[Sugar-devel] Sugar Framework for Android-GSOC Proposal?
Hi Daniel, Building off your and Lionel's conversation on HTML5 and Sugar to Android conversation and the comments on them being somewhat interconnected. Would it be possible for you to write up a project for GSOC coming from the Sugar to Android perspective? In our Sugar Marketing meeting in February-Sugar on Android was a goal we chose to shoot for this year. http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/meetings/2013-02-13T16:04:45 If you think there is a possibility to push this forward through a GSOC project that would seem very beneficial and might help our chances of being chosen. Please let us know your thoughts and its understandable if you don't think its possible at this point. Thanks! John Tierney Message: 1 Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 00:40:38 +0100 From: Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com To: lio...@olpc-france.org lio...@olpc-france.org Cc: Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org, sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Framework for full HTML5 activity - subject proposal for GSoC Message-ID: canthhvaduuksxejqfn1erzaf9bd8i2q1fdaozbub4extxrn...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 On Friday, 22 March 2013, wrote: HTML activities on Sugar could be a first step to Android porting but IMO, the two projects are not necessarily interconnected. I do like the James idea of a ?PhoneGap? framework for Sugar. This is the way I think this GSoC proposal. At the end of the GSoC we can hope to have a binding of the framework for Sugar on Fedora, then in few months a binding of the framework for Sugar on Android. So, the framework will be a way to ensure a portability between Sugar/Fedora and Sugar/Android. I think we basically agree here. I see them interconnected in the sense that the framework is designed to allow bindings on multiple platforms. But of course the GSoC project should focus on only one of them. I?m going to write a first draft of the proposal. We could update it collectively. Cool. I will read it and comment. -- Daniel Narvaez ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] Service Learning Project-Constructivist Tools for Sugar
Hello all, First I would like to thank Development team for the time at meeting today to bring this upwith the hope of landing these features if doable in 0.98. I have chosen to do a Service Learning Project around Sugar for my Masters Learning Design Tech program at Purdue University. Let me preface by saying I have read the feature policy which I see flowing from technical to learning. I am coming at this from the opposite direction learning to technical because my lack of technical expertise. I am looking to collaborate with entire Dev team to push through these constructivist learning principles if they are technically feasible? I am coming to you at this point to start the thinking and see if either of these paths can and should be followed. When you get the chance would you please take a look at my user page which includesService Learning Plan Write-up:http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Jt4sugar This is built off some of my previous work along with Fall 2011 semester work with Dr. Dana Driscoll and her Literacy, Technology, and Civic Engagement class at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. They did an entire class semester project around Sugar-Literacy and Writing process effortsPhase 1: User:Owl Jr. Project/semesterproject1Phase 2: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Owl_Jr._Project From all this work we have distilled two features we think our apt to enhance the Sugar Learning Platform in powerful ways for learners and teachers alike, which adhere and support constructivist principles, and build on the reflection feature “Write to the Journal Anytime”. I wanted you to look at these pages first to understand the context before starting separate threads for Inquiry Learning Global Chat and Discovery Mode. Dr. Dana Driscoll has also agreed to meet with the Development team if they wanted to have an IRC discussion around her class project, the benefits of building in features for Reflection, Inquiry Learning, and the idea of Discovery Mode along with the constructivist and pedagogical value they can bring. Please let me know if this is something you would like me to facilitate. Dr. Driscoll,Graduated from Purdue with her Doctorate in Rhetoric and Composition and was a major contributor/worker on the Purdue OWL: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ When starting those threads would these be correct for the subject line:[Feature] Inquiry Learning Global Chat[Feature] Discovery Mode Would like to set up a couple of brainstorm sessions one for each feature around the possibilities but don't want to tie up Dev Mtg time that centers around 0.96. Can meet another time on #sugar-meeting or #sugar. Please suggest what works best for you all. Appreciate the Interest!John Tierney I have set up the shell pages for: Inquiry Learning Global Chat-http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Inquiry_learning_global_chat Peer and Teacher questioning across activities with capture log Discovery Mode-http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Discovery_mode Creating a mode allowing teacher/guides/facilitator to learn about Sugar inside Sugar activities through palettes that open and contain description and use cases for icon/process I will definitely need collaborative help with the hope of having the Dev team “adopt” these features and takingownership or working on some type of co-ownership basis since there will be the need to help fill out feature page from the technical perspective. ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] Service Learning Project-Constructivist Tools for Sugar
Hello All, Sorry for formatting issues in first mail. When writing and looking at my email in sent box it looks like its formatted just fine. I have attached PDF of original email to make for an easier read. Is there a character length limit or some special parameters I should be adhering to when posting to sugar-devel list? I am not understanding what would be throwing off formatting so severely. Best! JT Email for SLP for Sugar-Devel list.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] Sugar Labs Website Revamp IRC Mtg 1-8-12 11:00amEST(16:00UTC)
Hello All, Happy New Year! As the New Year starts we are making another effort to restart the Sugar Labs Website Revamp. Designer and community member Christian Marc Schmidt has put together a Design Template along with a Sugar Labs Website Refresh: Content Document. These two documents along with the work and content gathering done by RIT Co-op students Mike Devine and JT Mengel last year will hopefully give us solid basis to start from. Our Kick-off IRC meeting will take place this Sunday Jan. 8th on#sugar-meeting at 11:00amEST(16:00UTC), after the Design Meeting surrounding Write To Journal Anytime taking place at 10:00amEST. Please join us if you are available-our key shortcoming last year in our attempt was a lack of content to effectively create the new site. All help is Welcome and needed. Because this is in the Building and Design stage please email me at: jtis4...@hotmail.com to get links to the preview documents if you are interested in being part of the process. Our First Step is to give Christian the Thumbs Up/Make Enhancements to the Design. Our Second Step will look to get individual community members to take responsibility in Content Gathering Areas that flow out of the documents Christian has prepared. Our Third Step is to execute Content Gathering Upon receiving enough content Christian will then commence the build phase. We hope you can join us on Sunday and look forward to working with the community to do this important work. Please let us know of your interest in taking part in this important endeavor. Appreciate the Collaboration! John Tierney P.S. Please get into the hands of those who will be best able to assist-Thank You! ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] for today's meeting: certificate program proposal
Hello, I think the title you may be looking for is Sugar Facilitator or Sugar Ambassador. Best! John Tierney Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 15:12:22 -0300 From: edujam2...@ceibaljam.org To: sl...@lists.sugarlabs.org; i...@lists.sugarlabs.org; sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org Subject: Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] for today's meeting: certificate program proposal I wonder if there shouldn't be a certification for Sugar Animators or something like this (actually I'd like to find a better word than animator). I'm thinking on the people that contributes keeping the community or a local lab moving on: Organizing events, coordinating teams of programmers or educators, making public Sugar advocacy, doing bureaucratic stuff needed to keep Sugar Labs or a local lab working, looking for resources, etc. It's not that I want a certification that fits me ;-) IMHO they're important actors that should be recognized. On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: Following up on a thread begun in mid July (http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2011-July/013736.html) I would like to discuss the following proposal this morning: Sugar Labs will award certificates to developers to acknowledge and celebrate their contributions to the Sugar Learning Platform. Several certificates will be made available: Sugar X Contributor; Sugar Activity Developer; and Sugar Core Developer. The Sugar X Contributor certificate will be given to an individual who over the course of a sustained effort of at least 6 months contributes to some Sugar community team, e.g., Sugar Translation Contributor. (The teams are listed on the wiki). The specific criteria for certification will be determined by the team coordinators, but in general, it would involve a repeated effort on behalf of the team's goals at a high level of quality (e.g., of quality sufficient to be incorportated into our offerings). The Sugar Activity Developer certificate will be given to an individual who develops at least one Sugar activity that is subsequently posted on the Sugar activity portal and be of sufficient quality to be approved for public release. The activity must also include internationalization, including the submission of a POT file to the Translation Team, and documentation, including the creation of a page in the wiki under the Activity category. As will the Contributor certificates, sign off will be made by the associated team coordinators, in this case the Activity team. The Sugar Core Developer certificate will be given to an individual who over the course of one year makes significant contributions to the Sugar core libraries, e.g., sugar-toolkit or sugar. Sign off will be made by the Developer team coordinators. -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) i...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) i...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] Requesting Feedback MarketLab Opportunity
Hello Everyone, We have an opportunity this Fall to be part of a MarketLab Student Project, http://web.mit.edu/marketingclub/marketlab/ We have been asked to submit a proposal for the marketing needs of Sugar Labs on Friday, August 20th. I have sent this to the multiple lists because I believe all parts of Sugar Labs should weigh-in and let us know how Sugar Labs Marketing in collaboration with MarketLab Team members can help in your efforts. This is an excerpt from IRC Chat this morning discussing the MarketLab project possibilities: JT4sugar walterbender, I guess question is do we want them to work on certain areas or do we want them to come up with a marketing straegy for us JT4sugar Strategy walterbender JT4sugar: I think the more focused, the more likely we will get something useful/actionable from them JT4sugar walterbender, I think then Public Awareness, Teacher Awareness Participation, Fundraising-Mostly for Teacher Events? Your thoughts/ideas walterbender JT4sugar: I've got pretty limited time for writing this week -- a competing deadline -- so perhaps we can come up with a specific plan of action for getting this proposal out the door? walterbender JT4sugar: I'd like to fund more developer and developer/deployment face-to-face time as well walterbender JT4sugar: we are lacking a 1-page this-is-what-we-are here-is-how-you-can-help pamphlet as well JT4sugar walterbender, I will put it together. I will send email to list about opportunity to gather feedback. Will add developer needs to fundrasing part walterbender JT4sugar: if there is some specific writing you'd like me to do, let me know JT4sugar walterbender, I will plan to get you a draft by Thursday so you can make additions/changes walterbender JT4sugar: +1 Please take a few minutes to reflect on your area of Sugar Labs. Please identify the areas/subjects you believe this student team at MIT Sloan MarketLab can help Sugar Labs with. Appreciate Your Time, Thoughts, and Ideas! John Tierney ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] [Marketing] Sugar Labs GSoC 2010 Flyer - please review
Hi Tim, Like the content! My Suggestion-same content slightly different order and add Sugar Labs Logo. Top Line: Google Summer of Code 2010 Next: Enhance Your Skills While Assisting Children's Education Picture: Next: Apply To Be Student for Next: Insert Sugar Labs Logo Next:http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/summer_of_code Best! John Tierney Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:04:24 +1300 From: paperl...@timmcnamara.co.nz To: i...@lists.sugarlabs.org; sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org; market...@lists.sugarlabs.org Subject: [Marketing] Sugar Labs GSoC 2010 Flyer - please review Hi all, If you have 30 seconds free, please review http://issuu.com/timclicks/docs/sugarlabs_gsoc_2010. I've gone for simplicity over . My main consideration was tying together growth children's learning. I think you'll smile when you see the result. If people are relatively happy with it, we can start forwarding it around. I've used a web-based solution to avoid clogging up people's inboxes. If you would like the PDF or raw SVG, do let me know. Tim @timClicks ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] Keyboard Function-Special Buttons
Hello, This is from today's marketing meeting which brings up a question for me: [11:34:00] SeanDaly but as stated previously it would be worth our while to discuss Sugarized third-party keyboards with OEMs such as Cherry If we were working with an OEM who decided they wanted special buttons on a Netbook for Neighborhood View, Home View, Groups View and maybe even the Journal: Is it possible to take these functions from F1, F2, F3 and map these to special separate buttons? If possible: How hard of a task technically? Just trying to think of product differentiators that could allow for a Sugar breakout. Best! John Tierney ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] [Feature] Write to Journal anytime
Hello All, I am working with University Professors who are part of the Computers and Writing Community and would like to have them become more involved in making this Feature an important enhancement to Sugar. With their expertise and pedagogical guidance, help Sugar Labs create a space where students and teachers can access resources to help them with the Writing Process and Command of Language Skills. With the help of Tammy Conrad-Salvo Associate Director Writing Lab Purdue there will be a 9am-12pm Sugar Workshop on May 22nd at 2010 Computer and Writing Conference being held at Purdue University. http://www.digitalparlor.org/cw2010/. Tammy has also been involved with myself, Gerald Ardito and Walter brainstorming the concept of OWL jr. for Sugar and the XO Laptop. The idea is to have writing resources available to K-12 students which would be able to run in an online or offline scenario. it would be great to find a way through the New Feature Write to the Journal Anytime that these resources would be available. Purdue Online Writing Lab(OWL) http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ What is your thoughts on the best process to bring these Professors into the Community. Should they sign up for multiple lists? This is now on the Developer list but when the discussion of Feature moves to Pedagogical portions would the thread also include It's An Education Project List? If they want to begin commenting immediately on thread, do they have to be signed into mailing list for comments/email to be accepted? To edit and make comments on Sugar Labs wiki I know they must have an account with Sugar Labs. Is there a link in the Wiki that walks this process through Step by Step. Since I have been signed up to the lists for quite sometime I thought I should know this but found myself unable to answer the question having not looked at it from this point of view. I found myself going to multiple places in the wiki finding myself unable to present a clear strategy to Tammy so she could pass along to her other colleagues. There is a very good chance I have overlooked the information. Any guidance would be helpful. Thank You! John Tierney Message: 3 Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:37:12 +0100 From: Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de Subject: [Sugar-devel] [Feature] Write to Journal anytime To: Sugar-dev Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org Cc: Christian Schmidt christianm...@gmail.com, Eben Eliason eben.elia...@gmail.com Message-ID: 4b67f248.9050...@schampijer.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hi, in the design meting of the 16th of January [1] there was an agreement to move forward on the 'Write to Journal anytime' [2] Feature like the following: Instead of displaying the naming alert when you close an activity for the first time we will switch to the Journal detail few of the activity. The back button on the detail page will bring you, like in general Journal use, to the main Journal page. The NamingAlert will go away. The advantage of this solution is addition of context, as the user will be brought to the obvious place where he can make his notes. The fullscreen window switch might be confusing, though. At least this Feature should be tested and we should do a bit more thinking before making those changes. As the naming alert did bring confusion, too, we would like to remove it in 0.88. And aim for a better solution in 0.90. If we do not find agreement on this we could add a gconf option for that alert, too. As part of the issue is: That the Journal is not as accessible as it should be, we could make the Journal more prominent in the Home View. We could add the Journal to the activity ring (at the top) in the Home view, colored to make it accessible in the home view all the time (like described in the 'Resume vs Start New' Feature. Thanks, Simon [1] http://meeting.olpcorps.net/sugar-meeting/sugar-meeting.log.20100116_1110.html [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Write_to_journal_anytime ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] Change Access from SD card to USB boot on XO
Hi, I am working with an Instructor Michael Mayville at Oakland Schools Technical Campus who is part of their Business, Management, Marketing, and Technology Cluster. Michael is working with his students on two XO laptops I have loaned them. They have successfully gotten developer keys and have been able to make some changes with the use of an SD Card. He would like to be able to do this work from a USB key instead because of the easier access to the USB slots as oppossed to the SD card slot. His question is how to change access to the XO Laptop from SD Card to USB Boot? Thanks! John Tierney ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] [Marketing] Ad Design for StackOverflow
I Like it-I would add two things Adding in the Learn How to Learn line, helps in showcasing an important benefit of Sugar and why Sugar is different and important. SL logo Python Developers-Get Rockin with Python! Develop Activities for the Sugar Learning Platform Help children Learn How to Learn with your skills Over 1,000,000 served join.sugarlabs.org Best- JT From: sdaly...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:56:44 +0100 Subject: Re: [Marketing] Ad Design for StackOverflow To: jtis4...@hotmail.com; to...@sugarlabs.org; market...@lists.sugarlabs.org; sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org; sd...@sugarlabs.org thanks all for these suggestions I think we can include both a call for motivation (kids education) and competence (python) I like the idea of Activities as an on-ramp - we certainly want to grow the ASLO ecosystem my instinct would be to start with education, but may be better to define target as Python devs? Maybe something like this: SL logo Python Developers! Develop Activities for the Sugar Learning Platform Help children learn with your skills - over 1,000,000 served join.sugarlabs.org feedback? Sean On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 1:14 AM, John Tierney jtis4...@hotmail.com wrote: From: jtis4...@hotmail.com To: jtis4...@hotmail.com Subject: RE: [Marketing] Ad Design for StackOverflow Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:11:08 -0500 Hello All, Something like Got Python? Change the world!? Not sure how much room we have. Also, developers are a quite heterogeneous bunch when it comes to motivation, can we target a defined profile? Maybe something like: Get Rockin With Python Join Sugar Labs Developing Communities!! Help Kids Learn How to Learn!! Change The World One Child at a Time!! Best- John Tierney Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:31:46 + From: to...@sugarlabs.org To: CC: market...@lists.sugarlabs.org; sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org Subject: Re: [Marketing] Ad Design for StackOverflow On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 17:54, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: Many thanks Luke, a good catch as developers are difficult to reach in fact I've been thinking of placing such an ad with the Ad Bard network after our December free run for Blueberry is done - they cycle ads on dev-oriented sites Before we ask the designers to work on this, we need to decide what to write Should we seek Activity, or platform devs? Maybe first activities? Makes an easier start. Python or gtk+ experience should be enough. Tomeu, what do you think a developer would react to? Something like Got Python? Change the world!? Not sure how much room we have. Also, developers are a quite heterogeneous bunch when it comes to motivation, can we target a defined profile? e.g.: sugar labs logo Nonprofit volunteer org seeks talented developers interested in improving the lives of Sugar's second million children. Join us! URL join.sugarlabs.org Sounds pretty good, a reference to concrete technologies as python and gtk are may help, because developers tend to group around the technologies they use and like. Regards, Tomeu thanks Sean On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Luke Faraone l...@faraone.cc wrote: Hi, StackOverflow, a popular programmer Q/A site, is soliciting adverts from FOSS projects looking for developers. Does anybody have some spare time to whip up a 220px by 220px image? -- Luke Faraone http://luke.faraone.cc ___ Marketing mailing list market...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing ___ Marketing mailing list market...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning ___ Marketing mailing list market...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing ___ Marketing mailing list market...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] [Marketing] Ad Design for StackOverflow
From: jtis4...@hotmail.com To: jtis4...@hotmail.com Subject: RE: [Marketing] Ad Design for StackOverflow Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:11:08 -0500 Hello All, Something like Got Python? Change the world!? Not sure how much room we have. Also, developers are a quite heterogeneous bunch when it comes to motivation, can we target a defined profile? Maybe something like: Get Rockin With Python Join Sugar Labs Developing Communities!! Help Kids Learn How to Learn!! Change The World One Child at a Time!! Best- John Tierney Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:31:46 + From: to...@sugarlabs.org To: CC: market...@lists.sugarlabs.org; sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org Subject: Re: [Marketing] Ad Design for StackOverflow On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 17:54, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: Many thanks Luke, a good catch as developers are difficult to reach in fact I've been thinking of placing such an ad with the Ad Bard network after our December free run for Blueberry is done - they cycle ads on dev-oriented sites Before we ask the designers to work on this, we need to decide what to write Should we seek Activity, or platform devs? Maybe first activities? Makes an easier start. Python or gtk+ experience should be enough. Tomeu, what do you think a developer would react to? Something like Got Python? Change the world!? Not sure how much room we have. Also, developers are a quite heterogeneous bunch when it comes to motivation, can we target a defined profile? e.g.: sugar labs logo Nonprofit volunteer org seeks talented developers interested in improving the lives of Sugar's second million children. Join us! URL join.sugarlabs.org Sounds pretty good, a reference to concrete technologies as python and gtk are may help, because developers tend to group around the technologies they use and like. Regards, Tomeu thanks Sean On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Luke Faraone l...@faraone.cc wrote: Hi, StackOverflow, a popular programmer Q/A site, is soliciting adverts from FOSS projects looking for developers. Does anybody have some spare time to whip up a 220px by 220px image? -- Luke Faraone http://luke.faraone.cc ___ Marketing mailing list market...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing ___ Marketing mailing list market...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning ___ Marketing mailing list market...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] FW: Tutorius Meeting minutes - 2009/11/19
JujJust wanted to mention my admiration for the Tutorious team: they have pushed forward a big feature that affects shell and activities, have set up their instance of AMO for tutorials, have pinged periodically the community for feedback, have made a spin of SoaS so others can more easily test their work, have contacted the testing team at NZ for feedback, etc. And not because that's a lot of work, but because it's the _right_ work to do. Kudos to them and whoever is mentoring! Regards, Tomeu Hello All, Myself and Gerald Ardito had a Skype meeting with Erick Lavoie and Michael Montclam from the Tutorius Project last Thursday Nov. 19th, the notes from that session are below. Since the comments/suggestions from Gerald and I are U.S. based, I am in the process of trying to set up a second meeting between Tutorious and Enhanced Learning Strategy-Ron Canuel had a Team that went down to Uruguay recently and visited 18 schools. This will give the Tutorius Team an additional view to incorporate into the project and allow for the internationalization of Tutorious, which is one of their objectives. They are due to finalize the Project and give a Final Presentation in early December to complete this class project. They have indicated an interest to merge Tutorius ability into Sugar when it is at a stable state. I indicated to them I would reach out to the Sugar Developer community-Tomeu,Walter, and others to see if there can be some joint planning or conversations that would lead to this possibilty. Please let me know how we can proceed on this front. I look forward to trying to facilitate these initiatives, which I believe will be very valuable for students, teachers, and activity developers alike. Best! John Tierney Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:17:23 + Subject: Meeting minute - 2009/11/19 From: michael.jmontc...@gmail.com To: jtis4...@hotmail.com; gerald.ard...@gmail.com Hi guys! Here are the notes for today's meeting. Feel free to add precisions and comments if anything was missed. You can access the document right here : https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVT_nzmWT2B2ZGN3dDd2MzRfNTF0dzMyNGdnaghl=en Thank you for your time and the great ideas! Michael Meeting minute 2009/11//19 Attendees : John Gerald Érick Michael Minute : Introduction Gerald's tests 5 XO classrooms since January in middle school Doctoral thesis on Sugar Focus on curricular needs with teachers Ex : Using etoys to do an interactive story book Pre-testing with Test Team students in class, then attempting with the whole class Works really well and adds much more depth to the teaching Gerald's view of Tutorius Offer assistance on learning the platform (journal, using write activity, etc...) Using the platform is one of the hurdles to getting the most out of activities To have Tutorius to walk them through those skills would be incredibly useful Gerald's perception Tutorius would be immediately useful in teaching the basic Sugar skills But not so much for the specifics of the activity John's suggestion It would be great to have tutorials on how to do tutorials Technical details How can we deploy Tutorius on the XOs? Is it an activity? Can it be easily installed? No, it's a direct integration with the Sugar OS Questions from John What are the details for the merging? Tutorius would need to stabilize its code base The activities are not all consistent (e.g. save_state function) A screencast utility for Sugar Make a tutorial inside a screencast Dump the screencast on the web Point the students to the web Gerald is concerned on application on the XO Re-flashing the XOs is not hard but would wipe all data Could we have an automatic upload to YouTube? The XO is a great computer for kids because of its form factor It is slower, but the kids relate to the device differently Akin to the way they use their iPhones and MP3 players Re-flashing would be ok, providing a way to save data and restore it A screencast would be a backup plan Erick's question What does a tutorial adds to a screencast? Gerald : Having a label is for actions is great information John The important first step is to get a screencast tool out there with Tutorius First steps John : Short term is more important than long term Erick's question : Is internationalization important? We could offer it in an easy way or a complete support. John : Support for this would be awesome, but sounds a bit more on the long term approach. Walter and Tomeu could point us better Error case support : if students click on the wrong button, how do we address this? Gerald : We could inspire ourselves from an Adobe product that does interactive screencast? Adobe Captivé Sharing : we have a basic, non-secure prototype. We do not have a full-fledged sharing platform. Gerald : There are no really good way to share things in Sugar yet. You can collaborate, but you cannot share products easily
[Sugar-devel] FW: [IAEP] Texas Tech University work with XO/Sugar
Sean and Tomeu, Just a little update on this video. If you would like Rich to go ahead and get this ready for Sugar Labs use, he has offered to do so in early July. Let me know! JT From: rich.r...@ttu.edu To: jtis4...@hotmail.com Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:49:41 -0500 Subject: RE: [IAEP] Texas Tech University work with XO/Sugar John, Glad you found the Spectrum video interesting. We made the movie for a luncheon talk and would need to make some adjustments (and shorten it) for public viewing off Sugar Labs. I could look at doing that in early July if you're interested, after I return from the Computers and Writing Conference. Right now it includes some sound and lower-leveling on the audio that I'd want to fix first. Looking forward to playing with Sugar later this summer. Rich --- Dr. Rich Rice, Associate Professor TTU Department of English http://richrice.com From: John Tierney [jtis4...@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 7:33 PM To: Rice, Rich Subject: FW: [IAEP] Texas Tech University work with XO/Sugar Hi Rich, I had forwarded an email with the link to the Science Spectrum video: http://media.English.TTU.edu/faculty/rice/5365/iplay.wmv Sugar Labs Marketing Coordinator Sean Daly was interested in trans-coding the video to an Open Source format and was wondering if it has a Creative Commons designation so it could be put up with other Sugar Labs videos on the Daily Motion site: http://www.dailymotion.com/sugarlabs Your guidance on this would be appreciated. Thanks! John Tierney P.S. Tammy should have a Sugar on A Stick for you at CW if the logistics work-out. Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 22:56:22 +0200 Subject: Re: [IAEP] Texas Tech University work with XO/Sugar From: sdaly...@gmail.com To: jtis4...@hotmail.com CC: i...@lists.sugarlabs.org; market...@lists.sugarlabs.org; sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org Wow I can't wait to see that (can't on this machine) I'm interested in transcoding this to Ogg Theora, do you think we could ask him for a higher-quality source version I could transcode? is it CC, could we put it up on the Dailymotion site? Texas is Dell Foundation country. Hmmm... Sean On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 9:52 PM, John Tierneyjtis4...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello All, Just wanted to pass along this email and video to everyone to show others like ourselves our hard at work trying to highlight and increase the effectiveness of Sugar and the XO. Video is about 35min in length-well done and inspires like minded work to be done. Best, John Tierney Subject: TTU's work with XO Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 10:47:08 -0400 From: tcsa...@purdue.edu To: rich.r...@ttu.edu; jtis4...@hotmail.com Dear John, I’ve mentioned to you that Rich Rice at Texas Tech University has been using XO laptops for outreach with k-12 students, and recently, he and his graduate students completed a project with the Science Spectrum in Lubbock, TX. Science Spectrum is the local science museum. As you can see from the following movie, they developed some innovative activities and documented their work with children who stopped by the Science Spectrum. They’ve had quite a bit of success using the drawing and chat .software, among others. http://media.English.TTU.edu/faculty/rice/5365/iplay.wmv Rich is also a member of the Computers and Writing community and is interested in exploring other ways that CW can do outreach with k-12 schools using the XO and the Sugar platform. I’ve copied him on this message, so we can continue to talk about options for immediate and long-term projects like working with the National Writing Project. Tammy -- Tammy S. Conard-Salvo Associate Director, Writing Lab Purdue University ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) i...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] How Can We Showcase Turtle Art Portfolio
Hello All, Would like commentary from the community on how we can try and showcase the abilities of Turtle art Portfolio along with the things each of us are working on. The email below came from my inability(due to my confusing question) to start the thread in our IRC marketing meeting today. I hope those of you going to Paris get a chance to spend some time on this subject. This is an important piece of our Educational Outreach and a capability that all community members can showcase. Therefore, I have cross-posted to IAEP, Developer, and Marketing-please pass along to others who can be of help to the conversation. Thanks, John Tierney Hi Walter,Sorry I wasn't so clear in my question was just trying to start thread about importance of Showcasing TA Portfolio-The Journal and TA Portfolio combination for Teachers ability to see child's work and progression is one of the themes we should push. The idea that every activity integrates with the Portfolio is great selling point for teachers. When developers and activity designers discuss and describe their work mentioning it integrates with TA portfolio reinforces key concepts of reflection and critique and allows for children to showcase their creativity for Parents, Teachers, Peers and Community. From the non-technical/developer world I am not sure if it works with all activities. Showcasing and featuring the TA Portfolio as an additional assessment source which allows children to let their creativity shine is an important thing to get across. Allowing all community members to market this ability(Helps or Works with TA Portfolio) will help bring many more Teachers and others into the fold. Having a little session with the members at Sugar Camp Paris and with OLPC France about TA Portfolio and its ability to help Teachers and Students and the Programs ability would be very beneficial, even more so if it was recorded. Much like Evangeline's and your presentation at Sugar Camp it was one of the most instructive pieces on how this ability can make a true difference in the classroom. Now that the TA Portfolio activity has been realized, putting forth it's usability seems advantageous.Just an idea-Spot on. The reason why I give all my talks using Turtle Art is exactly to make this point of closing the loop. -walter___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
