Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] tomorrow's meeting
Reminder: SLOBS meeting in #sugar-meeting at 1400 UTC! On 10/22/2009 07:14 PM, Walter Bender wrote: > I have an opportunity to visit a school here in Lima tomorrow morning, > so I will not be able to join you for the SLOB meeting. I'll try to > find time this evening to write up a few notes. FYI, I expect that > Karen from the SFLA will be joining the meeting--she is preparing some > materials for us on trademark, copyright, and financial procedures we > should be following. As soon as these documents are ready, we'll post > them for discussion. > > Will someone who will be attending please send a reminder out. > > regards. > > -walter ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] We want to create our local Sugar Labs Argentina.-
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 4:45 PM, David Farning wrote: > Hey Gustavo, > Hello David and Rafael > > A Local Lab in Argentina is great! > We have found that Local Labs are incredibly helpful to the community > at large. Usually, I try to help labs get set up. But now, I would > like to stay out of the picture. There are some really great Local > Labs that are doing amazing this. > We hope everything will be ok. We want to do interesting things in argentina..!! The true value of a Local Lab is building on top of Sugar to solve > your _local_ needs. So, would you mind working with Rafael and other > existing local labs to set up SLA. The big thing is that you do what > is best for Argentina. > > I will work with rafael in things related to the set up of the SLA and be in touch with other regional labs Rafael, how do you suggest to continue?.. > david -- Saludos, Gustavo.- ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Computer ClubHouse at the Boston Museum of Science
Cici, Amy and I finally got out to visit one of our local Intel Computer Clubhouses. The manager, Alvaro Luna, runs four of them in Fairfax County, Virginia. Alvaro came to our OLPC Learning Club meeting at the Arlington Career Center back in September when Adam and SJ were in town and we all had some robust conversation. This group of Clubhouses is staffed and funded by Fairfax County Government with additional funds from the Equal Footing Foundation for robotics competitions. The clubhouse runs solely Windows-based machines as far as I could tell. Alvaro actively uses Scratch, PicoCrickets and Lego Mindstorms. The after school activities of the clubhouses seem like an ideal place to jumpstart the use of Sugar on a Stick and promote the OLPC Contributor's Program. Alvaro was eager and completely open to conspiring on some projects. I am mystified as to why there is only one Computer Clubhouse in Maryland--Baltimore. While I really enjoy the vibe and people in NOVA, I'm also going to try to amp up some activity in my local neighborhood of Wheaton, MD in Montgomery County. Cici's school teaches basic Scratch lessons and they are eager to have me involved. My photos of the Fairfax Computer Clubhouse: http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/tags/intelcomputerclubhousenetwork/ Press: http://www.fairfaxlibraryfoundation.org/news/news062505.htm http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS122138+14-Apr-2009+MW20090414 Mike On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Mike Lee wrote: > One of these Computer Clubhouses is in Arlington, VA, not far from Sugar > Labs DC. Maybe the Boston flagship can do an intro for us? > > Mike > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Aug 16, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Sean DALY wrote: > > This seems like a perfect fit! >> >> Sean >> >> >> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:58 AM, Caroline >> Meeks wrote: >> >>> http://www.computerclubhouse.org/ >>> The Computer Clubhouse is >>> an international network of computer centers for youth. Their "flagship" >>> clubhouse is housed in the Museum of Science in Boston >>> and they were kind enough to host us for two days this week. >>> Keith has also mentioned that he would be able to host evening Geek >>> meetups/hack sessions at the clubhouse. I am copying OLPC Boston to see >>> if >>> there would be interest in moving from our meetup location from the >>> coffee >>> shop to this computer heaven in the coolest museum in Boston. :) (Sorry, >>> I >>> literately grew up at the Boston Museum of Science and the Berkeley >>> Lawrence >>> Hall of Science and just love science museums) >>> Today we worked with 8 kids from Cambridge that had been coming to the >>> clubhouse one day a week over the summer. >>> The computer clubhouse provides professional level software for the kids >>> to >>> create with. Tens of thousands of dollars are spent on proprietary >>> software >>> and the kids do great things. Their favorite when I asked at the >>> beginning >>> of class seemed to be Garage Band. >>> I asked these students if any of them had a computer at home. They all >>> did. >>> In fact, some had a mac and a PC in their house. I asked them if any of >>> them had taken anything they had done at the clubhouse and continued to >>> work >>> on it at home. NONE of them had. >>> The club >>> houses are doing great things but the impact on the students lives and >>> learning is limited to the time they are spending there. One >>> potential of Sugar on a Stick is to >>> allow students to keep working and exploring beyond their few hours in >>> computer paradise and have them not lose access >>> when their program ends. >>> Walter has met with the Auckland Clubhouse people and they were also >>> interested in Sugar. They might be a great partner. >>> >>> -- >>> Caroline Meeks >>> Solution Grove >>> carol...@solutiongrove.com >>> >>> 617-500-3488 - Office >>> 505-213-3268 - Fax >>> >>> ___ >>> 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 -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] changes in outlook with Sugar (was Re: Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and "Mastering" Educational SW)
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 13:49, Alan Kay wrote: > [snip] > > > > But, if I were trying to make things happen with IAEP, I would try to do > > just a few main things, and one of them would be to make a > > program/user-interface which could do a great job of teaching a child to > > read and write their native language without requiring any more from the > > adults around them than a little encouragement. Part of the desired > changes > > in outlook could be made part of the stories and other materials that the > > kid would encounter along the way (and part of the big change in outlook > > that we are a part of is fluent reading of non-story materials in general > > and about outlook changing ideas in particular). > > Do you have already any vision about how to make that happen? I have > seen lately several people interested in working on better tools for > reading, may be a very interesting opportunity. > The Teachermate materials might be a starting point. Tomeu, do you have any clarity about how much content they are offering to us and what the license agreement would be? Today we discussed this product in one of my classes as an excellent example of Universal Design for Learning principals. http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/wiggleworks/index.htm The videos might give some ideas for Sugar Activities that could empower teachers to create similar materials and share them. Caroline > > Regards, > > Tomeu > > > Best wishes, > > > > Alan > > > > From: K. K. Subramaniam > > To: Alan Kay > > Cc: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org > > Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2009 12:12:59 PM > > Subject: Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and > > "Mastering" Educational SW > > > > On Wednesday 01 Jul 2009 9:03:26 am Alan Kay wrote: > >>Your last sentence is somewhat parallel to what many business types like > to > >>say about how hard it is to measure Return On Investment for research > >>funding. But in the business case, this is actually a form of > dissembling, > >>since an enormous percentage of all the GNP (and in fact GWP) comes > >> directly > >>as return from research. > > The top 10% of learners don't need school. The bottom 10% need more than > a > > school. For the middle 80%, learning in school should be demonstrably > better > > than that out of school. A school is relevant only if it can detect and > weed > > out contexts that hinder learning (or have nothing to do with learning) > as > > quickly as possible. Otherwise people will vote with their feet. > > > > In one of our local public school parents meet, a poor farmer challenged, > > "Why > > should I retain my kid in this school? Can you show me one student who > > studied > > here and became somebody in life? In the field, I can teach him to raise > at > > least one crop a year". For him, there was lot more of physics in the > farm > > than in school textbooks. > > > > Subbu > > > > > > ___ > > 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 > -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Audubon MS Photos
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > Hi All, > > I have posted some photos from the Contributors Program project at the FAMLI > (Foundation for Arts, Mentoring, Leadership and Innovation) after school > program at Audubon Middle School in south central Los Angeles on my FaceBook > account. If you have access, you might want to check them out! > > I am having problems with Flickr and general exporting for uploading to the > wiki so it may be a few days before you will see them there. > > Caryl > > > > ___ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > Caryl, Facebook provides a link to photo albums accessible without a Facebook login. Look at the bottom of your album page and post it! Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Center for Business Solutions San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://cbs.sfsu.edu/ http://is.sfsu.edu/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] We want to create our local Sugar Labs Argentina.-
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Gustavo Ibarra wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero > wrote: >> >> Hello Gustavo. >> Glad to have you here. >> >> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Edward Cherlin >> wrote: >> > Please copy to argent...@lists.laptop.org. I am not subscribed to it >> > because, unfortunately, I do not speak or write Spanish. > > >> >> > Welcome/Bienvenido. > > Hola amigos! > > First of all, thank you for the welcome. > Hey Gustavo, A Local Lab in Argentina is great! We have found that Local Labs are incredibly helpful to the community at large. Usually, I try to help labs get set up. But now, I would like to stay out of the picture. There are some really great Local Labs that are doing amazing this. The true value of a Local Lab is building on top of Sugar to solve your _local_ needs. So, would you mind working with Rafael and other existing local labs to set up SLA. The big thing is that you do what is best for Argentina. Most of the stuff we have in the wiki about local lab is based on conversations I have had with Jono Bacon. This means that the policies and procedures are based on _my_ interruption of how to apply best practices from Ubuntu Locos to Sugar Labs. While that was enough to get started, now that there are a couple of healthy labs around the world it is best that the local labs to work together and share internal best practices with each other. After about 5 more local labs are in place, I would like to help start compiling a list of best practices on wiki.sl.o. david > Edward Cherlin wrote: >> >> > I have just started organizing online meetings on the collaboration >> > features of Sugar and the XO. Any interested teachers are welcome to >> > join us for testing and tutorial sessions. We also need questions from >> > teachers and students on anything that has puzzled them, and >> > volunteers to translate the materials we create to Spanish and other >> > languages. >> > Our joint sessions will use Sugar on a Stick, which is set up to use a >> > particular Jabber server. At some point we will provide instructions >> > for connecting to that server from other forms of Sugar. They may very >> > well be in the Wiki, but I haven't looked. >> > > Edward, i am sending this email with copy to argent...@lists.laptop.org > > Gustavo Ibarra wrote: >> >> >> We ask permission to create our local Sugar Lab for Argentina, as >> >> members of >> >> the Sugar Labs community, accepting and respecting MEMORANDUM OF >> >> UNDERSTANDING >> >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Deployment_Team/Local_Lab_MOU and >> >> the appropiate use of the LOGO >> >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Logo#Logo_usage >> > > Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero wrote: >> >> Local labs efforts must ask permission primary form it's own local >> communities, for the overall community we ask to follow the rules of >> distribution and participation already concerted with the overall >> community, like the MOU f.e... i also recommend you to see SL >> governance and SL .co governance to have ideas about to organize >> participation. > > I'd like to make one clarification > We are thinking to start with SLA in an informal way. We believe it is not > necessary to be formal in order to the kind of work we are doing. And we > would create a non profit foundation when it be necessary. > -- > Saludos, > Gustavo.- > > ___ > 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] Wiki beautification
Now that we have a nice language sidebar in our wiki, can we finally get rid of all those blue boxes that litter most pages? I do not know how to do mass edits. Several people I referred to our wiki reported that it was cluttered and hard to navigate. To help novice users, we may want to come up with more ways to reduce the amount of links and text in each page. Help with improving the skin would also be appreciated. Besides cosmetic improvements, the layout of the sidebar has always been broken on Internet Explorer. I can setup a development instance on sunjammer for anyone who would want to work on it. Experience with HTML and CSS is required for this job. -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Plans for FUDCon Toronto 2009
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009 Mel, Sebastian, Greg and I are definitely going. Would anyone else like to join us? If we gather enough critical mass, we could organize a SugarCamp event within this framework, like last year. -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] We want to create our local Sugar Labs Argentina.-
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero < dir...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Gustavo. > Glad to have you here. > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Edward Cherlin > wrote: > > Please copy to argent...@lists.laptop.org. I am not subscribed to it > > because, unfortunately, I do not speak or write Spanish. > > > Welcome/Bienvenido. > Hola amigos! First of all, thank you for the welcome. Edward Cherlin wrote: > > I have just started organizing online meetings on the collaboration > > features of Sugar and the XO. Any interested teachers are welcome to > > join us for testing and tutorial sessions. We also need questions from > > teachers and students on anything that has puzzled them, and > > volunteers to translate the materials we create to Spanish and other > > languages. > > Our joint sessions will use Sugar on a Stick, which is set up to use a > > particular Jabber server. At some point we will provide instructions > > for connecting to that server from other forms of Sugar. They may very > > well be in the Wiki, but I haven't looked. > > Edward, i am sending this email with copy to argent...@lists.laptop.org Gustavo Ibarra wrote: > >> We ask permission to create our local Sugar Lab for Argentina, as > members of > >> the Sugar Labs community, accepting and respecting MEMORANDUM OF > >> UNDERSTANDING > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Deployment_Team/Local_Lab_MOU and > >> the appropiate use of the LOGO > >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Logo#Logo_usage > > Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero wrote: > Local labs efforts must ask permission primary form it's own local > communities, for the overall community we ask to follow the rules of > distribution and participation already concerted with the overall > community, like the MOU f.e... i also recommend you to see SL > governance and SL .co governance to have ideas about to organize > participation. > I'd like to make one clarification We are thinking to start with SLA in an informal way. We believe it is not necessary to be formal in order to the kind of work we are doing. And we would create a non profit foundation when it be necessary. -- Saludos, Gustavo.- ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Audubon MS Photos
Hi All, I have posted some photos from the Contributors Program project at the FAMLI (Foundation for Arts, Mentoring, Leadership and Innovation) after school program at Audubon Middle School in south central Los Angeles on my FaceBook account. If you have access, you might want to check them out! I am having problems with Flickr and general exporting for uploading to the wiki so it may be a few days before you will see them there. Caryl ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
