Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] How Can We Showcase Turtle Art Portfolio
I'll be sure to have my camcorder ready... and my understanding is that Saturday's presentations will be streamed live On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:23 AM, John Tierney jtis4...@hotmail.com wrote: 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 ___ 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
Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] How Can We Showcase Turtle Art Portfolio
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 3:23 PM, John Tierney jtis4...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello All, Would like commentary from the community on how we can try and showcase the abilities of Turtle art Portfolio We are hearing excellent reports from schools about how it impacts learning. I think we could get a sampling of actual student work together with reports on the students' progress since they started using it. Portfolio work is credited with a great speedup in foreign students mastering the level of English that they need. Apparently it rarely fails to work with special-needs children. Of course, we would have to ask permission of children, schools, and parents. Portfolio is also an excellent tool for showcasing uses of other Activities, since you can import essentially any saved session from the Journal. 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 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) i...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. http://earthtreasury.org/worknet (Edward Mokurai Cherlin) ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] How Can We Showcase Turtle Art Portfolio
On 12 May 2009, at 23:23, John Tierney wrote: 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. My main question would be; can we easily upload activity states from the journal to the web/wiki or some other location (perhaps Moodle)? I keep meaning to go through some of the activities and upload their state to make sure they can be re-downloaded again to the Journal in a useful manor. If that virtuous circle is complete it allows much easier content creation and asynchronous sharing direct from Sugar. I'm guessing there are mime hurdles for some activities, i.e. I know Labyrinth (I look after this one) is not yet specifying a custom mime type for the Journal content it creates, and I'm not 100% sure how best to proceed. Taking Labyrinth as an example I could easily see a range of sample mind-maps over various subjects being useful references (i.e with my geek hat on, I use some mind-maps for reminding me of obscure vi keyboard shortcuts, git commands, etc). From a more lesson plan direction, creating template mind-maps, or mind-maps with unanswered questions at the leaf nodes, could make a good educational process. Students could then provide final pdf's** of their edited work to the teacher for feedback***. ** I have pdf working from Labyrinth now, just some glitches if raster image thoughts are in the mix – still working on it... *** some simple pdf annotation features in Read would rock. Regards, --Gary 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___ 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
