Re: [IAEP] Etoys, is it difficult or easy?

2010-09-28 Thread K. K. Subramaniam
On Tuesday 28 Sep 2010 2:59:57 am Dr. Gerald Ardito wrote: The 5th graders took pretty well to Etoys. It is the drawing piece that hooks them, and then the scripting part that really challenges them. And the 7th and 8th graders love Scratch. It is interesting to me because they also do plenty

Re: [IAEP] [Sur] [Olpc-uruguay] Sugar Labs Oversight Board?

2010-09-28 Thread Tim McNamara
On 25 September 2010 02:22, Pablo Flores pflor...@gmail.com wrote: My support to Rosamel too! The translation is not a minor issue and it would be good to challenge ourselves to find solutions so we can integrate in discussions people that speak different languages. Isn't there some kind of

Re: [IAEP] Etoys, is it difficult or easy?

2010-09-28 Thread Dr. Gerald Ardito
Alan, Thanks so much. I am sure this will work well for us. Best, Gerald On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote: It's the make a car you can drive yourself one which starts with the painting of a car, scripting it to go in a circle, steering by modifying the

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Introduction

2010-09-28 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 12:46, Steven Parrish smparr...@gmail.com wrote: Some of you may have already heard that I have accepted a position with ActivityCentral to be the project manager for Dextrose.  It feels like I have come full circle as I started out as a volunteer maintaining the F11

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Introduction

2010-09-28 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 06:46:00AM -0400, Steven Parrish wrote: Some of you may have already heard that I have accepted a position with ActivityCentral to be the project manager for Dextrose. Great to hear!  It feels like I have come full circle as I started out as a volunteer maintaining

Re: [IAEP] [Sur] [Olpc-uruguay] Sugar Labs Oversight Board?

2010-09-28 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 28.09.2010, at 11:05, Tim McNamara wrote: On 25 September 2010 02:22, Pablo Flores pflor...@gmail.com wrote: My support to Rosamel too! The translation is not a minor issue and it would be good to challenge ourselves to find solutions so we can integrate in discussions people that

Re: [IAEP] Etoys, is it difficult or easy?

2010-09-28 Thread forster
Interesting More on visual and text programming languages http://www98.griffith.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/10072/24250/1/52212_1.pdf Tony Quoting K. K. Subramaniam kksubbu...@gmail.com: On Tuesday 28 Sep 2010 2:59:57 am Dr. Gerald Ardito wrote: The 5th graders took pretty well to Etoys. It is

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Introduction

2010-09-28 Thread Simon Schampijer
Hi Steven, On 09/28/2010 01:00 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 12:46, Steven Parrishsmparr...@gmail.com wrote: Some of you may have already heard that I have accepted a position with ActivityCentral to be the project manager for Dextrose. It feels like I have come full

Re: [IAEP] Etoys, is it difficult or easy?

2010-09-28 Thread Alan Kay
A key work here is the classic Towards A Theory Of Instruction by Jerome Bruner, Harvard/Belknap Press, 1965. This is a must for anyone who is interested in designing and inventing learning environments. Cheers, Alan From: fors...@ozonline.com.au

[IAEP] how SF's Oct 22-24 Summit became Global--on a shoestring

2010-09-28 Thread Holt
Congrats Tabitha Roder for joining us all the way from New Zealand, confirming attendance from all continents: http://olpcSF.org/CommunitySummit2010/people.php http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea/OLPCSF_Community_Summit_2010 You are (at least!) the 6th volunteer I know

Re: [IAEP] [Sur] [Olpc-uruguay] Sugar Labs Oversight Board?

2010-09-28 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
This should be one of the ''duties'' of a community manager, making that liasons between different language communities continue and strenght over time. But more thatn that there is a need of translation bridges done by community members, for this case Caryl and Pablo are examples. Esta debe ser