Re: [IAEP] [Olpc-socal] Meet MOOC, Learn Python, Be Part of a Huge Experiment
this is great!!! I'm in Hi Folks… Want to be part of a giant educational experiment? Sign up for the Mechanical MOOC course: A Gentle Introduction to Python. Thousands of students are expected to participate in this free course that starts on October 15. Participants will use a variety of already existing resources and a lot of peer-to-peer interaction. Learn more about the course and the experiment here: http://lilithlela.cyberguerrilla.org/?p=1771 And, if it sounds intriguing… join me by signing up here: http://mechanicalmooc.org Caryl ___ OLPC-SoCal mailing list olpc-so...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-socal -- I�m moderate on extroversion. http://kmw.caltek.net ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] (Safe) How Can We Hope To Find the Right Answers If We Don't Know What The Right Questions Are?
The following is a video I watched yesterday, which provides an approach to flipping classroom activities and lecture time where learners get lectures online, on-demand before and after doing activities in team with others at and close to their own level, in the classroom. The teacher moves between the team activities as needed. Another one is the Portal to media literacy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embeddedv=J4yApagnr0s http://www.khanacademy.org/talks-and-interviews/v/salman-khan-talk-at-the-mit-club-of-northern-california Hi Folks, The discussion we have been having about education and teacher training the last few days has really started me thinking about what exactly should education for the 21st century be? After tossing the question around my mind for a while and talking with my husband, also a retired teacher, I realize that it isn't likely we will have the right answer just based on our experiences. I think it is important for us as, supporters of open source educational technology via OLPC and Sugar Labs, or anything else, to have some idea of what the correct answer is. We cannot expect to help students learn, or teachers teach, for the future they will live in if we don't have a general idea of the answers. In fact, at this point, I'm not sure we even know what the questions should be! So, I did what we learned to do in grad school. I started by looking for what others have already said about the topic. I went to Amazon and looked for recent books that would bring to light the opinions of others who are respected authorities in the field. I realize this doesn't mean they have all the answers, but it is a good place to start. Among the many listed, I found 2 books, both anthologies, that look like they may have some good ideas: Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World, Edited by Heidi Hayes Jacobs, and 21st Century Skills: Rethinking How Students Learn, Edited by James Bellanca and Ron Brandt. I intend to get these books and read them with pencil and highlighter in hand. I am hoping some of you others on the Support Gang list and IAEP list will accept my challenge and do the same. I'm also hoping some of you will add other resources to this tiny list of 2 items. Then, sometime in the not to distant future, perhaps at the SF Community Summit in October, or SCaLE 11X in LA in January, we can meet for a series of thoughtful discourses that will help guide us in doing all we can to improve education for today's children and their teachers using our very special resources. Caryl (aka Grannie B) ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- I�m moderate on extroversion. http://caltek.net http://legan.dyndns.info:8001/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] SoaS Breakthrough!
Maybe http://en.opensuse.org/Sugar can be something that might work for some of what we can use. 2012/1/13 Iain Brown Douglas i...@browndouglas.plus.com: On Wed, 2012-01-11 at 03:21 +0100, Rubén RodrÃguez wrote: The method I think would be a breakthrough for a school is to use a thin client environment. One server is enough to run a typical school, you only need to manage one standard GNU/Linux computer, the clients need no software or configuration, and they can keep whatever they already have in their hard drives untouched and usable. Also all the students data are in an easy to backup spot, installing an activity in the server makes it available for everyone instantly, and you can also combine it with class management software like iTALC. This sounds useful. (For reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_client ) So, if an enthusiastic volunteer had demonstrated Sugar on a Stick to a school's IT person who has no previous sugar or linux experience - what would need to be on their learning curve, to set up such a system? Probably rewardingly tricky. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Im moderate on extroversion. http://caltek.net/blog School 2.0 http://etoolkit.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] FW: eSN Partner: Prepare your students for the future
Thanks Caryl, for sending the info in this e-mail, I found the following 8-pager http://www.solution-tree.com/Public/GetDoc.aspx?idx=166 to be what i suggest we look at adopting for our promotion and work in the PLN arena. cheers! Hi... A few months ago some of us were discussing PLNs for teachers and how they might apply to OLPC. Here is an interesting book review that discusses PLNs for both teachers and students. It is a fairly new direction in education that most of us will want to know more about. You don't have to be a student or teacher to have a PLN! Caryl Hace unos pocos meses discutimos PLNs* para docentes y como pueden applicar a OLPC. Aquí esta una revista de un libro sobre PLNs para docentes y estudiantes. Puede ser de interes a Uds. Puede ponerlo en Google Translate si nescesita. No nescesita estar docente ni alumno para tener un PLN!*Redes de aprendezaje personal From: eschool.n...@eschoolnews.com To: ca...@laptop.org Subject: eSN Partner: Prepare your students for the future Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:58:10 -0400 solution-tree.com | 800.733.6786 (re)defining professional development Coauthors Will Richardson and Rob Mancabelli Share Why PLNs Are an Essential Foundation for the 21st Century Learner In order to create successful learning networks in the classroom, teachers must first create learning networks of their own. Don't know how? In Personal Learning Networks, the authors share step-by-step advice and real-world examples of how to form global learning networks. To help you get started, Solution Tree asked the authors why PLNs are making a difference in the classroomand why you should consider creating your own PLN. Q. Please define personal learning networks as they apply to educators and the world of education in general. A. A personal learning network (PLN) consists of the people and resources that fuel our learning. During the past decade, this network is increasingly online. In a PLN, we can learn anytime, anywhere, with potentially anyone around the world who shares our passion or interest. We can literally build global classrooms of our own making on the web that include communities of learners we interact with on a regular basis. Q. What is the link between learning networks and student achievement? A. PLNs are an essential foundation for the 21st century learner. Students who create their own networks drive their own learning. PLNs work across all subject areas because they connect students to people and resources customized to their own learning style. PLNs transform education by making it more customized, global, real-time, and connected. Q. Why did you decide to focus on learning networks as a means to improve student achievement? A. Our ability to construct these types of networked connections is a fundamental part of learning in the 21st century. In this new world of learning, student achievement will be framed not so much by what a child knows, but whether or not that child has learned how to learn. In this sense, PLNs are capacity building. They enable students to go beyond their local teachers and textbooks, making the entire world their classroom. FREE Study Guide FREE Reproducibles About the Authors Will Richardson Follow @willrich45 on Twitter Rob Mancabelli Follow @robmancabelli on Twitter Q. Could you describe the research and/or real-world stories that went into Personal Learning Networks? A. Thousands of educators are beginning to create connected learning experiences for the students in their classrooms, and there is more and more evidence every day that the interactions we can have within these networked spaces are challenging many of the traditional structures in our society. This book taps into those stories to create a compelling context for change. Q. What do you think is the most important message from Personal Learning Networks? A. The way we learn is changing, and this is a moment filled with both opportunities and challenges for educators and learners of all stripes. If we are to fully understand these opportunities and help our students take advantage of them, we need to form our own PLNs. Only by learning through our own networks can we work together to bring them to our classrooms and our schools in effective ways. To learn more about this book, and how to implement a personal learning network into your professional development plans, click here About Us | Shop Products | Attend Events | Find Speakers | FREE Resources 17BEO Solution Tree | 555 North Morton Street | Bloomington, IN 47404-3730 eSchool News, 7920 Norfolk Ave Suite 900. Bethesda, MD 20814 Phone: 301-913-0115 . Fax: 301-913-0119 custs...@eschoolnews.com You are receiving this eMail newsletter at ca...@laptop.org as part of a free information service from eSchool News. To unsubscribe please click
Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs: account confirmation
Thank you so much for the elp files. it's a great story and introduction to olpc...so many videos and they capture so much. Hi Everyone, I've been running the Australian training for teachers and the XO-certification course at laptop.moodle.com.au course is available for everyone to view when logged in as a guest. This course was mainly pulled together by myself and some other team members at OLPC Australia- Liddy Neville produced the previous course that some of you mentioned. It is no longer active and cannot be accessed. Anyone is welcome to use the course materials to build on for their own training purposes- it is (BY-NC-SA). The learner manual is a synthesis of much of the great info out already about the project and XOs- but it should be noted much of the technical information is specific to the Australian build. If you would like to rework it, it has been put together in a nice little tool called eXe (http://exelearning.org/wiki), another open source project, which allows you to export to interlinked html pages, and I have posted the manual here ( http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16659157/Modifications%20to%20manual%20for%20OLPC.zip). While the manual and course itself is available to reuse as you wish, please note that participant responses in forums or lessons they have posted are not- please don't reuse their work without asking them, especially since Australian teachers have varying intellectual property clauses related to their employment depending on the jurisdiction. The course is not available for enrolment for people outside the Australian program because I simply don't have time to facilitate that number of participants. It's also highly contextualised to Australia so it wouldn't necessarily make sense for teachers from other countries to work through it as is. Please feel free to email me if you have any further questions or I can help with anything. We're very keen to contribute to the OLPC international community if we can! Cheers, Tracy Richardson Education Manager OLPC Australia -Original Message- From: iaep-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org [mailto: iaep-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org] On Behalf Of Valerie Taylor Sent: Thursday, 30 June 2011 11:52 AM To: fors...@ozonline.com.au Cc: tabi...@tabitha.net.nz; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; dfarn...@sugarlabs.org Subject: Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs: account confirmation Liddy is listed as the teacher / owner of the course. I sent her a message to get the key as the course access is restricted - disappointing for something that is part of an open community. Hope to hear from her and take a look around. It looks like she hasn't accessed this site in more than a year. If the Australia original site has been updated more recently, it would be most current. Thanks ..Valerie On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 9:27 PM, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: What is the objective of these Moodle courses? Were they created for specific audiences? Would it be ok if others who are interested in Sugar access them? I could have this wrong, I would need to view the moodle resources, but I believe that it is a clone of a Moodle course done for OLPC Australia. The Australian version http://laptop.moodle.com.au/ could have later edits or may have abandoned all the early material, I am not sure. The original Moodle course by Liddy Neville was done for school teachers in the Australian deployments. Tony ___ 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 -- http://64.27.24.247:8000/xowiki/en:weblog?summary=1 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] FW: [OLPC Bolivia] No logro aprender Sugar / I cannot learn Sugar why would YOU want to?
i see an apple guy trying to down FLOSS in it's truest form. the olpc is a key human access to experiencing ingenuity at it's finest...it starts with self where apple starts with i and thinks it;s a pod business to make money with good products that they are now making more affordable accessible small visual calculator gadgets that track and communication our every movement without choice i'd like to know what about the stability of fedora are you referring to as not being so good? i'd like to hear what your intentional use or even interest in olpc is other than using our mailing list to try and crush our efforts to futher your mac attack on humanity? you might as well be a mac henry the step child of mc donalds uncle... Hi Folks, This is a FYI... Carlos Rebassa, a Rap Ceibal volunteer many of us met in Uruguay has come up with a surprisingly critical complaint about Sugar. He included a link to an English version, but did not send it to IAEP or the Support Gang lists. I have no idea what prompted his criticisms nor can I figure out exactly what they are. Carlos is fluent in English. He lived in New York and sold Real Estate there for many years. If any of you want to reply, you can send it to the olpc-sur list or directly to Carlos. Caryl From: car...@mac.com Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:31:49 -0300 To: america-lat...@squeakland.org; squeakl...@squeakland.org; olpc-...@lists.laptop.org; olpcp...@gmail.com; olpc-boli...@lists.laptop.org; somosazu...@lists.sugarlabs.org Subject: [OLPC Bolivia] No logro aprender Sugar / I cannot learn Sugar No logro aprender Sugarhttps://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1eot88jPUrJgo2MWR7KNyHa8UqZjdTUOun6JH9A_7KBg I cannot learn Sugar https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1yBr2G7FF5Jr46ixt_THm1xQh08cyNJXx8KUy-WDZ1Xs Carlos RabassaVoluntarioRed de Apoyo al Plan CeibalMontevideo, Uruguay ___ lista OLPC-Bolivia olpc-boli...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-bolivia ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- http://64.27.24.247:8000/xowiki/en:weblog?summary=1 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Concrete feedback
I'm glad to see all the entries which tells me what they clicked on and if they didn't create anything then I'm curious to know why. maybe for long term use there could be a way to sort entries based on size of the entries or something like that which would put the files with no content near the bottom. i like having an option to log everything or filter the list. You are showing one of the more commons problems when we talk about the Journal. Many times, bugs in activities are perceived like bugs in the Journal. If one activity is not well sugarized, is a problem in the activity and must solved. And from a long time, the default way wen you open one activity, is open the last instance. This is not the right solution, because is not useful for all the activities, but solve the issue with Browse, Terminal, etc. About massive operations, you can see the work from tch about multiple selection operations. Gonzalo *Concrete Feedback:* The journal is always full of garbage, hundreds of empty entries: *is there a possibility to CLEAN the JOurnal?,* or much better, that the programs won't write empty entries? Empty entry = when a kid opens Browse, and he closes 10 seconds later, it is useless that entry. If the kid uses Write for more than 15 minutes, probably he wrote something useful. For example , If the kid opens Write but he don't write anything, that entry would not be save on the journal. ANother example: Programs that are not well sugarized, they save lots and lots of useless entries on the journal. The problem is not the space, those entries don't occupy nothing. The problem is the amount of entries. * TOO MUCH INFORMATION = NO INFORMATION* Paolo Benini Montevideo ___ 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 -- http://64.27.24.247:8000/xowiki/en:weblog?summary=1 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] FW: [OLPC Bolivia] No logro aprender Sugar / I cannot learn Sugar why would YOU want to?
Oh! Ok I get that, now. Also, view my comments as a gut level response as a newbie to this project who is looking for specific constructive dialog instead of generalities that are easily thrown around. Maybe it's just me but I replied how I felt as I read what was written. So, I still want to know what his purpose is for spending time with the olpc? Based on what I read, he sees the apple as our competitor. I could have done without the apple promo. On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Kenneth Wyrick k...@caltek.net wrote: i see an apple guy trying to down FLOSS in it's truest form. the olpc is a key human access to experiencing ingenuity at it's finest...it starts with self Don't shoot the messenger. Carlos is a prolific contributor to our Spanish localization effort and his critique is worthy of consideration. Please read beyond the framing of it in the context of commercial packages and look for the meat of his concerns. To do otherwise is to dismiss genuine insight from someone with extensive deployment experience. This is not a bomb thrown by an outsider, but a genuine plea for improvement from an insider. cjl ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- http://64.27.24.247:8000/xowiki/en:weblog?summary=1 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] FW: [OLPC Bolivia] No logro aprender Sugar / I cannot learn Sugar why would YOU want to?
Chris, Since this seems to be something you have sincere passion about, would you be willing to simply list/summarize specific points that you see that Carlos made so we can talk about them point by point to hopefully arrive at a more succinct overall intention of his communication? On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Kenneth Wyrick k...@caltek.net wrote: Oh! Ok I get that, now. Also, view my comments as a gut level response as a newbie to this project who is looking for specific constructive dialog instead of generalities that are easily thrown around. Maybe it's just me but I replied how I felt as I read what was written. So, I still want to know what his purpose is for spending time with the olpc? Based on what I read, he sees the apple as our competitor. I could have done without the apple promo. I can't claim to speak to Carlos's concerns. My comment was more about the reaction to his posting than to his posting itself. My point was that his critique should not be dismissed out-of-hand, but needs to be explored in more depth, ideally in his native language and on the lists where he originally posted it. We have all had to be talked off the ledge at one point or another with Sugar or OLPC frustrations. Often the important thing to bring someone back into the fold is just to let them know that tthey have been heard and to validate their frustrations (to the extent you can). It is my impression that the prodigals who return to the family often make the most dedicated volunteers, it just takes some patience and understanding to hear them out and really get to the root of their concerns. cjl -- http://64.27.24.247:8000/xowiki/en:weblog?summary=1 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [squeakland] [ANN] Waveplace starting another five laptop projects in Haiti
great to hear about waveplace activities and plans. i'm in the process of joining the ranks of the olpc movement, here in SoCal it's interesting that you are in Bethehem PA were a long time buddy was born... i'm in the assessment/design phase to plan for the establishment of a mobile SoCal olpc XOWiki repair, lending and presentation lab fleet service. I need help on setting up olpc servers within central la communities, where i reside. To ramp up for what I'm doing I'd very much like to participate in your mentor program...hope it's feasibile for me to do so and spend time with your EToys training materials, asap. I realize you just had a major event and if by chance you have podcasts, presentations on a site please send me the urls. http://kmw.caltek.net is a bio on me, fyi. I created http://caltek.net in 1997 as a project of the http://commons.org (the domain now in on a server in PA maybe close to where waveplace is located) 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 thanks cheers! - Cool I saw on Swedish news yesterday that Rwanda was buying OLPC to every school child. Karl On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Timothy Falconer tee...@waveplace.org Kawrote: Hello everyone, Waveplace will be traveling back to Haiti in ten days to start enough five laptop projects, bringing our total there to 19 schools. I'll be blogging daily starting today, focusing this time on the people and emotions involved, so please tune in: http://waveplace.org/news/blog/ You can also follow my Twitter feed to get more regular updates: http://twitter.com/teefal Take care, Tim -- Timothy Falconer Waveplace Foundation http://waveplace.org + 1 610 797 3100 x33 ___ squeakland mailing list squeakl...@squeakland.org http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland ___ squeakland mailing list squeakl...@squeakland.org http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland -- http://64.27.24.247:8000/xowiki/en:weblog?summary=1 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Texas Senate Bills 866 867 regarding dyslexia passed over the weekend
Marilyn, I'm in. I'm using PuppyStudio3.3-vanilla.iso http://brainwavedesigncentral.net/mike/index.php?dir=Puplets-Woof-Based/sort=dateorder=desc and they also have an RT for real-time kernal settings I've know about Musix for a while and really like their website interface Another option is the http://indamixx.com portable studio computers and software which was created by 64studio folks for Ron at Indamixx I'm hopefull about there being another http://dynoblic.org and http://mepis.org is what initially provided the best desktop to migrate from using windows at all in 2004 or so I've standardized on http://openacs.org/xowiki/debian and /ubuntu for running the http://dotlrn.org package on my http://teknowledgy.org instance. I know this is a lot and I'm finally moving forward with 3 core aspects of an enterprise learning system the conversations toolkit School2.0 http://etoolkit.org which was developed by Stanford Research Institute. Learning Management Systems of http://solutiongrove.com which has Moodle Elgg and LAMS (MEL), http;//dotlrn.org Entrepreneurship Simulations Curriculum GIS Framework http://teknowledgy.org/simulations Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Customer Relations Management (CRM) http://project-open.org and http://www.vtiger.com/ Hi there! I am a lurker on this list - read posts once in a while. Last semester I was teaching at an elementary school and used Sugar on a live CD with the kids. It was a big hit and I passed out at least a hundred Sugar CDs to students. They squealed with delight and begged to use it in class. A very important piece of dyslexia legislation passed the house and senate unanimously in Texas over the weekend. The three most important features in my mind are: * All school personnel must be trained in the recent scientific studies about dyslexia ( Reference: http://www.dyslexia.yale.edu/dyslexiastraighttalk.html ) * Teachers must use multi-sensory methods (audio, video, etc.) to teach dyslexic students * Schools must incorporate assistive technologies that are helpful to dyslexic students I am currently working on writing a high school class that accommodates dyslexia (http://marilyn.hagle.com). It is a music technology type class and I am using Musix, a Linux OS that focuses on music compostion and audio/video production, for my software base. Downloads are already available of course, but I will make sure students can inexpensively purchase live DVDs or USBs that are software ready. I am writing to the folks on this list, hoping that one of you will take on a similar project for dyslexic elementary students using Sugar. Make a Moodle site and post video audio with lessons using Sugar. If one or more of you wish to do this, make sure you write to Virginia Gonzalez (virginia.gonza...@region10.org), the state dyslexia consultant and tell her about it so she can get the word out. You know that commercial interests will see dollar signs and try to make a buck off of this. I would do it myself, but this class I am working on will at least take months to finish. Thanks! And thanks for creating Sugar! Marilyn Hagle ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- http://64.27.24.247:8000/xowiki/en:weblog?summary=1 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
