Re: [IAEP] First steps with Sugar
Thank you all for your wondefull suggestions, I'll be reporting our experience ... Best regards, werner 2010/6/15 Frederick Grose fgr...@gmail.com On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Cherry Withers cwith...@ekindling.orgwrote: Hi Werner, Before I started my deployment training in the Philippines (with XOs not SoaS), I asked the same question. I came across a small wiki write up by Caroline Meeks and Walter Bender before I saw the myriad of manuals on deployment and it served as my guide for the first minutes/hour of my training. Wish I can find the wiki-link now. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/How_to_present_Sugar ___ 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] First steps with Sugar
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Werner Westermann werne...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, regards from Santiago. We are beginning a short Sugar pilot deployment in the K-3 level (8-9 years), using Mirabelle SoaS: http://cl.sugarlabs.org/go/Piloto_Florence_Nightingale_Macul We have focused on curricular work, exploring, selecting, prioritizing Sugar activities with the teacher. But we haven't thought of the initial encounter with Sugar. What do you suggest to do in class to get in touch on Sugar?, Any ideas, metaphors that could motivate of the environments, activities, journal, etc?, what activities to work on first?, preferring a exploratory or rather approach at first? A popular first exercise is to use the Memorize game. It has a familiarity, but the kids can then start making their own games and sharing them. regards. -walter Any help is very welcomed, best wishes, werner ___ 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] First steps with Sugar
Zitat von Werner Westermann werne...@gmail.com: Hello, regards from Santiago. We are beginning a short Sugar pilot deployment in the K-3 level (8-9 years), using Mirabelle SoaS: http://cl.sugarlabs.org/go/Piloto_Florence_Nightingale_Macul We have focused on curricular work, exploring, selecting, prioritizing Sugar activities with the teacher. But we haven't thought of the initial encounter with Sugar. What do you suggest to do in class to get in touch on Sugar?, Any ideas, metaphors that could motivate of the environments, activities, journal, etc?, what activities to work on first?, preferring a exploratory or rather approach at first? 3 weeks ago at the Waveplace schools on St. John we only started with Sugar classes on the second or third day. Things we explored in 10 to 20 minute slices at the beginning of each day (we had 90min after-school sessions at the schools) were: * how to stop Activities + not having too many Activities running at once (since many first time users manage to bring their machines / XOs to a halt by having multiple copies of Activities running, depending on the hardware you're using this might be less of an issue however especially young children can also get confused by multiple instances of the same Activity) * the Journal * the different views (especially the 2 views on the Home View can be very confusing in my experience) combined with collaboration (using Chat as a simple example) * Activity-of-the-day We started each day by asking the children whether they had discovered something particularly interesting by themselves on the previous day. That led to some good discussions and their fellow pupils asking them how to do things. Similarly we asked some children who quickly had a good understanding of things to explain how to do certain things, e.g. the aforementioned collaboration in Chat, to the rest of the class. Last but not least: I've found (both on St. John and at the Austrian pilot project) that having a projector and screen on-hand to demonstrate how to use Sugar and some Activities was tremendously useful. Not sure how well equipped the classrooms you'll be working in are but if there's any chance to use a projector (even if it means having to bring one along every single day) then I'd wholeheartedly recommend it. Hope that helps, Christoph -- Christoph Derndorfer co-editor, olpcnews url: 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
Re: [IAEP] First steps with Sugar
Hi Werner, Before I started my deployment training in the Philippines (with XOs not SoaS), I asked the same question. I came across a small wiki write up by Caroline Meeks and Walter Bender before I saw the myriad of manuals on deployment and it served as my guide for the first minutes/hour of my training. Wish I can find the wiki-link now. - Start by having the children personalize their environment. Have them name their XO/SoaS and choose their own color. It is important for them to have that first feel of ownership. - Then introduce the different views and have that lesson relate to their physical world. What does it mean to be home? What's the favorite's list view mean and how it relates to what they like to do at home. Whenever the children in my class get lost by opening an activity unfamiliar to them or have clicked something they didn't mean to, I tell them to first get their bearings by going Home . I find relating the virtual to the actual is important especially for kids who have not seen or played with anything remotely like a computer. When a child opened too much stuff and the computer slows down to a crawl, I asked them what it's like to have a cluttered and crowded house? How fast can you move? Can you wash the dishes, do your homework, make your bed, etcall at the same time? Anyways didn't mean to rattle on. There's a great guide from Australia that introduces the different activities in their increasing complexities: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/File:XOComesToClassV1_1.pdf You might have to change up the activities based on what's possible for the SoaS version and cues from the children. Have fun and good luck on your deployment! Regards, Cherry On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Werner Westermann werne...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, regards from Santiago. We are beginning a short Sugar pilot deployment in the K-3 level (8-9 years), using Mirabelle SoaS: http://cl.sugarlabs.org/go/Piloto_Florence_Nightingale_Macul We have focused on curricular work, exploring, selecting, prioritizing Sugar activities with the teacher. But we haven't thought of the initial encounter with Sugar. What do you suggest to do in class to get in touch on Sugar?, Any ideas, metaphors that could motivate of the environments, activities, journal, etc?, what activities to work on first?, preferring a exploratory or rather approach at first? Any help is very welcomed, best wishes, werner ___ 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] First steps with Sugar
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Cherry Withers cwith...@ekindling.orgwrote: Hi Werner, Before I started my deployment training in the Philippines (with XOs not SoaS), I asked the same question. I came across a small wiki write up by Caroline Meeks and Walter Bender before I saw the myriad of manuals on deployment and it served as my guide for the first minutes/hour of my training. Wish I can find the wiki-link now. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/How_to_present_Sugar ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] First steps with Sugar
Hello, regards from Santiago. We are beginning a short Sugar pilot deployment in the K-3 level (8-9 years), using Mirabelle SoaS: http://cl.sugarlabs.org/go/Piloto_Florence_Nightingale_Macul We have focused on curricular work, exploring, selecting, prioritizing Sugar activities with the teacher. But we haven't thought of the initial encounter with Sugar. What do you suggest to do in class to get in touch on Sugar?, Any ideas, metaphors that could motivate of the environments, activities, journal, etc?, what activities to work on first?, preferring a exploratory or rather approach at first? Any help is very welcomed, best wishes, werner ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
