Re: [IAEP] Read Etexts Videos available

2009-08-22 Thread Bastien
Hi Jim, Jim Simmons nices...@gmail.com writes: Another thing I've noticed is that most Sugar videos on Daily Motion are Official Content, which apparently means someone is paying money so the videos can be shown without commercials popping up at the bottom. That's thanks to Dailymotion

Re: [IAEP] Read Etexts Videos available

2009-08-22 Thread Bastien
Hi Caroline, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com writes: I'm exploring YouTube as we go here. They have yet another cool feature.  Captions/subtitles http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=100079 Apparently rather then adding text like you did in your video, you

Re: [IAEP] Read Etexts Videos available

2009-08-22 Thread Jim Simmons
Dave, I believe you have access to my edited video on google video. If you are so inclined, download it, add some audio (just music, I think) and post the revised version back to google videos for us to check out. If it looks like an improvement we can put it on Daily Motion, hopefully as

[IAEP] What to report where - Was Re: Sugar on a Stick switches to a new Bug Tracker

2009-08-22 Thread Caroline Meeks
hmm ok let me see if I understand. Teachers, parents etc. who may have a hard time understanding whether they are reporting a bug on Sugar, Sugar on a Stick or an activity should use GetSatisfaction. SoaS Development team will use launch pad. People doing QA should put bugs into dev unless its

[IAEP] Boys and Girls Club of America and Scratch

2009-08-22 Thread Caroline Meeks
http://scratched.media.mit.edu/discussions/news-and-announcements/interested-scratch-curriculum-development Cool that the Boys and Girls club is doing this. It would be great if we could provide Scratch in Sugar on a Stick as to these kids as a way to bring their work with them home and to

Re: [IAEP] election workflow

2009-08-22 Thread Luke Faraone
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 14:20, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: The basic premise is that _anyone_ who signs a signed copy of the Code of Conduct http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Legal/Code_of_Conduct becomes a voting member and receives a @sugarlabs.org alias. Hm. Sounds

Re: [IAEP] election workflow

2009-08-22 Thread David Farning
Can we assume that you are assuming responsibility for setting up and maintaining the community council and membership records mechanism? david On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Luke Faraonel...@faraone.cc wrote: On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 14:20, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: The

Re: [IAEP] SoaS as a Sugar Labs project.

2009-08-22 Thread Frederick Grose
See the page, http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Wiki_Team/Guide/Wiki_Structure, for how Projects, Teams, and Local Labs may distinguish themselves on the Sugar Labs wiki. --Fred On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 1:45 PM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.orgwrote: There has been some confusion over

Re: [IAEP] election workflow

2009-08-22 Thread Luke Faraone
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 14:42, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Can we assume that you are assuming responsibility for setting up and maintaining the community council and membership records mechanism? Community_council == slobs current, and one week/month/whatever before election

Re: [IAEP] election workflow

2009-08-22 Thread David Farning
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Luke Faraonel...@faraone.cc wrote: On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 14:42, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Can we assume that you are assuming responsibility for setting up and maintaining the community council and membership records mechanism?

Re: [IAEP] election workflow

2009-08-22 Thread Luke Faraone
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 14:58, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Community_council == slobs current, and one week/month/whatever before election we freeze the membership list (hosted on-wiki as it is currently), then the SLOBs glance through the list making sure that everybody's

Re: [IAEP] election workflow

2009-08-22 Thread David Farning
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Luke Faraonel...@faraone.cc wrote: On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 14:58, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Community_council == slobs current, and one week/month/whatever before election we freeze the membership list (hosted on-wiki as it is currently),

Re: [IAEP] election workflow

2009-08-22 Thread Luke Faraone
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 15:14, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Will you serve on the membership committee and verify that the list is created and forwarded to slob by a freeze date? What would be a reasonable date by which to have this list ready? How about this: Before

Re: [IAEP] election workflow

2009-08-22 Thread Walter Bender
I do have a list of (almost) everyone's email. Re criteria, I consider asking a question to be a significant contribution. -walter On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Luke Faraonel...@faraone.cc wrote: On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 15:14, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Will you serve on

Re: [IAEP] Physics - Lesson plans ideas?

2009-08-22 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Bill, On 22 Aug 2009, at 22:44, Bill Kerr wrote: hi alan, still thinking about the broader issue you raise about the importance of real science and its connection to computer based work and how to attempt to implement this in school settings (complex issue) however, I do notice

Re: [IAEP] Physics - Lesson plans ideas?

2009-08-22 Thread Alan Kay
Hi Bill Let me try again, but not as long winded. (after looking below, I can see that I failed). Everything in a language describes something in a story space. That is all language can do. There is nothing instrinsically about the form of any story that makes it relate to what's out there?

Re: [IAEP] Physics - Lesson plans ideas?

2009-08-22 Thread Bill Kerr
hi alan, I have read your views about what science is and it's importance. I'm not claiming to understand it as deeply as you do but it has influenced me and my teaching significantly (and I wish had become aware of your views earlier in my teaching career) However, I can't see why you appear to

Re: [IAEP] Physics - Lesson plans ideas?

2009-08-22 Thread Alan Kay
Hi Bill, I'm not at all critical of children playing games. There are even games where you can learn interesting and important things by playing them. I think these can be thought about separately. So I would merely ask whether the second possibility obtains here. This isn't about Etoys or

[IAEP] Teaching science up through grades 7-8 .....Re: Physics - Lesson plans ideas?

2009-08-22 Thread Alan Kay
Pretty much everyone is behind the 8 ball here. -- Our human brains are bad at this kind of thinking (this is why we have been on the planet as a species for many 10's of 1000s of years before finding out how to do it). -- The teachers in the early grades are often not invested with how to

Re: [IAEP] Physics - Lesson plans ideas?

2009-08-22 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 04:49:53PM -0700, Alan Kay wrote: Four months earlier they did some play with this with the cars on their screen and are able to see that this should be the same model, but vertically not horizontally. They write a script with the two increase bys and then find a way

Re: [IAEP] Physics - Lesson plans ideas?

2009-08-22 Thread Alan Kay
The important thing about what the computer does in this case -- repeated incremental additions -- is that the children can and do carry it out themselves. They do not need to understand in any way how the computer actually does this. This is a critical part of how understanding is done here.

Re: [IAEP] getsatisfaction.com

2009-08-22 Thread Albert Cahalan
Re: [IAEP] getsatisfaction.com dfarn...@sugarlabs.org David Farning writes: I just wanted to thank everyone who is helping out at http://getsatisfaction.com/sugarlabs . Some URL there! All I can think of is this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjgeXTF0WNQ BTW, this works nicely, even on