Re: [IAEP] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Education_Team#Commentary

2009-08-05 Thread Jim Simmons
Dennis, I think screencasting is a neat idea but the hardware most likely to run Sugar won't have the horsepower to capture a full size screen and in the case of the XO might not have enough disk space to do it either. See my other emails for my experiences making videos like this. It may do a

Re: [IAEP] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Education_Team#Commentary

2009-08-05 Thread Dennis Daniels
Jim, Fair enough! You are echoing what most everyone on the IRC has said as well. I'm going to dive into running Sugar on top of Ubuntu today on my fairly powerful machine and see if I can get some decent recordings. Sugar needs a face and preferably that face would be of a six year old doing

Re: [IAEP] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Education_Team#Commentary

2009-08-05 Thread Jim Simmons
Dennis, I use gtk-recordmydesktop to do the screencasts, running Sugar at 800x600 on an IBM NetVista I bought surplus. I then use Kino to edit. You *might* be able to get a screencast at a higher resolution with a more powerful box, but the video would end up at 640x480 anyway so maybe that

Re: [IAEP] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Education_Team#Commentary

2009-08-05 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Dennis Daniels wrote: All my efforts with SoaS, avec et sans screencasting, have been _disappointing_. Please report your problems on sugar-devel, so that we can try to figure out why Strawberry isn't working on your machines. I think screencasting is a neat idea but the hardware most likely

Re: [IAEP] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Education_Team#Commentary

2009-08-05 Thread Jim Simmons
Dennis, There is no audio on either video. It looks like most of the Sugar videos are on dailymotion. I would post mine there if I was convinced that nobody could improve on what I did. I was hoping that Dave C or someone else could take the original .ogv and use Final Cut Pro to make

[IAEP] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Education_Team#Commentary

2009-08-04 Thread Dennis Daniels
It was suggested that I post a link to my commentary about Sugar and education to this list. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Education_Team#Commentary A quick poll before I go on... how many actively participating teachers on this list or the wiki? From what countries? The views expressed

Re: [IAEP] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Education_Team#Commentary

2009-08-04 Thread David Farning
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Dennis Danielsdennisgdani...@gmail.com wrote: It was suggested that I post a link to my commentary about Sugar and education to this list. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Education_Team#Commentary A quick poll before I go on... how many actively participating

Re: [IAEP] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Education_Team#Commentary

2009-08-04 Thread Dennis Daniels
Great in theory but I've used Moodle for over three years in public and private schools. Teachers did not go to Moodle until the admins told them to(public school: hand tied/ private school: use Moodle or your fired). We had a teacher who fought using electronic attendance for a year! And the

Re: [IAEP] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Education_Team#Commentary

2009-08-04 Thread Caroline Meeks
I think you are both right. Dennis, I definitely agree that having older students from Middle and High Schools going back to their elementary schools and helping to train teachers is a great strategy. We would love help in implementing that strategy. We are also talking about partnering with the

Re: [IAEP] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Education_Team#Commentary

2009-08-04 Thread David Farning
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Caroline Meekssolutiongr...@gmail.com wrote: I think you are both right. Dennis, I definitely agree that having older students from Middle and High Schools going back to their elementary schools and helping to train teachers is a great strategy.  We would love

Re: [IAEP] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Education_Team#Commentary

2009-08-04 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 6:14 PM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.orgwrote: On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Caroline Meekssolutiongr...@gmail.com wrote: I think you are both right. Dennis, I definitely agree that having older students from Middle and High Schools going back to their

Re: [IAEP] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Education_Team#Commentary

2009-08-04 Thread Dennis Daniels
GPA? I'm not sure I understand your adult/student ratio at your installation... what is the ratio? Team approach? How many are being paid? What does 'work 10-6' mean? thanks, Dennis So far all the adults in the school we have talked to have been very enthusiastic. The GPA uses a team

Re: [IAEP] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Education_Team#Commentary

2009-08-04 Thread David Farning
Please see http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Gardner_Pilot_Academy . david On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Dennis Danielsdennisgdani...@gmail.com wrote: GPA? I'm not sure I understand your adult/student ratio at your installation... what is the ratio? Team approach? How many are being paid? What

Re: [IAEP] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Education_Team#Commentary

2009-08-04 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Dennis Daniels dennisgdani...@gmail.comwrote: GPA? http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Gardner_Pilot_Academy I'm not sure I understand your adult/student ratio at your installation... what is the ratio? I don;t know. About normal or a bit better. Its a pilot