrecen a traducir inglés a español, les pido que tengan en cuenta esta distinción cuando se trate de usuarios niños con su propio idioma en formación. En iaep se ven muchas iniciativas en inglés que serían muy útiles en español, les pido a esos productores, que busquen traductores en las listas hispanas en el inicio de los proyectos. La traducción bien hecha lleva muchas horas y la documentación de tecnología es pan caliente. En discuss ( la lista de FLOSS Manuals) se habla de levantar es.flossmanuals.net -con soporte de tildes y eñes--, pido a la comunidad sugar que apoye esta iniciativa para poder publicar ahí varios de los documentos que veo que están en buen curso. Saludos. Hello, Most of the material produced for olpc is in English but most users speak Spanish. When it comes to adult users, particularly accustomed to using the Internet this is not a problem. But when we speak of children google- translations for example (despite is evident that the system is improving every day) are still inadequate for training kids in the domain of their language which is key to the formation of child's intelligence. But for children, Google Translate (despite evidence that it improves every day) is still inadequate for training kids in their own language, which is crucial to the formation of the child's intelligence. The link between control of one's own language and intelligence, which need not be evident for whom has no studies on learning, can be checked in any manual. All theories agree in this respect, using wrong prepositions or wrong verb tenses, is like learning to do your first maths wrong, and has negative cognitves consequences . The link between control of one's own language and [effective] intelligence, which may not be evident to those who have not studied the subject, can be verified in many sources. All theories agree in this respect, that using prepositions or verb tenses incorrectly is like learning to do arithmetic incorrectly, with negative cognitive consequences. In olpc-sur i see volunteers offering themselves for translating English to Spanish, I ask you to keep in mind this distinction when it comes to little users that are still learning their own language. In OLPC-Sur I see volunteers offering to translate from English to Spanish. I ask you to keep this distinction in mind concerning little users who are still learning their own language. I see In IAEP many initiatives in English than in Spanish would be very useful, I encourage those producers seeking translators in spanish speaking lists at the start of projects. Well done translations take many hours and documentation on technology is like hotcakes. In IAEP I see many initiatives that would be very useful in Spanish. I encourage developers to seek out translators on Spanish-speaking mailing lists at the beginning of their projects. Well done translations take many hours, and documentation on technology is like bread hot from the oven. [Well worth the effort to get it just right.] In discuss (the list of FLOSS Manuals) I read they intend to set es.flossmanuals.net --with proper accents and ñ character--- , I ask you all ( sugar communities ) to support this initiative, so we are able to publish there all the papers that are in good progress. In FM-Discuss, the FLOSS Manuals mailing list, I read that they intend to set up es.flossmanuals.net, with proper accents and the letter ñ. I ask all Sugar communities to support this initiative, so that we are able to publish all of the finished documents there. [The same is also true of the Sugar Labs Replacing Textbooks project, which uses the same FM booki software.] Greetings. (I apology for probable language mistakes)
Re: [IAEP] [Argentina] [Sur] Planet Sugarlabs Latinoamerica
I could assist, but I can't take on another whole project, even part time. On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:47, Bernie Innocenti ber...@sugarlabs.org wrote: [cc += iaep] On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 11:43 -0400, Edward Cherlin wrote: Is there a way for a reader to filter the feed, to get just entries in Spanish? Can we add an automatic translation button? Would anybody be willing to commit to some amount of translation in either direction? The planet is looking for a committed editor who would: 1. Process syndication requests, checking that the new feed contains only articles relevant to Sugar, Sugar activities or deployments using Sugar: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sysadmin/Planet_syndication_request 2. Contact the owners of dead feeds and possibly drop them: http://planet.sugarlabs.org/validate.html 3. Promote quality, not quantity. Sometimes, feed owners think it's cool to tag stories about their personal life as sugar. I usually write them in private to remind them that they have to stay on topic. 4. Refresh the visual look of the Planet. The current CSS is just dreadful and need to be redesigned or replaced altogether. 5. We probably need to add a separate feed for content in Spanish. I don't believe in automated translations, but maybe we could provide a link which goes through Google Translator. 6. Improve the software. We're currently using a simple RSS aggregator called Planet Venus, which is easy to deploy and customize, but lacks advanced features. 7. As with any other volunteer position in our community, remember to step down responsibly when you no longer have time to contribute. Until we appoint a new Planet Master, I occasionally dedicate some time to maintain the planet, but I don't consider myself a proper editor. -- Bernie Innocenti Sugar Labs Infrastructure Team http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Infrastructure_Team -- 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://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Raspberry Pi (was Fwd: [Sur] linux system por $25)
FYI. Anybody who would like to port Sugar to a $25 computer (requiring only monitor, mouse, and keyboard) should contact Eben, and let us know too. -- Forwarded message -- From: Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com Date: Sat, May 21, 2011 at 22:10 Subject: Re: [Sur] linux system por $25 To: Eben Upton eben.up...@gmail.com On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 12:22, Eben Upton eben.up...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Edward Thanks for your mail, and apologies for the delay in replying. The devices should be available to the general public later in the year; I'll add you to our mailing list, and will keep you posted as we get closer to launch. Thank you. We've heard of Sugar, but need to find out more about it. Do you think it's suitable for a machine with limited processing power and only 256MB of RAM? That's what it was designed for. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Hardware_specifications AMD Geode 433 Mhz processor 256M RAM Fedora Linux http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Getting_Started http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities Cheers Eben Upton Director, Raspberry Pi Foundation Follow us @Raspberry_Pi on Twitter On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: Your Web site asks Do you have open-source educational software we can use? The answer is Yes. Sugar education software runs on a variety of Linux distributions, including Ubuntu. It is currently in the hands of more than 2 million children. We plan to develop, manufacture and distribute an ultra-low-cost computer, for use in teaching computer programming to children. Sugar includes Python and Smalltalk (Etoys). One Laptop Per Child XO computers also run Open Firmware, written in FORTH, and including the complete FORTH development library, the editor, and an assembler. OFW is available for systems based on ARM processors. The Sugar Labs Replacing Textbooks project, which I started recently, will include a variety of materials for teaching programming and Computer Science, and for applying those languages to every school subject. We have compiled a list of successful projects for teaching programming in the elementary grades, including projects using Python, Smalltalk, Logo, LISP, BASIC, and APL. The real question is one that Seymour Papert asked in 1970: Can we design an environment in which children learn math and programming languages as readily as they learn human languages, largely from each other? Some of us think so, and we are working on it. I will be happy to answer further questions, or to direct you to those who know more about some aspects of Sugar than I. -- Forwarded message -- From: Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com Date: Fri, May 6, 2011 at 11:28 Subject: Re: [Sur] linux system por $25 To: OLPC para usuarios, docentes, voluntarios y administradores olpc-...@lists.laptop.org Cc: Gleducar gledu...@gleducar.org.ar http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/marketing/2011-May/003273.html On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Daniel Ajoy da.a...@gmail.com wrote: linux system por $25 http://www.raspberrypi.org/ ___ Lista olpc-Sur olpc-...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sur -- 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://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Fwd: [Womeninfreesoftware] [x-post] Fwd: pseudo-summer of code (paid)
FYI. -- Forwarded message -- From: ॥ स्वक्ष ॥ v...@svaksha.com Date: Sat, May 21, 2011 at 01:45 Subject: [Womeninfreesoftware] [x-post] Fwd: pseudo-summer of code (paid) To: Discussion re: increasing women's participation in free software womeninfreesoftw...@gnu.org, ilug-bengal...@googlegroups.com Hi, Two Internship positions:: first preference is for local (in USA) person, but if no local people submit a competitive application they will work with people outside the USA. The Stack:: Perl, Javascript, BASH, SQL. And do note that the last date for application is next week, so feel free to pass the word around. -Vid -- Forwarded message -- We ( http://thecsl.org ) have also suffered a bit of disappointment this summer. As an organization, we were rejected for official GSOC this summer. However, we raised $5,000 on our own. Google was kind enough to match that. We have two pseudo GSOC positions. Application procedure below: http://wiki.thecsl.org/mediawiki/index.php/Pseudo_GSOC ___ womeninfreesoftware mailing list womeninfreesoftw...@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/womeninfreesoftware -- 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. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [OLPC-SF] Partnering with OLPC
I am copying my reply to the It's An Education Project and OLPC-SUR mailing lists of Sugar Labs. I recommend that your staff and members take a look at the archives of these lists, and consider whether to join them. http://lists.sugarlabs.org/ On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 12:44, Evan Markiewicz emarkiew...@sbcglobal.net wrote: To whom it may concern, I am writing to introduce you to our organization, ViviendasLeon. We are a non-profit community development and global education organization based in San Francisco and Leon, Nicaragua. We work in rural communities creating development programs in construction, environmental, economic, capacity building and education development. We have recently been informed of your organization by a teacher in San Rafael who knows of your organization OLPC and recommended we contact you. We are delighted to hear from you. I would like to know how we might partner with OLPC to provide computer training and equipment for the pre-school through 11th grade students in the communities we work in, and for small business start ups we develop in Nicaragua. OLPC provides XO laptops running Sugar education software through governments and NGOs. It commonly happens that people in a particular country get together over the Internet to work on such projects. In your case, this is http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Nicaragua Sugar Labs has just begun a project to produce learning materials for free distribution. If you tell us your requirements, and introduce us to your trainers, we can work together using our Replacing Textbooks server. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks ViviendasLeon partners with other organizations and institutions to provide the spectrum of development programs we offer in Nicaragua. One of these partners is the USF School of Business. We have been working with the PSIP program there for 3 years to develop small businesses including a sewing cooperative and our current project, a bee keeping cooperative. These small businesses in particular, and like everything we do in Nicaragua is a laboratory to explore best practices in development and implementation of projects uniquely suited to the location and community. I am of the opinion that creating businesses through microfinance and other methods is a critical factor for the success of the OLPC education project's mission to end poverty. I would be delighted to discuss this with your partners. We would be interested to find out how we might work with you. There are several possibilities. Obviously, OLPC is most interested in getting XO laptops with Sugar software into schools. Can you tell us how many schools you have in and near Leon, with how many teachers and students? We can then discuss what it would cost for such a program, including XOs, electricity, Internet connections, school servers, training, and so on, and consider how to raise the funds needed. If any of your schools have any computers, we can show you how to get Sugar software running on them, and discuss how you could use it. We are in need of help to translate software and other materials into Spanish, and to translate Spanish-language teacher training materials into English. Do you have any contacts within the Nicaraguan Ministry of Education? What is the political climate around education? How is the economy doing? How do you choose communities to work in? How are your relations with local leaders? I will have many more questions after you answer those. ^_^ Regards, Evan -- Evan Markiewicz Executive Director ViviendasLeón Sustaining Communities Connecting Cultures 1585 Folsom St. San Francisco, CA 94103 (415) 255-2920 (415) 255-2921 fax e...@viviendasleon.org www.viviendasleon.org ___ OLPC-SF mailing list olpc...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sf -- 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. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Systems] Contacts for the Getting Involved wiki page
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 23:02, Bernie Innocenti ber...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Dogi noticed that the contacts for joining Sugar Labs appear to be obsolete: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Getting_Involved We have: * Educator - carol...@sugarlabs.org * Content Writer - no contact * People's Person - dfarn...@sugarlabs.org * Designer - sd...@sugarlabs.org * Developer - no contact * Translator - no contact I'll take content and translation, which I have been doing for some time. I don't have my Sugar Labs e-mail address yet. The request is in the queue somewhere. So I'll use my EarthTreasury address. Done. That leaves us lacking a developer contact. I'm not taking it. ^_^ I only recruit developers for specific projects, where I have some idea of what I am doing, and what I am asking them to do. Now that we have an RT system, we could route these to an administrative contact such as j...@sugarlabs.org. Before we create this, are there volunteers who would like to process the queue? We could also have multiple queues, one per section. We can easily create 1000 email accounts and RT queues, but the hard part is finding responsible people who commit to reply within a reasonable amount of time (2 business days is usually acceptable). -- Bernie Innocenti Sugar Labs Infrastructure Team http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Infrastructure_Team ___ Systems mailing list syst...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/systems -- 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] Getting started in localization (was Re: [Olpc-open] volunteer translators needed)
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 10:01, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: Hi Tim and Beth, We are training a group of volunteers from the Haitian Coalition in Etoys tomorrow. We have some practice at teaching Etoys at this point. How/what would you like me to teach them about translating? What is the minimum they need to know to start helping you? I wrote this in the Wiki when I first started recruiting localizers for Haiti and Cambodia. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Localization#Getting_started There is other useful information on that page. Please add what you learn from this experience, and tell everybody Mèsi nan men m 'ak nan chak grenn timoun ayisyen. Thanks, Caroline On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Timothy Falconer tee...@waveplace.org wrote: Hi partners and friends, We're looking for a little help with our Waveplace courseware. We're hoping to get it all translated into: Haitian Creole French Spanish Portuguese Our funds are limited, so I wanted to know if you have any volunteers who could possibly help in this effort. Our courseware is located at http://wiki.waveplace.org/display/wp/Courseware. So far, the lessons we have finished are: General--Basic Etoys (needs outlines and projects translated) Language Arts--Storytelling (needs outlines translated) Mathematics--Geometry (needs outlines and projects translated) Science-- Motion (needs projects translated) Health-- Clean water (unfinished but can translate what projects are finished) Health-- Malaria (unfinished but can outlines in the meantime) Technology--Sugar (needs outlines translated) As you can see, it's a bit of work. Many things are already translated into Haitian Creole, but not everything. Please let me know if you can offer any help to us! Thanks so much! -- Timothy Falconer Waveplace Foundation http://waveplace.org + 1 610 797 3100 x33 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax ___ Olpc-open mailing list olpc-o...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open -- 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] Fwd: Sugar Lab
Noy Shoung says he has about a hundred Cambodians ready and willing to work on localization and translation projects, for which he will be Administrator/Project Manager/Training Manager/whatever. I am blogging a bit more information, which will appear shortly on Planet Sugar. More news to follow. -- Forwarded message -- From: Noy Shoung noysho...@gmail.com Date: Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:35 Subject: Sugar Lab To: ខ្មែរជុំឡា khmerjoomla.org khmerjoo...@googlegroups.com, khme...@googlegroups.com, khmerfoss khmerf...@googlegroups.com Cc: Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com Dear all members and colleagues I am very proud of Edward Cherlin, who is always trying to help education tools for children around the world for example OLPC, Sugar Localization project FLOSS Manuals Textbook replacing etc Please help to make it happen by contributing your time here http://translate.flossmanuals.net http://translate.sugarlabs.org/km/ http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks If you need any help please contact me directly or contact Edward in this cc copy email Your value time and input, hard work will credit forever, Best regards Noy -- Noy Shoung POOR CAN HELP, BUT LAZY CAN'T HELP Phnom Penh, Cambodia skype: noyshoung mobile +855-1771- email noysho...@gmail.com GOD WILL HELP YOU IF YOU HELP YOURSELF -- 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] Fwd: [learningfromeachother] Qato platform for knowledge sharing; Africa?
Does anybody here know about Qato? Does anybody know of a Free Software alternative? Math Future has some interest in the Sugar Labs Replacing Textbooks project, but has not grasped the importance of Free Software in all phases of the work. -- Forwarded message -- From: m...@ms.lt Date: Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:51 Subject: [learningfromeachother] Qato platform for knowledge sharing; Africa? To: learningfromeachot...@yahoogroups.com Cc: droujk...@gmail.com, pam54...@googlemail.com Pamela, I saw this letter by Maria Droujkova and I thought of you. Maria leads Math Future, http://www.naturalmath.com which is an organic and extensive community of math educators and students, online and locally. This might give you ideas how technology is developing and may become relevant for your online workspace http://www.dadamac.net I also introduce you to Maria in case she has projects that link up with Africa, especially Nigeria. Andrius Kulikauskas, m...@ms.lt --- http://groups.google.com/group/mathfuture/ I am happy to announce Math Future received a corporate sponsorship offer from DZone, a technology publishing company. We will now have an instance of their new, enterprise-class platform for knowledge sharing, called Qato. This answers to the needs of Math Future as a network of communities. Consider the network structure of Math Future, which I won't attempt to diagram because of multiple dimensions. It consists of groups with dense connections (everybody talking with everybody), but also more loose and distributed conversations among the groups, as well as some communities with distributed conversations within. Between groups formed by projects, communities and topics of interest, there is much overlap, as people participate in multiple threads. Groups may be long-term, such as the math game group, or short-term, such as School of the Math Future courses that run for a few weeks. The are also flash mobs that get together around a one-time topic. It is frustrating trying to have that sort of communication through a forum structure, such as email groups, as many of you noted. When people communicate, they need to subscribe to multiple groups and topics, but not all of them: following a book making or a book review group, a seminar, a presentation discussion, a brainstorm about a math game, and so on. Larger topics and groups need to form sub-topics and sub-groups, which in turn may not involve everybody. Some of the groups involved with Math Future use our webinar room for their one-time or regular meetings, which any project organizer is welcome to do as long as meetings are open. This is supported by Web 2.0 Labs and LearnCentral (Steve Hargadon) sponsorship. During the events, as we ask project leaders The Question, What does your project need and how can people help? their answers involve spreading the word and aggregating communication. Some of the projects don't have any social platforms, or only have email lists, though leaders usually participate in other projects' communities. Currently, Math Future members help with such needs by hand, so to speak, through email or their blogs and microblogs. This is better than nothing, but it does not scale well. Qato supports Quora-like interface, but also groups and subgroups within the community. People can follow particular groups for ongoing collaborations, and tags for inter-group communication, and individual topics for one-time discussions. This architecture will allow us to support the book projects, conferences, and mathematics education communities much better, because it matches the way Math Future rolls. Excited and hopeful, Maria Droujkova Make math your own, to make your own math. Each letter sent to Learning From Each Other enters the PUBLIC DOMAIN unless it explicitly states otherwise http://www.ethicalpublicdomain.org Please be kind to our authors!Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/learningfromeachother/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/learningfromeachother/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: learningfromeachother-dig...@yahoogroups.com learningfromeachother-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: learningfromeachother-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ -- 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] [Research] new subscriber intro - looking for partner to evaluate our program
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 23:07, jbalc...@laptopstolesotho.org wrote: Edward, Thanks for your input. A pleasure. My replies follow __ Edward: I would also suggest that you use the Free Software/Open Source approach of publishing all of your materials and letting the community work with them, try to improve them, test them, and so on. The new, in testing, not quite yet public Replacing Textbooks server at Sugar Labs is available for hosting training materials in addition to Free digital textbook replacements, or Open Education Resources (OER). Janissa: We plan to make all our materials public. I wasn't sufficiently explicit. I mean not only public, but under a Creative Commons or similar license, preferably permitting reuse, improvement, translation, and republication with credit but without having to get explicit permission. Anything we create here in the U.S. for the school will be posted; however, it is very difficult for the teachers in Lesotho to post materials they have created because there is no affordable internet service available in the area. When we visit the school later this year, we will make copies of anything they have created and will post it for them. Sneakernet (originally with floppy disks) is an ancient and venerable tradition in the computer community. Will the OER/free digital texbooks be provided in a format that can be downloaded on a flash drive rather than used interactively online? It is our intention to make materials that can be used on an XO, and in Sugar on any other platform, and in many cases that means PDFs and other public document formats that can be used anywhere on anything. __ Edward: Are you familiar with Sarvodaya in Sri Lanka? Your methods are somewhat similar. Janissa: I am not familiar with Sarvodaya, but I will check her/him out. Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement http://www.sarvodaya.org/ __ Edward: Did you record any of those meetings? Such recordings would be of inestimable value to researchers and to other instructional designers. Janissa: No, we did not record the meetings other than just taking notes. I think having an audio or video recorder present might have inhibited the process too much. It was hard enough as it was to get the teachers to talk, express opinions, and make decisions. There was A LOT of cajoling involved. Understood. Perhaps they will at some point become comfortable with students recording them using XOs, or they can record each other. __ Edward: Is your solar power system design public? Janissa: It was designed by the Bethel Community Development and Business Center in Lesotho. I will check with them about making the design public. Thank you. Illinois Institute of Technology is doing another design for schools with XOs in Haiti, and there are others. I encourage organizations doing this to get together and share expertise. __ Edward: I would be very interested to see a comparison of your results with a one-to-one deployment. There are many other experiment designs of interest. Janissa: We had originally hoped to have a one-to-one ratio, but financial constraints prevented that. We thought we would still work toward that goal eventually, but the community has over-ridden us. They would prefer that we expand to other schools rather than try to reach a one-to-one ratio at the school we are currently working with. The situation could definitely make for some interesting comparisons, if the research is set up properly. It would require some care to control for a variety of variables. We can discuss that when we get some experiment designers involved. __ Edward: I don't have the resources of a researcher, and Sugar Labs is not a research group. But as a Sugar Labs Project Manager, I would be very interested in following your research, and suggesting some research directions. Janissa: I would love to get any suggestions you or others have. I'm completely new to this role and am feeling my way as I go, so any help is greatly appreciated. I know some people we should talk to. I'll ask some of them individually. To begin with, we should talk to the Sugar Labs It's-An-Education-Project mailing list. I have copied them on this. -- 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] An article on the Sugar Labs, published by Framablog (France)
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 16:59, samy boutayeb s.bouta...@free.fr wrote: L'expérience Sugar Labs préfigure-t-elle une révolution éducative du XXIe siècle ? http://www.framablog.org/index.php/post/2011/04/13/sugar-labs-education-walter-bender Oui, assurément. Les ordinateurs coûtent maintenant moins cher que les manuels imprimés. Nous pouvons améliorer l'éducation tout en économisant de l'argent, et en même temps donner aux étudiants l'accès les unes à les autres autour du monde. Je suis en train de créer un projet, Remplacement des Manuels Scolaire, c'est-a-dire créer Ressources Educatives Ouvertes (Open Education Resources/OERs) pour tout les pays, pour tout les sujets, a tout les nivels d'age, en tout les langues necessaires. Nous utilisons la logiciel booki de FLOSS Manuals pour l'écriture, édition, publication, traduction, et le remixage. Yes, assuredly, Computers cost less now than printed manuals. We can improve education while saving money, and at the same time give students access to each other around the world. I am in the process of creating a project, Replacing Textbooks, that is, creating Open Education Resources/OERs for every country, for all subjects, at every age level, in every language required. We are using the booki software from FLOSS Manuals for writing, editing, publishing, translating, and remixing. Voir http://www.wsis-community.org/mod/groups/topicposts.php?topic=118512group_guid=14358 Community discussion OER Economics for a billion children http://www.crowdrise.com/Replacetextbooks/ Fundraiser: Replace Textbooks Naturellement, nous avons besoin de traducteurs de l'anglais, l'espagnol et autres langues vers le français pour tous les pays dont la langue d'instruction est le français, et du français vers les autres langues du pays, comme Kinyarwanda en Rwanda, ou le kreyòl ayisyen en Haïti. (J'ai été l'administrateur de localisation initiale de créole haïtien Naturally, we need translators from English, Spanish, and other languages to French for all of the countries where the language of instruction is French, and from French to the other languages of the country, such as Kinyarwanda in Rwanda, or Kreyòl Ayisyen in Haiti. (I was the first localization administrator for Haitian Creole.) -- 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] Proposal for an interactive introduction tutorial to Sugar
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 16:40, Erick Lavoie erick.lav...@gmail.com wrote: Following the work we have done on Tutorius in the last year, I would suggest having an interactive introduction tutorial to Sugar that would be presented to the user on the first login screen and in the option menu. The basic outline of the tutorial would be to present the Frame, the different Views, the Journal and finally the Browse and Write activities in a single tour of the Sugar learning platform. Good idea. I have been working from the opposite end, on a project anchored on the Wiki page http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/The_Undiscoverable which documents the known mysteries of Sugar and a book I call Discovering Discovery http://booki.treehouse.su/discovering-discovery/ intended to guide users on finding out as much as they can themselves, and giving hints or outright procedural guidance only where necessary. Perhaps we can bring these two approaches together. The current site is intended for shaking down the booki software and rewriting pages until we can take it live as a Sugarlabs subdomain. You would be welcome to host the project there, or if you prefer, just link to your site. A more complete description of the proposal, including Mockups, a feasibility discussion and a tentative roadmap, is presented here: http://tutorius.org/blog/tutorius-integration-proposal-for-sugar-090/ Thanks. Comments and questions from the community are welcomed! Regards, Erick ___ 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] Fwd: Proposal for an interactive introduction tutorial to Sugar
Got away from me. Weird keyboard effects. On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 20:05, Yamandu Ploskonka yamap...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Walter, sound familiar? Erick, I've been pushing for this for several years already. It is IMHO a *BIG* need, and I congratulate you for having advanced much further that I did. IMHO what has prevented this getting prioritized is that it goes against the grain of MIT design, of simple, minimalist look and feel for the whole project. OTOH, I guess that now that it actually has a roadmap and all, it might have a chance. Very busy right now, but at least I'll mark this as important and try to drop by later. Yama, I'm running the Replacing Textbooks subproject. I don't have anything to do with MIT, and as you know I don't care about anybody's cultural limitations. You are welcome to start any project you like there, as soon as I can get the site live. On 03/07/2010 03:40 PM, Erick Lavoie wrote: Following the work we have done on Tutorius in the last year, I would suggest having an interactive introduction tutorial to Sugar that would be presented to the user on the first login screen and in the option menu. The basic outline of the tutorial would be to present the Frame, the different Views, the Journal and finally the Browse and Write activities in a single tour of the Sugar learning platform. A more complete description of the proposal, including Mockups, a feasibility discussion and a tentative roadmap, is presented here: http://tutorius.org/blog/tutorius-integration-proposal-for-sugar-090/ Comments and questions from the community are welcomed! Regards, Erick ___ 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 -- 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/ -- 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] [Sur] [Localization] Traducciones de Sugar al español
2011/4/12 Carlos Rabassa car...@mac.com: English translation follows Spanish original Gonzalo, Hernán, Ana, estoy parcialmente de acuerdo con cada uno de ustedes a pesar de que sus opiniones parecen contradictorias. Nos guste o no, el lenguaje de los programadores, desarrolladores y muchas otras actividades en el campo de la informática, es el Inglés. Negar este hecho es cerrarse las puertas y cerrárselas a los jóvenes estudiantes, que tendrán dificultad para acceder a lo que se produce fuera de Uruguay. Son ideas que conducen a aislar el país en un mundo que, nos guste o no, es globalizado. Pienso que los que desean estudiar informática en serio tienen que estudiar Inglés aún más en serio y muy rápido. Traducir programas, manuales y otras cosas es necesario hoy, cuando muchos no pueden leer el Inglés. Pero esa ayuda tan interesante, útil y generosa, no es la solución del problema básico. Las traducciones las veo como las muletas que usan los que se rompieron una pierna. No se rehusan a ir a un hospital a que se la arreglen. Tan pronto como pueden se hacen arreglar la pierna rota. Usan las muletas nada más que mientras el arreglo que les hizo el médico en el hospital surte su efecto y la pierna se les cura. Y por el momento, hay que traducir, si deseamos que todos lean lo que escribimos: English translation Gonzalo, Hernán, Ana, I partially agree with each one of you, although your opinions seem to contradict each other. Whether or not we like it, English is the language used by programmers, developers and in many other areas of computer science. Today. We are bringing up a generation of new programmers by means of OLPC who will program in Spanish and in dozens of other languages. There exist valuable educational programs from OLPC Nepal that have not been translated to English, and there will be much more of this problem. Denying this fact means closing the doors for us and for the young students. They will have problems to reach resources from outside Uruguay. Plan CEIBAL has produced a vast volume of materials not made available in English. These ideas lead to the isolation of our country in a world that, whether or not we like it, is globalized. I believe serious computer science students should study English even more seriously and very fast. True, but not relevant to the problems of localization and translation for Sugar. Today it is necessary to translate programs, manuals and other materials, when many of us cannot read English. But this help, so interesting, useful and generous, is not the solution to the basic problem. Of course not. Is it not obvious that the solution involves teaching a billion children at a time in any and every language that they require? and that many of those children, as they learn other languages, will have to take on the responsibility for translating materials to the instructional languages of their countries, to the official languages of their countries, and to the local languages of their communities? For example, English is the language of instruction in Kenya, Swahili the national language, and the Maa language of the Maasai one of many local languages. I visualize translations as the crutches used by those who had a fractured leg. They do not refuse going to a hospital and having it fixed. They get it fixed as soon as they can. They only use the crutches while the repair made by the doctor at the hospital, goes through its process and the leg heals. Your simile falls down. Our children did not break their legs. In fact, preschool children can become fluent in a new language in a few months, as I observed an immigrant friend do in kindergarten. Our problem is that we wait too long to begin teaching them, and do not immerse them in the new language when we start. For the time being, translate we must, if we expect everyone to read what we write: And forever. Once we succeed in teaching children to learn and to work in hundreds of languages, we will still have to translate those new materials to all languages required. English is not the issue. Having 6,909 documented languages in the world is the issue. (ethnologue.com) Note: I am among a number of people organizing translation projects for Sugar software and for digital textbook replacements, at FLOSS Manuals, Sugar Labs, and elsewhere. We are emphasizing Spanish to start with, but will branch out widely as fast as we can. I would be happy to arrange for hosting Spanish-to-English-to other languages projects at Sugar Labs. Carlos Rabassa Volunteer Plan Ceibal Support Network Montevideo, Uruguay On Apr 12, 2011, at 1:42 AM, ana.cichero wrote: Qué opinión curiosa Te cuento una experiencia, 1er año liceo 2010 centro de Montevideo ( 12, 13, 14 años), vienen los estudiantes de ingeniería ( alumnos de gabriel eirea ) en tarea de extensión a darnos clase de python. En mis grupos decidimos analizar el ejemplo de
Re: [IAEP] S050 - Informática para Tontos / E050 - Computer Science for Dummies
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 07:25, Carlos Rabassa car...@mac.com wrote: Edward, Thanks for your suggestion. If I have to do it, I'm sorry but I have to decline. We aren't ready for this yet, because we are still configuring the server, but the idea would be to get a team of perhaps 8 or 10 people together, including those who know the subject matter, plus editors, graphic artists, a sysadmin, and perhaps others, to put the material into a publishable state. When we have a clear idea of where we are starting from and what the goal is, it takes less than a week to write a book using the FLOSS Manuals Book Sprint methodology. I have no idea about what has to be done or how someone would be able to benefit from the effort. That depends on those who would benefit speaking up and asking us to do it. If you or anyone else feels there is any value in anything I do, please feel free to use whatever you find. Most of what I have done so far, mostly exercises for me to learn and be able to answer some of the questions received, may be found at: The Squeakland showcase everyone This is what I call Defensive Documentation. I have often had to do it myself, when the developers of some software have not wanted to write or test the documentation themselves. This link points to one of my most recent projects: http://squeakland.org/showcase/project.jsp?id=10420 Aprendo I Learn - A collection of pages I wrote mostly to answer questions received https://docs.google.com/View?id=dg7q79cx_545g34j47gm Índice - A collection of items, I prepared for my own use, some written by me most by others https://docs.google.com/View?id=dg7q79cx_502fdc82rg6 If you think all this is a mess, I would certainly agree. After the insistence of a some fellow volunteers at RAP Ceibal, mainly Leticia Romero and Paolo Benini, whom I thank for their patience in dealing with me, I am thinking of bringing some order to my files. They have suggested a blog a few times. From time to time they say blog and I say website, sometimes I say website with link to a blog. I believe that for storing information, it should be a website. This is the result of the first five minutes invested in creating a free website for this purpose: There is no content yet in this site. https://sites.google.com/site/carlosnennyrabassa/ Interesting, they mention how easy it is to find out things in a blog. Today, search engines search almost everything we put in internet no matter where it is. An interesting curious example: Our son had successfully made empanadas, a typical uruguayan dish, for some of his friends. Now he wanted to go one step further and use home made dough rather than buying it ready. He asked Mom for her recipe and, this is how we found it and sent it to him right away: Search using Google for Nenny Rabassa empanada. Select Google´s top recommendation. Nenny, my wife and business associate, put it in internet some 12 years ago. Nenny used to cook for our fellow real estate brokers to thank them for visiting our broker open houses. That´s how some of her recipes ended up in internet. Carlos Rabassa Volunteer Plan Ceibal Support Network Montevideo, Uruguay On Apr 9, 2011, at 1:44 AM, Edward Cherlin wrote: On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 17:36, Carlos Rabassa car...@mac.com wrote: S050 - Informática para Tontos https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1FVJC2Ij4Vsub_3RJBu9HIhf6qRqdQVbq1WZrvebm7-c E050 - Computer Science for Dummies https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=131-kPidBmlTFE14DvSkYFGzNWlWD1KjY0lsAW673vag Would you like to turn this into a Replacing Textbooks project hosted at Sugar Labs? Carlos Rabassa Voluntario Red de Apoyo al Plan Ceibal Montevideo, Uruguay ___ 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/ -- 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] Conozco Uruguay in Mac computer
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 19:09, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Carlos, I have used SoaS on the Mac with some success, but only as it came. I have never added any other Activities... but would like to learn how to do it. If you aren't in a huge hurry, I will bring my Mac when I come for the Conozco Uruguay tour and EDUJam next month. Maybe we can get together and make it work then! I just now added http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/The_Undiscoverable#Downloading_and_installing_activities which was needed by someone else. We should put it into the Sugar manual at FLOSS Manuals. I love the way you asked for simple, easy to follow instructions. As a retired educator, I sort of specialize in writing things like that. I call them Grannies' Guides because the first one I wrote was for a grandmother who was having trouble getting her grandson's XO connected to the internet. But everyone thought it was called that because I am a grandmother... so that is how I got my nickname GrannieB. Meanwhile, between now and May, I'll ask around and see if I can make it work. There is a very helpful Mac user in the Australian outback who comes on RT late at night (morning there) and helps me with things like this. I'll try to see if he has any ideas. Hope to see you in May. Caryl Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 19:53:09 -0300 From: gei...@gmail.com To: car...@mac.com CC: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Subject: Re: [IAEP] Conozco Uruguay in Mac computer Carlos: I don't know about Macs, but Conozco Uruguay is written in Python Pygame which are platform-indpendent so it should work. You would need to do this: 1) install python 2) install pygame 3) unzip ConozcoUruguay-10.xo 4) in the terminal, go to the directory ConozcoUruguay.activity and run python conozcouy.py I don't know how to do 1) and 2), but these pages may help you: http://python.org/download/ http://www.pygame.org/download.shtml Regards, Gabriel 2011/4/9 Carlos Rabassa car...@mac.com: Frederick, Thomas, Raffael Thank you and all who sent me messages trying to help me in using SoaS in a Mac computer. I am afraid my request was not clear and too ambitious. Let me replace it with a much simpler and modest request, if I may. I heard lots of praise about the Conozco Uruguay activity. I haven't been able to see it in action or use it myself. Could someone give me step by step instructions to use Conozco Uruguay in a Mac computer? If you could give me just one set of instructions, with no alternatives, no shop talk, that would be ideal. If tomorrow a much better solution comes up, I promise not to complaint. If I get to do this and you are still willing to help, I will certainly ask for more. I am dreaming of simple instructions I could quickly follow to get to this modest goal. I am not even dreaming of becoming a developer or anything like that. Just want to be helpful as a volunteer, learning to use as many applications as I can. Thanks! Carlos Rabassa Volunteer Plan Ceibal Support Network Montevideo, Uruguay ___ 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 -- 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] [somos-azucar] Fwd: Re: [Marketing] OLPC PR on BusinessWire: The Government of Peru Expands the One Laptop Per Child Program with Local Manufacturing
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 15:24, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com wrote: Laura Vargas wrote: Dear Friends, The sugar translation marathon was called Miski Pachamama [sweet earth] 2010. We are currently looking forward for a second and third versions, where we would love to translate sugar to other native languages, starting with Shippibo, Ashaninka and Arawak. Dear Laura amd colleagues at Somos Azúcar, I would very much like to develop closer collaboration between Somos Azúcar and the Sugar Labs Translation Team. You may know we host our localization (L10n) efforts on a Pootle server: http://translate.sugarlabs.org/ and that we have a list for coordinating L10n efforts: http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/localization You are also welcome to help with OLPC and Sugar activity manuals at http://booki.flossmanuals.net/ . We have started a push on Spanish, and would welcome any other languages that students need supported. Anyone who would like to help can join the FM-discuss mailing list there. Sugar Labs is also starting a Replacing Textbooks project. I and dogi are configuring and testing the server, and will announce several projects soon. We invite others, and we invite translators for existing projects. The booki software from FLOSS Manuals that we are using in Replacing Textbooks is specifically built for collaborative authoring, editing, publishing, remixing, translation, and so on. The idea behind Replacing Textbooks is that XOs and other netbook computers cost much less than printed textbooks, so providing a suite of textbook replacements for every subject at every age in every language needed will make it easy for governments to adopt the laptop program. UNESCO invited me to start an open discussion on this topic. http://www.wsis-community.org/mod/groups/topicposts.php?topic=118512group_guid=14358 OER Economics for a billion children I was very happy to learn that Aymara and Quechua L10n work has been done and I would love to see it uploaded to the Pootle server Aymara http://translate.sugarlabs.org/ay/ Quechua http://translate.sugarlabs.org/qu/ Excellent. As for your planned efforts in other indigenous languages: Shipibo-Conibo shp Ashánink cni Arawak awd (a grouping of 73 languages) We would be happy to establish hosting for them on our Pootle server and to discuss strategies for off-line translation and upload, but that conversation should be taken to the L10n list so it can benefit from the cumulative experience there. Warmest Regards, c...@laptop.org vounteer Sugar Labs / OLPC / eToys Pootle administrator ___ 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] S050 - Informática para Tontos / E050 - Computer Science for Dummies
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 17:36, Carlos Rabassa car...@mac.com wrote: S050 - Informática para Tontos https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1FVJC2Ij4Vsub_3RJBu9HIhf6qRqdQVbq1WZrvebm7-c E050 - Computer Science for Dummies https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=131-kPidBmlTFE14DvSkYFGzNWlWD1KjY0lsAW673vag Would you like to turn this into a Replacing Textbooks project hosted at Sugar Labs? Carlos Rabassa Voluntario Red de Apoyo al Plan Ceibal Montevideo, Uruguay ___ 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] 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
Re: [IAEP] Exploring Sugar-on-Tablets
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 18:15, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote: I've posted a four week plan for XO-3 software exploration at http://cananian.livejournal.com/62667.html Excellent. Love your work. Briefly: April 4-8: Android April 11-15: Chrome/ChromeOS/NativeClient April 18-22: Get down dirty with mesh Lack of reliable mesh is the single greatest technical obstacle to my plans for Replacing Textbooks with collaborative Open Education Resources (OERs). http://www.wsis-community.org/mod/groups/topicposts.php?topic=118512group_guid=14358 Some of us are putting together a new server for Sugar Labs, using booki collaborative authoring software from FLOSS Manuals. We have several projects in the planning stages from people and organizations that have been working on non-computer approaches for decades, and are delighted at the new opportunities. April 25-29: Pulling legacy Sugar codebase into the GTK3/g-o-i/touch-interface future May 2-6: in Uruguay to present results and discuss all this w/ Sugar folks in person I'll be posting more about each project as I dig into them; there are also threads on IAEP where I've discussed all these topics before, so they shouldn't come as too much of a surprise. When can we look forward to a similar exploration of hardware topics? There are other ideas out there, and I'm not going to *finish* any of these investigations in a single week. Feel free to ask questions and suggest other projects -- although please read the existing discussions first if you can. In order to actually get work done w/o endless distraction, I'll probably try to avoid getting into lots of details for projects other than the one I'm currently focusing on. And rest assured that I do deeply care about (a) focusing on kids' needs first, (b) preserving as much of the legacy codebase as possible (I am lazy, like all good programmers), and (c) working closely with SugarLabs, Activity Central, and all you other folks! --scott ___ 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] Fwd: [osi-edu-discuss] Osi-edu-discuss : Request for help in PhD Research
I find this to be a worthy request for help with a research project on Free Software communities. I took the survey myself, and will pass the request on to other groups that I work with, but will try to keep others from turning it into a spam flood. My apologies if you get this more than once. Please post to project mailing lists or forum discussions where appropriate according to list or site Netiquette, and where you can be sure it has not been posted before. Please do not send it to all of your friends. The idea is to contact communities once each. -- Forwarded message -- From: Vishwesh Akre vishwe...@hotmail.com Date: 2011/4/2 Subject: [osi-edu-discuss] Osi-edu-discuss : Request for help in PhD Research To: osi-edu-disc...@members.opensource.org Dear osi-edu members, I am pursuing my doctoral research at the University of Salford in the UK. My research title is An Evaluative framework to measure the maturity of Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) Online Project Communities And my study involves two key players in the Open Source arena :- The F/OSS Developers and the F/OSS End - users. Your group is doing some great work in the Open Source Developement, and I would be highly obliged if you can help me get data from F/OSS Developers in your group. I have developed an Online survey for collecting data. it is available on the link : http://FreeOnlineSurveys.com/rendersurvey.asp?sid=rgtj2ow1eiaohjj896457 It would be great if you can help me with this ea rnest request. Warm regards, Vishwesh Akre, Email : vishwe...@hotmail.com / vishwesh_a...@yahoo.co.uk ___ osi-edu-discuss mailing list osi-edu-disc...@members.opensource.org http://members.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/osi-edu-discuss -- 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/ -- 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] Fwd: New booki for replacing textbooks with OER
Please take a look at http://booki.flossmanuals.net/ a site for collaborative authoring and publishing of manuals for Open Source software. Sugar Labs has set up another trial instance of the same booki software for OER development. I am arranging for some further administrative changes so that we can begin to use it, and will then invite various interested persons and groups to try it out and to discuss what we might be able to do by combining this with Sugar and other education software. If you would like to work on some educational materials on such a site, please create an account at http://booki.treehouse.su/ and take a look around. As soon as we get the license menu set up, we will be able to start experimenting with creating materials. -- Forwarded message -- From: Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com Date: Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 14:40 Subject: New booki for replacing textbooks with OER To: FM Discuss disc...@lists.flossmanuals.net A number of factors have recently come together to support a full-scale attack on the global education problem (and the poverty and related ills that education can largely cure), not least among them booki. Sugar Labs has set up a new trial booki instance for our Replace Textbooks project, at http://booki.treehouse.su/ We have some admin tasks to be completed before we can create books there, and I will need help learning to be the admin. I expect the production version to be hosted at sugarlabs.org. The outline of the project is at http://www.wsis-community.org/mod/groups/topicposts.php?topic=118512group_guid=14358 OER Economics for a billion children It is based on the fact that computers + OERs now cost much less than printed textbooks, except in those countries that can't afford decent textbooks to begin with. Our first projects will be based on Don Cohen's Calculus by and for Young People, and Caleb Gattegno's language and math teaching methods. We would like to cover every topic for every course for every age, preschool through high school, for students and teachers, and let teachers and education authorities remix them as needed. Maybe for parents and ministries of education, too. Our next technical problem will be integrating our OERs with Sugar education software. There are several possible approaches that I intend to discuss with those who may be able to help realize them. Accomplishing all of this will depend on recruiting a lot of volunteers, and perhaps attracting some funding. Let me know if you are interested. I have begin to outline a textbook on economics for OER instructional designers, following a suggestion by Maria Droujkova on the MathFutures list. The idea is to tell the truth about the limitations of conventional economics, and to explore the economics of Free Software and OERs for a billion children at a time, as in my UNESCO/WSIS post. -- 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] Any olpc/Sugar/ICT4E people in Spain?
Here is another important point. We have a lot of Sugar and XO documentation at FLOSS Manuals, with only a few titles in Spanish. We are organizing a major push to get all of our materials translated. The manual for Terminal should be out in Spanish soon, and its translator promises another title ASAP. FM's new booki software has just gone live, with a new set of translation tools coming on line quite soon. Some of our titles would be of interest in Spanish-speaking countries even apart from Sugar, such as Introduction to the Command Line. Having materials in Spanish should help in the argument. Of course, there is a lot of other material, such as Plan CEIBAL's publications. On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:58, Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote: Am 20.03.2011 20:13, schrieb Edward Cherlin: Not an OLPC project, but there is a lot of Linux in the schools in Extremadura. You could talk to the local government about using Sugar on their laptops. http://news.squeak.org/2006/11/17/squeak-in-extremadura/ Have you asked on the OLPC-SUR list? Not yet, that's an excellent suggestion! :-) There seems to have been a very modest OLPC España effort, but its Wiki page has vanished away. Perhaps you can help restart it. On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 05:56, Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote: Hi all, as some of you might know I moved to Madrid about a month ago How's your Spanish? I'm half-decently fluent I'd say (you can hear a short sample at the beginning of this interview: http://portal.educ.ar/noticias/entrevistas/especialistas-modelos-11-talle-1.php). Thanks, Christoph and will be here at least until the end of May but possibly also until late summer. Now I was wondering whether anyone here knows people working on olpc/Sugar/ICT4E who are based here in Madrid or elsewhere in Spain? I've looked around quite a bit but unfortunately didn't find anything related to olpc/Sugar/ICT4E so far, plus similarly minded communities (e.g. LUGs, hacker spaces, etc.) also seem to be quite rare around here. Anyway, I'd appreciate any pointers, suggestions or contacts in this area. Thanks, Christoph -- Christoph Derndorfer co-editor, www.olpcnews.com e-mail: christ...@olpcnews.com ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Christoph Derndorfer co-editor, www.olpcnews.com e-mail: christ...@olpcnews.com -- 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] Any olpc/Sugar/ICT4E people in Spain?
Not an OLPC project, but there is a lot of Linux in the schools in Extremadura. You could talk to the local government about using Sugar on their laptops. http://news.squeak.org/2006/11/17/squeak-in-extremadura/ Have you asked on the OLPC-SUR list? There seems to have been a very modest OLPC España effort, but its Wiki page has vanished away. Perhaps you can help restart it. On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 05:56, Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote: Hi all, as some of you might know I moved to Madrid about a month ago How's your Spanish? and will be here at least until the end of May but possibly also until late summer. Now I was wondering whether anyone here knows people working on olpc/Sugar/ICT4E who are based here in Madrid or elsewhere in Spain? I've looked around quite a bit but unfortunately didn't find anything related to olpc/Sugar/ICT4E so far, plus similarly minded communities (e.g. LUGs, hacker spaces, etc.) also seem to be quite rare around here. Anyway, I'd appreciate any pointers, suggestions or contacts in this area. Thanks, Christoph -- Christoph Derndorfer co-editor, www.olpcnews.com e-mail: christ...@olpcnews.com ___ 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] Fundraising for Sugar Labs
FLOSS Manuals has just gone live with its new booki software for creating and translating Free Software manuals. I have written for them on several projects. Booki is available to anybody, and I propose to create a project in cooperation with Sugar Labs to take advantage of this. Walter Bender agreed just moments ago. http://www.crowdrise.com/Replacetextbooks/fundraiser/Mokurai In addition, UNESCO has just started a public discussion on OERs in global education, and invited me to lead a discussion on the economics and financing of educating up to a billion children at a time with low-cost computers and OERs. The major cost is for hardware, including computers, locally-generated renewable electric power, and broadband Internet to the villages. The benefits include ending poverty, oppression, each of the kinds of misery detailed in the UN's Millennium Development Goals program, and maybe war. If you are interested in joining the discussion, I can get you an invitation, and we can then invite other members of our various projects with appropriate skills and interests. The economic issues include general economic development, government corruption, and the false and perverse economic theories so much supported by multinational corporations, known generally as Market Fundamentalism. We propose a new economics of sharing and freedom that takes proper account of the conditions in which markets can be truly free for everyone, not just Free for the rich, and too expensive for the poor. If livin' was a thing that money could by, Well then the rich would live and the poor would die... as they in fact do. In particular, it isn't a Free Market if you are legally excluded from getting into it by nativist immigration laws. (Native Americans respond to the call to send all immigrants back to where they came from, I'll help you pack.) -- 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] Needing Help?
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:54, Tiago Sousa ttiagoso...@gmail.com wrote: Hello my name is Tiago Sousa and i am Portuguese. Bem-vindo (Most of my Portuguese comes out of old Bossa Nova songs such as Manha de Carneval.) We can use you in localization and translation, too. http://translate.sugarlabs.org/pt/ http://translate.sugarlabs.org/pt_BR/ http://booki.flossmanuals.net/ i don't have strong programming knowledge in fact the only language i know is python, Perfect! but i hope to enrole in the project to develop my skills and to help you guys out, but i will need a mentor to point me out what i need to learn, and what part of the project needs help.Thanks Everything needs help. You are welcome to look around and choose for yourself. Start here. http://en.flossmanuals.net/make-your-own-sugar-activities/ and then http://activities.sugarlabs.org/ Cumps Tiago Sousa ___ 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] OER for a billion children
I have started to write about the economics of OER development in the UNESCO WSIS forum. http://www.wsis-community.org/pg/groups/14358/open-educational-resources-oer/ We look forward to our 1,000th member (hopefully late March) and 5,000 members by the end of the year. We’re also setting our sights on a provocative suggestion by Edward Mokurai Cherlin – can we educate a billion children using OERs!! I explained briefly on the Welcome page. http://www.wsis-community.org/mod/groups/topicposts.php?topic=59114group_guid=14358 My interest is in the complete ecology for education for a billion children, as in the One Laptop Per Child program using XO laptops and Sugar software. Now that laptops + OER are less expensive than printed textbooks, this must become SOP in every education system, K-postgraduate... The discussion is at http://www.wsis-community.org/mod/groups/topicposts.php?topic=118512group_guid=14358 Community discussion OER Economics for a billion children Let me know if you would like an invitation from UNESCO to join their OER community, or send your request directly to wsiscommunity-invitat...@unesco.org. -- 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] Join the UNESCO Open Educational Resources (OER) Community
Abel Caine [sic] of UNESCO is inviting people to join the discussions at http://www.wsis-community.org/ on OER for global education. Enrollment is not open, but requires an individual invitation. You can e-mail me and I will pass your information on to him, or you can send your request directly to wsiscommunity-invitat...@unesco.org. I believe that Abel would like to know what you have in mind to add to the discussion before he gives out the invitation. I got in by posting about writing an economics textbook based on the economics of educating a billion children using OER. -- 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] Yesterday's Financial Times Article About OLPC
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 11:48, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi All... OLPC_MeXicO just tweeted this link to an interesting article about OLPC and children and computers that appeared in yesterday's Financial Times. You will need to do a free registration to read the article. http://ht.ly/48v9Q Thanks. I added a comment. Caryl ___ 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] Fwd: [WikiEducator] Open Content Licensing for Educators - -Enrolment key
FYI. -- Forwarded message -- From: Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 22:00 Subject: [WikiEducator] Open Content Licensing for Educators - -Enrolment key To: WikiEducator wikieduca...@googlegroups.com, Open License Guidelines Group openlicens...@ocwconsortium.org Hi Everyone, The Open Content Licensing for Educators workshop is scheduled for 21 - 25 March 2011 and will be presented asynchronously. Participants will need approximately 1 hour per day which they can allocate according to their schedules. The workshop is free and we welcome participation from all educators world wide. The New Zealand Ministry of Education is sponsoring a dedicated group within the course for New Zealand School teachers in relation to the New Zealand Government Open Access Licensing Framework approved by parliament last year. (In short - -New Zealand schools are invited to adopt open licensing policies.) As a result, we have implemented an enrolment key system for this course to facilitate specific group interests. International participants and tertiary educators from New Zealand should use oer (lowercase without the quotations) New Zealand school teachers and board of trustee members should use oernz (lowercase without the quotations.) Register your seat today. See: http://wikieducator.org/Open_content_licensing_for_educators/About This will not effect people who have already registered for the course, but provides a mechanism for us to deal with the unique issues surrounding NZGOAL, which may not be of interest to the international community. Cheers Wayne About #OCL4ED Sponsored by UNESCO, the course materials were developed as a collaborative project by volunteers from the OER Foundation, WikiEducator, the OpenCourseWare Consortium and Creative Commons. The course will provide prerequisite knowledge required by educators to legally remix open education materials and help institutions to take informed decisions about open content licenses. We encourage all BOTs to consider adopting open content intellectual property policies at their schools and this workshop will provide you with the information you need to consider this important decision. Please forward this notification to your relevant line managers to distribute the invitation. Registration details are provided below. With kind regards Wayne -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and elected Community Council Member, Wikieducator Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter | identi.ca -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieduca...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- 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] Haitian localization
I am having to become active as Localization Administrator for Kreyòl Ayisyen again. I am told that the work is stalled through lack of people and a dispute between the localizers and somebody who wants their work validated by linguistics experts who know neither IT nor elementary education. The work that linguistics experts do is very important. Telling people how to use their own language is not part of that work. Haitians willing to help, please contact me. Ask your friends, and your friends' friends. -- 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] How Many XOs?
If it's Ubuntu, ask them whether it's Edubuntu, and whether they use Sugar at all. On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:41, Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote: Am 02.03.2011 06:34, schrieb John Watlington: On Mar 1, 2011, at 7:41 AM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: Am 01.03.2011 13:36, schrieb Christoph Derndorfer: Am 28.02.2011 22:59, schrieb John Watlington: On Feb 23, 2011, at 10:27 AM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: I'm still absolutely clueless about the total figures but what I do know is that Argentina's Conectar Igualdad program (http://www.conectarigualdad.gob.ar/) will distribute 3 million Classmate PCs in part of its public secondary school system by the end of 2012. By late December approximately half a million of them had supposedly been distributed. According to the web site at the URL provided above, none have been delivered to children as of Feb. 28. When I was in Buenos Aires in mid-December for a 3-day workshop organized by the Argentinian MoE I also met my former Argentinian host brother and his cousin who had received their Classmate PCs in late November. So I know that at least two of them have actually been distributed (and no, this time not based on dubious information from Kigali;-) We continue to hear that Classmates are being deployed, but nobody can provide concrete information about where and how many. I'll get in touch with some people in Buenos Aires to try and figure out what the current figure there is. Okay, just found http://www.conectarigualdad.gob.ar/sobre-el-programa/evaluacion-y-seguimiento/informe-de-avance-de-entregas/ which supposedly provides the number of distributed netbooks and is updated on a weekly basis. The count as of today is 358,227. Impressive number. What software are they running ? It's dual-boot with Windows and Linux. According to a manual (www.conectarigualdad.gob.ar/wp-content/themes/conectar_igualdad/pdf/Manual_alumnos.pdf) on the Conectar Igualdad Web site for Linux they're using the Debian-based (IIRC) OS from http://www.pixartargentina.com.ar/ however one of the project leads just told me that it's Ubuntu so they might have changed their mind since the manual was written. On the Windows side there's also slightly confusing information with again the manual making a reference to Windows XP whereas http://www.conectarigualdad.gob.ar/la-netbook/descripcion-de-los-equipos/tecnologia/tecnologia/ talks about Windows 7 Professional. But again I've asked that project lead for a clarification and will report back once I know more. Hope that helps. Christoph -- Christoph Derndorfer co-editor, www.olpcnews.com e-mail: christ...@olpcnews.com ___ 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] Fwd: [OERU] Free course on Open Content Licensing for Educators
FYI. Maybe we should see if UNESCO would fund some OER projects. -- Forwarded message -- From: Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com Date: Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 17:54 Subject: [OERU] Free course on Open Content Licensing for Educators To: oer-univers...@googlegroups.com Hi Everyone, Building an OERU will require capability development among faculty and teachers on open content licensing. FYI, with sponsorship from UNESCO, the OER Foundation will be hosting a free online workshop on Open Content Licensing for Educators scheduled for 21 - 25 March 2011. Already 100 participants from 33 countries have signed up for the workshop. Register your seat today and spread the word See: http://wikieducator.org/Open_content_licensing_for_educators/About -- and use the enrolment key: oer (without quotations) More info below. Cheers Wayne About #OCL4ED Sponsored by UNESCO, the course materials were developed as a collaborative project by volunteers from the OER Foundation, WikiEducator, the OpenCourseWare Consortium and Creative Commons. The course will provide prerequisite knowledge required by educators to legally remix open education materials and help institutions to take informed decisions about open content licenses. The Open Content Licensing for Educators workshop is scheduled for 21 - 25 March 2011 and will be presented asynchronously. Participants will need approximately 1 hour per day which they can allocate according to their schedules. The workshop is free and we welcome participation from all educators world wide. Please forward this notification to your relevant line managers to distribute the invitation. Registration link: http://wikieducator.org/Open_content_licensing_for_educators/About . Enrolment key is: oer -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and elected Community Council Member, WikiEducator Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter | identi.ca -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups OER university group. To post to this group, send email to oer-univers...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to oer-university+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/oer-university?hl=en?hl=en Visit the OER univeristy page on http://wikieducator.org/OER_university -- 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] Fwd: [FM Discuss] Der Mundo, crowd translation beta now live
FYI. This looks like a tremendous resource for language teachers. Assign fairly advanced students of English to seek out Web pages of importance to their language community, and have the English classes translate them to local languages. Solicit help from the diasporas around the world. For example, resources in applying knowledge of tropical medicine to particular countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Information on sustainable renewable power systems that can be built and maintained locally. Microfinance information. and anything else that the local people find useful. -- Forwarded message -- From: Brian McConnell bsmcconn...@gmail.com Date: Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 14:28 Subject: [FM Discuss] Der Mundo, crowd translation beta now live To: disc...@lists.flossmanuals.net Hi everyone, I wanted to let you know that we've started testing Der Mundo (www.dermundo.com). Der Mundo is a crowd translation tool. It works like tools such as Babelfish, you just enter a URL and can start translating. The difference is the focus on human translation. It also makes it easy to share translatable links, in the form www.dermundo.com/www.example.com so anyone who follows the link can also contribute translations, and can easily share translations to social media (we'll be adding some machine translation options in the next build, but the focus is on making it easy for people to create and curate high quality translations for interesting or important pages). If you'd like to test the service or spread the word, you can go to www.dermundo.com and get started. Thanks! Brian McConnell ___ Discuss mailing list disc...@lists.flossmanuals.net http://lists.flossmanuals.net/listinfo.cgi/discuss-flossmanuals.net -- 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] Google Summer of Code 2011--PlayGo, anyone?
I'm looking for a volunteer developer. The developer of the PlayGo activity for Sugar has apparently abandoned the project, and has not responded to my e-mail asking about it. This is a shame, because the American Go Association is very excited about helping with it, and is making a push into Spanish-language evangelism for the game. Go is becoming popular all over Latin America and other Spanish-speaking countries, as evidenced by the number of Go organizations listed at Iberoamerican Go Federation http://www.fedibergo.org/ including Asociación Peruana de Igo-Shogui Asociación Uruguaya de Go among many others. -- 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] Elogios y Quejas
2011/2/21 Carlos Rabassa car...@mac.com: Hola todos! Hace algunos meses, tratando de buscar usos de las XO para sugerir a todos los usuarios escribí, sin mayor repercusión, sobre enseñar a nuestros niños y al resto de la población a usar sus computadoras conectadas a internet para aprender a practicar dos costumbres que aparentemente no muchos practican en nuestro país: - Decir GRACIAS! cuando alguien nos ayuda o atiende bien en una oficina pública o privada o en un comercio. - Quejarnos cuando ocurre lo contrario. Me encantó esas orquídeas y cebollas. Hoy volví a pensar en el tema al leer una entrevista con el próximo presidente de la Cámara de Diputados, que promete grandes novedades en este sentido para que los ciudadanos puedan comunicarse con sus representantes. Dos ejemplos más o menos recientes de nuestras quejas y elogios: Elogio: Recientemente no encontrando uno de nuestros productos favoritos en el supermercado, un arroz muy barato y muy bueno, lo comentamos con la cajera que de inmediato llamó a la supervisora quien no vaciló en darnos el correo electrónico del supermercado para plantear nuestra solicitud. Confirmamos nuestra solicitud usando el correo y aprovechamos para agradecer la intervención de ambas, cuyos nombres aparecen en sus plaquetas de identificación. Nos explicaron luego que la gestión para conseguir nuestro arroz está en marcha y que nuestro elogio las hizo destacar positivamente a ambas en su trabajo. No nos costó nada. Nos ayudó a compensar el mal humor que nos producen los que nos dan motivo para quejarnos. En algún tiempo más volveremos a comer nuestro arroz favorito. Queja: Somos usuarios muy frecuentes del transporte colectivo de Montevideo. Como jubilados viajamos cuando no tienen demasiados pasajeros. Nos parece que nos ofrecen un servicio excelente. Por ese mismo motivo, sentimos la obligación de hacerle saber a los responsables nuestras opiniones como usuarios para que no se estropee el servicio y siga mejorando. Aprovechando la publicidad de CUTCSA sobre su sitio web y correo para comentarios, les hice muchos elogios y también algunas quejas y sugerencias, relativas a lo que nos molesta a los pasajeros. Una de mis quejas fue oída: Me sentía muy humillado al tener que mantener mi equilibrio parado delante del guarda inmóvil y más joven que yo, para pagar mi boleto. Expresé mi queja en forma algo literaria pero muy sincera. Les dije más o menos esto: Me siento como deben haberse sentido muchos indígenas latinoamericanos hace algunos siglos, haciendo ofrendas monetarias al representante del invasor, sentado en su trono. Al mirar hacia adelante para adivinar la próxima frenada y no caerme, veo en el espacio sobre el parabrisas del ómnibus las banderas de España y Galicia y la cruz de Santiago de Compostela. La bandera uruguaya, a pesar de ser un ómnibus moderno, aparentemente no se conocía aún en esta colonia, cuando colocaron las otras tres, con amplio espacio para una cuarta a la izquierda, como indica la tradición (o la ley??), No sé si se han fijado que las banderas desaparecieron totalmente. En algunos casos las remplazaron por una escarapela que combina varios de nuestros símbolos nacionales. También, en los ómnibus nuevos que se van incorporando, la altura del trono del guarda ha sido reducida al punto de que en muchos casos sus pies pisan el mismo suelo que pisamos los plebeyos, los clientes, trabajadores, jubilados y turistas en su gran mayoría, que pagamos el boleto que contribuye a pagar entre otros costos el sueldo del guarda. Termino transcribiendo parte de la larga entrevista que leí hoy con el nuevo presidente de la cámara. Tal vez sería bueno si los que tengan los contactos y/o los conocimientos, actúan rápidamente antes de que se haga la licitación de que habla la entrevista para asegurarse que quien escriba las especificaciones para la transmisión de las sesiones de la cámara tenga presente la existencia de las XO. Sería muy bueno si de alguna manera los niños y sus familiares pudiesen ver estas transmisiones. Sería un complemento fantástico de la eventual visita de la clase al Palacio Legislativo. Comienzo a transcribir -¿Qué implica eso? -Fortalecer el cordón umbilical entre el ciudadano y el Parlamento. La gente no tiene tiempo de ver las sesiones. En los primeros días de marzo llamaré a licitación para instalar cámara de televisión y se transmitirán las sesiones por Internet. Tal vez también por la televisión. -¿Qué más implica el gobierno electrónico? -El gobierno electrónico permitirá gestiones del ciudadano ante la cámara mediante la computadora. El artículo 30 de la Constitución dice que todo habitante tiene derecho de petición ante cualquier autoridad. ...No podemos dejar que la gente ya no se queje. El Parlamento debe recibir las quejas y responder. ... Carlos Rabassa Voluntario Red de Apoyo al Plan Ceibal
Re: [IAEP] For Sugar Everywhere, Google-ize!
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 22:01, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Forget about kids in those places (they'll get broadband-quality internet... eventually) and yeah, we can do it all with JS and your favourite language on the server side. I look back at when OLPC started, and some things have changed in the world _we_ live in. But the kids we want to help with... their world hasn't changed much. They still haven't got internet for starters. It is true that the children farthest from the Internet are still far away, and that a few countries, notably North Korea, intend to keep things that way. However, since we started, several fiber optic cables have encircled Africa and landed in every coastal country, with many more cables being laid. Spurs have been run to several landlocked countries, notably Rwanda, and there are plans with some global funding to reach the rest. In a particular case, a computer school in Nigeria, the bandwidth cost was reduced from more than $1700/mo for 128 KBps via satellite to a few hundred dollars/mo for several MBps via terrestrial wireless. The resulting connectivity boom has barely begun. It means, among other things, that banks in Africa will get connected to the international digital banking network, and that their credit cards will become acceptable in global e-commerce. This means that college students will find it much, much easier to order textbooks online at the best prices. The increased bandwidth, lower costs, and improved banking will make selling local products in e-commerce much easier, also, and will support outsourcing to those countries on a much larger scale. A few countries in Africa have announced commitments to give every student in their schools an XO, and some of those have announced plans to run Internet to all of the schools, also. Some things might be a tad closer -- lower costs per laptop, tablets are possible -- but connectivity isn't any easier or any cheaper. Depends very much where you are. Technology is reducing bandwidth costs in every place that has a connection. The cost of a national WiMax network covering 90-95% of populations (depending on population density, terrain, etc.) is estimated at $10/person to install. Every country should include either WiMax or fiber optic cable in every major highway and railroad project, just as railroad companies a century and a half ago automatically included a telegraph line on every major route. cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ 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] Need to find usb Microscope under $50 for XO
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 12:11, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi All... Has anyone tried an Intel Play QX3 Digital Computer Mocroscope like this one on an XO? Does anybody know how Mary Lou Jepsen fitted plastic lenses to an XO and used it as a microscope? Aha! here it is. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Microscope http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI28-IS9AII Well, let's ask her if anything has come of it, or whether the basic specs for the lenses and the spacing are available. http://bit.ly/eu1iPh It is mentioned in this very old link: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/etoys/2006-October/000158.html It is no longer manufactured, but there are some available at ebay (as shown above). I would really like to get some kind of usb microscope that could be used with the XO to have at SCaLE 9X at the end of this month and to explore features for the water/health lessons some of us are working on for Haiti. Cherry Withers has ordered a microscope, but it is currently backordered and probably won't arrive in time for SCaLE. Has anyone else used one with an XO? If so, what kind? Where is it available? Is it plug-n-play or do you need to install software? Anything else I should know? I really don't want to use one that relies on the XO computer camera to function. Thanks, Caryl ___ 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] [squeakland] Plan Ceibal y/and General Electric
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 14:11, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Chunka, I've been challenged on this point more than once, and have challenged back to come up with one invention that was done after 1980 that matches up to the top 10 done before 1980. Second the motion. The Internet comes from DARPA. Interactive, collaborative computing comes from Doug Engelbart's group at SRI, with government funding. Alan's work on Smalltalk at Xerox was founded directly on Doug's. The Apple Mac (and Lisa) GUI and Windows are just high-budget, low-concept retoolings of parts of Smalltalk, without the good stuff. The innovations in education that I use come from Maria Montessori, Jean Piaget, Georges Cuisenaire, Caleb Gattigno, and others in the early to mid 20th century. The pioneers of computers in education include Omar Khayyam Moore (who supplemented the computer with a graduate student), Ken Iverson, and Seymour Papert in the 1960s. Almost all of the rest of us are working out details from their great insights, or more often ignoring most of their work to concentrate on some tiny part of it. Men of one idea, like a hen with one chick, and that a duckling.--Henry David Thoreau Alan has asked what Silicon Valley will do when it runs out of Doug Engelbart's ideas. I don't think the situation is globally that dire, but I do think that the next wave will not come from Silicon Valley, but from somewhere unexpected, quite likely some place where our XO children are allowed sufficient freedom to innovate, or find ways to do it regardless. However, there is a substantial movement now to replace printed textbooks with less expensive computers with Free Software and Creative Commons content. There is a substantial movement to create unencumbered content, particularly in academic publishing. There is not a very rapid uptake of these tools in school systems, but it is early days yet. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.--Mahatma Gandhi Then they claim that it was their idea all along.--Edward Mokurai Cherlin I am in discussions with Dan Cohen the Mathman, mathman.biz, over his Calculus By and For Young People, and with the company that Caleb Gattegno founded to commercialize his Silent Way of teaching languages, for donations of content to Sugar. I will be talking with the Squeakland list about putting their approaches into Etoys software. This has not happened. I've been able to show the prior art for all suggestions. Essentially everything in the last 30 years has been commercializations and other forms of innovation based on what was funded by ARPA, ONR, and by extension, Xerox in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. The important point here is that there are many new inventions needed, and they can be identified, but no one has been willing to fund them. It's not that the early birds got the worms, but that most of the needed worms out there are being missed. The problem in education research goes much deeper than lack of funding. It is deeply political, and touches many people's sense of who and what they are, including parents, teachers, school administrations, and politicians. There are worms that got initial research funding, but the political environment is so toxic that we cannot use the results. An example of a toxic dispute that is not overtly political is whole word vs. phonics in teaching reading. Both are required in English, which has many variant spellings for its phonemes, and words such as 'once' that conform to no rule at all. One of the political dimensions of this and related disputes is that teachers refuse to discuss linguistics research. In part it is a status thing, a Thorstein Veblen/Theory of the Leisure Class phenomenon, because teachers want to teach the high-status version of any language, not the vernacular, and because teachers have been losing status in the US for decades, with shrinking pay, benefits, and rights, and constant attacks from political grandstanders. An example of a purely political dispute is evolutionary biology vs. Creationism, where some Creationists have convinced themselves that Darwin is the Apostle of the Antichrist, and most agree that science is part of a plot to destroy all that is good and true in human society. Sex education is to them the clearest symptom that this moral decay is deliberate. Cheers, Alan From: Chunka Mui chu...@cornerloft.com To: Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com Cc: Carlos Rabassa car...@mac.com; america-lat...@squeakland.org america-lat...@squeakland.org; squeakland.org mailing list squeakl...@squeakland.org; Maho 2010 m...@realness.org; IAEP SugarLabs iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; voluntarios y administradores OLPC para usuarios docentes olpc-...@lists.laptop.org; olpc bolivia olpc-boli...@lists.laptop.org; OLPC Puno olpcp...@gmail.com Sent: Sat, February 5, 2011 10:53:44 AM Subject: Re: [squeakland] [IAEP] Plan Ceibal y/and General Electric
Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] unique activities . . . for Oceania XO's, or other regions.
I am all for eroding some aspects of traditional cultures. I have had a conversation with a Maasai chief about the possibility of using XOs in his campaign against female genital mutilation. The report on Ethiopia talked about replacing the pure rote teaching style, where asking questions was an insult, with an exploratory, collaborative style, where teachers of their own volition scheduled question time for the whole class. On a larger scale, I am all for destroying cultures of slavery, of oppression, of corruption, and of a multitude of other ills. When we talk about preserving cultures, however, I am all for showing students how to use their XOs to preserve local languages, oral history, music, knowledge of the environment...and to create jobs based on their traditional cultures, whether in arts and crafts, in tourism, in harnessing local resources, or in other ways. There is no reason for XOs to threaten cultures. But we must accept that every culture changes as the climate changes, or technology, or the available foods, or their neighbors, or a multitude of other things. The most resilient cultures are not dependent on keeping everything just as it was, but are able to adapt what is essential to them to new circumstances without being swallowed up. On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 21:19, Frederick Grose fgr...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Sean Linton s...@lpnz.org wrote: Hi I will look into creating a ticket. Thanks for your help most appreciated, As far as Sugar/OLPC is world wide, and the places the computers go to have their own pedagogies, have people encountered issues regarding the embedded pedagogy within this technology. The thing to remember maybe that OLPC also contains a learning environment which has its own consequences, which on one level is a neutral learning environment - that assumes universal recognition of symbols and on screen aids. Even if the embedded pedagogy of OLPC is an experiential learning environment in itself this doesn't mean that an inherited pedagogy will begin to disappear (that 'social missions' are competing) maybe just that it is a sign of what can be expected, and needed to prepare children for growing into adults in the 21st century. One way these two backgrounds (or pedagogies) may complement each other, and I think OLPC and Sugar are already on the way to doing this is by trying to balance creating a neutral learning platform and encouraging virtual learning environments. Virtual learning environments are powerful because they may contain cultural metaphors, however they can also feel limiting where the user is bound by what is already familiar. The strengths of a neutral learning environment include a sense that what is possible is not already defined. How broad do people think the metaphors contained with the activities should be? Can anyone relate to the metaphor as an effective way of making sense of a new experience, perhaps with a specific activity? Sean On 4 February 2011 00:21, Aleksey Lim alsr...@activitycentral.org wrote: On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 10:32:28PM +1300, Sean Linton wrote: Hi: One of the things I would like to know is that even at the current level of deployment the OLPC project doesn't get attacked for eroding the indigenous cultures of places when with some careful planning and insight it could contribute to the opposite. The sort of thing I am thinking about is for example where you have the TamTam activities, which have a pretty good representation of instruments from around the world built in to the activity already, but at this stage are not tailored to different regional environments. I am thinking about the difference in using that program for a child whose local music culture is represented by the program, and a child whose musical instruments are not included in that program. At one level the activity is useful for either child - the first can see that his or her culture is part of this world wide project and that is really neat, and the second child is at least given the opportunity to see what other instruments from around the world are like. So either way it is an education for who ever is using it, but with out that renewal of the traditional instruments and the unique backgrounds (culture) being brought into the light of this empowering technology I feel there is a danger that the result is a monoculture. To counter this one other thing that I can see being accomplished with the OLPC project is the ability to create audio content, and distribute it locally. In this situation although we don't have 'place specific instruments' loaded as a part of the music iconography of the OLPC, we at least have the ability to couple with community radio, or other audio frameworks to promote locally generated content. One thing I have heard is that OLPC, in a way, creates this situation of the 'haves' and
Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2011-02-04
FLOSS Manuals is ever ready to take on such projects, whenever we get enough writers, editors, artists, and so on who can get together. We are ramping up for Spanish translations in booki, scheduled to start next month. http://booki.flossmanuals.net/ On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 11:50, Carlos Rabassa car...@mac.com wrote: Walter, This section of your message caught my attention: ... (Indeed, a recent marketing survey conducted by a team of Sloan students suggested that while 90% of those surveyed recommend Sugar to others, only 33% of those who then try to download Sugar are successful.) ... Recently I have read several messages about idea banks and about new projects to tackle. If I may make one more suggestion, let me tell you what I would like to see. It would be a book entitled Sugar for Dummies I promise to be the first one in line the day it starts selling; I clearly feel I need it. And now after the figures you just mentioned, I believe a market study for such a book is not necessary. There seem to be a lot of other dummies like me. The book I dream of would have two sections. One for Windows users and one for Mac users. Each section would describe in plain everyday English a step by step installation procedure. It would be the procedure to install whatever is necessary to run the XO applications in a non-XO computer like the ones many adults like me have and use. The explanations should be thoroughly tested, prior to publication, to make sure they do work, I volunteer to be a beta tester for the Mac version. They should be reviewed for language, like lawyers do with contracts, making sure that any word that is not in the everyday plain English vocabulary, is properly defined before using it. A final suggestion is that it be published in Google Docs or as a pdf file attached to emails, no wikis please. Wikis are not yet in the realm of everyday English. Would this be possible or is this an impossible dream? Please help me and help others by remembering I said I am a Sugar Dummy. I do not understand complex explanations or shop talk. Something like this publication would multiply tremendously the number of capable, useful, volunteers that could help in many projects. First project where someone like me could help, is very close to another one of your comments; You said: ... there is an opportunity for using Sugar in an informal setting as well, where, unconstrained by the official curriculum, the learner has more of an opportunity to dig more deeply into areas of personal interest. I am thinking of something we have in Uruguay, the merenderos. Literal translation of merendero would be place where mid afternoon snack is served. School children go to these places after school and spend time there. It would be nice if someone with knowledge about them could explain how they work. We have the honor of personally knowing for many years a powerful driving force behind this institution of the merenderos. Almost half a century ago, we were married by Fr. Uberfil Monzón, the priest who, as head of INDA, Instituto Nacional de Alimentación, promoted the merenderos. http://www.inda.gub.uy/ INDA has been assuring for a long time that school children are properly fed. Fr. Monzón with the merenderos brought home the idea that it is not only a question of giving children food for the body. Children go to the merenderos after school. They not only find adequate food but also can play, practice sports, socialize with other children. They receive visits by role models such as soccer stars with whom they can talk face to face. It seems to be the ideal set up for what you so well describe of children using Sugar in an informal environment. Sincerely, Carlos Rabassa Volunteer Plan Ceibal Support Network Montevideo, Uruguay On Feb 4, 2011, at 6:13 PM, Walter Bender wrote: ===Sugar Digest=== 1. While shovelling snow I have been reflecting on Sugar – a lot of snow, hence a lot of reflecting. Looking back, I came across a quote [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7094695.stm] from 2007: change equals risk. At the time, I was speaking out against incremental change to a global educational system that was failing to meet the needs of our children. The ''status quo'' was failing – and is still failing – and we embarked upon a path to do something about it. We developed a deployable model of one-to-one computing enabling us to advocate for a pedagogy of constructionist learning [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki Constructionism_%28learning_theory%29], where learning can happen most effectively when people are also active in making tangible objects in the real world. Over the course of four years, we've put Sugar into the hands of almost two-million children. Our goal has been to give them a learning platform – one that encourages them to be expressive with knowledge, to collaborate, and to reflect. While we
[IAEP] Fwd: CC News: $2 billion fund available for open education
FYI. I'm spreading this news around to see whether we can organize some projects to take advantage of this opportunity. -- Forwarded message -- From: Creative Commons developm...@creativecommons.org Date: Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 13:03 Subject: CC News: $2 billion fund available for open education To: echer...@gmail.com echer...@gmail.com If you're having trouble viewing this email, you may view it onlinehttps://creativecommons.net/sites/default/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2748qid=297290 . https://creativecommons.net/sites/default/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2659qid=297290 *Stay up to date with CC news by subscribing to our webloghttps://creativecommons.net/sites/default/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2650qid=297290and following us on Twitterhttps://creativecommons.net/sites/default/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2652qid=297290 .* CC heads into February with exciting new developments in policy, science, and journalism. *A new U.S. education fund makes available $2 billion to create open educational resources in community colleges* The U.S. Department of Labor and the Department of Education announcedhttps://creativecommons.net/sites/default/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2653qid=297290a new education fund that will grant $2 billion to create open educational resources (OER) materials for career training programs in community colleges. The Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Grant Program (TAACCCT) will invest $2 billion over the next four years into grants that will “provide community colleges and other eligible institutions of higher education with funds to expand and improve their ability to deliver education and career training programs.” What's more, the full program announcementhttps://creativecommons.net/sites/default/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2655qid=297290(PDF) states that all the resources created using these funds must be released under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BYhttps://creativecommons.net/sites/default/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2657qid=297290) license. The first round of funding will be $500 million over the next year. Applications to the solicitation are now open, and will be due April 21, 2011. Read what our incoming CEO, Cathy Casserly, has to say at the full posthttps://creativecommons.net/sites/default/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2659qid=297290 . *Nature Publishing Group announces a new open access journal and support for CC* [image: nature reports logo] https://creativecommons.net/sites/default/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2661qid=297290 Nature Publishing Grouphttps://creativecommons.net/sites/default/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2663qid=297290has long been a leader in scientific and medical publishing. Last month, the company announced a brand new online open access journal called *Scientific Reports*https://creativecommons.net/sites/default/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2665qid=297290. With this launch, a full 80% of NPG academic and society journals and 50% of all journals the company publishes offer open access options to authors. Additionally, NPG is going to make a donation to Creative Commons for every publication in *Scientific Reports*https://creativecommons.net/sites/default/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2667qid=297290. We are thrilled to have this financial support that will help us continue to provide the legal and technical infrastructure of open systems. Read morehttps://creativecommons.net/sites/default/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2669qid=297290 . *Al Jazeera adds Egypt and Tunisia coverage to its CC video repository* Since the beginning of the Egyptian uprising on January 25th, Qatar-based all-news Arabic channel Al Jazeera has been feeding its repository of CC-licensed videohttps://creativecommons.net/sites/default/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2671qid=297290with up-to-date footage from Egypt and Tunisia. With a powerful network of journalists and reporters on the ground who can provide footage that is sometimes very difficult to obtain, Al Jazeera has decided to make its content available for other news sources to use through their Creative Commons website” (Wiredhttps://creativecommons.net/sites/default/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2673qid=297290). The footage released on Al Jazeera’s Creative Commons repository is under the CC BYhttps://creativecommons.net/sites/default/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2675qid=297290license, which makes it legally available to be downloaded, shared, re-mixed, translated and even re-broadcast without asking for further permission as long as the original source is credited. Read morehttps://creativecommons.net/sites/default/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2677qid=297290 . *In other news:* - Open data is huge this year. Read about CC's open data strategyhttps://creativecommons.net/sites/default/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2679qid=297290and what you can do to help. - Belgian and Israeli Courts
Re: [IAEP] Help Request
]On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 01:04, Tabitha Roder tabi...@tabitha.net.nz wrote: We have a help request from someone in Puerto Rico. He says this is his niece's XO and he wants to know how to get an activation lease. He can't unless there is a school server nearby, and in that case the school can help. What if he gets the developer key? We would be in a sorry state if thieves could get around our security by acquiring developer keys. No, these are two separate functions. -- 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] Open Learning Exchange global strategy
http://ole.org/2011/01/28/a-strategy-for-increasing-access-to-open-courseware-in-developing-nations/ I plan to contact them next week about what several other projects are doing, and see whether we can get together on this. -- 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] Help Request
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 19:38, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi... We have a help request from someone in Puerto Rico. He says this is his niece's XO and he wants to know how to get an activation lease. He can't unless there is a school server nearby, and in that case the school can help. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activation_and_developer_keys An activation key is a file named lease.sig containing a cryptographic signature tied to a specific XO laptop and used to register the laptop with a school server in a deployment. If he needs an activation lease, his XO is locked by its security software. Also, that need implies that the XO came from a country such as Uruguay that uses this form of security. I don't know what to tell him. Also, I don't know where he or his niece got the XO or if it ever worked for them. Any suggestions? Ask him? Caryl ___ 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] Fwd: [Math 2.0] 2 billion in grants just announced (community colleges)
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Maria Droujkova droujk...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 17:15 Subject: [Math 2.0] 2 billion in grants just announced (community colleges) To: mathfut...@googlegroups.com Today Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced the solicitation for grant applications under the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Grant Program (TAACCCT). Over the course of 4 years, the program will invest $2 billion “to provide community colleges and other eligible institutions of higher education with funds to expand and improve their ability to deliver education and career training programs.” The program supports President Obama’s goal of having the highest proportion of college graduates in the world by 2020 by helping to increase the number of workers who attain degrees, certificates and other industry recognized credentials. The first round of funding will be $500 million over the next year. Applications to the solicitation are now open, and will be due April 21, 2011. The full program announcement (PDF) requires that resources created using grant funds be released under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: In order to further the goal of career training and education and encourage innovation in the development of new learning materials, as a condition of the receipt of a Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Grant (“Grant”), the Grantee will be required to license to the public (not including the Federal Government) all work created with the support of the grant (“Work”) under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (“License”). This License allows subsequent users to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt the copyrighted work and requires such users to attribute the work in the manner specified by the Grantee. Notice of the License shall be affixed to the Work. For more information on this License, please visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0. Cheers, Maria Droujkova Make math your own, to make your own math. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MathFuture group. To post to this group, send email to mathfut...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mathfuture+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mathfuture?hl=en. -- 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] Communities around technology for learning (was: Re: [support-gang] When teaching restrains discovery)
I have suggested creating a walled garden Web site for all OLPC children. We can discuss whether teachers should be allowed in, but definitely no parents. ^_^ They should have their own place to discuss whatever concerns them. Education, poverty, government corruption, international e-commerce... On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 17:32, Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote: I finally got around to reading Claudia's article and one of the core take-aways for me is that building communities (plural!) which help disseminate knowledge about how to use technology for learning is a core challenge which hasn't been sufficiently addressed yet. To me 2010 did show the first promises of this happening within the OLPC / Sugar community with collaboration starting between Plan Ceibal and ParaguayEduca, the work of organizations and communities such as ceibalJAM and RAP Ceibal, a better integration of Latin American contributors in the global community, eKindling's work in the Philippines, all the time Bernie, Daniel, Claudia, Walter and others are spending sharing with and learning from deployments, events such the community summit in San Francisco and the realness summit, the olpcMAP.net project, etc. And with some OLE Nepal staff having started the year by flying out to Rwanda to support the deployment there 2011 is also definitely beginning on a high-note. Having said that I personally feel that at the moment this network of networks (or community of communities, take your pick;-) is wide rather than deep - often seemingly ending at people living in capitals or major cities, being experienced with FLOSS and/or innovative education, etc. rather than reaching and benefiting the children, parents, teachers, principals, and administrators who are really the major stakeholders of education initiatives. I don't have a simple answer on how to deal with this (and who knows, it might just be an issue perceived by yours truly) but I think keeping it in the back of the head might be a start. Cheers, Christoph Am 20.01.2011 17:24, schrieb Holt: Thanks Bastien. Back on the home front, also check out Claudia Urrea's (OLPC Assoc's Chief Learner ;) article today on one-to-one edutech etc: http://edutechdebate.org/ict-in-schools/technologies-for-learning-vs-learning-about-technology/ On 1/20/2011 9:46 AM, Bastien wrote: Hi Christoph and all, I always enjoy those resources about education, thank you for the pointers -- and to everyone for the comments! Let me share two recent readings of mine: John Maeda : The Laws of Simplicity http://www.amazon.com/Laws-Simplicity-Design-Technology-Business/dp/0262134721 My attention got caught when I saw John Maeda referring to Nicholas Negroponte in the chapter « Context ». While discussing the importance of focusing, he mentions this advice from NN : Be as an electric bulb, not as a lazer ray. Which I found to be quite an inspiring metaphor in the context of learning: let's all learn how to shed light on things as bulbs, taking care of others and the context, not as lazer ray, only taking care of the subject matter. George Steiner - « Éloge de la transmission - Le maître et l'élève » http://livre.fnac.com/a1904995/George-Steiner-Eloge-de-la-transmission-le-maitre-et-l-eleve (Sorry, only published in french.) In the debate about instructionisme vs. [constructionisme, project-based method, Montessori method, etc.], most people would certainly say that Steiner -- George, not Rudolph! -- is rather conservative, expressing opinions shared by teachers with a classical-instructionist attitude. The title of this book says it all. Still, he proposes a definition for what it is to be a master: it is someone from which students can always feel the love behind the irony. Of course, Socrates comes to mind as a master of both irony and love towards its pupils -- I bet Steiner would agree. I like this definition. It is general enough to escape the opposition between instructionism / [constructionisme, ...]. But still, I feel this definition captures something essential that any teacher could fruitfully think about. My 2 cents, -- Christoph Derndorfer co-editor, www.olpcnews.com e-mail: christ...@olpcnews.com ___ 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] Internet Archive now supports text to speech with sentence highlighting
English-only so far? Any further plans? On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 15:43, James Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote: I just discovered this a minute ago and thought it would be of interest. The Internet Archive lets you read a book online. They have polished up their online book reader code to the point that it now supports text to speech. It highlights sentences instead of words, and has a nice, human-female-sounding voice that is much more pleasant than what espeak gives us. Here are a couple of links to try out: http://www.archive.org/stream/BigAviationBookForBoys#page/n15/mode/2up http://www.archive.org/stream/MakeYourOwnSugarActivities/ActivitiesGuideSugar-en-2010.10.08-17.20.43#page/n5/mode/2up To date we only have TTS with highlighting in one Activity, which is Read Etexts. The highlighting lags behind the word spoken on an XO laptop (although it keeps up on a more powerful machine). This makes me wonder if sentence highlighting might be a better alternative (and also how to decide what constitutes a sentence). The IA code doesn't always get it right, but it does OK. What is neat is that it works on books like BigAviationBook that were created by photographing page images. This makes me think we could get TTS working in the Read Activity. Anyway, have a look. James Simmons ___ 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] When teaching restrains discovery
Thank you. Exactly what I need for my project. http://booki.flossmanuals.net/discovering-discovery/ This also ties into Seligman's research on learned helplessness. On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 13:29, Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote: Hi all, I just stumbled across this fascinating article called When teaching restrains discovery (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/01/18/when-teaching-restrains-discovery/) which is based on a very recently published paper whose title really says it all The double-edged sword of pedagogy: Instruction limits spontaneous exploration and discovery (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL_udi=B6T24-51WV6VK-1_user=10_coverDate=01/08/2011_rdoc=1_fmt=high_orig=search_origin=search_sort=d_docanchor=view=c_acct=C50221_version=1_urlVersion=0_userid=10md5=b3319a977badfb35348871b64a9e1d4csearchtype=a). Definitely well worth a read in my opinion. :-) Cheers, Christoph -- Christoph Derndorfer co-editor, www.olpcnews.com e-mail: christ...@olpcnews.com ___ 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] Fwd: [Math 2.0] Don Cohen The Mathman: Calculus by and for Young People, live event Wednesday 9:30pm ET
Don Cohen, the Mathman, has a program that begins with teaching 7-year-olds calculus in depth, starting with the ideas rather than the symbols and manipulations. He and I are discussing turning his materials into Sugar activities. Would anybody be interested in helping with development, QA, field testing, localization, and so on? We are thinking of using Smalltalk for this project, but we are open to Python. -- Forwarded message -- From: Maria Droujkova droujk...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 18:14 Subject: [Math 2.0] Don Cohen The Mathman: Calculus by and for Young People, live event Wednesday 9:30pm ET To: naturalm...@googlegroups.com, mathfut...@googlegroups.com *Calculus By and For Young People* [image: Don_Cohen_shell_head.jpg] During the event, Don Cohen-The Mathman will have participants graphing things they have never done before and understand what graphing an equation or function means. He will show how to use his latest creation- *A Map to Calculus*, originally just a poster, but with the help of a former student Jonathan Storm, is now clickable! Each spot on the Map links to his student's work and sample problems from his books. We can also ask Don questions about his past and present work with students ages four and up, his books, and his books that were translated into Japanese and sold in Japan. 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 Wednesday, August 4th 2010 we will meet in the LearnCentral public Elluminate room at 6:30pm Pacific - 9:30pm Eastern time. *WorldClock for your time zonehttp://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8day=4year=2010hour=21min=30sec=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 *Graphing (Cartesian complex plane, polar, parametric and 3D) and its interrelation to algebra, arithmetic, functions, empirically determined functions, iteration, geometry, geometric transformations with matrices, infinite series, infinite sequences, complex numbers, derivatives, integrals, math in nature, math in science, use of applets, and hands-on, as done by Don with students ages 4- to 73- using Don's A Map to Calculushttp://www.mathman.biz/html/map.html, as the base.* *Don expects to learn something and get enjoyment from, the questions and graphs the participants will make, as he does with children. He will show how the Map can be used to help students, parents, teachers and* *teachers of teachers. P**articipants will* *also see how a 4 yo walked to the points for x+y=5 on his kitchen floor, to seeing the points of inflection of a function by graphing the function and the 1st and 2nd derivatives on one graph, and get the area under curves to get the integral by Don's plotting points on a calculator.* Event Host [image: Don-Cohen.jpg] *Donald Cohen* has been teaching math for 56 years. He has taught in Junior HS, college, worked with Dr. Robert B. Davis for about 15 years with The Madison Project training teachers, and developed student lessons on PLATO, a computer-based program at the U of Illinois. He co-founded and taught in The Math Program, a private program, tutoring children since 1976. Some exciting things that have happened since then: He and his partner, Jerry Glynn, have small groups of students after school; this gave them time to work together on mathematics, on how kids learn, and on sharing with the world some things they enjoy doing. Jerry has written two books, on *Derive* and *Mathematica*. In 1988, Don wrote and published his book Calculus By and For Young People (ages 7, yes 7 and up) which was reviewed in the Dec.'88 issue of *Scientific American*, among others, and then made 2 videotapes, a book Calculus By and For Young People-Worksheets, and a book Changing Shapes with Matrices,and A Map to Calculus-- all under the name of Don Cohen-The Mathman. The Japanese translation of his book Calculus By and For Young People (ages 7, yes 7 and up) was published by Kodansha Ltd., in August 1998; they sold over 30,000 copies in 10 years! Don's book Calculus By and For Young People-Worksheets was put on a CD-ROM in Japanese and English, published by Mr. Hiroshi Takimoto. Don's book Changing Shapes With Matrices was also published in
Re: [IAEP] Waveplace back to Haiti in 2 weeks, 2 days
Wish I were there. Say Bon chans to everyone for me. Actually Ou dwe fè pwòp chans ou yo. On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 16:37, Timothy Falconer tee...@waveplace.org wrote: Hi everyone, Waveplace is headed back to Haiti to start 5 new XO pilots. Follow my daily blogging for the next month here: http://waveplace.org/news/ Subscribe to my twitter feed here: http://twitter.com/teefal/ Like us on Facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/waveplace Here's the first blog post: With flights just bought, we're off to Haiti once again. In two weeks, two days, we'll spend two weeks, two days, starting new pilots: two in Cite Soleil, two in tent camps, one with a youth choir, all of them exciting. As usual, there's a half dozen snags. We don't yet have the laptops out of customs, which makes me nervous as hell, though our chief partner said, It'll be fine, book your flights, so we did. Even if we get the laptops out of customs, we won't know how many of them work until just before the pilots. Even if all are working, we still won't have enough, which means we'll bring twenty ourselves. Our chief contact at JP/HRO resigned over the holiday break. We'll be talking with her replacement on Thursday, who seems equally enthusiastic, though major changes so close to a pilot start are always fun. Yesterday an impartial commission announced that Celestin (the unpopular candidate) was actually behind Martelly (the popular one). Preval and Celestin will react to the news after tomorrow's anniversary, which could spark a new round of rioting. We're also hoping the runoff election will be scheduled after our trip. Pretty much the only certain thing is that we're on a very, very tight budget. We can't rent a car, we can't travel to Léogâne, we can't do much more than walk back and forth to the school. Every dollar counts. But we're going. Our work paid off. How to pay the bills in March is another question. In February, we'll make a difference. -- Timothy Falconer Waveplace Foundation http://waveplace.org + 1 610 797 3100 x33 ___ 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] Still need to know: How do I switch the keyboard to another character set?
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 14:04, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: H Gary and alli, I am using 852. Changed to Urdu in settings. Trying to use Write. Writing across the top is in Urdu, but I am unable to enter Urdu text. It does not appear in the list of fonts. All I get are the regular ABC letters. Urdu wasn't listed in texts to choose from. I am looking at an XO running build 852, Sugar 0.84.16. It has a Language setting, but none for Keyboard. This means that you can change keyboard only at the command line. For a Pakistani Urdu keymap, the command in Terminal is setxkbmap pk I recommend that you enter setxkbmap us beforehand, so that you can recall it from the terminal history with up-arrow in order to get out of Urdu. Or create a script file #!/bin/bash setxkbmap us with some easily-remembered Urdu name. Tried Farsi instead since it is listed and shares some of the same characters. Same result. All tabs and instructions are in Farsi, but only able to type ABCs. I will be seeing a niece who is a Farsi speaker this afternoon. She also knows some Urdu. I thought she could help me with a little project I have, if I can find out how to get the Activity to output Urdu. Is there any listing of which Activities support which languages? Are there instructions for accessing these languages anywhere on the OLPC wiki? Caryl CC: support-g...@laptop.org; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org From: garycmar...@googlemail.com Subject: Re: [IAEP] How do I switch the keyboard to another character set? Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 08:47:58 + To: cbige...@hotmail.com Hi Caryl, On 26 Dec 2010, at 06:42, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi... If one had a simple overlay with the Urdu keyboard symbols on it, what would be the exact procedure for switching the keys to Urdu? I tried in My Settings- Keyboard- Urdu - Urdu Pakistan, but the result was a lot of little squares with symbols in them... maybe hex code? Not my place of expertise, and I don't know if Urdu is specifically supported or not, but sounds like your keyboard switch went just fine. What you need to be aware of is: 1) The activity you try to type into needs to support an extended range of possible characters, usually this is utf-8. You've probably heard of ASCII, well that defines the small set of roman characters along with a few accents and symbols western users are used to, utf-8 defines a much larger range of characters allowing many more scripts). If utf-8 input is not supported by an activity, when you type you'll likely often see several fairly arbitrary characters being inserted for each single key press. 2) The OS build needs to have a font that actualy has characters defined for the language script you are trying to use, if there are no available fonts to cover a script, little square symbols are usually what are shown instead. If your activity has control over using different fonts you might need to pick a font yourself that has Urdu characters defined (though I think there is a fallback scheme in some cases that picks a character from some other default font if the current font is missing that symbol). So, I guess the questions are, what activities did you try typing text int? What build of Sugar are you using? If testing in the Write activity, did you go through the different fonts. As a slightly different test, have you tried changing the language to Urdu to see if activities/Sugar shows the text localised (if that works you know you at least have a good font somewhere)? One last point is that fonts that include many language scripts can be HUGE files, so it would not surprise me, given the XO storage limitations, that Sugar builds for specific deployments might likely have been specially customised to include certain neede scripts, they may not be included in more generic releases. Regards, --Gary They look similar to what I have seem from some of my multilingual acquaintances on Facebook. Anybody know how to do this? Caryl ___ 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 -- 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] Still Trying... How do I switch the keyboard to another character set?
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 02:23, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Folks... Still trying! As noted below, I followed Tim's instructions and downloaded the Urdu character set. However, I was not able to access it from Write. Do you mean that it did not show up in the font menu, or that you could not type it? Can you paste Urdu text in from another source? I spent some time working on this with a person who speaks and reads several middle eastern languages. Any ideas? What should I try next? Has anyone changed to another character set on their own rather than getting it that way from the factory? Yes, several of us have done it. Please note the Urdu version of my name in my sig block. I will add a chapter on character set, language, and font settings to the book I am writing, under the heading The Undiscoverable. http://booki.flossmanuals.net/discovering-discovery/edit/ Please send any other unanswered questions. Caryl From: cbige...@hotmail.com To: support-g...@lists.laptop.org Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 12:41:09 -0800 Subject: Re: [support-gang] [IAEP] How do I switch the keyboard to another character set? Thanks Tim. The download seems to have gone smoothly. It reported that paktype/teheer is now available. However, when I went to the Write Activity, it did not appear among the available choices. Will it have a different name? There are several fonts labeled with letter codes such as kacstPen, cmsy10, wasy10, etc. Caryl Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 08:45:00 +1300 From: mcnamara@gmail.com To: support-g...@lists.laptop.org Subject: Re: [support-gang] [IAEP] How do I switch the keyboard to another character set? On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi... Ed Cherlin suggests installing an Urdu font (on the XO, I assume). So, where do I find instructions for doing this and the file I would need to download to the XO? Why isn't it already there or on the wiki. People are using Urdu keyboards, right? Caryl Hi Caryl, This was hinted at during the original answer. Connect the XO to the Internet, open the Terminal Activity and run yum install ttf-paktype/tehreer This asks Fedora to install the typeface for you. Do let me know how you get on. Tim �...@timclicks Director, Kiwi PyCon 2011 ___ support-gang mailing list support-g...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang ___ 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 -- 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] How do I switch the keyboard to another character set?
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 01:42, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi... If one had a simple overlay with the Urdu keyboard symbols on it, what would be the exact procedure for switching the keys to Urdu? I tried in My Settings- Keyboard- Urdu - Urdu Pakistan, but the result was a lot of little squares with symbols in them... maybe hex code? They look similar to what I have seem from some of my multilingual acquaintances on Facebook. Anybody know how to do this? I believe that you only need to install an Urdu font such as ttf-paktype/tehreer. Most Arabic fonts omit several letters needed in Urdu. I have appended a screen capture from Sugar on Ubuntu. Caryl ___ 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/ attachment: PakType Tehreer keys.png___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [realness] a school is not a building
What he said. I hate false dichotomies. They abound in discussions of education and in the politics of education, indeed in any situation where the more extreme the position, the more likely it is to be heard. On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 18:04, Ian Thomson i...@spc.int wrote: Personally, I think the whole approach is wrong. You will never convince Ministries of Education to stop their core activities just because there are laptops. The better approach is to show how laptops can enhance education in schools. This should not be an either/or approach. We can do both. As a simple example, children can leave the school earlier after suitable teaching and complete work on the laptops at home or other locations. This will free up the school to take a second shift of students. Teachers can restructure their teaching to have groups working together to learn, so freeing them up to take more students. Ian Thomson ICT Outreach Section Economic Development Division Secretariat of the Pacific Community B.P. D5 - Noumea Cedex - 98848 New Caledonia Phone +687-265419 Fax +687 26 38 18 http://www.spc.int -Original Message- From: iaep-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org [mailto:iaep-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org] On Behalf Of Bernie Innocenti Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 8:36 AM To: Timothy Falconer Cc: olpc-ha...@lists.laptop.org; grassroots OLPC; olpc-o...@lists.laptop.org; Squeakland List; Maho 2010; IAEP; ht2011-win...@waveplace.org Subject: Re: [IAEP] [realness] a school is not a building On Sun, 2010-12-05 at 15:18 -0500, Timothy Falconer wrote: Hi all, A favor: help me make this case (or refute it) as we prepare once more for Haiti ... spend money on training laptops instead bricks and mortar. http://waveplace.com/news/blog/archive/001035.jsp It's a beautiful thought that touches deep into my hacker spirit, but the conclusion seems weak: what is it that we are advocating for? Remote learning? Home-schooling? Having classes under a tree? It's unclear. The point that you were making with the military canteen vs cooking at home metaphor is that compulsory education doesn't follow individual inclinations. Then, the conclusion should state the proposed solution for this problem. -- // 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 ___ 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] Fwd: [NextNow] Fwd: Hans Rosling's The Joy of Stats: 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes (BBCFour)
Worth consideration as the basis for a Free course. I have long maintained that we should teach statistics through sports such as soccer/football, cricket, and baseball, where well over a century of record-keeping exists. Those not interested in sports could use chess or go, with much longer histories. -- Forwarded message -- From: Bill Daul bd...@nextnow.net Date: Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 04:39 Subject: [NextNow] Fwd: Hans Rosling's The Joy of Stats: 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes (BBCFour) To: Bill Daul bd...@nextnow.net, Me The Owner bd...@pacbell.net, Brinda DALAL brinda_da...@yahoo.com, Bonnie - Tony DEVARCO tdeva...@sgi.com, Bonnie DEVARCO deva...@cruzio.com, Katy Borner k...@indiana.edu This whole BBC series looks amazing and WORTH watching. See the link at the bottom of this note for info on the series, The Joy of Stats. Watch the 4 minute clip at the link below watch at. The substance is very impressive and so is the visualization. --bill Begin forwarded message: From: stuart silverstone s...@graphics.org Date: December 4, 2010 7:17:01 PM PST To: visuald...@graphics.org Subject: Hans Rosling's The Joy of Stats: 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes (BBCFour) Hans Rosling's famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data with a sport's commentator's style to reveal the story of the world's past, present and future development. Now he explores stats in a way he has never done before - using augmented reality animation. In this spectacular section of 'The Joy of Stats' he tells the story of the world in 200 countries over 200 years using 120,000 numbers - in just four minutes. Plotting life expectancy against income for every country since 1810, Hans shows how the world we live in is radically different from the world most of us imagine. watch at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojofeature=player_embedded Documentary which takes viewers on a rollercoaster ride through the wonderful world of statistics to explore the remarkable power thay have to change our understanding of the world, presented by superstar boffin Professor Hans Rosling, whose eye-opening, mind-expanding and funny online lectures have made him an international internet legend. Rosling is a man who revels in the glorious nerdiness of statistics, and here he entertainingly explores their history, how they work mathematically and how they can be used in today's computer age to see the world as it really is, not just as we imagine it to be. Rosling's lectures use huge quantities of public data to reveal the story of the world's past, present and future development. Now he tells the story of the world in 200 countries over 200 years using 120,000 numbers - in just four minutes. The film also explores cutting-edge examples of statistics in action today. In San Francisco, a new app mashes up police department data with the city's street map to show what crime is being reported street by street, house by house, in near real-time. Every citizen can use it and the hidden patterns of their city are starkly revealed. Meanwhile, at Google HQ the machine translation project tries to translate between 57 languages, using lots of statistics and no linguists. Despite its light and witty touch, the film nonetheless has a serious message - without statistics we are cast adrift on an ocean of confusion, but armed with stats we can take control of our lives, hold our rulers to account and see the world as it really is. What's more, Hans concludes, we can now collect and analyse such huge quantities of data and at such speeds that scientific method itself seems to be changing. More about this programme: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wgq0l -- Bill Daul Chief Collaboration Officer NextNow Collaboratory: a synergistic web of relationships focused on transforming the present http://www.human-landscaping.com/nextnow http://www.nextnow.net -- NN Network Blog http://www.nextnow.org -- NN Collaboratory Blog == Play with boundaries, not within. -- 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] [math4] Introduction of MIT graduate team working with Sugar Labs
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 20:43, Julie Lein j2u...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Sugar Community, We are MBA candidates at MIT working with Sugar Labs to help generate awareness for the organization as an independent, open-source educational innovator for children. To do this, we would love your input! Delighted to hear from you. After you get through with this survey, I would love to talk with you about other projects. There are major business opportunities surrounding the OLPC+Sugar project, as described on the Earth Treasury Web site. And a good thing, too, since the intention is to create enough jobs for our millions of graduates. We have a global economy to create, in the tens of trillions of dollars annually. And major problems to solve, so that I am particularly glad that we will be teaching up to a billion children how to collaborate. We will be sending out a brief survey to assess how Sugar and Sugar Labs are perceived by those who know them best. I have written widely against the errors of those who know them least, but feel entitled to inflict their uninformed opinions on the world. Your results should be useful in this endeavor. We would be very grateful if you would take a few moments of your time to share your perspectives with us. We will use your input to generate strategic recommendations for how Sugar Labs can increase its reach throughout the global community. From a personal level, we all came to Sugar Labs due to our passion for education and international development. Alex previously served in the Peace Corps, I was in the Peace Corps in South Korea in the 1960s. Laura worked at a non-profit, Julie served on the Board of an educational non-profit for low-income students, and Parul has worked in software development with an educational focus. I am a serial NGO founder, currently working on how to replace printed textbooks with e-learning materials under Free licenses (GPL and Creative Commons, mainly). For example, http://www.booki.cc/discovering-discovery/ We are passionate about Sugar Labs’ mission and are very excited to be working with you! We will be following this e-mail with our survey. Please feel free to contact us with any questions. Sincerely, Alexandra Fallon (afal...@mit.edu) Laura Guaglianone (lguag...@mit.edu) Julie Lein (j2u...@mit.edu) Parul Singh (pa...@mit.edu) ___ FourthGradeMath mailing list fourthgradem...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/fourthgrademath -- 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] Dumb Questions... Input Wanted... Please Discuss!
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 16:04, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi All... Here are some dumb questions for you. In a couple of weeks I will be doing a 2-hr hands-on workshop (at the CUELA Tech Fair) about OLPC, Sugar, and open source software teachers may want to try with their classes using the computers they already have at their schools. I would like to give them a CD or DVD with the files they would need to make their own USB sticks. I will also be showing them the online sites for Etoys and Scratch. I was thinking of including at least one version of SoaS, a copy of Virtual Box for Mac users, Live usb creator for SoaS (with text files telling how to use them), and Etoys-to-go. Please jump in with comments and suggestions for these questions. Please put your response under the question it applies to, for ease in reading and feel free to add to and comment on others responses: Is there anything else I have missed that should be included? http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Downloads/Landing_page * Are you new to Sugar? [MS Windows] [GNU/Linux] [Apple Mac OS X] [advanced users] * Do you have an OLPC XO? * Do you use GNU/Linux? * Do you use a Virtual Machine? * Are you a developer? * Are you preparing a deployment without Internet access? * Are you looking for Sugar Activities? http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions Community/Distributions/ALTLinux Community/Distributions/Debian Community/Distributions/Fedora Community/Distributions/ForesightLinux Community/Distributions/Gentoo Community/Distributions/Magalhães Community/Distributions/Mandriva Community/Distributions/OpenSUSE Community/Distributions/Saccharin Community/Distributions/Sugar on a Stick Community/Distributions/Trisquel Community/Distributions/Ubuntu Can they create the usb sticks from the files on disk? http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit Can I include a live CD image on the same disk? On a DVD there is plenty of room. Could the same disk serve as a live CD and hold the other files? A Live CD or DVD can have whatever you like in its file system. I made a live SoaS once with the Fedora Live usb creator on a friend's PC. It works on my eeePC. How do you make the Etoys-to-go usb from a file on a disk? Does it need the Live usb Creator? http://wiki.immuexa.com/display/sq/Etoys+To+Go All versions should run on Mac, Windows, and Linux. Get Etoys-version-ToGo.zip from: http://squeakland.org/download/ Download and unpack onto a USB drive (or a folder on your hard disk for testing). Then double-click Etoys-To-Go on a Mac, Etoys.exe on Windows, or etoys.sh on Linux. Can it be done on a Mac? Instructions above. Will it work if they just copy the file onto a usb? No. You have to run an installer to make the USB stick bootable. What version of SoaS is really the most stable? (I know I will get different opinions here... but I would like your input). I'm using Mirabelle and haven't run into problems. I haven't done enough testing to give a really helpful opinion. We will have the XO-1s from the CUELA XO library (I hope) and a mix of XO-1s and XO-1.5s from my Roadshow In a Box for the hands-on lab. Teachers will be invited to use their own laptops if they like, but the purpose of the hands-on part is to introduce the Activities. Has anyone done an introductory workshop like this for classroom teachers? If so, which Activities worked the best in the workshop? That depends strongly on the interests of the teachers. I have done a presentation on how to introduce programming to students. I could easily put one together on how to teach math or science, or history or geography, or phys. ed. (Film and watch yourself, keep stats...). What are the concerns of the teachers? Which age groups and subjects are they concerned with? Will this help them to teach better? Will this help them to get around the obstacles to teaching? What kind of training do they need? What materials are available for them to teach from? Do they have to create all of the computer lesson plans themselves? XOs cost less than printed textbooks. How will that affect procurement, administration, the classroom...? Can we really improve teaching while saving significant amounts of money? How do children react? How do parents react? School boards? Posturing politicians? Ignorant pundits? How can I get involved? How can I get my teachers' organization involved? Did you use 1 to 1 or 2 to 1 (or more if there are too many people) so they can help each other? If attendees won't bring their own laptops, try to get permission to use an existing computer lab. Deal with the administrative questions about running SOAS on their machines well ahead of time. If you haven't done such a workshop, which Activities do you think I should consider including? If you have teachers interested in a particular subject, you can slant your presentation
Re: [IAEP] africa labs
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 13:02, roberto robert...@gmail.com wrote: hello, do you know who is spreading sugar throughout Africa, at the moment (if any) ? I know what is on the deployments page. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployments#Deployment_data Rwanda Nigeria Ethiopia Ghana South Africa and on the interactive map http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?f=qhl=engeocode=time=date=ttype=ie=UTF8cd=1om=1msa=0msid=107887635573341686661.00045a8f74844ef1681f8ll=7.710992,11.25spn=136.959067,316.40625z=2 including those listed above plus Mozambique Mali Kenya Cameroon Uganda i'd like to understand how it is going down there, especially as far as regards power supply issues Do you mean the XO battery packs, power consumption under various loads, battery life, recharging time, the wall plug, gang rechargers, mains power, renewable power,...? Many of these questions are also answered in the Wiki. thank you -- roberto ___ 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] Ask! Please! (Re: how to ask a question)
^_^ Removing the parts we agree on, there remain these Frequently Asked Questions. Of which one of the most frequent is, Is it OK if I ask a dumb question? The traditional answer is, Of course! The only dumb question is the one you didn't ask. I like that, because dumb actually means unable to speak, not stupid. It would make more sense if the questioner knew to ask whether it is OK to ask an ignorant question. What other kind is there, except the kinds asked by lawyers in court, or teachers in the classroom? You can't learn anything unless you are ignorant and know it, even if you just discover your ignorance at the moment of learning. You know that thing you just did? Don't do that again. Science textbook writers love answers, but what really gets scientists up in the morning (or astronomers up in the evening, but the principle is the same) is a good question, one that may take years, even decades to answer, and then generates a multitude of new questions. They, and you, have to practice by asking questions that others do have answers for, and at some point reaching the edges of our knowledge. On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 04:31, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: Besides all the above, to which I agree, we seem to have also the opposite problem: a lot of people in our community are afraid to ask questions on public mailing lists -- no matter how dumb or smart. It's not a language problem or a technical problem, it's really a cultural problem. I think there are a number of different factors: In addition to the reasons you give, I blame schooling for teaching children not to ask questions. Learn what is in the book and no more. Obviously, this is not always true. But it is true enough for us to discuss how to break that pattern, which is a large part of the reason for me being in the OLPC and Sugar Labs projects in the first place. I have a partial draft of a textbook on the subject at http://www.booki.cc/discovering-discovery/ It encourages XO owners to explore on their own and find out what questions they have before we give them answers. It interleaves exploration, taking notes (including both what has been understood and what is still mysterious), hints, and outright explanations of features that mere button-pushing and poking around will not reveal, documented at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/The_Undiscoverable 1) Introversion: a lot of good engineers are naturally shy I had that bad in my youth, but I got treated for it, and now anybody will tell you that I am the opposite of shy. Loud, long-winded, opinionated, never afraid to butt in. A knoker (Yiddish), the kind who did math homework in pen. The Mad Educator, teaching a billion children to take over the world! Bwa-ha-ha-ha! And you can, too. You must be mad, otherwise you wouldn't be here. 2) Public image: employees and contractors may be afraid their posts could compromise the image of their organization 3) NDA: some engineers may be explicitly forbidden by their organization to talk publicly about their job 4) Social fear: sometimes people respond aggressively or sarcastically to newcomers who aren't familiar with the netiquette. I don't mind applying the clue-by-four to the truly clueless troll. But not to the merely ignorant. Better to point to FAQs, or to write one if needed. One of the essential forms of defensive documentation. 5) Force of habit: when they know who can answer a question, people often forget to cc the mailing list. Or use Reply to All, in some mailers. Some conversations should be taken private, particularly on personal matters, or where the details of a discussion won't be of general interest. 6) Unawareness: grasping why public communication is so crucial in a FLOSS community may time some time to developers who have been working in proprietary shops. It's not just essential in FLOSS. It is at the heart of our education mission. Linking students around the world is going to be as important as giving them access to information. As a result, this list has over 500 subscribers and only a tiny fraction of them have ever posted to it. Every day, I get plenty of questions by email and irc that could have been posted publicly. I bet the same is true for other Sugar/OLPC veterans. To those who have never posted: Please introduce yourselves. What is your part in our shared enterprise? Or what would you like to be your part, if you can find out how? Can we assist you? What kinds of people would you like to get into contact with? What questions do you have that I have not covered? But please check in the Wikis before asking detailed questions. If the Wiki search turns up nothing on your query, or nothing relevant or sufficient, it may suggest the best places to ask. Then when you get your answer, please consider writing the appropriate Wiki page, or adding your answer to an existing page. At some point, we need to propose to teachers that they can assign a class to write, rewrite, or
Re: [IAEP] Etoys, is it difficult or easy?
Can we add your dissertation to the Bibliography? On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 19:31, Dr. Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote: Alan, First, I just want to clarify that I meant challenged in a positive way. The 5th graders dove into Etoys first through painting, and then through scripting. However, I agree with what you say about artifacts of a pedagogical approach. We saw this, too. Our learning situation involved 4-6 student experts with whom I spent time showing them the key elements of Etoys needed to begin the project. Then, when we introduced this project to larger class, these experts were free to move around the room helping other students. This is excellent information. I need to see how to integrate what you have found with my work on Discovery and The Undiscoverable. My notion had been to work out the constraints between Sugar features, and then a sequence of topics that would allow teachers to introduce one or two features per lesson. Your work may allow us to speed up the process considerably. We found this model to be a good one for generating a very productive classroom environment with the XOs (in fact, it was the topic of my dissertation which I completed last May). However, I wished we had spent more time with the scripting piece. We had not developed those skills enough. Thanks. Gerald On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote: I'd be curious to hear what the process is with the 5th graders. These were our main subjects. We worked only through regular classroom teachers (who had been carefully coached). You will not see any challenged 5th graders if you use a one on one session with them for about 20-30 minutes. The best way to do this is to teach a few this way, and then use a spreading wave of one on ones. We found that this was much better with both children and adults than to try to teach all of them in mass. So you might be seeing artifacts of pedagogical approach here (and a lot of challenged students result from such artifacts). Cheers, Alan From: Dr. Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com To: Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com Cc: Cherry Withers cwith...@ekindling.org; danielgast...@yahoo.com.ar; Tim McNamara paperl...@timmcnamara.co.nz; Steve Thomas stevesar...@gmail.com; iaep iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Sent: Mon, September 27, 2010 2:29:57 PM Subject: Re: [IAEP] Etoys, is it difficult or easy? Caroline, You are remembering well. And I agree with your hypothesis. The 5th graders took pretty well to Etoys. It is the drawing piece that hooks them, and then the scripting part that really challenges them. And the 7th and 8th graders love Scratch. It is interesting to me because they also do plenty of painting of sprites and backgrounds, but something about the bricks seems to match their thinking process. I am getting ready to introduce my current 7th grade classes to Scratch and am looking forward to that. Thanks. Gerald On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: Gerald did some interesting work last year introducing both Scratch and eToys to 5th and 8th graders. Gerald please correct me if I am misremembering. I think the results were the 8th graders took to Scratch more and the 5th graders took to eToys more. Our hypothesis is that the first thing you do with eToys in draw and that is very accessible to 5th graders. They can engage with the system before they have to start understanding programming. On the other hand 8th graders were directly ready to engage with programming and had a easier/faster time picking that up with Scratch. This is very much a hypothesis, not proven and not based on much data but it would be interesting to explore further. On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: OK, I'll send it to you separately. Anybody else is still welcome to join in. On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 20:47, Steve Thomas stevesar...@gmail.com wrote: Edward, Thanks, please send me the outline and what you think needs to be more easily discoverable and I will work on it. Stephen On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: It is true that you can do all of these things in EToys, if you know where to start. It is also true that the start screen of EToys could be improved by providing a path to each of them, and to other education modules, and Etoys could be improved with a few more introductory modules. Since children and untrained teachers cannot be expected to discover these paths, and paths in other Activities, on their own, I am in the middle of writing a guide to Discovery on the XO. The starting point is my Wiki page, http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/The_Undiscoverable http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick The undiscoverable is an unofficial FAQ for tips, tricks, and solutions
Re: [IAEP] Etoys, is it difficult or easy?
It is true that you can do all of these things in EToys, if you know where to start. It is also true that the start screen of EToys could be improved by providing a path to each of them, and to other education modules, and Etoys could be improved with a few more introductory modules. Since children and untrained teachers cannot be expected to discover these paths, and paths in other Activities, on their own, I am in the middle of writing a guide to Discovery on the XO. The starting point is my Wiki page, http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/The_Undiscoverable http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick The undiscoverable is an unofficial FAQ for tips, tricks, and solutions to common problems that may otherwise be tricky to find. These are being considered for inclusion in the official SoaS documentation. The Etoys section needs vast expansion. I have an outline in mind, which I can share with anybody who would like to work on it. On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 15:59, Tim McNamara paperl...@timmcnamara.co.nz wrote: The analogy doesn't quite fit, as it's possible to do complex things in all of those tools and it's easy to do simple things in EToys. Each Activity can be used in this learning model, e.g. training wheels to motorbike. Tim On 25 September 2010 05:48, Cherry Withers cwith...@ekindling.org wrote: And Scratch? ... don't remember where I read it, but it sounded logical to me. Use progressively difficult tools for progressively difficult tasks. To confirm this statement, I add the phrase: Visible learning, invisible technology. Children would first learn TurtleArt. When they outgrow it switch to Scratch. When all its possibilities are exhausted, continue with eToys. ___ 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] Etoys, is it difficult or easy?
OK, I'll send it to you separately. Anybody else is still welcome to join in. On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 20:47, Steve Thomas stevesar...@gmail.com wrote: Edward, Thanks, please send me the outline and what you think needs to be more easily discoverable and I will work on it. Stephen On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: It is true that you can do all of these things in EToys, if you know where to start. It is also true that the start screen of EToys could be improved by providing a path to each of them, and to other education modules, and Etoys could be improved with a few more introductory modules. Since children and untrained teachers cannot be expected to discover these paths, and paths in other Activities, on their own, I am in the middle of writing a guide to Discovery on the XO. The starting point is my Wiki page, http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/The_Undiscoverable http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick The undiscoverable is an unofficial FAQ for tips, tricks, and solutions to common problems that may otherwise be tricky to find. These are being considered for inclusion in the official SoaS documentation. The Etoys section needs vast expansion. I have an outline in mind, which I can share with anybody who would like to work on it. On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 15:59, Tim McNamara paperl...@timmcnamara.co.nz wrote: The analogy doesn't quite fit, as it's possible to do complex things in all of those tools and it's easy to do simple things in EToys. Each Activity can be used in this learning model, e.g. training wheels to motorbike. Tim On 25 September 2010 05:48, Cherry Withers cwith...@ekindling.org wrote: And Scratch? ... don't remember where I read it, but it sounded logical to me. Use progressively difficult tools for progressively difficult tasks. To confirm this statement, I add the phrase: Visible learning, invisible technology. Children would first learn TurtleArt. When they outgrow it switch to Scratch. When all its possibilities are exhausted, continue with eToys. ___ 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 -- 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] kids hacking sugar?
Walter Bender has also created a Turtle Art/Python path using programmable blocks. I did a presentation on it once showing some simple functions for graphing, and adding math functions from Python to Turtle Art. You start by assigning a single function call to a block, then an expression, then a few lines of code, then multiple blocks of code, and so on. There is also a path from Turtle Art to FORTH using the stack blocks. There are a number of Turtle Art/Logo packages such as UCBLogo. It would not be hard to add other language connections. On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 21:09, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: Soren I hope a non-Sugar anecdote is OK. I had a year 6 (aprox. 11year old) student in my class programming in a TurtleArt/Etoys/Scratch like drag and drop programming language with top end extensibility through a scripting language. He found a strategy game with quite complex coding in the scripting language written by a Dutch programmer. All the variable names were in Dutch. On his own initiative he passed the code through Google Translate Dutch-English to find out how to increase the range of his laser turrets. For me this demonstrates that surprisingly young kids will do high end hacking if four conditions are met: relevant, authentic, low entry, high ceiling. Relevant: something relevant to your interests, like a strategy game Authentic: real world useful, like a game your classmates will play Low entry: easy to start learning High ceiling: unrestricted growth and challenge (see Mihály Csíkszentmihályi on flow) TurtleArt on Sugar has Python function and Python block extensions as an attempt to provide an easy pathway from drag and drop programming to Python hacking. I don't know how successful this has been with kids. Getting straight into Python programming is 'high entry', any significant hacking I would expect to come from the TurtleArt/Scratch/Etoys pathway. Tony I'm a curious outsider. Do kids actually hack sugar, change codes, do language translation, etc? Or is it just an option that they have with Sugar-FOSS? If so, where can I find some data on kids involved with sugar-hacking-activity? i.e. videos, community-discussions, documents, or your own descriptive observations regards Soren student in educational anthropology ___ 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] 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 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] Sugar Community (was Re: [SLOBS] Sugar Labs 2010 Goals Review)
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 15:04, C. Scott Ananian csc...@cscott.net wrote: On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: El Mon, 12-07-2010 a las 22:13 -0400, C. Scott Ananian escribió: In the past, we've been criticized for insufficient transparency. Does anyone still have a problem with this? Open to critique isn't quite the same as responsive to critique. [...] For an end-of-year report, I'd like to see instances enumerated where SugarLabs actually internalized some outside critique and responded in a positive way -- some concrete change made to the UI, or Sugar, or to [...] I think you're mostly correct, but this is endemic to how a community works. One can't expect Sugar Labs to react to criticism like a business would (would it?). [...] The most effective way to influence a community is becoming part of it [...] Sadly, it doesn't seem to work so well for non-technical folks. I can't I would like to see more of an effort to create places for students and teachers, maybe even parents and other family, to collaborate, discuss, share experiences...Few of them would want to join the developers in the technical discussion, but a lot of them would have something to say about how something could be used. For example, there was some discussion of touchscreens in this thread, with virtual keyboards. I want to see virtual music keyboards and other such tactile interfaces. Players of a wide variety of classical, pop, electronic, and folk instruments have a lot to tell us that we can't think up without them. If I could get a pressure sensor hooked up to the sound port, it would be possible to make a touch-screen device into a Midi breath controller. My son and daughter in the video games industry can tell you about multitouch game controls. I have no idea what the children of Peru or Afghanistan might ask of us in hardware or software that we haven't though of, but I bet they will. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ 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] [OLPC-SF] Current OLPC Metrics
An excellent summary of necessary areas of research. Now the question is, what has been done? What do we know? What will we know soon, when results of current studies get published? I started a Wiki page on published academic papers, which has since been merged into http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_research . Much more material has been added, and evidently much more will be forthcoming. Please let us know if you find answers to your questions there, and also what else we should try to find out. If you have contacts with any credible research organization, such as a school of education, please ask them whether they would be interested in studying our projects. On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:16, Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote: Hi Grant, I just spent my morning looking at that very same question in preparation for some afternoon meetings I have with people here in Montevideo who run the OLPC project in Uruguay. In general there's two dimensions in terms of the impact of a project such as OLPC: educational and social. In terms of education some of the more popular metrics and aspects to look at apart from attendance rates are * comparisons of school performance/achievements compared to control groups (though not everyone believes that;-) * grade repetition rates * student engagement in school * time spent on school / education related tasks at home / outside class * knowledge about computers * feelings towards technology in general * collaboration between students * self-confidence of students * feelings about school by students I'm sure I'm forgetting plenty more but if you look at some of the research done by folks like TCER (Texas Center for Educational Research) or ACER (Australian Council for Educational Research) you'll quickly be able to come up with them. With regard to social impact people are mostly looking at things such as rates of access to the Internet, perceptions of technology, changing roles of children in families and communities, etc. Hope that helps:-) Cheers, Christoph Am 14.07.2010 03:56, schrieb Grant Bowman: I gave a lightning talk today on the OLPC project at www.nblug.org http://www.nblug.org and was asked about current metrics. Besides increased student attendance, what are good ways to respond? Thanks, Grant ___ OLPC-SF mailing list olpc...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sf -- Christoph Derndorfer co-editor, www.olpcnews.com e-mail: christ...@olpcnews.com ___ OLPC-SF mailing list olpc...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sf -- 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] eBooks for Primary Students?
Try http://www.librarianchick.com/ . On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 17:48, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Can some of you send me some links to sites with free ebooks/digital textbooks suitable for use in primary schools... English is ok. Need to be culturally unbiased if possible. I need these for for folks doing Contributors Program projects in Uganda and on the Crow reservation in Montana. Thanks! Caryl ___ 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] Crazy Idea
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:26, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi All... Here is a crazy idea for you all to laugh at, think about, or act on: Sugar Apps! Excellent, where practical. For example, on any device supporting Linux, whether authorized by the manufacturer or not. ^_^ Some schools are getting iPod touches (??? is that the plural) for their elementary schools to use. Apple has a big push with this and has several demo projects going. I saw one at CUE in March. Very impressive! All they need to make it perfect is some Sugar Apps! Single user Sugar Activities in Python should be fairly easy to port. Smalltalk, no problem. Full collaboration would be a lot of work, due to its extensive use of Linux-specific libraries. Caryl Now how about the promised ~$75 Marvell/OLPC ARM tablet computer running Linux and full Sugar? -- 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] Quote, docs (was Re: Sugar Digest 2010-05-20)
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. 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
Re: [IAEP] Pippy improvements (Python examples)
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 21:34, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: Hi Dinko A Pippy example of reading data from the microphone input would be good. See Measure and Turtle Art experimental fork for code. It would be good if the samples you create could also be used in the Turtle Blocks programmable Python block Second the motion. There are a number of topics that we can teach in Turtle Art with just a little Pythonic aid. Turtle Art also makes an excellent platform for introducing Python programming in a gentle and controlled way in the elementary grades. first exercise requires only a Python expression, not a full program, and we can add features one at a time from there. Tony Hello everyone, I'm Dinko and I'll be working on improving Pippy during the following three months as part of GSOC 2010. A full description of my project can be found here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2010/Pippy_improvements A short description: I'll soon (GSOC starts in 9 days) be adding more Python examples to Pippy, as the first part of my project, so I was wondering if you already have any interesting ideas for programming examples which I could implement. Kind regards, Dinko Galetic Hello everyone,brbrI'm Dinko and I'll be working on improving Pippy during the following three months as part of GSOC 2010. brbrA full description of my project can be found here: a href=http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2010/Pippy_improvements;http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2010/Pippy_improvements/abr brA short description: I'll soon (GSOC starts in 9 days) be adding more Python examples to Pippy, as the first part of my project, so I was wondering if you already have any interesting ideas for programming examples which I could implement. br brKind regards,brDinko Galeticbr ___ 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 -- 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] Fwd: [Math 2.0] Fwd: [ie-directory-forum:68] The Early Education and Technology for Children
FYI http://www.eetcconference.org/call-for-proposals/ -- Forwarded message -- From: Maria Droujkova droujk...@gmail.com Date: Fri, May 14, 2010 at 06:54 Subject: [Math 2.0] Fwd: [ie-directory-forum:68] The Early Education and Technology for Children To: mathfut...@googlegroups.com Cc: inchicor...@hotmail.com Let's make sure Early Math Education is presented! Cheers, Maria Droujkova http://www.naturalmath.com Make math your own, to make your own math. -- Forwarded message -- From: pdonaghy inchicor...@hotmail.com Date: Fri, May 14, 2010 at 6:26 AM Subject: [ie-directory-forum:68] The Early Education and Technology for Children To: IE Directory Forum ie-directory-fo...@googlegroups.com The Early Education and Technology for Children™ (EETC) committee would like to encourage Edubloggers community to submit papers and attend the EETC conference. The conference will be an annual meeting place for presenting and discussing research and developments in the areas of pre-elementary and elementary education. Topics will include research and design of educational tools, learning theories for early education, and educational technology. Presentations from both domestic and international sources are welcome. EETC will provide a forum for the discussion of established educational programs as well as newer and prospective developments in the field. The EETC committee is currently requesting paper submissions related to the topics indicated on its webpage www.eetcconference.org. All submissions must represent original scholarly work. Material already published or presented elsewhere will not be accepted. - http://www.eetcconference.org/call-for-proposals/ Abstracts should be submitted online by October 1, 2010. Acceptance will be based on relevance to conference topics, originality, quality, and compliance with the requirements indicated online. The EETC conference seeks to provide an opportunity for groups like the Edubloggers community and other researchers, policy makers, administrators, educators, and practitioners to discuss cutting-edge research, innovations, approaches, and developments in education for children from preschool through elementary school. Come join the discussion by submitting a paper and attending the EETC conference on March 2-4, 2011 in Salt Lake City, UT. See more details and stay up to date by going to www.eetcconference.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups IE Directory Forum group. To post to this group, send email to ie-directory-fo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ie-directory-forum+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ie-directory-forum?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MathFuture group. To post to this group, send email to mathfut...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mathfuture+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mathfuture?hl=en. -- 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] [SPAM]An intelligent sneakernet for the XO.
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 17:07, William Schaub wsch...@steubentech.com wrote: I was encouraged by some people at the RIT OLPC user's group to make a post on this mailing list about a project of mine that is in the proof of concept stage at the moment but needs a bit of polish. Have you looked at FidoNet for further inspiration? I'm copying this to Tim Pozar, who worked on that design and has since been doing free wireless networks, notably BARWN (Bay Area Research Wireless Network). The idea is basically a decentralized discussion forum that automatically propagates itself amongst all XO laptops that are in range. I've created a working (but somewhat clunky) system that does exactly that using some clever Perl scripts, the innd usenet server and a web based interface to news that runs on top of lighttpd on the XO. You can see what I have done so far at http://teotwawki.steubentech.com I have a working LiveCD as well as downloads that will work on an XO. I am interested in adding polish to this system and making it a lot more user friendly. I would also like to create a streamlined version that could work on smart phones and other mobile devices. either via bluetooth or 802.11. I have propagation working through USB thumb drive exchange and do intend to make dialup transfers work in the future. The CVS version is currently more up to date and has bug fixes that the current downloads do not have. but I can re-roll the downloads if anyone is interested. I just wanted to get your comments and see how I could best turn this into something that could benefit the OLPC community as well as the general public at large. ___ 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] Fwd: Special live webcast with Arne Duncan
I submitted a question about one-to-one computing and free digital learning materials. -- Forwarded message -- From: Natalie Foster, BarackObama.com i...@barackobama.com Date: Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 17:06 Subject: Special live webcast with Arne Duncan To: Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com [image: Organizing for America] Edward -- Last week, we won a major victory when President Obama fulfilled his campaign promise and signed groundbreaking student loan reforms into law. *Tomorrow, the Honorable Arne Duncan will join Organizing for America supporters for a special live webcast *about student loan reform and efforts to prepare our children to compete in the global economy. Arne Duncan has served as the chief executive officer of the Chicago Public Schools and as head of the non-profit education foundation Ariel Education Initiative in Chicago. On January 20, 2009, he was nominated to be secretary of education by President-elect Obama and was confirmed by the Senate. Curious how student loan reform -- and other ongoing efforts to foster innovation and reinvest in schools -- will affect your family? Know a friend or family member who is looking for answers? *We're proud to present this unique opportunity to ask questions and learn more tomorrow, Tuesday, April 6th, at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time.* *Click here to ask a question -- and bookmark the page so you can tune in tomorrow at 11 a.m. Eastern Time.*http://my.barackobama.com/page/m/55c10767/50112397/eeb9d9c3/118875f4/355569462/VEsH/ *What:* Education Reform Webcast with the Honorable Arne Duncan *Where:* www.BarackObama.comhttp://my.barackobama.com/page/m/55c10767/50112397/eeb9d9c3/118875f4/355569462/VEsE/ *When:* Tuesday, April 6th 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time Arne Duncan will sit down to speak with local students and answer questions submitted online by Organizing for America supporters like you. So if you've got a question, take a moment to submit it now -- then tune in tomorrow. *In 2008, parents and teachers, students and professors, and all Americans who care about our ability to compete in the 21st century stood together to elect a president who would fight to strengthen our education system.* Already, we've won a major victory: Student loan reform that ends subsidies to special-interest lending companies, doubles funding for Pell Grants, and will cap a graduate's annual student-loan payments at 10 percent of his or her income. But that's not all. For the past year, President Obama's administration has implemented groundbreaking education reforms -- fixing flaws in No Child Left Behind and sparking innovation in the states with the Race to the Top fund. Have a question about changes to student loans -- or just want to hear more about education reform? *Submit your question now, then tune in to the live webcast tomorrow:* *http://my.barackobama.com/DuncanChat*http://my.barackobama.com/page/m/55c10767/50112397/eeb9d9c3/118875f4/355569462/VEsF/ Thanks, Natalie Natalie Foster New Media Director Paid for by Organizing for America, a project of the Democratic National Committee -- 430 South Capitol Street SE, Washington, D.C. 20003. This communication is not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. This email was sent to: echer...@gmail.com Update Address / Emailhttp://my.barackobama.com/page/content/change_info?cons_id=5696541email1=echer...@gmail.com| Unsubscribehttp://my.barackobama.com/page/m/55c10767/50112397/eeb9d9c3/118875f7/355569462/VEsC/ -- 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] Fwd: Helping kids develop mobile applications?
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 08:31, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 7:15 PM, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: “you cannot edit projects on the phone. The authoring UI would have to be completely redesigned. For serious work it's just too small, you at least need a screen size like the XO has“ Thanks Bert Cherry What would a good learning app for a phone look like? It need not be a visual block programming language but could be. There are many options, none of them sufficiently explored yet, but enough to get started with. Voice recognition Music recognition Gesture recognition using touch screen, camera, or attitude and motion sensors Terminal interface from some other device Pannable, zoomable virtual desktop Toolbars that can easily be displayed and dismissed I have seen each of these in use on one platform or another. I assume that there are more possibilities that we haven't thought of yet, and that some of them will turn up in innovative games. Authoring would be always on Low entry, wide walls and high ceiling Collaborative Would give access to the microphone, speaker, camera, screen and networks (Bluetooth, Wifi and phone) If an iPhone, it would give access to the Accelerometer, Proximity sensor, Ambient light sensor, Assisted GPS and Digital compass It would amplify human thought The pencil and paper amplify thought. We can create a music score, diagram or text of greater complexity on paper than we can hold in our head. The computer, like pencil and paper, allows us to store and inspect our project. Unlike paper, it also can 'play' our project. TamTam, Record, Etoys and Physics are examples that utilise the computer as a player. The screen is how we transfer a project of great complexity inside the device to the limited representation which is inside our heads. The eye is well adapted to find a smaller piece of information in a larger project and concentrate our attention on it. Does it have to be the screen? A small screen is a problem. The iPhone has a resolution of 480-by-320-pixels at 163 ppi , I would need glasses but its not that small a screen for young eyes. TurtleArt has a number of features which adapt it to small screens. Another possibility is to use multiple devices for the authoring environment, spreading the problem out across multiple phones. -walter named stacks of blocks collapsible stacks zoom in and out scrollable canvas save and restore stacks in trash Sugar uses the frame as a way to conserve screen space. I do not think that the phone is too small a platform for serious work. I hope that somebody will create a phone app which follows the educational principles of Etoys: authoring always on, low entry, wide walls, high ceiling and collaborative. It might not be a visual programming tool though. Tony ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- 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] Fwd: [Sur] Presidente Chavez, computador as para niños
Does anybody here know about this Lemote computer from Quanta, and its version of Debian? Venezuela is ordering lots of them. Is anybody working on getting Sugar on it? -- Forwarded message -- From: Luis Galindo llwwwl...@gmail.com Date: 2010/4/1 Subject: Re: [Sur] Presidente Chavez, computadoras para niños To: OLPC para usuarios, docentes, voluntarios y administradores olpc-...@lists.laptop.org En una charla en La Paz de Esteban Saavedra sobre la Lemote, posiblemente lo conocen, dijo que la empresa venezolana que ensamblaba estas computadoras chinas, iba a comenzar con el mercado interno, posteriormente con los países miembros del ALBA, y después con el resto de Latinoamérica. Eso fue lo que escuche hace como un año atrás. Luis El 31 de marzo de 2010 17:49, Yamandu Ploskonka yamap...@bolinux.org escribió: VIT, la empresa venezolana que maneja el proyecto de la Computadora Bolivariana, está ya importando laptops de China y poniendo su etiqueta para venderlas, aparentemente sólo para el mercado interno. On 03/26/2010 08:23 PM, cristian paul peñaranda rojas wrote: ¿Alguien sabe por que no están tomando en cuenta XOs? por supuesto, aparte del hermano de Nicolás... Y el socio de Rodrigo... No se si talves el gobierno venzolano esta interesado en esperar que poder-digital [1] este en capaciad de esamblar o almenos traer laptop de china. No se me occurre mas saluds cristian paul [1]http://www.poder-digital.com ___ Lista olpc-Sur olpc-...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sur ___ Lista olpc-Sur olpc-...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sur ___ Lista olpc-Sur olpc-...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sur -- 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] Gravity for Beginners...
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 07:03, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote: And, as Edward knows, it is almost beyond belief that Newton did take into account all of these factors the very first time out of the chute in the Principia. Yes, it's all in Book III of the Principia, under the title The System of the World. Orbits of planets, moons, and comets; water tides (but not rock tides); rotational bulges and the variation of gravity from equator to poles; precession of equinoxes; the effect of the Sun on the Moon's orbit; and so on, plus generally good philosophy and bad theology. There are a few other such minds known, able to create multiple branches of math or physics. Archimedes, Leonardo da Vinci (who couldn't publish), Euler, Gauss, Einstein...Those who can create even one are the great men and women of their fields. Coming up with even one significant new idea, and then working out its consequences for a lifetime, makes one a leader. The most amazing thing about the Principia to me is that Newton translated all of the calculus that he used to work out these discoveries into Euclidean geometry for publication, solely in order to avoid controversy over the foundations of the calculus. Since then, Abraham Robinson and John Horton Conway have demonstrated how actual infinitesimals can be incorporated into arithmetic and calculus. Cheers, Alan From: Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com To: Yamandu Ploskonka yamap...@gmail.com Cc: iaep iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Sent: Sat, March 27, 2010 8:48:26 PM Subject: Re: [IAEP] Gravity for Beginners... On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 23:11, Yamandu Ploskonka yamap...@gmail.com wrote: How much lighter is a person in La Paz, Bolivia, than at sea level? This actually was asked by a kid when I was there last time. For practical purposes let's assume La Paz is 3.800 m over sea level Fascinating question. The simplest answer is that weight is inversely proportional to distance from the center, which we can approximate as 40,000 km/pi, or 12,742 km on average. This would give us a difference of roughly one part in 5,000 in weight for a difference of 4 parts in 10,000 in height. However, the distance between surface and center is actually 43 km greater at the equator than at the pole, so we have to do some much finer calculations to locate sea level at he latitude of La Paz. Then we have to decide whether to ask what the weights would be on a stationary Earth, or whether we will take rotation into account, resulting in apparent decreases in centripetal forces. If we wanted to be really finicky, we could take relativity into account also. ^_^ On 03/27/2010 10:03 PM, Edward Cherlin wrote: If the kids could really measure accurately, which can be done with a high quality pendulum, they would find that the acceleration is not actually constant, but differs by about one part in a million from 14 feet above the ground and at the ground level (due the more accurate inverse square Newton Law). And if they had access to atomic clocks, they could observe the difference in the rate of passage of time at higher and lower altitudes, which are of practical importance in the clocks on GPS satellites. Measuring the deviations from Newton's Law in a falling object near the surface of the Earth requires greater precision than is available. It is observable with great difficulty in the precession of the orbit of Mercury around the Sun, and more clearly in binary pulsar systems. Please don't hesitate to ask questions. Cheers, Alan From: Walter Benderwalter.ben...@gmail.com To: Jeff Elknerj...@elkner.net Cc: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Sent: Sat, March 20, 2010 12:41:01 PM Subject: Re: [IAEP] Gravity for Beginners... kino will let you export your movie as a series of stills... I am sure there are many Free multimedia programs with a similar capability. regards. -walter On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Jeff Elknerj...@elkner.net wrote: Hi All, I'm working on a derivative version of Gravity for 10 Year Olds to use with my high school age students, which I'm calling Gravity for Beginners: https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ARq50A7-FeDXZGd2MnN0ODJfMjAwNmc0NHF4ZHIhl=en Day 2 has the following: Show the students how to overlay frames from their videos to get this effect: Can anyone point me to easy instructions on how to do this? I can't really use the lesson without it. Thanks! jeff elkner ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- 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] Gravity for Beginners...
If the kids could really measure accurately, which can be done with a high quality pendulum, they would find that the acceleration is not actually constant, but differs by about one part in a million from 14 feet above the ground and at the ground level (due the more accurate inverse square Newton Law). And if they had access to atomic clocks, they could observe the difference in the rate of passage of time at higher and lower altitudes, which are of practical importance in the clocks on GPS satellites. Measuring the deviations from Newton's Law in a falling object near the surface of the Earth requires greater precision than is available. It is observable with great difficulty in the precession of the orbit of Mercury around the Sun, and more clearly in binary pulsar systems. Please don't hesitate to ask questions. Cheers, Alan From: Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com To: Jeff Elkner j...@elkner.net Cc: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Sent: Sat, March 20, 2010 12:41:01 PM Subject: Re: [IAEP] Gravity for Beginners... kino will let you export your movie as a series of stills... I am sure there are many Free multimedia programs with a similar capability. regards. -walter On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Jeff Elkner j...@elkner.net wrote: Hi All, I'm working on a derivative version of Gravity for 10 Year Olds to use with my high school age students, which I'm calling Gravity for Beginners: https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ARq50A7-FeDXZGd2MnN0ODJfMjAwNmc0NHF4ZHIhl=en Day 2 has the following: Show the students how to overlay frames from their videos to get this effect: Can anyone point me to easy instructions on how to do this? I can't really use the lesson without it. Thanks! jeff elkner ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- 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 ___ 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] Gravity for Beginners...
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 23:11, Yamandu Ploskonka yamap...@gmail.com wrote: How much lighter is a person in La Paz, Bolivia, than at sea level? This actually was asked by a kid when I was there last time. For practical purposes let's assume La Paz is 3.800 m over sea level Fascinating question. The simplest answer is that weight is inversely proportional to distance from the center, which we can approximate as 40,000 km/pi, or 12,742 km on average. This would give us a difference of roughly one part in 5,000 in weight for a difference of 4 parts in 10,000 in height. However, the distance between surface and center is actually 43 km greater at the equator than at the pole, so we have to do some much finer calculations to locate sea level at he latitude of La Paz. Then we have to decide whether to ask what the weights would be on a stationary Earth, or whether we will take rotation into account, resulting in apparent decreases in centripetal forces. If we wanted to be really finicky, we could take relativity into account also. ^_^ On 03/27/2010 10:03 PM, Edward Cherlin wrote: If the kids could really measure accurately, which can be done with a high quality pendulum, they would find that the acceleration is not actually constant, but differs by about one part in a million from 14 feet above the ground and at the ground level (due the more accurate inverse square Newton Law). And if they had access to atomic clocks, they could observe the difference in the rate of passage of time at higher and lower altitudes, which are of practical importance in the clocks on GPS satellites. Measuring the deviations from Newton's Law in a falling object near the surface of the Earth requires greater precision than is available. It is observable with great difficulty in the precession of the orbit of Mercury around the Sun, and more clearly in binary pulsar systems. Please don't hesitate to ask questions. Cheers, Alan From: Walter Benderwalter.ben...@gmail.com To: Jeff Elknerj...@elkner.net Cc: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Sent: Sat, March 20, 2010 12:41:01 PM Subject: Re: [IAEP] Gravity for Beginners... kino will let you export your movie as a series of stills... I am sure there are many Free multimedia programs with a similar capability. regards. -walter On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Jeff Elknerj...@elkner.net wrote: Hi All, I'm working on a derivative version of Gravity for 10 Year Olds to use with my high school age students, which I'm calling Gravity for Beginners: https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ARq50A7-FeDXZGd2MnN0ODJfMjAwNmc0NHF4ZHIhl=en Day 2 has the following: Show the students how to overlay frames from their videos to get this effect: Can anyone point me to easy instructions on how to do this? I can't really use the lesson without it. Thanks! jeff elkner ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- 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 ___ 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] SoaS change of direction: heads-up on convos in other lists
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 12:32, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: Hi Martin, On 20 Mar 2010, at 15:54, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Mel Chua m...@melchua.com wrote: The short version is that instead of include all Activites by default, we're thinking of shipping very few (6) Activities by default - the ones that help users get further Activities and help I read Sebastian's post... and is less drastic than that. He seems to say: include only the well tested, known to work, actively maintained activities, with an eye towards activitries that serve as a good intro to the platform and that demo well. But you say only 6... Which one is it? This is what I see in the kickstart file: http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/soas/repos/mainline/blobs/master/fedora-livecd-soas.ks # == sugar activities == sugar-browse # Because they need this to install activities. sugar-log # Because they need this for debugging. sugar-physics # Because this is a great demo example (quick demo). sugar-terminal # Because this makes debugging easier. sugar-turtleart # Because this is a great demo example (extended demo). sugar-xoirc # Because this helps us help them. Not a bad minimum list, but what prevents us from installing a few more? What information do we have on which others work best? (Language support, no blocker bugs, really good demos of education...) I assume that we have to omit activities that depend on the camera or the sound system. I would like to see a few additions. o Write and Paint, excellent examples of collaboration o Chat for making friends, sharing tips and experiences, organizing collaborations o Pippy and Etoys for introductory programming o Scratch for multimedia I have not had any issues with any of them lately. Other votes, please. The initial proposal I like; makes a lot of sense and raises the bar. IT basically increases the chances of a satisfactory first use. Six activities not so much -- you need many steps + internet to add activities... and it'll be random activity from ASLO, may well be unstable or useless. It significantly _reduces_ chances of satisfaction. All IMHO... +1, six does seem rather slim, more of a technical taster for a developer audience (not necessarily a bad thing in the right context). Walter mentioned perhaps making this a Fedora spin, rather than an official SoaS release aimed at our real target users (teachers/children)? Regards, --Gary P.S. I am worried about reports of several previously well working activities that seem to be currently broken in recent SoaS builds (Write and IRC), unfortunately I don't have time to often test under SoaS (other than the official Blueberry) as well as my regular day to day sugar-jhbuild set-up (F10). ___ 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] Need ideas for 1 hour Sugar introductory lessons
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/0/0e/Gravity.odt Alan Kay's gravity lesson for ten-year-olds in Turtle Art and Record. On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 10:50, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: We are planning for April vacation week and working with the public library a few blocks from the GPA school. We will be doing 1 to 5 1-hour sessions with a few students during April vacation week. We will then extend that program to after school. My thought is to do focus on a different activity each session. Its a recreational setting. We can ask for different age ranges for different sessions when we advertise. I definitely want to do one with Physics. Do people have suggestions for what are some of the best 1 hour introductions for kids? Thanks, Caroline -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax ___ 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] Response to Intervention: What is an intervention?
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:47, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: I gave a brief overview of RTI here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI95fgBnJWI Having a process engineering background I found the concept of measuring, changing things, and tracking the response to those changes very sensible and straight forward. Of course. However, as I read I never got a clear picture of what an intervention really was. The most fundamental problem, when compounded with the fact that most people in education don't even know what questions to ask in order to learn something new. But we do know that if you don't ask the right questions, you can't find the right answers. I have written about this in the context of the XO, where one set of questions is the conventional bigger, faster, conventional software set, and another is ruggedness, low-power, Free Software set. In education, the standard set of questions is given by the standardized tests and their authorized Right Answers, which say nothing about discovery, collaboration, deep understanding, changing the school culture, and so on. Or about how students approach questions that don't have Right Answers. Today I found this website which is selling a computer program that could be used as an intervention. Note that generally, in Boston at least, interventions are not computer programs, they are on paper and have instructions for the teacher and materials for the student. But since we are a computer learning platform i'm interested in what a computer based intervention would look like. There are demos of quite a bit of their software. This is an interesting one to start with: http://www.scilearn.com/products/brainapps/hoop-nut/ Its focuses very specifically on discriminating phonemes. This is a good video on the basics of the neuroscience. It oversimplifies a bit but its still pretty good introduction: http://www.scilearn.com/our-approach/the-fast-forword-program/brain-science-video/ I think this story told by a student is also a good overview of what they are trying to do: http://www.scilearn.com/results/success-stories/real-life-stories/willie-brown.php?video=Willie%20Brown#video I am not endorsing this software, I just found their website and think its a very concrete way of seeing what software that supports this type of learning would look like. I'm just learning myself. Cheers, Caroline -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax ___ 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] Attend the CUE (Computer Using Educators) Conference in your PJs!
Eluminate does not run on 64-bit Ubuntu Linux, nor on many other distributions, because the Java module to support it is not available. We need something supported in Free Software, such as .ogg files. On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:22, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi All, The CUE Conference (Computer Using Educators) will be this coming weekend in Palm Springs CA, and through the magic of Classroom 2.0 you can attend, free from wherever you are. All you have to do is sign up for Classroom 2.0 and learn to use the Eluminate Conferencing tool. While Eluminate is not Open Source, the founder and head of Classroom 2.0, Steve Hargadon, is one of the country's biggest Open Source advocates in education. In addition to doing Classroom 2.0, he is the one in charge of the Open Source Pavillion at CUE. Eluminate supports his efforts by providing free conference rooms (and any individual can also sign up for a 3-seat virtual office with them). The conference goes for 3 days and Steve has listed some of the presentations that will be featured. Some are hour long regular sessions and others are 30 min shorter sessions. If you scroll down to Friday you will see that I am doing a 30 min session from 3:15 to 3:45 pm (PT) on Friday afternoon. This is a great opportunity for those of you who are not working in the classroom to see what today's teachers are really interested in. Many of these sessions offer great ideas that can be adopted/adapted to Sugar users. If you have any questions, please, just send me an email. I will attach links to the CUE Conference schedule where you can read more about what the sessions plan to cover. Caryl http://www.cue.org/conference/sessions/ (Regular Sessions) http://www.cueunplugged.com/ (Shorter, 30 min sessions) Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 16:28:04 + From: m...@classroom20.com To: cbige...@hotmail.com Subject: Live and Interactive Events This Week Classroom 2.0 A message to all members of Classroom 2.0 Below are this week's public, free, and interactive webinars through LearnCentral.org, my project at Elluminate. Event recordings are available after the events at the same links.. Monday, March 1st 5:00pm PST (US) / 1:00am (next day) GMT/UTC (Intl): School Library Web Presence in the TL Cafe. Joyce Valenza and Gwyneth Jones host a discussion of effective practice and essential elements with Carolyn Foote, Buffy Hamilton, and Barbara Jansen. http://www.learncentral.org/event/56811 Wednesday, March 3rd 1:00am PST (US) / 9:00am GMT/UTC (Intl): Anne Mirtschin hosts e...@lking Tuesdays as part of The Australia Series: Too young to use technology in the classroom? Come meet Amanda Marrinan, from Queensland, Australia who has connected her ‘littlies’ to others around the globe via her class blog. http://www.learncentral.org/event/56321 9:30am PST (US) / 5:30pm GMT/UTC (Intl): Shannon Autrey Forte presents Shannon's Bright Ideas Center Publish! Showcase. We will look at Best Practices when using Publish! and share Bright Ideas. http://www.learncentral.org/event/59556 6:30pm PST (US) / 2:30am (next day) GMT/UTC (Intl): Maria Droujkova presents Math 2.0 Weekly! http://www.learncentral.org/event/59556 Thursday, March 4th ALL DAY: Live streaming from the Computer-Using Educators (CUE) Conference in Palm Springs. Sessions from the CUE Unplugged area at http://www.CUEUnplugged.com include Harnessing the Power of Web 2.0+ in School Administration by Bradford Burns and Politics and Civic Engagement for Our Digital Generation by Cheryl Davis. http://www.learncentral.org/event/50928 2:00pm PST (US) / 11:00pm GMT/UTC (Intl): Jane Krauss and Suzie Boss host Better with Practice: PBL Implementation Tips from the Field Session 2. The second in a series. Keeping Your Project on the Rails. Visit http://www.classroom20.com/group/pblbetterwithpractice http://www.learncentral.org/event/50928 5:00pm PST (US) / 11:00pm GMT/UTC (Intl): (Repeat) Jane Krauss and Suzie Boss host Better with Practice: PBL Implementation Tips from the Field Session 2. A second serving of the above. http://www.learncentral.org/event/51454 Friday, March 5th ALL DAY: Live streaming from the Computer-Using Educators (CUE) Conference in Palm Springs. Sessions from the CUE Unplugged area at http://www.CUEUnplugged.com include: Building Social Constructivist Learning Environments in Online Settings with Tammy Stephens Including Technology in your Unit Planning Using Understanding by Design (UbD) by Alice Mercer “Hey, Just Because It Is Online Doesn’t Mean We Can’t Have Field Trips, Right?” by Todd Conaway Educational Social Networking for Professional Development by me Sugar In Your Classroom. How Sweet It Is! by Caryl Bigenho. Formal sessions (http://www.cue.org/conference/anywhere) will include: Rigorous Learning through Digital
Re: [IAEP] [Systems] Turtle Art on Activities.sugarlabs.org
Not just kids. I had to do my own detective work in order to send Walter a set of TA sessions for various lessons. On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 13:08, David Farning dfarn...@gmail.com wrote: The other day during an infrastructure meeting, Walter brought up some thought on how to enable kids to exchange Turtle Art projects Alsroot has been thinking about how to do this through a.sl.o since he became the activities.sugarlabs.org code maintainer. The high level view is that someone can easily upload Turtle Art creations to somewhere and then they, or others, can go to a portal to download other Turtle Art creations. Client side, this would require: 1. Adding a widget to either the journal or the TA activity to upload the TA Bundle. 2. Adding a TA bundle installer to handler TA Bundle downloads. Server side, this would require: 1. A place to accept TA bundle uploads. 2. A search-able place from which to download TA bundles We have some similar systems we can look to as examples. 1. Scratch -- Scratch has an upload button and users can download scratch projects from -- http://scratch.mit.edu/galleries/browse/newest 2. ASLO -- Users upload XO bundles via a web interface and download via a web interface. My initial instinct is to see if ASLO can be adopted to fit this need. Primarily because we have it, it works, and it is scalable. On the other hand, if the only tool in one's toolbox is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. (How is that for over using clichés and buzzword?) Considerations: ASLO rocks:) ASLO can be adapted to handle various file types. For example: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:3 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:2 Each file type can have a separate look and feel. Is the activity creation and upload process too complicated for young users? Moving forward: Would it be possible to journal or TA widget which: 1. Walks the student though a upload wizard. 2. Combines the TA project into a into a bundle with the metadata generated in the wizard. 3. Sends the bundle to activites.sl.o/uploads Would it be possible to setup/adapt ASLO to: 1. Handle TA files types. 2. Accepts TA bundles+metadata uploads and inserts them into the review queue. david ___ Systems mailing list syst...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/systems -- 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] Math on Web
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:31, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: Here is a page on 4 YouTube Math Tutors http://www.squidoo.com/Youtube-Math-Tutors I think Gerald is right, we need a general way to help Sugar Teachers use YouTube resources. Can people help me brainstorm? Challenges to using YouTube Resources: YouTube is blocked by the district Get someone else to download videos, and put them on the school server, or provide them on USB keys. No internet access As above. An alternative approach is to fund Internet access through microfinance, taking advantage of the business opportunities that Internet opens up. Bandwidth if everyone is watching a video at once Collaboration should allow one XO to download, and share with others. Otherwise, cache on server. Workflow/Classflow challenges how do we get the kids watching the video we want them to watch and doing the work before and after to make it a learning experience. Lesson plans. Yes, we need thousands of lesson plans. Legal issues, what is and isn't fair use of the a YouTube resource? Ask source to license under CC, or redo in a different version. The ideas are not subject to copyright, just the expression of the ideas, meaning words and images. Get children to make their own versions as homework, once they understand Record, Scratch, and sufficient subject matter. On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote: Caroline, Something else that may be worth considering is the development of an activity like Info Slicer, where teachers can provide annotations for the videos, and/or prompts for notes or reflections. Gerald On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Caroline Meeks solutiongr...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: Anybody know about this? I wonder whether he would be willing to let us adapt his materials to laptops. Good idea! What ideas do you have about how we would adopt it? We could start by asking him if he would make them CC license. I'm traveling to the Bay Area next month. If we can get some good ideas I'm happy to maybe team up with Cherry take him out to coffee and ask. Caroline http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/north_america/jan-june10/khan_02-22.html Feb. 22, 2010 Math Wiz Adds Web Tools to Take Education to New Limits -- 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 -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax -- 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] Finally trying Sugar
Thanks, Sebastian. Perhaps we can package Sugar on a Stick for USB in various Linux distributions. The normal package installation process can run a configuration script, which presumably could prompt the user to insert a USB stick, warn about potential data loss, and verify the size and format of the stick before installing. Jonas should know if this will work. On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 14:58, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com wrote: mari...@ourdyslexicchildren.org wrote: Hi there! Thanks to you all for your hard work. I am a high school tech teacher in Texas. I wasn't able to figure out how to put Sugar on a USB drive, but was able to burn it to a CD. Now I have made copies for all of my students (115) plus a classroom set. We are going to play with it in class for the next couple of weeks. The students who have tried it already and my own children (8 10) are very excited about it. Hi Marilyn, thanks a lot for your e-mail. Your project sounds awesome! :) I'm the engineering lead of Sugar on a Stick and would be very interested in hearing about your experiences to work on improving them. What you're saying is already a good indicator that we need to make it easier to put Sugar on a USB drive - for example, we're currently working on a Creation Kit for Sugar on a Stick. Please keep us all on this list posted! --Sebastian Creativity and collaboration. Wow. Hopefully we can explore all of the features. Marilyn :) ___ 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] [etoys-dev] TED - Alan Kay - Example(8:44)
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:42, K. K. Subramaniam subb...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 23 February 2010 09:13:59 pm Edward Cherlin wrote: We also know that simply asking the question and making careful observations also gives astonishing results, as, for example, in the careers of Maria Montessori and Jean Piaget. Also Jerome Bruner Yes. But these people followed the child. Jean Piaget discovered that children in the 2-7 age group do not comprehend conservation of quantity or use logical thinking. Children don't come with fast forward buttons :-). It is easy to demonstrate what children are capable of, when you can see them do it. It is much harder to demonstrate what they are not capable of, or what some can do but not others, or what is dependent on development or prior experience. But consider this, from Piaget's Genetic Epistemology. This example, one we have studied quite thoroughly with many children, was first suggested to me by a mathematician friend who quoted it as the point of departure of his interest in mathematics. When he was a small child, he was counting pebbles one day; he lined them up in a row, counted them from left to right, and got ten. Then, just for fun, he counted them from right to left to see what number he would get, and was astonished that he got ten again. He put the pebbles in a circle and counted them, and once again there were ten. He went around the circle in the other way and got ten again. And no matter how he put the pebbles down, when he counted them, the number came to ten. He discovered here what is known in mathematics as commutativity, that is, the sum is independent of the order. But how did he discover this? Is this commutativity a property of the pebbles? It is true that the pebbles, as it were, let him arrange them in various ways; he could not have done the same thing with drops of water. So in this sense there was a physical aspect to his knowledge. But the order was not in the pebbles; it was he, the subject, who put the pebbles in a line and then in a circle. Moreover, the sum was not in the pebbles themselves; it was he who united them. The knowledge that this future mathematician discovered that day was drawn, then, not from the physical properties of the pebbles, but from the actions that he carried out on the pebbles. This knowledge is what I call logical mathematical knowledge and not physical knowledge. Concepts like product (a*b), square, square root, symbols to represent quantity and manipulating them will take some more time. The constructional technique adopted by Julia Nakajima is so beautiful because it uses growth instead of symbols. Can you give me a URL for that? See page 7 second last para of http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2007007a_revolution.pdf I typed the name wrong :-(. The correct name is Julia Nishijima. Also see http://dobbse.net/thinair/2008/12/growth-and-polygons.html Subbu -- 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] Wiki vandalism (was Fwd: Sugar Labs page User talk:Mokurai has been created...)
How is it that a vandal could rename my User page to an obscenity? Has an admin account been compromised? -- Forwarded message -- From: WikiAdmin webmas...@sugarlabs.org Date: Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 17:15 Subject: Sugar Labs page User talk:Mokurai has been created by Anal bleaching To: Mokurai echer...@gmail.com Dear Mokurai, The Sugar Labs page User talk:Mokurai has been created on 22:15, 21 February 2010 by Anal bleaching, see http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User_talk:Mokurai for the current version. This is a new page. Editor's summary: Anal bleaching Contact the editor: mail: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Special:EmailUser/Anal_bleaching wiki: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Anal_bleaching There will be no other notifications in case of further changes unless you visit this page. You could also reset the notification flags for all your watched pages on your watchlist. Your friendly Sugar Labs notification system -- To change your watchlist settings, visit http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Special:Watchlist/edit Feedback and further assistance: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Help:Contents -- 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] Kurzweil in Wine?
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:18, James Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote: Caroline, The book I'm writing at Floss Manuals has a chapter on adding Text to Speech to Activities. It isn't difficult at all. We had a college student who was interested in doing something to make TTS a built in feature of Sugar. The idea we came up with was you could copy text from any Activity that supported copying text to the clipboard and the new code would display the text in the clipboard in a window and speak it with highlighting. Nothing came of this. Yes, I suggested that. It is an essential part of my suggestion for literacy training on the XO, based on Same Language Subtitling of Bollywood musicals. http://www.olpcnews.com/content/ebooks/effective_adult_literacy_program.html Here is a resource for you. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/12/same-language-subtitling.html Recently, the Google Foundation awarded PlanetRead a grant to increase the number of SLS programs available, and Google is also supporting PlanetRead with free advertising through the Google Grants program and content hosting on Google Video. When a billion people are illiterate (two-thirds of them women), and nearly half of the world lives on less than $2 a day, we believe it is important to examine the link between literacy and poverty. We are excited by the prospect of helping not hundreds, but millions, of people gain access to regular reading practice and improve literacy where it is needed most by supporting organizations like PlanetRead. - Google.org team Posted by Dr. Brij Kothari, President, PlanetRead My organization, PlanetRead, works in Mumbai and Pondicherry, India. We have developed a “Same-Language Subtitling” (SLS) methodology, which provides automatic reading practice to individuals who are excluded from the traditional educational system, or whose literacy needs are otherwise not being met. This is an educational program rooted in mass media that demonstrates how a specific literacy intervention can yield outstanding, measurable results, while complementing other formal and non-formal learning initiatives of the government, private sector, and civil society. We are fortunate to have just been selected as a Google Foundation grantee. More than 500 million people in India have access to TV and 40 percent of these viewers have low literacy skills and are poor. Through PlanetRead’s approach, over 200 million early-literates in India are getting weekly reading practice from Same Language Subtitling (SLS) using TV. The cost of SLS? Every U.S. dollar covers regular reading for 10,000 people – for a year. I hit upon this idea in 1996 through a most ordinary personal experience. While taking a break from dissertation writing at Cornell University, I was watching a Spanish film with friends to improve my Spanish. The Spanish movie had English subtitles, and I remember commenting that I wished it came with Spanish subtitles, if only to help us grasp the Spanish dialogue better. I then thought, ‘And if they just put Hindi subtitles on Bollywood songs in Hindi, India would become literate.’ That idea became an obsession. It was so simple, intuitively obvious, and scalable in its potential to help hundreds of millions of people read -- not just in India, but globally. James Simmons Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:03:17 -0500 From: Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com Subject: [IAEP] Kurzweil in Wine? To: iaep iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Message-ID: b74fba2b1002171503n2ca6eed1qa04c18080074e...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 I've noticed that many of the Special Education teachers are very innovative and interested in Sugar. I've seen a great deal of interest in Text to Speech. Students with severe enough disabilities to qualify get Kurzweil, but it costs $1000 for a one seat licence! http://www.kurzweiledu.com/default.aspx More kids could benefit from text to speech then get it and with Sugar they could afford to give it to everyone. The potential issue is we probably can't match all of Kruzweil's features and it could be a problem if the students with severe disabilities aren't getting as good a product. I'm curious if anyone has played with Wine on Sugar and how well it would work to let some kids still have access to Kurzweil even when using Sugar? Also does anyone know what they are using in Uruguay with vision impaired students? Thanks, Caroline -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax ___ 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] Contract opportunity in education
I had an excellent meeting with an Asst. Superintendent of Bartholomew County schools in Indiana. They plan to give every student a computer that will cost less than printed textbooks. We will discuss contracts to write the replacements for textbooks, funding sources for those contracts, and alliances across the US and the world, as described at http://www.earthtreasury.org/wiki.cgi?ReplacingTextbooks I will be contacting all of our actual and potential partners (on that page and elsewhere) on this ASAP. -- 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] Haitian Creole healthcare songs
Can we get these into the Sugar content library for Haiti? Would anybody like to ask them? These are not just for the current emergency. http://www.savethechildren.org/newsroom/2010/songs-health-advice.html?WT.mc_id=sn_combined Save the Children Provides Songs with Lifesaving Health and Nutrition Advice to Haitian Radio Stations Creole Songs with Tips on Breastfeeding and Basic Hygiene To Help Save Babies' Lives During Upcoming Rainy Season -- 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] Fwd: [bytesforall_readers] A 50-Watt Cellular Network
FYI. Important for rural deployments. -- Forwarded message -- From: Fouad Bajwa fouadba...@gmail.com Date: Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 15:14 Subject: [bytesforall_readers] A 50-Watt Cellular Network To: pakgrid pakg...@yahoogroups.com, bytesforall_read...@yahoogroups.com A special thank you note to my friend Katz for forwarding this message to me that should be of great interest to TGP and the Research Grid. A 50-Watt Cellular Network Solar-powered base stations can link up remote rural areas. By David Talbot | Wednesday, February 10, 2010 Art. Ref.: http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_article.aspx?id=24511channel=communicationssection=# Print: http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_article.aspx?id=24511channel=communicationssection=# - An Indian telecom company is deploying simple cell phone base stations that need as little as 50 watts of solar-provided power. It will soon announce plans to sell the equipment in Africa, expanding cell phone access to new ranks of rural villagers who live far from electricity supplies. Over the past year, VNL, based in Haryana, India, has reengineered traditional cellular base stations to create one that only requires between 50 and 120 watts of power, supplied by a solar-charged battery. The components can be assembled and booted up by two people and mounted on a rooftop in six hours. One such station--dubbed a village station--can handle hundreds of users. Groups of such village stations feed signals to a required larger VNL base station within five kilometers. In turn that larger station, which is also solar-powered, relays signals to the main network. The village station can turn a profit even if customers spend on average only $2 a month on the service, instead of the $6 required to make traditional systems cost-effective, the company says. We've scaled down the cost, the energy, and the equipment so that almost anybody can deploy it, says Rajiv Mehrotra, VNL's CEO. It lends itself to many business models that can serve the bottom of the pyramid, a reference to the roughly 1.5 billion rural people who do not have access to electricity grids around the world. To date, some 50 VNL base stations have been installed in the Indian state of Rajasthan, introducing thousands of people to cell phone service for the first time. An African rollout is imminent, the company says, without elaborating. The initial batch of 50 stations supports only voice calls, not text or data, a decision mainly based on the fact that many of the new users may not be able to read or write. Besides enabling basic communication, cell phones can provide enormous financial opportunities for rural people, especially if those people adopt services that provide banking and lending via cell phone. More than half of India's 1.1 billion people lack any access to basic financial services, and instead pay usurious rates to local loan sharks. Furthermore, while microlending can lift people from poverty, only about 150 million people worldwide use such services. Expanded cell networks, together with banking programs geared to the rural poor, could change all of that. The base station rollouts are incredibly empowering for the world's remote and low-income masses, says Valerie Rozycki, head of strategic initiatives at mChek, a mobile-payment platform based in Bangalore that is unconnected with VNL. Expanding cell networks in many rural areas comes down to the availability of sufficient electricity to power base stations. Existing off-the-grid base stations in India require expensive diesel generators. The cost is substantial enough to make many rural markets unprofitable and therefore unwired, says Ethan Zuckerman, cofounder of Global Voices, an aggregator and promoter of blogging worldwide. Solutions that reduce the cost of building a base station are helpful, and those that reduce the costs of powering a base station are crucial. Russell Southwood, CEO of Balancing Act, a London-based telecom and Internet consultancy focused on Africa, says low-energy, self-sufficient solutions will be key to expanding cellular access further in the developing world. Energy costs are particularly high, as [base-station] sites often have two generators and some have three months' supply of fuel, he says. Anything that cuts fuel costs is bound to be attractive to operators, and it's also a more sustainable, green approach to communications. But while VNL has optimized its unit for rural areas, it is not the only company making low-cost, low-power base stations. We are seeing a trend toward commoditization in the cellular industry, says Ray Raychaudhuri, director of WinLab, a wireless research laboratory at Rutgers University. Where it was traditionally vertically integrated, you are seeing that break down into something that looks more like a Wi-Fi architecture, where you can buy a box and install it. Article Links: Rajiv Mehrotra, CEO, Haryana, India http://www.vnl.in/
Re: [IAEP] [DESIGN] Fwd: SIGDOC'10 - Call For Papers
We need to get some grants. I would go if I could get funded and give them plenty to think about. The US Dept. of Education has $44 billion to hand out for education innovation. Can anybody help me apply, not just for my benefit, but to pay you guys and hire more? On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 05:25, Tomeu Vizoso to...@tomeuvizoso.net wrote: Would someone be interested to present something about Sugar here? Regards, Tomeu -- Forwarded message -- From: Junia Anacleto ju...@dc.ufscar.br Date: Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 23:14 Subject: SIGDOC'10 - Call For Papers To: snip We apologize for multiple posting. Please send this anouncement to the interested people. Thank you, Junia Anacleto and Renata Fortes ACM SIGDOC'10 General Chairs = SIGDOC'10 http://www.lia.dc.ufscar.br/SIGDOC2010 26-29 September 2010 São Carlos - São Paulo - Brazil CALL FOR PAPERS ACM International Conference on Design of Communication Design for Sustainable Communication THE EVENT The 28th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication (ACM SIGDOC'10) will be held in São Carlos-São Paulo, Brazil on September 27-29, 2010. Participants are encouraged to submit research papers, workshop proposals, and experience reports concerning processes, methods, and technologies for communicating and designing communication artefacts such as printed documents, online text, and hypermedia applications. GOALS SIGDOC focuses on the design of communication as it is taught, practiced, researched, and conceptualized in various fields, including technical communication, software engineering, information architecture, and usability, etc, emphasizing the potentials, practices, and problems of multiple kinds of communication technologies, such as Web applications, user interfaces, and online and print documentation. The main goal is to reach information design professionals, educators, researchers, software engineers, Web designers, system developers, usability specialists, computer scientists, user interface designers, and information technology specialists. At SIGDOC'10 we are focusing on the sustainability of all the aspects related to the Design of Communication. TOPICS OF INTEREST ACM SIGDOC'10, with its emphasis on sustainable communication and information, and its strong links to library and information science, design studies, and cognitive and computer science will be soliciting research papers, workshop proposals, experience reports, and posters emphasizing the following (but not exclusively) thematic challenges: * Inter/Intra/Multidisciplinary approaches for design of communication * Design of communications: participatory, user-centered and organic design * Processes for developing design of communication in ubiquitous computing * Agile processes for design of communication * Accessibility in design of communication * Impact of communication on: personalization, contextualization and adaptative systems * Design of communication in Social Networks and for Social Networks * Cultural and Social issues in Digital Age * User Assistance Documentation * Documentation Use Reuse * Design Rationale and Interactivity in the Design of Communication * Sustainable Help Systems * Design of Communication for Learning * Challenges on Green Technology: ecological, political and economical. SUBMISSIONS Researchers and Professionals from design of communication and information areas are strongly encouraged to submit proposals to SIGDOC'10, that this year is emphasizing sustainable communication and information, according to the following types: * Research Papers — Research Paper Proposals should not exceed 500 words. Full and final research papers should not exceed 5,000 words, approximately 8 pages in ACM SIGDOC conference format, including figures and references. The results described must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. * Workshops — Workshop Proposals should not exceed 500 words. Full and final workshop proposals should not exceed 1,000 words. The proposal should describe the workshop’s theme, leader(s), structure, expected length, and participant selection criteria. * Experience Reports — Experience Report Proposals should not exceed 500 words. Full and final experience reports present project‐ or workplace‐focused summaries of important process or product processes and should not exceed 3,500 words. The experience report is a standalone, six‐page extended abstract that describes a design experience and its lessons for other designers of communication. The experience report must include the title, names and affiliations of the authors, an abstract of up to 150 words, and keywords. * Posters — Posters Proposals should not exceed 1,000 words. Posters provide an opportunity to present late‐breaking results and new ideas
[IAEP] Fwd: [WikiEducator] 240 Modules (regular school subjects K9-12) need conversion into Wiki format - Help needed
Anybody interested? -- Forwarded message -- From: Patricia Schlicht pschli...@col.org Date: Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 17:32 Subject: [WikiEducator] 240 Modules (regular school subjects K9-12) need conversion into Wiki format - Help needed To: wikieduca...@googlegroups.com, wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-fo...@googlegroups.com Hello Everybody, COL is looking for help for the conversion of 240 Modules (regular school subjects K9-12) from print-based documents into Wiki format for the use on the COL Wiki and on WikiEducator under the Creative Commons share alike (cc-by-sa) distribution license. They include text and graphs and require a basic layout. We would appreciate receiving a quote for this work by interested parties who have these skills. Please send to Mr. Paul West at pw...@col.org Warm wishes, Patricia Patricia Schlicht Programme Assistant COMMONWEALTH OF LEARNING LEARNING FOR DEVELOPMENT. COL is an intergovernmental organisation created by Commonwealth Heads of Government to encourage the development and sharing of open learning and distance education knowledge, resources and technologies. Suite 1200 - 1055 West Hastings Street, Vancouver BC V6E 2E9 Canada PH: +1.604.775.8227 | FAX: +1.604.775.8210 | WEB: www.col.org | E-MAIL: pschli...@col.org The Sixth Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open and Distance Learning will take place in Cochin, India, in November 2010 (exact date to be announced later). It will be hosted in collaboration with the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). A 'Green' reminder: P Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. Thank you. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieduca...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- 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
