this project last year, and I would be happy to share the results
if anyone is interested.
Best,
Gerald Ardito
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 5:06 PM, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote:
see http://wiki.laptop.org/images/f/fb/Literature_Review_040309.pdf
Walter,
Your report from the meeting from Washington is inspiring. Particularly, the
what are we waiting for.
As you know, I am in the process of documenting similar outcomes as part of
a doctoral study for a deployment here in the US. It would be great, though,
to work with these folks to see
, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com
wrote:
This literature review is fantastic.
I am a middle school science teacher in Northern Westchester County, NY,
and
am also a doctoral student at Pace University. My research project is
investigating the impact of our
to
including the whole school if the results are positive.
Ian Thomson
RICS and OLPC Coordinator
Noumea
SPC
Phone +687 26 01 44
*From:* iaep-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org [mailto:
iaep-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org] *On Behalf Of *Gerald Ardito
*Sent:* Monday, September 21, 2009 10:39 AM
:
Gerald,
I am curious about your choice to evaluate a middleschool as opposed
to an elementary school. Sugar and the OLPC XO were designed for
elementary-school-aged children.
regards.
-walter
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com
wrote:
Ian,
I am just
I really like that phrase, Sugar sweet-spot.
I completely agree.
Gerald
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com
wrote:
Walter,
It just happens that in my district the 5th graders
20, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.comwrote:
I have set up a week site that has some preliminary research findings.
You can visit it here:
http://web.me.com/geraldar/The_Shape_of_Disruption/Welcome.html
I would appreciate any questions or feedback.
Gerald
On Fri, Sep
is available through the Log activity.
regards.
-walter
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com
wrote:
I am using this version of SOAS:
http://www.solutiongrove.com/soas-st-20090918-ss.iso
When I try to open Write, the icon flashes as though it will open
Gary,
This image came from Caroline Meeks at Solution Grove. It came as part of a
version of SOAS that she put together for me.
Gerald
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote:
Hi Gerald,
On 27 Sep 2009, at 01:35, Gerald Ardito wrote:
Walter,
Thanks
Makes sense.
I'll follow up with Caroline.
Thanks so much.
Gerald
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Luke Faraone l...@faraone.cc wrote:
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 21:52, Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.comwrote:
This image came from Caroline Meeks at Solution Grove. It came as part
Sep 2009, at 02:52, Gerald Ardito wrote:
Gary,
This image came from Caroline Meeks at Solution Grove. It came as part of
a version of SOAS that she put together for me.
Gerald
OK, looks like a SoaS build mistake.
Caroline, just a quick ping. Checking activities.sugarlabs.org, it tells
:07 PM, Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.comwrote:
Caroline,
No problem.
Just let me know when we have a working image. I am really close to
deploying SOAS on our Dells!
Gerald
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Caroline Meeks
carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote:
Thank you all for your
will have a new spin out with the problem hopefully corrected soon.
Thanks,
Hamilton
On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 23:22 -0400, Gerald Ardito wrote:
Caroline,
I tried to do just that. I cannot erase the version of Write that's
there, and I cannot install the new one. It downloads just fine
with the problem hopefully corrected soon.
Thanks,
Hamilton
On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 23:22 -0400, Gerald Ardito wrote:
Caroline,
I tried to do just that. I cannot erase the version of Write that's
there, and I cannot install the new one. It downloads just fine and
appears in the Journal
Bert,
Thanks so much for sharing this with us.
I am working with 5th grade teachers and students and have been waiting for
something like this.
YIPEE!
Gerald
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.dewrote:
On 30.09.2009, at 17:10, Bill Kerr wrote:
from
As some of you know, I am a middle school teacher and doctoral student
working with 150 XO laptops in a set of 5th grade classrooms. My research
interest is to see how those devices and the Sugar software impact the
learning environment of the classroom.
We were fortunate enough to have Walter
on yet other programming languages for the children.
Thanks for the video.
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:15 AM, Rita Freudenberg
r...@isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de wrote:
Gerald Ardito wrote:
As some of you know, I am a middle school teacher and doctoral student
working with 150 XO laptops in a set
I could use some help.
I am trying to install Sugar 84 on my XOs, and have followed the copy-nand
instructions on the olpc wiki.
But then, when I reboot the machine, I get an error message saying the
machine will power off in 30 seconds.
What can I do?
Thanks.
Gerald
I wanted to add something to this conversation.
I am a public middle school science teacher, and, as some of you know, the
technology facilitator in my building working with our 5th grade students
and teachers with a set of 150 XOs.
I am sympathetic to the thread of this conversation about
Caryl,
This is so great. Have fun and I look forward to seeing your PPT at some
point.
I work with about 150 fifth graders and their teachers with XOs and SOAS.
I think the think I would include is that the tools are almost completely
customizable to any learning situation, whether that be by
Edward,
I would be very interested in working with you on this.
I am in New York, if that helps at all in arranging the time.
Gerald
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 4:26 AM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
I would like to get together with others at some prearranged time to
work on
Claudia,
I have been thinking about trying to write a grant to host a conference for
teachers. The goals would be similar to the programming blitzes earlier on,
where the teachers come together and create best practices, lesson plans,
tips and techniques, etc.
I think the social piece is
Caryl,
Thanks for sharing these pictures.
Can you share more details about this project, like:
How many XOs are there?
How many students?
Which grades/age groups?
How were the teachers/students trained?
We should probably talk.
Gerald
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:57 AM, Caryl Bigenho
Caroline,
Edward's suggestions seem good.
Having done this type of sequence with other activities, I can recommend a
flow:
- Brief overview of what might be possible with each Activity
- Introduction of one or two key functions
- Exploration time -- encourage sharing between participants,
Deb,
I have been using Sugar on a Stick with Dell Latitude netbooks. So, you can
absolutely use it.
If I can help, just give a shout.
Best,
Gerald
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Deborah Boatwright
boatwrig...@newmarket.k12.nh.us wrote:
Hello,
I am intrigued by many aspects of Sugar on a
Caryl,
I will leave it to the developers to answer some of the technical questions.
I just wanted to let you know that I have done this presentation with our
teachers and would love to be of help to you if that would forward what you
are up to.
Good luck!
Gerald
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 2:30 PM,
I have a question about sharing between XO/Sugar users.
I know that people can share activities and how to do that.
But I am wanting to share products/files, a painting for example.
I know that if you share the activity in which the product is made, others
will end up with the product. But I was
Now, it's just a matter of getting the XOs to run .84 instead of .82.
Thanks.
Gerald
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:
Yes (at least on 0.84+) you can share journal objects.
-walter
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Gerald Ardito gerald.ard
Hello.
I am interested in hearing how teachers have been collecting work from
students using either the XOs and/or SOAS.
I have been playing with the Journal sharing in Strawberry and Moodle as
possible vehicles.
Thanks.
Gerald
___
IAEP -- It's An
Caryl,
I agree with you on this.
I think, with Sugar (both with and without the XOs) we have a powerful set
of tools for both independent learning and cooperative learning.
Every day, I found myself challenged to help our 5th grade teachers made
their curricula come alive in brand new ways with
Tomeu,
Thanks for responding.
I haven't heard back from anyone. I will try to reach out to olpc-sur and
the OLPC learning team.
If you have any ideas, I'm interested.
Thanks.
Gerald
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
2009/11/13 Gerald Ardito gerald.ard
Chris,
I would suggest at least one of the Activities to get books, like Get IA
Books.
Otherwise, this list looks good.
Thanks.
Gerald
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote:
Hi folks,
We'd like your help in coming up with a list of default-installed
Sugar
Caroline,
As I work more and more with EToys with the kids making interactive books, I
agree with you more and more about book creation being important.
Just thought I'd add my 2 cents.
Gerald
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Caroline Meeks solutiongr...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi Jim,
How low is
Walter,
Does this mean there will be an update to Sugar for the XOs?
Thanks.
Gerald
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:
OLPC has offered to include a Sugar logo in the splash screen, much
the way the Fedora Remix graphic is included. Problem is, we
to be finding the resources
to make the necessary patches to support the graphics systems on the
XO-1.0 in Fedora 11. (This work has been done for the XO-1.5, but
since it uses a different graphics subsystem, it is not applicable to
the XO-1.0.)
-walter
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Gerald Ardito
Hello.
I am working with 140 5th grade students who are using XOs (mostly) and
netbooks with SOAS.
About 50 of them are using Etoys to create projects.
I am trying to find a way to share them with their teachers and each other.
When I try to upload them to a Moodle course and them download them,
:08 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 21:31, Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hello.
I am working with 140 5th grade students who are using XOs (mostly) and
netbooks with SOAS.
About 50 of them are using Etoys to create projects.
I am trying
Tomeu,
One more thing.
If I download Etoys projects from another site, like squeakland.org or
etoysillinois.org, the Etoys icon is associated with the file in the
Journal, and clicking on the file opens EToys properly.
Thanks again.
Gerald
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Gerald Ardito gerald.ard
Aleksey,
I think option 1 is good. It keeps the favorites metaphor from elsewhere
and allows for the sharing of multiple things at the same time.
Thanks.
Gerald
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote:
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:30:22PM -0500, Gerald Ardito
Bert,
I have been working with students to create EToys projects.
Two of them were working yesterday on their projects, which I saw. Their
work was very good, and almost done. When they went to finish it today,
yesterday's work was not in the Journal, nor were there any other records in
the
Bert,
Thanks.
Which log should I look at?
I'll try the other stuff on Monday when I am back at school.
Gerald
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.dewrote:
On 08.01.2010, at 22:14, Gerald Ardito wrote:
Bert,
I have been working with students to create EToys
Tabitha,
One of the teachers has an affinity for the city, and Canada is part of the
5th grade social studies curriculum.
Did you have somewhere else in mind?
Thanks.
Gerald
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:29 AM, Tabitha Roder tabitha.ro...@gmail.comwrote:
2010/1/21 Gerald Ardito gerald.ard
Tabitha,
I would like to be contacted by other XO using schools interested in pen pal
arrangements. And yes, 5th graders are about 10 years old.
Thanks for your help with this.
Gerald
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:50 AM, Tabitha Roder tabitha.ro...@gmail.comwrote:
One of the teachers has an
Tomeu,
This seems like a really good resource, and one I did not know about before.
As with any blog, it is only useful if updated regularly, so that would be
my only reservation about promoting it.
My two cents.
Gerald
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
Mel,
This is just great. I look forward to see what happens next.
If I can help at all, just let me know.
Gerald
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Mel Chua m...@melchua.com wrote:
Some of you may have seen this news come across Planet already, but
we're doing a small SoaS deployment in a 1st
Subbu,
Thanks for this.
Your idea about watchers is a really good one.
Gerald
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 7:53 AM, K. K. Subramaniam subb...@gmail.comwrote:
On Friday 26 February 2010 12:12:19 pm Cherry Withers wrote:
It's definitely a balancing act trying to get them to focus on finishing
up
, to make your own math.
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.comwrote:
Caroline,
Something else that may be worth considering is the development of an
activity like Info Slicer, where teachers can provide annotations for the
videos, and/or prompts for notes
how do we get the kids watching the
video we want them to watch and doing the work before and after to make it
a
learning experience.
5. Legal issues, what is and isn't fair use of the a YouTube resource?
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.comwrote
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.com
wrote
Iago,
Thanks for this.
Gerald
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:18 AM, itoral ito...@igalia.com wrote:
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:08:14 +0100, Tomeu Vizoso to...@tomeuvizoso.net
wrote:
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 17:57, Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com
wrote:
Caroline,
You do a good job
Nibipedia for that sort of software. The creators may be open
for collaboration.
Cheers,
Maria Droujkova
http://www.naturalmath.com
Make math your own, to make your own math.
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Gerald Ardito
gerald.ard...@gmail.comwrote:
Caroline,
Something else that may
Caroline,
I think that this can connect in some way to your RTI Project.
What do you think?
Gerald
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Caroline Meeks
carol...@solutiongrove.comwrote:
Yes it does.
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.comwrote:
Maria,
This looks
Gabriel,
This is just fantastic.
Thanks for sharing it with us.
Gerald
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Gabriel Eirea gei...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
Sometimes at ceibaljam.org we receive comments from children, always
very interesting to read. I thought I should share the following. This
I particularly like the ability to download existing decks.
This would be a good thing for Sugar/XOs.
Gerald
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Luke Faraone l...@faraone.cc wrote:
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On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 21:38, Caroline Meeks wrote:
An open
Caroline,
I like Edward's idea.
If you use it, you can build to Etoys.
There is a nice lesson in the Peru lesson book on animating a caterpillar
that is really good. If you don't have the book, let me know and I'll send
it to you.
Gerald
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Edward Cherlin
I am also cheering!
Gerald
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Claudia Urrea callaur...@gmail.comwrote:
Yay!!
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Caroline Meeks
solutiongr...@gmail.comwrote:
Hip Hip Hooray!!!
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Bert Freudenberg
b...@freudenbergs.dewrote:
Walter,
I am looking it over this morning, and seeing how to use it with some of our
students.
As soon as I have some feedback, I'll send it along.
Gerald
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:19 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 5:36 AM, Bert Freudenberg
I have to agree with Martin and Yama, here.
Speaking for teachers working with students, the extra work to download the
extra activities desired for over a hundred flash drives would be daunting
at best.
Gerald
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Yamandu Ploskonka yamap...@gmail.comwrote:
I am excited about trying this. I manage a deployment of 140 XO-1's in a
school in Westchester County, New York and have really wanted to upgrade our
software from the official build.
How do I disable security?
Many thanks.
Gerald
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Thomas C Gilliard
Dave,
Thanks. I will probably train my 20 Tech Team students to do this, which
will empower them and help the process.
Gerald
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Dave Bauer dave.ba...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com
wrote:
I am excited
Sascha,
Speaking as a teacher, this workflow seems really good.
Gerald
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Sascha Silbe
sascha-ml-ui-sugar-i...@silbe.org wrote:
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 11:18:14AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 02:08, Gonzalo Odiard godi...@gmail.com
Caryl,
Thanks for all of your work to make this happen.
Please keep us posted.
Thanks.
Gerald
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.comwrote:
Hi All,
Today was showtime for SoaS at the LAUSD InfoTech and Parent Summit at
the Los Angeles Convention center. This
essential. Some GTK stuff, but that is pretty
straightforward.
-walter
I hope this makes sense. And I appreciate your time.
Best,
Gerald Ardito
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sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org
Mike,
This is great.
Thanks.
Gerald
On Monday, January 14, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Mike Rehner wrote:
Here is a list of Python resources if that would help-
http://www.babarehner.com/ewrench1011/Python/index.html
Cheers,
Mike
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Gerald Ardito gma
/ewrench1011/Python/index.html
Cheers,
Mike
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Gerald Ardito gma...@gmail.com
(mailto:gma...@gmail.com) wrote:
Stephen,
I am starting two weeks from tomorrow.
I am still trying to wrap my head about the key goals and projects. It
would
Walter,
The homework service you described would be incredibly useful.
I would be happy to help test, I'd needed.
Gerald
On Mar 3, 2013 12:15 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote:
== Sugar Digest ==
1. It has been crazy busy. With the upcoming XO4 launch, Sugar with
touch support
to have those students test such a homework service
as well.
On Mar 3, 2013, at 12:19 PM, Gerald Ardito wrote:
Walter,
The homework service you described would be incredibly useful.
I would be happy to help test, I'd needed.
Gerald
On Mar 3, 2013 12:15 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben
Caryl,
You can also just put a post it over the middle trackpad.
Gerald
On Apr 26, 2013 4:36 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi All,
Some of the XO-1s I am prepping for use in an elementary school in a
women't shelter here in LA have jumpy cursers. My personal G1G1 machine
Jennifer,
I manage a deployment of 140 XOs with 5th grade students in a middle school
in Westchester County, NY. We trained about 4-5 students per classroom (we
call them the Tech Team), and they support their teachers and fellow
students.
You can read about it here:
Caroline,
You are remembering well. And I agree with your hypothesis.
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
of
challenged students result from such artifacts).
Cheers,
Alan
--
*From:* Dr. Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com
*To:* Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com
*Cc:* Cherry Withers cwith...@ekindling.org; danielgast...@yahoo.com.ar;
Tim McNamara paperl
the first Etoys exercise -- in which
the learners do and learn about 35 things in about 30 minutes).
Best regards,
Alan
--
*From:* Dr. Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com
*To:* Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com
*Cc:* Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com; Cherry
if there is anything else I can do.
Best,
Gerald
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
Can we add your dissertation to the Bibliography?
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 19:31, Dr. Gerald Ardito
gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote:
Alan,
First, I just want to clarify that I meant
it takes for individuals to
get it, and what questions and prompts they need. Kind of a perfect example
where mass class loses badly and one on one is very efficient and
effective.
Cheers,
Alan
--
*From:* Dr. Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com
*To:* Alan Kay
+1 to all motions from me as well.
Gerald
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:
In case you are interested in casting your vote on the 3 motions we
passed (Please see
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Meeting_Minutes-2010-12-01),
please send
I think back to the various work (especially Piaget, Vygotsky, and Papert)
that investigates learning as a social phenomenon.
The XO Laptops and Sugar derive directly, in my humble opinion, from these
principles, especially Papert's concept of Constructionism.
The issue for me, then, is not
Christoph,
Thanks for your email.
I also got to read Claudia's article. I have been familiar with and inspired
by her research. In fact, in informed my doctoral dissertation, which
focused on the changes to the classroom learning environment through the use
of the XO laptops.
I have been
as in the classroom, when teachers (and others) find the
students participating so actively and responsibly, they will be called to
join in?
What do you think.
Gerald
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Yamandu Ploskonka yamap...@gmail.comwrote:
On 01/21/2011 08:54 AM, Dr. Gerald Ardito wrote originally
, it turns out it was not that *you* were
reluctant, but rather your teachers? Nice of you to take up the blame. I
feel so encouraged by your attitude, and much honored to learn from you
Yama
On 01/21/2011 10:04 AM, Dr. Gerald Ardito wrote:
Yama,
Your response actually gave me an idea
Edward,
I like your idea. And plan on setting up a blog, or other site, where
the students I am working with could share with one another about
their experiences with the XOs.
Gerald
On Saturday, January 22, 2011, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
I have suggested creating a walled
Caryl,
I am working on a MacBook Pro running OX 10.6.6 and Etoys 4.1.
Just like in Sugar, I just drag the photo onto Etoys and it is imported.
I do the same in Windows.
Hope this helps.
Gerald
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi Folks,
What is the
Cherry,
I am going to be using the manual with some teachers soon.
I will make updates from those sessions.
Gerald
On Monday, January 31, 2011, Cherry Withers cwith...@ekindling.org wrote:
Hi Carlos,
The manual is not completely done. It needs editing and we would appreciate
all the
I wanted to add that I agree with Steve.
I have been working with 5th-8th graders, many of whom love Turtle Art,
Scratch, and Etoys. When they get the bug from this kind of programming, I
want to introduce them to Pippy, but, like Steve said, I am not sure what to
do other than press run.
Gerald
Thanks, Scott.
Gerald
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 5:42 AM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@cscott.net wrote:
http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/cscott/pippy-examples/tree/ has a set
of pippy examples in both English and Spanish, based on the example
code in the Commodore 64 user's manual (which taught me
Walter,
The type of lab notebook activity you describe could be extended beyond the
cooking area. I can see students using this for all kinds of scientific
investigations.
My two cents.
Gerald
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at
Walter and Edward,
I am very interested in this conversation.
As you know, I have been working with 5th graders and XO Laptops for the
past 3 years in the middle school in which I teach.
For next year, I have designed a pilot program to teach our 6th graders
about programming software and
. Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com
wrote:
Walter and Edward,
I am very interested in this conversation.
As you know, I have been working with 5th graders and XO Laptops for the
past 3 years in the middle school in which I teach.
For next year, I have designed a pilot program to teach our
Walter,
That would be great. Thanks.
Can you look and see when in September might work for you?
Gerald
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Dr. Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com
wrote:
Walter,
Thanks. And I'll
Sean,
I would be happy to participate on the panel.
Gerald
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote:
Many thanks Christian for this update
Yes I too saw that although Walter (the Sugar Digest [1]), myself (on
the lists [2] plus the olpcnews piece [3]), John (on
I have been using Scratch and Etoys with students in grades 5-8 for the past
4 years or so. In this work, I have seen an interesting pattern. The younger
students (5th and 6th graders) ALWAYS prefer Etoys to Scratch. (I am talking
here about first exposure).They love the drawing component and then
It's good for me, too.
Gerald
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:
I've not heard back from everyone yet, but it seems that Tuesdays at
4PM EST (21 UTC) may work. Let's schedule our next meeting for the
20th?
regards.
-walter
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Walter Bender
What about an Activity (maybe branching from Physics) that would allow
children to build their own virtual Rube Goldberg machines?
I would be happy to help.
Gerald
2012/1/8 Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com
Christian,
I'll be there.
Thanks.
Gerald
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Christian Marc Schmidt
christianm...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all
We met today on IRC to discuss the website design and content, but not
many were present. It is important that we get your feedback as the work on
the
Steve,
Your question made me think about research I read about a couple of years
ago. The researcher was investigating narratives between patients and
doctors. Their major finding was that patients naturally needed to narrate
what they were experiencing, and that close to 100% of the time, the
Yama,
Thanks so much for sharing this.
I am planning to order some to test out with my students on the XOs.
Perhaps we can open some wiki pages devoted to this?
Cheers,
Gerald
2012/2/11 Luis Galindo llwwwl...@gmail.com
I just bought the TI MSP430 to test it with the Xo 1.0.
Thank you Yama
I'll be there.
Gerald
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, Apr 27 2012, Walter Bender wrote:
It has been a while. A few things to catch up on. Can we muster a
quorum for the proposed date/time?
I'll be there.
Thanks,
- Chris.
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Chris
+1
Gerald
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote:
Buried in the meeting log [1] is a motion [5] to adopt three changes
[2, 3, 4] to the Trademark [6] and Local Labs [7] pages in the wiki.
The motion was seconded and we began a vote, but whereas it seemed
+1
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 7:57 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote:
I forgot to send out a reminder about yesterday's meeting and thus we
did not have a quorum. I'd like to try again early next week. How
about Tuesday, 18 September at 17:00 EST, (21:00 UTC).
Topics include our
I'll be there.
Gerald
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Sebastian Silva
sebast...@somosazucar.org wrote:
I'll be there.
Regards,
Sebastian
On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:04:20 -0400
Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote:
For once I remembered to send a meeting reminder :P
We (the Sugar
Daniel and others,
This thread has really inspired me. I am going to work with my
students to develop Sugar activities.
I have James' book. Are there other resources I need?
Thanks.
Gerald
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 4:16 AM, Kevin Mark kevin.m...@verizon.net wrote:
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