[IAEP] Contributors Program Mtg! (Fri 2PM Boston time, #olpc-meeting)
Please join us reviewing the latest OLPC/Sugar community projects over IRC Live Chat: (2PM EDT Boston Time Today/Friday) http://forum.laptop.org/chat Then type at bottom: /join #olpc-meeting AGENDA: * New projects libraries -- teaching them Community Outreach: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries * Which projects might you enjoy Mentoring below?! http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects http://rt.laptop.org/Search/Results.html?Query=Queue=%27contributors%27 * Fast Review of the 5 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals -- please join us advocating for, and/or reviewing shortcomings of these proposals: 1. OLPC on Puppy Linux - Quakers Hill, NSW, Australia http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48455 [ MISSING PUBLIC PAGE OFF OF http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ] Requests 2 XO's over undetermined months Project Objectives: C0-Build a Puppy Linux version. Compile package, provide ongoing support, troubleshoot, build a repo etc. 2. Using XO Technology Awareness on HIV/AIDS among children ages 4–16 - Kenya http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48476 http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43608 http://xoaidsbyhoc.tumblr.com [ LINK NEEDED FROM http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ] Requests 8 XO's over 2-6 months Project Objectives: 1. To help child get basic computer skills using xo laptop 2. Pupils/ Learners to use xo activities to get awareness of HIV/AIDS. 3. To equip the teacher with necessary xo skills to help the learner in HIV/AIDSawareness. 4. To use xo laptop to deliver life skills that will lead to Aids free life 5. Identify appropriate sources o information on HIv/ Aids related issues. 6. Make decisions about personal and social behaviour that reduce risk of HIV and STD infection using the XO technology. 7. Show compassion towards and concern for those infected and affected by v 8. Communicate effectively with peers and others, issues and concerns related to HIV/AIDS and STDs using the XO chat 9. To be actively involved in school and out activities aimed at prevention and central of HIV and STD's infections 3. GaiaBB: Proposal for shared community software - Victoria, Australia http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48637 [ http://gaiabb.com forthcoming; LINK NEEDED FROM http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ] Requests 2 XO's over 8 months Project Objectives: I would like make a proposal to re-purpose my general purpose forum software (GaiaBB) to be XO community specific, using a peer to peer replication to allow kids to create and contribute to their own easily managed forums maintained on their laptops with no central server. Typically, forum software requires a database backend, but is actually very small footprint as long as you don't allow image attachments. Allowing peer to peer replication of the data between participants would allow them to grab updates to the forum when they're in range say in school, and answer / reply to threads when off radio, say at home. 4. FotoToon - Buenos Aires, Argentina http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48696 [ MISSING PUBLIC PAGE OFF OF http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ] Requests 2 XO's over 6 months Project Objectives: I have developed the following Activities in Spanish: ActivityDomino http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4212 Ecomundo http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4213 Elements http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4214 I am developing an activity to create comics, FotoToon. (git http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/fototoon/ ). * I think FotoToontil can be very useful for developing expression, analysis of problems, and co-operative teamwork. The Activities already developed can be found in use, but I would like to complete them and to be able to implement shared use between various types of computers. * In addition, in Foto Toon I need to test how to take images from the Journal, and in my current development environment (I am writing in Fedora 11 on my machine) I cannot do it. * In addition to these activities, I am participating actively in Sugar Days Argentina http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/SugarDaysArgentina That we are doing in our country with the objective of creating a community of developers and teachers around the OLPC project and Sugar and the larger goal of realizing its implementation in our country. * I would also like to develop an Activity for the creation of stop-motion animations (using sequences of photos) that will also permit the taking of sequences of photos for detecting differences (in movement and time between the photos) that will permit calculating velocity or acceleration. 5. Bookwriting photo-interviewing traveling musician - Sallis, Mississippi/MS, USA http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48800 [ MISSING PUBLIC PAGE OFF OF http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]
Re: [IAEP] sugar live cd for windows
Tomeu, It would be great to have the XO-LiveCD perform at par with the other Sugar distributions. I surely have an interest in the performance of all Sugar distributions. Regards, Manu On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:47 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 20:13, Manusheel Gupta m...@laptop.org wrote: Tomeu, Thank you for the pointer. Yes, we have tried running SocialCalc on Sugar with SoaS as the Sugar distribution. Works pretty well. We'll look into the other distributions as recommended. Ok, so if performance is better on SoaS than in XO-LiveCD, then we have a clue about where to investigate. Do you have a big interest in using XO-LiveCD ? Regards, Tomeu Regards, Manu On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 19:45, Manusheel Gupta m...@laptop.org wrote: Tomeu, My apologies for the typo. I meant Live CD for running Sugar on Windows. We downloaded it from ftp://www.rohrmoser-engineering.de/pub/XO-LiveCD/XO-LiveCD_090722.iso. I confess not having tried it out, but AFAIK that's a normal linux live image. So you don't run windows when you boot that .iso, just linux. Have you tried other linux live images containing Sugar? There's SoaS, Trisquel, OpenSUSE, etc. See in the wiki for links and instructions. Regards, Tomeu Regards, Manu On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 18:59, Manusheel Gupta m...@laptop.org wrote: Dear all, Wish to ask you for pointers to improve the performance of SocialCalc activity while running it on Sugar Live CD for Windows. SocialCalc works very well on the native installation of Sugar. Please suggest. Hi Manu, can you clarify what do you mean by a Live CD for Windows? Regards, Tomeu Regards, Manu -- Forwarded message -- Manu, I successfully installed Social Calc using the Sugar Live CD. The only issue was that SocialCalc didn't show up in my activity list until I restarted Sugar. The response of Sugar is a bit sluggish (which also affects SocialCalc). It's easier to learn a new system when the system's feedback to actions is fast and time-consistent. I would guess that this is not a problem with a native installation. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Contributors Program Mtg! (Fri 2PM Boston time, #olpc-meeting)
I hope to be able to briefly review the 5 projects ahead of the meeting and comment in RT. Christoph Holt schrieb: Please join us reviewing the latest OLPC/Sugar community projects over IRC Live Chat: (2PM EDT Boston Time Today/Friday) http://forum.laptop.org/chat Then type at bottom: /join #olpc-meeting AGENDA: * New projects libraries -- teaching them Community Outreach: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries * Which projects might you enjoy Mentoring below?! http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects http://rt.laptop.org/Search/Results.html?Query=Queue=%27contributors%27 * Fast Review of the 5 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals -- please join us advocating for, and/or reviewing shortcomings of these proposals: 1. OLPC on Puppy Linux - Quakers Hill, NSW, Australia http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48455 [ MISSING PUBLIC PAGE OFF OF http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ] Requests 2 XO's over undetermined months Project Objectives: C0-Build a Puppy Linux version. Compile package, provide ongoing support, troubleshoot, build a repo etc. 2. Using XO Technology Awareness on HIV/AIDS among children ages 4–16 - Kenya http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48476 http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43608 http://xoaidsbyhoc.tumblr.com [ LINK NEEDED FROM http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ] Requests 8 XO's over 2-6 months Project Objectives: 1. To help child get basic computer skills using xo laptop 2. Pupils/ Learners to use xo activities to get awareness of HIV/AIDS. 3. To equip the teacher with necessary xo skills to help the learner in HIV/AIDSawareness. 4. To use xo laptop to deliver life skills that will lead to Aids free life 5. Identify appropriate sources o information on HIv/ Aids related issues. 6. Make decisions about personal and social behaviour that reduce risk of HIV and STD infection using the XO technology. 7. Show compassion towards and concern for those infected and affected by v 8. Communicate effectively with peers and others, issues and concerns related to HIV/AIDS and STDs using the XO chat 9. To be actively involved in school and out activities aimed at prevention and central of HIV and STD's infections 3. GaiaBB: Proposal for shared community software - Victoria, Australia http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48637 [ http://gaiabb.com forthcoming; LINK NEEDED FROM http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ] Requests 2 XO's over 8 months Project Objectives: I would like make a proposal to re-purpose my general purpose forum software (GaiaBB) to be XO community specific, using a peer to peer replication to allow kids to create and contribute to their own easily managed forums maintained on their laptops with no central server. Typically, forum software requires a database backend, but is actually very small footprint as long as you don't allow image attachments. Allowing peer to peer replication of the data between participants would allow them to grab updates to the forum when they're in range say in school, and answer / reply to threads when off radio, say at home. 4. FotoToon - Buenos Aires, Argentina http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48696 [ MISSING PUBLIC PAGE OFF OF http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ] Requests 2 XO's over 6 months Project Objectives: I have developed the following Activities in Spanish: ActivityDomino http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4212 Ecomundo http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4213 Elements http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4214 I am developing an activity to create comics, FotoToon. (git http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/fototoon/ ). * I think FotoToontil can be very useful for developing expression, analysis of problems, and co-operative teamwork. The Activities already developed can be found in use, but I would like to complete them and to be able to implement shared use between various types of computers. * In addition, in Foto Toon I need to test how to take images from the Journal, and in my current development environment (I am writing in Fedora 11 on my machine) I cannot do it. * In addition to these activities, I am participating actively in Sugar Days Argentina http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/SugarDaysArgentina That we are doing in our country with the objective of creating a community of developers and teachers around the OLPC project and Sugar and the larger goal of realizing its implementation in our country. * I would also like to develop an Activity for the creation of stop-motion animations (using sequences of photos) that will also permit the taking of sequences of photos for detecting differences (in movement and
Re: [IAEP] Slobs election results 2009
Yeah, it's so high school ;-/ On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:25 AM, Bastien bastiengue...@googlemail.com wrote: David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org writes: The results are in for this years election. The winners are in for this years election. Walter Bender Tomeu Vizoso Mel Chua Bernie Innocenti Chris Ball Sean Daly Adam Holt Congrats to everyone ! Let's keep up the good work. :) -- Bastien ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- DancesWithCars leave the wolves behind ;-) ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] BBC News - Laptop for every pupil in Uruguay
Laptop for every pupil in Uruguay http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8309583.stm -- alan cocks Ubuntu user ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] BBC News - Laptop for every pupil in Uruguay
Thanks Alan, you spotted that one as soon as it went up :-) I'm pleased that Sugar rated a mention, often not the case. Sean On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 2:01 PM, alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote: Laptop for every pupil in Uruguay http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8309583.stm -- alan cocks Ubuntu user ___ 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
[IAEP] [activit...@sugarlabs.org: Sugar Labs Activities: Doom-1 Nomination]
Hi all, Got the followed notification from ASLO, so the question I have in mind - should ASLO editor be guided only technical questions during pushing activities to the public(in all previous cases it was so). - Forwarded message from Sugar Labs Activities activit...@sugarlabs.org - From: Sugar Labs Activities activit...@sugarlabs.org Subject: Sugar Labs Activities: Doom-1 Nomination To: alsr...@member.fsf.org Reply-To: Sugar Labs Activities activit...@sugarlabs.org Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 21:16:02 -0400 Dear editor, New activity was nominated to be public. Name: Doom Version Number: 1 URL: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4218 Review Link: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/editors/review/29269 Thanks! Sugar Labs Activities http://activities.sugarlabs.org This is a broadcast notification sent to you because you requested a follow up email regarding your notification profile http://activities.sugarlabs.org/sugar/users/edit#profile-notifications - End forwarded message - -- Aleksey ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Fwd: [OSA-Announce] UPDATE: Welcome to Open Source for America!
I know it's a bit US-centric for some, but it looks like Tim O'Reilly's latest gig has made some progress. I signed on early, and then thought my subscription got lost in the e-mail. ;-) Given that some of you have partied with senators and other congressional wonks, I figured you'd like to know.. -- Forwarded message -- From: General announcement list (low traffic) osa-annou...@opensourceforamerica.org Date: Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:18 Subj: [OSA-Announce] UPDATE: Welcome to Open Source for America! To: osa-annou...@opensourceforamerica.org Welcome to Open Source for America! You are receiving this email, because you've joined Open Source for America (OSFA) since our initial launch on July 22. We apologize about the delay in communicating but the team has been busy building out and testing the infrastructure to support the coalition and its efforts, as well as, updating the home page with some new graphics. Today we are happy to report that we are ready for the next phase in our mission to establish a more effective voice supporting the use of free and open source software in the U.S. Federal government. Since our launch more than 1,250 individuals and organizations have joined OSFA and that is what we would like to discuss with you today. We've set up working groups for specific policy areas where free and open source software can help. Maybe you're an educator? Maybe you have ideas on how open source can help solve our healthcare crisis? Maybe you're a transparency wonk? Please look over the list of working groups, register and sign up those in which you would like to participate. We have set up the website with a members only section, and expect to quickly leverage the site for open collaboration among the members of these working groups: http://wiki.opensourceforamerica.org/working-groups For the more technically inclined, you'll notice near the bottom of the page there is a reference to platform tools. We've currently integrated Mailman as our mailing list software directly with OFBiz's party classifications, but we would like to see this go much further. We are looking for volunteers to help us create a mash-up or mash-ups. Another key goal for Open Source for America is to Raise awareness and create understanding among federal government leaders in the executive and legislative branches about the values and implications of open source software. The Marketing Team needs your help in raising awareness around open source. We need any case stories (the most popular page currently on the site) or white papers that you may have and can share with the Open Source for America team. We are also looking for volunteers to join the Marketing team, to help with tradeshows, collateral creation, and means to raise awareness for Open Source. Please sign up today on the http://opensourceforamerica.org/ site to get involved. There's never been a U.S. Administration so sympathetic to free and open source software. There have never been so many citizens with the same enthusiasm for the open source process. This is an unprecedented opportunity to profoundly change the way our government uses and understands software. We can fundamentally change how this country works. Let's get started. Kind Regards, Open Source for America ___ OSA-announce mailing list osa-annou...@opensourceforamerica.org http://opensourceforamerica.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/osa-announce ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Lesson Plans for Sugar (was: Re: [support-gang] The last XO)
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 02:41:10PM +0100, Martin Dengler wrote: On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 05:56:16PM +1300, Tabitha Roder wrote: Teachers would find it helpful if volunteers would write lessons plans that show the links between the curriculum and the activities on the XO has anyone done any of that type of work? http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_UK/Pilots/Resources#Lesson_Plan_integration_ideas has some ideas. I've just received some UK lesson plans that I would like to write up. Does a taxonomy of lesson plans exist on Curriki or elsewhere? Tabitha Martin Martin PS - One barrier I see to getting more lesson plans is that a) teachers often don't have time to write up lesson plans particular to Sugar; and b) I (and perhaps other OLPC/Sugar contributers) don't think I know what teachers mean by Lesson Plan. I presume Lesson Plan is more than just list of things I'm going to have the class _do_, but a) if it's not, let's say that; and b) anyway, let's build a corpus of lesson plan templates so that interested people can write a lesson plan for teachers [in their target deployment/region's template format], rather than forcing the teacher to do it. For example, a developer who wants their activity to be used/downloaded could write some lesson plans and use it to drum up interest. Perhaps even having lesson plans could become a requirement for Fructose applications (or a distro's favorited-by-default applications). pgpTpfXImNTjP.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Alpha release - Deducto and Color Deducto activity
Dear all, I am delighted to announce the alpha release of the Deducto and Color Deducto activities. Please visit - 1. *Deducto home page* - http://seeta.in/j/products-and-services/deducto.html 2. *Color Deducto home page* - http://seeta.in/j/products-and-services/color-deducto.html 3. *User guide for Deducto* - http://seeta.in/wiki/index.php?title=Deducto_User%E2%80%99s_Section 4. *User guide for Color Deducto* - http://seeta.in/wiki/index.php?title=Color_Deducto_User%E2%80%99s_Section 5. *Download pages* - the alpha version of these activities along with their source code can be downloaded from http://seeta.in/j/downloads.html or from activities.sugarlabs.org ( http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4220 and http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4221). Many thanks to the developers Ashita Dadlani and Anisha Arora for their dedication and consistency during all the stages of the development; Satyajeet Singh, Assim Deodia, Swarandeep Singh and Vijit Singh for their support in training, development, localization and QA activities. Wish to express my gratitude to Walter Bender and Samuel J. Klein for their wonderful support and encouragement as always. We look forward to hearing your feedback and experience with Deducto and Color Deducto activities. If you would like to put in a feature request, please do so at http://testtrack.seeta.in. Hope you enjoy working with Deducto and Color Deducto activities. Wishing you a very Happy Diwali. Regards, Manu ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Lesson Plans for Sugar (was: Re: [support-gang] The last XO)
Nice renaming of the subject line On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Martin Dengler mar...@martindengler.comwrote: Does a taxonomy of lesson plans exist on Curriki or elsewhere? Not that I know of, but it's a great-minds-alike concept. AT OLE we are trying to put something like that together, I am copying our people, maybe, maybe if we all pull in the same direction... ! ! ! PS - One barrier I see to getting more lesson plans is that a) teachers often don't have time to write up lesson plans particular to Sugar; and b) I (and perhaps other OLPC/Sugar contributers) don't think I know what teachers mean by Lesson Plan. I presume Lesson Plan is more than just list of things I'm going to have the class _do_, but a) if it's not, let's say that; and b) anyway, let's build a corpus of lesson plan templates so that interested people can write a lesson plan for teachers [in their target deployment/region's template format], rather than forcing the teacher to do it. There are a few more nuances. In my exempli gratia (pardon my French), Uruguay, teachers are required to complete certain learning contents, as set in a curriculum, but they have entire liberty (something they are *very* touchy about) in *how* they cover those. Giving them a solution they have to use mandatorily will assure they clam up for good. here's the whole caboodle ( at 10 Mb, PDF, too big to be used on the XO :-( ) http://www.cep.edu.uy/archivos/programaescolar/Programa_Escolar.pdf They say this is the most recent one, but I thought the current one was the one with the frontal-nwde guy on the cover... some background documents http://www.cep.edu.uy/index.php?option=com_contentview=articleid=664Itemid=307 Anyway, thereabouts in the month of October, 4th grade teachers are expected to teach, as part of Knowledge of Nature, Geography, on El Paisaje en el Uruguay. (Uruguay landscape/ecosystems) - El bioma de pradera. (pairie biome [ecosystem] nobody except schools use the word biome :-)) - El relieve, el clima, la fauna, la flora; sus relaciones con la actividad económica y cultural. topography, weather, wildlife, plants, relationship existing with economic and cultural activity How can we manage to have that, *fully packed*, so we simply say, hey! 4th grade teachers!, just use this, it's all there, no pain! ??? And then do the same for each of a couple hundred line items for 4th grade, and likewise for each other school grade. Then, let's see how much of it we can re-use for Paraguay or Perú, same language but assuredly different curricular plans. Then, we get to the fancy, translating, *and* culturaly localizing for each African country and beyond The right way is to say, whoa! that's too much (about $800.000 USD worth, my back of the envelope says) and start fundraising and not do anything until we have the funds to do it right The wrong way is to grab one of those lines in the curricular plans, and start working. Then take another one. Maybe the wrong way is the best way... Part of why this is the wrong way, is that we need to avoid repeating stuff already available, like for example here: http://www.ceibal.edu.uy/index.php?option=com_contentview=categorylayout=blogid=51Itemid=115 Worried about the language issues? (you should be) Then look, there's some English learning that is to happen in 4th grade. Remember, most teachers in developing countries did not have any opportunity to learn English, and now they are supposed to teach it (and you wonder why I sound so funny) This is everything required for the 4th grade year: Telling about past events. Describing actions in the past, finding out what happened, explaining how something happened (cause – effect). Describing a historical event giving dates, expressing sequential order Making future plans (going to). Making comparisons. Maybe something could be done there? In Nepal teachers asked to be helped first with English and Math. As OLE Nepal delivers, there is obviously a positive rapport getting built, the teachers feel they are getting help they can use, the developers get to do something that ends up being used. http://www.olpcnews.com/content/education/how_to_make_opensour.html deserves a visit For example, a developer who wants their activity to be used/downloaded could write some lesson plans and use it to drum up interest. oh yes! Perhaps even having lesson plans could become a requirement for Fructose applications (or a distro's favorited-by-default applications). I second that. BTW, it's working for Intel, they have a bunch of demos on skoool.com, and if you have the guts, enjoy this video, it's just beyond anything imaginable (anyone that says I am suggesting we do anything like this gets coal this Christmas!) I am putting this just because Halloween is near. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYkfmAf_jdU BTW, what is *your* favorite butterfly? and this is training for teachers on using the XO
Re: [IAEP] [activit...@sugarlabs.org: Sugar Labs Activities: Doom-1 Nomination]
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 05:56:34PM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: Hi all, Got the followed notification from ASLO, so the question I have in mind - should ASLO editor be guided only technical questions during pushing activities to the public(in all previous cases it was so). Non-technical editorial power, once exercised, will set expectations / precedence / obligations (in some jurisdictions) that I only understand to the extent that I hope I never have to pay a lawyer to understand. I don't think we're going to want to make these decisions. Are we going to say no to a Bible-reading activity? Wikinomicon slice? A wikipedia slice with pictures of Mohammed? One containing articles critical of governments? Etc. If a response in the form of a proposal is useful: Leave it open technically so someone can make kidsactivities.theirdomain.biz and similar, but otherwise exercise no non-technical editorial control. And never raise the question again. Martin pgpmrbSPAdnXy.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Lesson Plans for Sugar
BTW a similar discussion is going on on the Bolivia list... really worth looking at. Google translate can help. Caryl Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:31:24 -0500 From: yamap...@bolinux.org To: support-g...@lists.laptop.org Subject: Re: [support-gang] [IAEP] Lesson Plans for Sugar Caryl Bigenho wrote: If not plans, suggestions for using them to enhance learning in specific areas. For example both Memorize and Dominoes can be used for reviewing math facts. the volunteers of the Repair Center in La PAz Bolivia have made a Memorize version that has Aymara words in sound as well as script, to match to a picture Now, that is exactly what I meant! A huge list of ideas could be made for Memorize. Kids love the game and teachers can easily customize it for their class and subject area. Maybe a short guide to customizing along with a list of topics it could be used for, inviting teachers to add ideas. BTW I like the Tiger Swallowtail myself. Some music lover could make a pun that his is Madame. Rats! I should have thought of that. I guess I was distracted by the Blue Morpho in the mix of photos ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
