Re: [IAEP] [Sur] sugerencia para actividad clock
At Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:14:23 -0700, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: At Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:56:03 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: What about the clock in Etoys? Are you asking the maintainer of the clock done in Etoys? That one has more complicated eye candy but a teacher or a helper of the teacher should make one in 10 minutes or so. However, my point of making that clock was that each kid should make one to understand it. At the Squeakfest Brasil conference, Kathleen Smith conducted a tutorial session to make a clock in Etoys. Dozens of teachers from Brazil, Uruguay, Peru, etc. attended and making their own clocks. So hopefully the idea spreads in the continent... -- Yoshiki I don't subscribe the olpc-sur list. Please forward this to the list and connect the original person to these Squeakfest attendees. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Sur] sugerencia para actividad clock
At Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:55:53 -0300, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: At Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:14:23 -0700, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: At Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:56:03 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: What about the clock in Etoys? Are you asking the maintainer of the clock done in Etoys? That one has more complicated eye candy but a teacher or a helper of the teacher should make one in 10 minutes or so. However, my point of making that clock was that each kid should make one to understand it. At the Squeakfest Brasil conference, Kathleen Smith conducted a tutorial session to make a clock in Etoys. Dozens of teachers from Brazil, Uruguay, Peru, etc. attended and making their own clocks. So hopefully the idea spreads in the continent... One more thing... In my version, I sort of cheated and used the premade digital clock object that is available in the Object Catalog-Just for Fun to get the system clock. If you just need to know the current time, you can pull out the object from catalog. Also, in various ways, you can come up with more arithmetic tricks to teach. -- Yoshiki ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Sur] sugerencia para actividad clock
At Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:56:03 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: What about the clock in Etoys? Are you asking the maintainer of the clock done in Etoys? That one has more complicated eye candy but a teacher or a helper of the teacher should make one in 10 minutes or so. However, my point of making that clock was that each kid should make one to understand it. -- Yoshiki ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Sur] sugerencia para actividad clock
On Monday 20 Jul 2009 10:44:23 pm Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: However, my point of making that clock was that each kid should make one to understand it. An objective tick-tock is just one way to understand time. It is the kronos time. However, the round clock face stood for a different concept of time - time as an interval between events. This is a much more interesting story to play out in Etoys. The 12 divisions of a day (and twelve of night) trace back to the need for farmers to predict onset of annual rainy season. Rain leads to floods in the river depositing rich silt along the banks (and ground water) to raise crops. There are approximately 12 full moons between one Rainy season to another and approximately 30 sun rises between two full moons. The same divisions were also applied to day and night. Some cultures (like India) divided day and night into 30 slots each (or 60 slots total) while others divided them into 12 slots each (24 total) and further into 60 minute slices. Some (like Babylonians) divided both day and night into 12 slots. These divisions allowed one reckon and predict the onset of rains. The numbers 12, 24, 30, 60 and 360 became important in math. We continue to divide a circle into 360 degrees (12x30) to this day. The word time itself is from a root word meaning 'to slice, to cut'. The Greek word, kairos means both weather and opportune time. The Sanskrit word for year (varsha) also means rain. Many words in our daily use are tied to this concept of time (hour, minute, temporary, noon, meal, siesta, tide). Of course, 12 moons per year is approximate so an 'extra moon' is added every few years to catch up. This year is one of them, so it is a good opportunity to learn about 'blue moon'. Subbu ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Sur] sugerencia para actividad clock
Paola asks in olpc-sur about adding to the Clock activity the capability of changing the time. Don't know who is the maintainer of the Clock activity, thus sending this email to IAEP. What about the clock in Etoys? Regards, Tomeu 2009/7/18 Paola Bruccoleri pbruccol...@adinet.com.uy: Hola.. hoy estuve con unas maestras a las que le había recomendado esta actividad, y que viene muy bien a los niños cuando están aprendiendo la hora, pero me comentaron que sería de mayor utilidad aún si se pudiera modificar la hora y de esa manera poder hacer ejericios. chauuu === A/P Paola Bruccoleri Arrambide San José de Mayo - San José - URUGUAY Blog: http://paolabruccoleri.reducativa.com Portal Educativo: http://www.reducativa.com.uy Material XO: http://www.reducativa.com/wiki/index.php?title=Proyecto_OLPC_-_Plan_Ceibal Cartillas XO Sugar 8.2: http://www.reducativa.com/wiki/index.php?title=Cartillas_sobre_uso_de_la_XO ___ Lista olpc-Sur olpc-...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sur ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Sur] sugerencia para actividad clock
Hi Tomeu, On 18 Jul 2009, at 10:56, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Paola asks in olpc-sur about adding to the Clock activity the capability of changing the time. Don't know who is the maintainer of the Clock activity, thus sending this email to IAEP. It's another Sugar Labs adoptee Activity I'm maintaining now. At the moment it is designed to display and/or speak out the current real time in a number of different formats. By changing the time does Paola intend this like a system control module type thing, changing the physical laptop time? Or is it for the child to move the hands about and print/speak the different times? Kind of, Teacher says make it 11:30, everyone sets the hands of the clock face and then shows the teacher. Regards, --Gary P.S. There is also a GCompris ClockGame on activities.SL.org, but I've not tried it myself yet. http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4112 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Sur] sugerencia para actividad clock
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 16:20, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com wrote: Hi Tomeu, On 18 Jul 2009, at 10:56, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Paola asks in olpc-sur about adding to the Clock activity the capability of changing the time. Don't know who is the maintainer of the Clock activity, thus sending this email to IAEP. It's another Sugar Labs adoptee Activity I'm maintaining now. At the moment it is designed to display and/or speak out the current real time in a number of different formats. By changing the time does Paola intend this like a system control module type thing, changing the physical laptop time? Or is it for the child to move the hands about and print/speak the different times? Kind of, Teacher says make it 11:30, everyone sets the hands of the clock face and then shows the teacher. From my understanding of the original email, I think the latter. Regards, --Gary P.S. There is also a GCompris ClockGame on activities.SL.org, but I've not tried it myself yet. http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4112 Paola, puedes probar esta actividad y ver si funciona en la version de Sugar usada en Uruguay? Gracias/Thanks, Tomeu ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
