[IAEP] Turtle Art on Activities.sugarlabs.org
The other day during an infrastructure meeting, Walter brought up some thought on how to enable kids to exchange Turtle Art projects Alsroot has been thinking about how to do this through a.sl.o since he became the activities.sugarlabs.org code maintainer. The high level view is that someone can easily upload Turtle Art creations to somewhere and then they, or others, can go to a portal to download other Turtle Art creations. Client side, this would require: 1. Adding a widget to either the journal or the TA activity to upload the TA Bundle. 2. Adding a TA bundle installer to handler TA Bundle downloads. Server side, this would require: 1. A place to accept TA bundle uploads. 2. A search-able place from which to download TA bundles We have some similar systems we can look to as examples. 1. Scratch -- Scratch has an upload button and users can download scratch projects from -- http://scratch.mit.edu/galleries/browse/newest 2. ASLO -- Users upload XO bundles via a web interface and download via a web interface. My initial instinct is to see if ASLO can be adopted to fit this need. Primarily because we have it, it works, and it is scalable. On the other hand, if the only tool in one's toolbox is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. (How is that for over using clichés and buzzword?) Considerations: ASLO rocks:) ASLO can be adapted to handle various file types. For example: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:3 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:2 Each file type can have a separate look and feel. Is the activity creation and upload process too complicated for young users? Moving forward: Would it be possible to journal or TA widget which: 1. Walks the student though a upload wizard. 2. Combines the TA project into a into a bundle with the metadata generated in the wizard. 3. Sends the bundle to activites.sl.o/uploads Would it be possible to setup/adapt ASLO to: 1. Handle TA files types. 2. Accepts TA bundles+metadata uploads and inserts them into the review queue. david ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Turtle Art on Activities.sugarlabs.org
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:08 PM, David Farning dfarn...@gmail.com wrote: The other day during an infrastructure meeting, Walter brought up some thought on how to enable kids to exchange Turtle Art projects Alsroot has been thinking about how to do this through a.sl.o since he became the activities.sugarlabs.org code maintainer. The high level view is that someone can easily upload Turtle Art creations to somewhere and then they, or others, can go to a portal to download other Turtle Art creations. Client side, this would require: 1. Adding a widget to either the journal or the TA activity to upload the TA Bundle. 2. Adding a TA bundle installer to handler TA Bundle downloads. Server side, this would require: 1. A place to accept TA bundle uploads. 2. A search-able place from which to download TA bundles We have some similar systems we can look to as examples. 1. Scratch -- Scratch has an upload button and users can download scratch projects from -- http://scratch.mit.edu/galleries/browse/newest 2. ASLO -- Users upload XO bundles via a web interface and download via a web interface. My initial instinct is to see if ASLO can be adopted to fit this need. Primarily because we have it, it works, and it is scalable. On the other hand, if the only tool in one's toolbox is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. (How is that for over using clichés and buzzword?) Considerations: ASLO rocks:) ASLO can be adapted to handle various file types. For example: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:3 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:2 Each file type can have a separate look and feel. Is the activity creation and upload process too complicated for young users? Moving forward: Would it be possible to journal or TA widget which: 1. Walks the student though a upload wizard. 2. Combines the TA project into a into a bundle with the metadata generated in the wizard. 3. Sends the bundle to activites.sl.o/uploads I am not sure what you are asking? How is this different that just using Browse to upload files from the Journal? -walter Would it be possible to setup/adapt ASLO to: 1. Handle TA files types. 2. Accepts TA bundles+metadata uploads and inserts them into the review queue. david ___ Sugar-devel mailing list sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Turtle Art on Activities.sugarlabs.org
What about multimedia objects in a ta project? I'm not even sure how to transfer a project between two computers with associated multimedia . Manually copy all relevant journal entries? Are entrynames preserved? Tony ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] [SLOBS] meeting reminder
We'll be having a Sugar Oversight Board meeting tomorrow (Friday, 26 January) at 11AM EST (16UTC) on irc.freenode.net #sugar-meeting. We'll be discussing our trademark policy, Google Summer of Code, our 2010 goals, and our progress on 0.88. Please join us. -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Drama / Theater in Sugar?
Hi! Do we have something for playing with drama, maybe following a script? Thanks in advance! -- Sebastian Silva Porfavor tómate un momento y vota por nosotros en el desafío BBVA OpenTalent: Red de Colaboración Coodots - http://coodots.com/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [FIELDBACK] Etoys
Gerald, It's definitely a balancing act trying to get them to focus on finishing up something and getting them to explore. Once they realize that they can affect the object by scripts they just want to do everything they can possibly do in one sitting (dragging and dropping tiles in one script window ..then I'm in fire fighting mode). Too much resulted in chaos in my class. Not doing THAT again. I now give them some time to go nuts on exploration then pull them back in to finish a project. Now I'm introducing just a max of two concepts (or tiles) in one 40min. session. Kathleen Harness has really good lesson plans for teaching one concept at a time: www.etoysillionois.org I would like to hear more best practices/ideas, etc. for teaching Etoys in the classroom. Cheers, Cherry On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.comwrote: I agree. Watching the car script is fun for a while. But when they make their own first script, it is exciting each and every time. I also find that the students (I work with 10 year olds) get overwhelmed by the number of choices they have. Anyone else have that experience? Thanks. Gerald On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Cherry Withers cwith...@ekindling.orgwrote: The very first time a child sees their object move with a simple forward script is always a magical moment for me and the kids. Never fails. Exploration and excitement explodes after that. I'm new to teaching Etoys as well. Definitely caught the bug. :-) On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.dewrote: Hi, I am teaching on a regular basis in the Planetarium pilot in Berlin, Germany [1]. I have been using Etoys now for several weeks and here is some first feedback. First: The kids do like it a lot! I want to encourage everyone to include it in his curriculum. For example you can teach easily the concepts of the coordinate system with Etoys. You create an object and print out the X and Y values when moving it on the screen. Or you can use a joystick to alter the position of this object and use this method to deepen the coordinate system concept. Of course we did as well the famous car example. It was slightly changed in my class: A bug has to crawl a lane using one or two sensors to stay on the lane. A lot of interesting concepts to learn here, too (positive and negative numbers for example). And to bring this all together into a portfolio you can use the book tool (found in the treasure chest) to create a story including all your objects and games, pictures etc you created. I wrote down a few items I was missing when using the book tool and while doing so, I figured they were all there, just hidden by default. - resize all of the book not just one page - maybe that could be the default option? - duplicate a page - different background color - different sound when turning the page When you hit the little button at the far left you will get more options. And when you use the menu in the middle of the book toolbar you get all of these options and a lot of more. Just in case someone runs as well into this :) A few things that I came across, too: - German: When you drop the 'joystick up down' and 'joystick left right' option onto the world it will change to English. Not when you use it in a script though. - some buttons are hard to use: for example when you want to alter the behavior of the X value of an object (increase..). Those are hard to navigate. Or dropping options into the test script does not work as smooth. That's all for now - keep up the good work, team Etoys!. Thanks, Simon PS: Of course I am happy to turn items into bugs later. Just thought I give here a little summary first. [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Deployments/Planetarium ___ 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
