[IAEP] In our spirit if not our tech
Enjoy http://m.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/08/go-ahead-mess-with-texas-instruments/278899/ Sent from my iPhone___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2013-03-03
new round of the RIT HFOSS Class begins tomorrow. While I'm not teaching it Justin Sherrill, included in on it, will be. It might be possible to have those students test such a homework service as well. On Mar 3, 2013, at 12:19 PM, Gerald Ardito wrote: Walter, The homework service you described would be incredibly useful. I would be happy to help test, I'd needed. Gerald On Mar 3, 2013 12:15 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: == Sugar Digest == 1. It has been crazy busy. With the upcoming XO4 launch, Sugar with touch support will be making its debut. The developer team has done a great job but we are lagging behind a bit on the activity level: Activities that use keyboard input need to be modified to use the on-screen keyboard; and now that tablet mode will be used more often, we need to better attend to the issue of screen rotation. In order to adapt to the on-screen keyboard, there are two adjustments that need to be made: (1) use either a GTK Entry or TextView instead of directly querying the keyboard; and (2) make sure that the Entry is visible when the keyboard is visible. To address both issues, I have been mostly using GTK Fixed in order to re-position the Entry appropriately. But also, I have been using a strategy of moving the Entry to the top of the activity. There are two issues with dealing with landscape vs portrait mode. One is to make sure that the work area of an activity accommodates the change in size and aspect ration. Perhaps the easiest way to do this is simply to define a square work are inside of a scrolling window. There are times when this strategy won't work, such as with Paint, but for the most part, it is a simple solution. The toolbars are another matter. It is often the case that not all of the elements fit when in portrait mode. The default behavior of Sugar, to make a list on a palette that displays on the edge of the screen is somewhat lacking, both in that many toolbar items are either not shown or inoperable in that form. And aesthetically, it is not very Sugar-like. I've been experimenting with some different approaches to generating palettes, and also moving some toolbar elements around (e.g., moving some buttons to secondary toolbars). Alas, none of these solutions are idea or completely generalizable. But I think there are harbingers of a solution. Another issue with touch is that Gtk2 ComboBoxes don't work. The problem has been fixed in the Gtk3 version of the Sugar tool-kit, but, not being a fan of Combo Boxes to begin with, I see it as an opportunity to minimize their use. For example, using bigger/smaller buttons is arguably an easier way to adjust font size using touch. Ultimately, we'll want to add more gesture support as well. Many activities could readily support panning and zooming. And a long press can replace the un-Sugar-like reliance of right-click that some activities are using. I've packaged many of these ideas into some experimental (and production) versions of some activities (Please see [1-7]). Feedback most welcome. 2. It occurred to me that the Web Services framework that Raul and I developed a few weeks ago might make a nice home for a simple classroom service: handing in homework assignments and receiving back comments from the teacher and fellow students. Such a service could be dropped right into the same framework we built for Facebook, so in the Journal, there would be a Share with (or Copy to) Teacher and comments would appear in the Journal detail view (and be directly integrated in the Portfolio). Simple, but potentially quite useful. === Tech Talk === 3. Adam Holt reported on the School Server Hack Sprint held in Toronto (See [8]). 4. Daniel Narvaez has been making great progress on Agora, his attempt to achieve the goals of the Sugar Learning Platform using the web technologies (See [9]). === Sugar Labs === Visit our planet [10] for more updates about Sugar and Sugar deployments. -walter --- [1] http://people.sugarlabs.org/~walter/Abacus-47.1.xo [2] http://people.sugarlabs.org/~walter/Chart-9.1.xo [3] http://people.sugarlabs.org/~walter/Chat-78.1.xo [4] http://people.sugarlabs.org/~walter/Labyrinth-14.4.xo [5] http://people.sugarlabs.org/~walter/Portfolio-41.2.xo [6] http://people.sugarlabs.org/~walter/Speak-44.6.xo [7] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addons/versions/4027#version-173 (TurtleBlocks-173.xo) [8] http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/server-devel/2013-February/006258.html [9] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2013-February/041847.html [10] http://planet.sugarlabs.org -- 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
Re: [IAEP] kids building Re: activities (games) recommended age
Howdy folks, just a reminder that to get some other folks involved from outside of the IAEP group looking at your educational games questions/comments/research you should think about joining the International Game Developers Association Special Interest group on Learning, Education and Games (https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/igdaleg) We've got 112 members from Industry and Academia and it's a great way to find like minded folks On Nov 28, 2012, at 7:10 PM, Yama Ploskonka wrote: James, impressive work! congrats! On 11/28/2012 04:19 PM, James Simmons wrote: snip http://www.flossmanuals.net/e-book-enlightenment/ eate books too. Just as we have students writing Sugar Activities and even contributing code to Sugar itself we will also soon have students writing and publishing textbooks and other materials. in a few words, what do you think is the key elements that are stopping kids from doing that? As you present them so well, it is not because of lack of tools and resources. I would assume there would be a ramp up, a few at first, then a deluge. So far apparently really not much... Something must be missing. After 5 years and couple million XO's in the wild, it's not happening (yet?), to the point that maybe it will never happen? BTW, you know that the kids contributing code, they can be counted with the fingers of one hand... Which makes them all the more important, but, again, why not more? why not teachers, hundreds of them? Maybe it's something to do with construct***sm? Evolution? ___ 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] Sissy's Ponycorn Adventure creators call for constructivism
Perfect case for Sugar, Scratch, etc http://kotaku.com/5957329/five-year-old-girl-one+ups-making-her-own-game-by-giving-her-own-tedtalk ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Gamification in Sugar Network
Cool, thanks for the clarification. I'm not in anyway, shape or form against ramifying Sugar contributions, activities, whatever. Just wanna make sure that its done thoughtfully if and when it happens On Jun 8, 2012, at 12:12 AM, Aleksey Lim wrote: On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 07:14:27AM -0400, STEPHEN JACOBS wrote: The documentation doesn't really address the context, purpose, goals or implementation of gamification beyond the fact that there should be hooks in the sugar network to support it. The seemingly arbitrary metaphor (sun, star, moon etc ) and the reference to points suggests that this is abstracted away from what the user actually does in the system as does the reference to points without a discussion of what they are for or how they work. Research shows that Gamification that is not thoughtfully designed and implemented may have a bump of interest in the short term but gets ignored, becomes an annoyance, or actually a disincentive to participation in the longer term. IMO, If the Sugar community wants this network to be gamified it needs more thinking and design work before that functionality is implemented. Sorry if my original post about gamification was misleading, Sugar Network is not designed to implement gamification obligatory. Sugar Network is exactly about core functionality I mentioned in my previous post. For sure, gamification requires more thinking and system approach. And for me it is absolutely clear, it should be pluggable feature in Sugar Network (in some cases it will work as supposed, in others it will only an obstacle to do regular daily work). -- Aleksey ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Gamification in Sugar Network
The documentation doesn't really address the context, purpose, goals or implementation of gamification beyond the fact that there should be hooks in the sugar network to support it. The seemingly arbitrary metaphor (sun, star, moon etc ) and the reference to points suggests that this is abstracted away from what the user actually does in the system as does the reference to points without a discussion of what they are for or how they work. Research shows that Gamification that is not thoughtfully designed and implemented may have a bump of interest in the short term but gets ignored, becomes an annoyance, or actually a disincentive to participation in the longer term. IMO, If the Sugar community wants this network to be gamified it needs more thinking and design work before that functionality is implemented. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 7, 2012, at 5:26 AM, Aleksey Lim alsr...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 12:04:36PM -0500, Sebastian Silva wrote: /* en español abajo */ Hi, One proposal to evidence the value of interactions within the Sugar Network user interface is to count, for each context, and to show them in the interface as such: 1 interaction = 1 Sun badge This is to continue with the icons Star - Moon - Sun. To better understand this in reference to Sugar Network, with interactions we mean contributions of feedback or support resources users provide within the network. Not every interaction has been implemented graphically yet but for reference here are the high level conceptual documentation: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Network/Concept And the low level Objects Model that sustains it at this time: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Platform_Team/Sugar_Network/Objects_model Feedback at this point is appreciated as we prepare to launch at scale. Regards, Sebastian In fact, regarding Sugar Network, my original post was rather about popping up this subject (and it seems I missed the fast that it is already was well discussed) and less about doing something particular. But for Sugar Network in particular. I'm sure the core functionality that SN is assumed to provide (content/social/support network to connect offline and online people) is much more important than any [current] trend. And before trying to implement such high level features like gamification moments, SN should be mature enough to do its core functionality on reliable basis. The problem with gammification (as was already mentioned), it is just one of possible ways and have its own props and contras. And it will be more useful to design SN in the way that there is core functionality and a bunch of high level solutions that implement one of education metaphor. In fact, there is already such model when there is a SN server and it is possible to implement any client application. But I think it will be more useful to have default client application that provides only core functionality (i.e., pure technical possibility without forcing particular model). As a useful addition, such default client application might support applying a kind of skins on top of it to implement particular education metaphor (I guess it will be useful during the educational process to switch between several models). -- Aleksey ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Gamification in Sugar Network
1. As regards tech, I'd suggest Open Badges as a good way to go here. Being implemented for the Fedora team by folks local to RIT, so we could probably help there. 2. As regards Gamification, especially for education, there's a lot more there than just issuing points and badges. It requires a deep dive into intrinsic/extrinsic motivation, goals for what Sugar Labs wants out of it, a look at the cultural impacts within the varied locals in which its being implemented yadda yadda yadda. Bad ramification boomerangs back and leaves you worse off than you were before. On May 30, 2012, at 11:47 AM, Walter Bender wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:30 AM, David Van Assche dvanass...@gmail.com wrote: Sure thing, we spoke about this at length and I think there were even screenshots made regarding gamifying sugar. I know we spoke about it with quite some enthusiasm during the Paris Sugar Convention, and then after that on the mailing lists. I think we might even have written something online about it. I, for one, think it would be almost an essential next step in the Sugar UI. But it would require getting all activity creators on board, as it probably can´t be done just on a centralised level. kind regards On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Aleksey Lim alsr...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Hi all! It seems that the initial idea to have some gaming components in Sugar Network (pretty initial like Players instead of Users or Roles, and absent in current implementation) is a kind of global trend :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamification#cite_note-60 In any case, if Gamification is good for CRM (http://zurmo.org/blog/gamification) it should be even more natural for systems like Sugar Network, i.e., that are oriented to students and collaborative work on content. -- Aleksey ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep As I recall, the design team never settled its differences in terms of how this would work, but we could readily build the back end for accumulating badges/milestones/... in a standard way and those activity developers who chose to use these mechanism can do so. In the meantime, it was proposed to have a badges activity. (I will try to dig up the conversation threads and feature pages so we don't have to repeat the same conversations.) 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 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] April 16th Abstract Submission deadline for IEEE IGIC in Rochester, New York Sept. 7–9, 2012
The conference theme is Designing for Play and is hosted by the School of Interactive Games and Media at RIT and the International Center for the History of Electronic Games at The Strong. Confirmed speakers are Seamus Blackely, Ian Bogost, Vincent John Vincent, Ian Schreiber and others TBA. Conference sessions will take place on the campus of The Strong with a behind the scenes tour and an All You Can Play reception on their vintage arcade systems Friday Night, a banquet and tour at RIT Saturday night and an optional bus tour to Niagara Falls on Sunday afternoon. For the full call for papers, read below or visit IEEE Call for Papers Conference Theme: Designing for Play The IEEE Consumer Electronics Society is pleased to announce the Fourth International Games Innovation Conference. Continuing the tradition that began in London 2009, to Hong Kong in 2010, and extended to Orange, CA, USA in 2011, this conference is a platform for disseminating peer-reviewed papers that describe innovative research and development of game technologies. Participation from academia, industry and government are welcome.We are soliciting short papers (4 pages), long papers (5-8 pages), posters and panels. Abstract Deadline: April 15th, 2012 Author Notification: May 14th, 2012 Final Drafts Due: June 18th, 2012 Final Acceptance: July 20th, 2012 : https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=2012igic Papers reporting innovations and new developments in all areas related to games and play are invited, including but not limited to the following: Multi-player Games: cloud based games, networked games, location awareness, infrastructure, performance, latency, architecture, security Game Platforms: mobile/handheld, computers, consoles, portable consoles, cloud servers, network servers, system architecture, network architecture Beyond Entertainment: health, exercise, education, training, business, advertising, social change, usability beyond games Design, Development and Production: design of games, tools, interdependencies of software hardware, graphics, animation, content generation, artificial intelligence, cinematography Interfaces: interoperability, wearable devices, biometrics, 3D effects, haptics, gaze, proximity, audio, gesture Technology: multi-core processors, mobile SoC, memory, 3D display, 3D graphics, augmented reality, virtual reality, storage, vision, imaging, wireless, RF, MEMS, nano devices?? User Experience: playing experience, behavioral impact, social impact, player modeling, learning, cultural impact, lessons from games Play: Theories of Play, historical evolution of play, relationship between electronic andnon-electronic forms of games and toys, psychological dimensions of play, play across the lifespan, impact of computers on play, player-audience interactions. Game Design and Development Education: Curriculum Design, Course Design, Survey of Existing Programs, Informal Education Selected papers will be invited to expand to full length for submissions to the IEEE Transactions of Consumer Electronics, the American Journal of Play and the Journal of Game Design and Development Education after the conference. These papers must comply with the requirements of their respective journals. For more information on paper submission and or for interest in joining the review committee, contact Al Biles, j...@it.rit.edu, subject igic ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Introducing the IGDA Learning and Education SIG
Hi folks, I'm happy to announce a new Special Interest Group of the International Game Developers Association, which will focus on games designed for learning in formal and informal contexts and on commercial entertainment titles used for learning as well. The IGDA began, and still primarily is, a professional organization for commercial game developers. That said, over recent years it has been embracing the less commercial side as well. Within the IDGA are a raft of game designers who understand how to make games fun and engaging as well as educators interested in getting involved with games as a learning tool. Most of the IGDA SIGS, including ours, require registration, but not membership or fees to join. I invite those of you in San Francisco to join us in the IGDA Booth at GDC on Wednesday the 7th at 2:00 pm. While the conference is a paid conference, the IGDA booth is usually in the lobby of one of the Moscone buildings and therefore does not require a conference registration badge to access. I invite all of you interested in games and learning to join our Google Group at http://groups.google.com/group/igdaleg Last but not least, PASS IT ON! :-) Hope to see you in SF or on-line. Stephen Jacobs Associate Professor, Interactive Games and Media Visiting Scholar,International Center for the History of Electronic Games Interim Chair, IGDA Learning and Education SIG Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Game Design and Development Education Director, Lab for Technological Literacy Rochester Institute of Technology 152 Lomb Memorial Drive Bldg 70 Rochester, NY 14623 s...@mail.rit.edu 585-475-780 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Nice tool for learning Python
If you haven't seen Teagueduino yet, it's worth a look as a system that does a good job of making the invisible visible, especially parts of the programming interface that show you the signals/voltages in the chip being set high or low when things run. The two pictures of the editor in the article below show some of this. http://www.open-electronics.org/teagueduino-making-things-really-simple/ On Jan 29, 2012, at 8:55 AM, Alan Kay wrote: Hi Tabitha I don't think the premise of this system is for Python programming to be discovered while doing it, and I didn't see any claims for this. It simple makes the invisible more visible when manipulating computer entities and invoking processes that are usually shrouded at best. Systems like Etoys and Scratch need this particular visualization less because they have mostly visible objects that are being given behaviors (and which also in Etoys' case have visible data structures -- e.g. Holders etc -- as well). The programmers can see the changes in the already visible objects. (That is partly the point in how they are designed for beginners.) But these systems use a lot of parallel invocations, so one could imagine a facility like Bob Balzer's EXDAMS (in the 60s!) that captured all of the behavior for a stretch and allow it to be played forward and backward deterministically to help the programmer understand what was going on and the communications between objects. I think the main point here is that it really helps any programmer, and especially beginners, when the computer can be used to aid both their short term memories and abilities in visualizing the consequences of their code. A system like the Python visualizer is especially useful for low-level imperative-type data structure munging programming (and Python is often learned in this way). Cheers, Alan From: Tabitha Roder tabi...@tabitha.net.nz To: Steve Thomas sthom...@gosargon.com Cc: iaep iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2012 1:29 AM Subject: Re: [IAEP] Nice tool for learning Python On 28 January 2012 17:28, Steve Thomas sthom...@gosargon.com wrote: Just found this: http://people.csail.mit.edu/pgbovine/python/ This tool looks like an amazing tool for someone who already understands programming concepts to teach with but it seems a stretch for someone to learn on their own with this tool by itself. The first example code is aliasing but doesn't explain what a variable is, or a function, or a list. It might be possible to discover these concepts using the simulator but it is probably better explained in words. Does anyone know of a suitable ebook or tutorial which the simulator could be used with? Thinking of the cases where there is no one to guide the student. Thanks Tabitha ___ 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
Re: [IAEP] Call for bids, Educational platform, curricular content for CEIBAL
Version in English? If not, can someone give me the summary? Time line to apply and deliver? Specific deliverables, etc? Might be able to build an RIT team around it. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 25, 2011, at 10:38 PM, moku...@earthtreasury.org wrote: On Fri, June 24, 2011 10:03 am, Yamandu Ploskonka wrote: $48 G in IADB funds, $114 G total page 18 has the abstract, and pp. 34-37 details on the actual stuff they are looking for. The rest is lawyerly fluff, so beware... This is exactly what the Sugar Labs Replacing Textbooks program is about. Obviously Sugar Labs cannot do it alone, but if we can find appropriate partners, would you two, Yama and Christoph, want to work on it? Anybody else? Esto es exactamente lo que el programa de Remplazando los libros de texto de Sugar Labs se trata. Obviamente Sugar Labs no puede hacerlo solo, pero si podemos encontrar los socios adecuados, lo haría con dos, Yama y Christoph, quiere trabajar en él? ¿Alguien más? On 06/16/2011 04:53 PM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: 2011/6/16 nanon...@mediagala.com mailto:nanon...@mediagala.com /Christoph Derndorfer wrote: vi que Plan Ceibal anunció una licitación para Plataforma Educativa on line... -/ Hola, Christoph: No soy experto en Licitaciones, ni tampoco en Plataformas Educativas, en lo único que te puedo ayudar es en pasarte un pequeño resumen de lo que pide dicha licitación. De las 59 páginas de la Licitación http://ceibal.org.uy/docs/Licitacion-152-2011-Pliego-%20Condiciones-Plataforma.pdf te lo acorté a 12 páginas (es el pdf que puse como attach a éste e-mail). Le borré 47 páginas que estaban llenas de bla bla de agogados. Paolo, te agradezco mucho para esta version, ahora fue mucho más facil encontrar los aspectos relevantes. Tampoco sé mucho de este tipo de licitaciones pero lo que si me parece interesante - en especial en comparación con la licitación de Rwanda que parece haber sido parecido en su enfoque - que la describción en la sección de los contenidos educativos esta bastante amplio. Si lo entiendo bien en Rwanda habían requisitos de certificación segun un estandard educativo pero no veo nada de esto en esta licitación uruguaya. En todo caso será interesante ver los resultados de este proceso... :-) Saludos, Christoph -- Christoph Derndorfer co-editor, olpcnews url: www.olpcnews.com http://www.olpcnews.com e-mail: christ...@olpcnews.com mailto:christ...@olpcnews.com ___ Lista olpc-Sur olpc-...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sur ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Edward Mokurai (#40664;#38647;/#2343;#2352;#2381;#2350;#2350;#2375;#2328;#2358;#2348;#2381;#2342;#2327;#2352;#2381;#2332;/#1583;#1726;#1585;#1605;#1605;#1740;#1711;#1726;#1588;#1576;#1583;#1711;#1585; #1580;) 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 -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] DesignBlocks
Agree that processing makes more sense. Large established community. Also speaks to the Kinect fairly easily though I don't know if we'll be seeing that happen :-) On Jun 5, 2011, at 8:37 AM, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: It may be a better investment of our resources to port Processing (which is Java-based) to Sugar. which might then make it easy to get the Arduino IDE into Sugar (which I think is Processing) 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
Re: [IAEP] Gnome vs Sugar -- The judgement day
For whatever it's worth, I'm always in favor of allowing options, I'd make it harder but wouldn't kill it. Stephen Jacobs Associate Professor Interactive Games and Media Rochester Institute of Technology 102 Lomb Memorial Drive Bldg 70 Rochester, NY 14618 s...@mail.rit.edu 585-475-7803 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] RIT Prof Intro.
Howdy folks, Mel pointed me to this list. I've been running the efforts at RIT for the past 18+ months. Rather than fill your e-mailboxes up, take a quick peek at this blogpost to see what's been going on... http://gryphonscratches.blogspot.com/2010/06/posse-fossrit-list.html Stephen Jacobs Associate Professor Interactive Games and Media Rochester Institute of Technology 102 Lomb Memorial Drive Bldg 70 Rochester, NY 14618 s...@mail.rit.edu 585-475-7803 What follows is a required public service announcement from my university ;-) CONFIDENTIALITY NOTE: The information transmitted, including attachments, is intended only for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and destroy any copies of this information. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] NYSCATE - Nov 2009 in Rochester NY
last time I talked to the NYSCATE folks I had a booth for the RIT game dept again this year. Last year and this year I will be showcasing our OLPC efforts in that booth and am happy to use it to support the efforts in any way I can. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 1, 2009, at 7:50 AM, Karlie Robinson karlie_robin...@webpath.net wrote: Caroline Meeks wrote: Hi Karlie, Its looking like Rochester is going to be a hotbed of Sugar development. We are hoping to co-locate a Sugar conference with NYSCATE. Given that I think we should really go for it on in terms of presentations. My thought is lets propose two hands on 3 hour workshops. Using Sugar in the Elementary School Classroom and another specializing in Using Sugar in Math Instruction. Lets also sign up for a 1 hour lecture format session on Sugar. Who else is going to be there? Is there someone from Math4 group who can be Presentor 1 for the Math Class? Of course I'll be in town and I've done a 50 minute presentation on Math4 at Ithaca EdTech day and Bar Camp Rochester[1]. I was the one who got everyone going on Math4 in Rochester (Fedora XO donation to RIT and liaison work). We also have Steve Jacobs the RIT professor who ran with my suggestion to teach Open Source development. And last but not least, Fred Grose who'll be overseeing the RIT Co- ops this summer, Wiki Magician, and the guy who's been beyond helpful filling in our knowledge gaps concerning OLPC and Sugar Labs. Steve and Fred were also the driving force behind an OLPC Grass Roots group in Rochester. I just happened to come to the first meeting as a Fedora-OLPC SIG rep. The rest is kismet. (Rochester NY is a hot bed for FOSS to begin with LUG of Rochester is one of the oldest Linux User Groups in the world running continuously for 15 years) ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
