On Friday, August 7th, I presented Sugar to fifteen girls ages 10-13 who
were participants in the Rosie's Girls Summer Program. Rosie's Girls was
designed to build confidence in young female students and to introduce them
to non traditional career paths that they may not otherwise have been
It's actually the Sandisk Cruzer 1GB models that I've been having trouble
with. That's the model that we've been giving out to our 6th grade students
so I have a whole bunch laying around but they seem incredibly slow and I
have yet to have a successful install of Sugar, Ubuntu or anything for
I'm looking at doing a presentation on Sugar Friday August 7th at a local
Rosie's Girls camp happening at our high school in Bennington, VT. Today I
was asked to do an impromptu workshop with these girls on how to make a
slide show using photos that they've taken over the last few weeks and I was
Recently I just had a summer technology camp at an elementary school in
Shaftsbury, Vermont. It was a week long camp consisting of fourteen children
from surrounding schools (Shaftsbury, North Bennington, Bennington) in
grades 4/5/6-into-7th. Students learned how to install and configure Ubuntu
on
I spoke to Willow today when I saw her at the local cafe and asked her if
she's used SoaS since Friday and she said she got to use it once since then.
Her computer time in general is fairly limited but she's having no problems
so far.
I am preparing a letter to be sent out tomorrow in the mail as
Sameer,
This is very interesting, I think an educational website that I have seen do
this properly is the Alphabet activity on www.starfall.com
I've used this site quite a bit with my kindergarten and first grade
students in the past and have even seen it in use with Adult Ed students at
an adult
