Hello all.
As our 5th graders are doing more and more work with their XOs, their being
able to turn in and share their work products (as opposed to collaborating
with others) is becoming more and more important.
My temporary solution is having them upload their work (along with
reflections, if
Hello all.
As our 5th graders are doing more and more work with their XOs, their being
able to turn in and share their work products (as opposed to collaborating
with others) is becoming more and more important.
My temporary solution is having them upload their work (along with
reflections, if
Justin,
Nice.
I am assuming that by downloading, you mean getting the object from another
XO/SOAS?
When can I have it to test?
Thanks.
Gerald
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Justin Lewis jlew.black...@gmail.comwrote:
I have been building an activity to do just that,
Check it out here:
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
Wade,
You said:
if only we could put every Sugar developer
at a deployment for a week.
I am a teacher and doctoral student managing a deployment of 150 XOs/SOAS
and would love to have this happen!
Gerald
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Wade Brainerd wad...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jan 7,
I am interested in this discussion.
I am managing a deployment of 140 XOs/SOAS (mostly XOs) and this issue comes
up a lot with the students. A couple of classrooms are just finishing a
project with EToys and Resume was a big problem for us.
In EToys, you seem to have to rename the project in the
Wade,
You said:
if only we could put every Sugar developer
at a deployment for a week.
I am a teacher and doctoral student managing a deployment of 150 XOs/SOAS
and would love to have this happen!
Gerald
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 5:37 AM, Walther Neuper neu...@ist.tugraz.at wrote:
Hi Wade,
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.dewrote:
On 08.01.2010, at 11:39, Gerald Ardito wrote:
I am interested in this discussion.
I am managing a deployment of 140 XOs/SOAS (mostly XOs) and this issue
comes up a lot with the students. A couple of classrooms
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
Bert,
Thanks for this.
I was able to find some lost EToys projects using your suggestion.
I could use some help using copy-to-journal.
I am getting an error about mimetype. What should I use?
Thanks.
Gerald
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.comwrote:
Bert
Walter and Caroline,
I have had a completely different experience with color picking. When we
give the XOs to the students for the first time, they love picking their
names and colors. It is not disruptive at all. The students report that they
feel they 'own' the XOs more as a result.
Just my
Bert,
One more question, can you give me an example of a properly formed
'copy-to-journal' command?
Thanks.
Gerald
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.dewrote:
On 15.01.2010, at 15:46, Gerald Ardito wrote:
Bert,
Thanks for this.
I was able to find some
I think the the two ring idea might work really well with students. I can
show the two options to my 5th graders and see what they prefer, if that
would help.
One question, in either model, what is the UI behavior. If I click on the
Resume icon, am I presented with a browser into the Journal?
Simon,
I conducted the test we discussed with my 5th graders today. There were six
students involved in the focus group.
First of all, they concurred with your results. They loved the feature of
being able to either Start New or Resume right from the Home View. As did
your students, mine
?
Thanks,
Christian
On Mar 2, 2010, at 2:36 PM, Gerald Ardito gma...@gmail.com wrote:
Simon,
I conducted the test we discussed with my 5th graders today. There were six
students involved in the focus group.
First of all, they concurred with your results. They loved the feature of
being
Works for me. Talk to you then.
Gerald
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Christian Marc Schmidt
christianm...@gmail.com wrote:
Does 10:30AM EST on Sunday work?
Christian
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Gerald Ardito gma...@gmail.com wrote:
Christian,
What time would
Bernie.
Thanks so much for this.
With the 5th grade US students I work with, this customization is really
important to their sense of ownership.
By the way, how do you upgrade the XOs (we have XO-1s) to .84? This is a
very big deal for us.
Thanks.
Gerald
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Bernie
Dave,
Speaking as a teacher, this would be a fantastic idea!
We could have a tool to build our own spin.
I am not a developer, but would happy to work on requirements.
Thanks.
Gerald
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Dave Bauer d...@solutiongrove.com wrote:
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 3:50 PM,
Mel,
I like the stubs, the pun, and the term kickstart.
Thanks for your work on this.
Gerald
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Mel Chua m...@melchua.com wrote:
Dave, Gerald - I started a stub for drafting a spec for this, and
linked to this thread so that it's easy to pull in links from
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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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
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
I am not sure if I should be commenting here, but I also prefer the version
with no tabs.
Gerald
On May 2, 2013 12:18 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote:
+1 to getting rid of tabs.
-walter
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.dewrote:
Hi,
Walter,
I am not going to be able to join. I completely agree with Gonzalo's list.
Gerald
On May 9, 2013 4:00 PM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote:
I will not be able to participate.
Here are my votes:
Open Video Chat Cross Platform Port (Casey DeLorme)
Hello all.
I am working with some teachers and students using XO 1.5 and version 10.1.3
of the software.
The teachers really want to make use of a text to speech functionality.
I can't seem to find out how this works.
I would appreciate any help you can offer.
Thanks.
Gerald
James,
Thanks. This is very helpful.
Gerald
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 1:00 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote:
The Sugar Speak activity provides a keyboard to speech function. The
learner types words, then presses enter. The text is spoken.
I'm personally not aware of a general
what you and your teachers need?
Gonzalo
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 9:39 PM, Dr. Gerald Ardito
gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello all.
I am working with some teachers and students using XO 1.5 and version
10.1.3 of the software.
The teachers really want to make use of a text to speech
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
, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Dr. Gerald Ardito
gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote:
Gonzalzo,
Thanks for your help with this.
I can see now pasting text into Speak. And I understand about Read
Ebooks.
What the teachers were asking for was for the ability to have text read
in Browse and Write. The use case
I am very interested in this functionality and that of using WeDo Robots.
Would this be available for the XOs? Both versions or only the XO 1.5?
How would that work?
Thanks.
Gerald
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Emiliano Pastorino
epastor...@plan.ceibal.edu.uy wrote:
Emiliano has Arduino +
, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Dr. Gerald Ardito
gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote:
I am very interested in this functionality and that of using WeDo Robots.
Would this be available for the XOs? Both versions or only the XO 1.5?
How would that work?
It's a headline feature for 11.2.0 which is planned
with WeDo, but it seems to be supported in Scracht:
http://info.scratch.mit.edu/WeDo
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Dr. Gerald Ardito
gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote:
Martin,
Thanks. This is all really exciting.
I am really looking forward to connecting the XOs to probes, robots, etc
Walter,
That's great. Thanks.
Gerald
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Dr. Gerald Ardito
gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote:
Emiliano,
Thanks
I was working with Scratch yesterday with some students and noticed
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
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
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:
--- On Wed, 9/19/12, S.
Walter,
Sounds good.
Thanks.
Gerald
P.S. And congratulations on the pending new arrival.
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Dr. Gerald Ardito
gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote:
Daniel and others,
This thread has really
I wanted to share that we have faced the same criticisms in our school
regarding the XOs. For the last four years, the teachers and students have
complained that the devices do not connect well or reliably to our wireless
network.
Obviously, in our case, we have a wireless network and essentially
Kevin,
I also grew up in that world. I fondly remember my first computer class in
high school (1978), learning FORTRAN on the big teletype machine.
When those remarkable moments of learning on the XOs are happening, I know
we are doing the right thing. And I point them out to the students and
This is very interesting.
I have a kind of related question. Has there been any work done for a
non-internet based email server (and XO based client)?
I know that Tony Anderson (now in Rwanda) is working in a school with no
internet access, but with the need for email-type communication.
Thanks.
Aleksey,
At the risk of asking a stupid question, what is the Sugar Network
functionality you are talking about?
Thanks.
Gerald
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 8:43 PM, Aleksey Lim alsr...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 08:20:23PM -0500, Dr. Gerald Ardito wrote:
This is very
in Python before they are able to write an Activity?
I hope this makes sense. And I appreciate your time.
Best,
Gerald Ardito
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Walter,
I am looking over this list.
I am wondering about the requirements for a mentor.
Thanks.
Gerald
On Tuesday, March 26, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Walter Bender wrote:
We have been accumulating project ideas for Google Summer of Code 2013
[1]. Please take a few minutes to add a favorite
This is really great news!
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 7:19 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:
Sugar Labs has been accepted in Google Summer of Code 2013. Thanks to
everyone in the community who contributed to our application. Now it is
time to recruit students. More details coming
Walter,
I am trying to review these.
I applied as a mentor, but when I go to the dashboard link you posted
yesterday, I don't see any projects.
What should I do?
Thanks.
Gerald
On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:
We have just 24 hours to finish
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Remy DeCausemaker re...@civx.us wrote:
I will def be there. Congrats on getting additional slots :)
--RemyD.
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:
As you probably have heard, we have 8 slots for GSoC. I'd like to have
I'll be there.
Gerald
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Dr. Gerald Ardito
gerald.ard...@gmail.comwrote:
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Remy DeCausemaker re...@civx.us wrote:
I will def be there. Congrats on getting additional slots :)
--RemyD.
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Walter
Walter,
This is very inspiring work.
Thank you.
Gerald
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:
== Sugar Digest ==
Free software gives the license. Sugar provides the means.
1. I'm back from a week in Paraguay and Uruguay to celebrate Turtle
Art Days
This is really impressive.
Congratulations!
Gerald
On Oct 31, 2013 8:45 PM, Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
we are proud to announce the release of Sugar 0.100.0. A lot is new for
both users and developers, see the release notes
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.100/Notes
Walter,
I will be at the meeting, and expect to arrive late.
Gerald
On Sunday, November 3, 2013, Walter Bender wrote:
We have a SLOB meeting scheduled for Monday, 4 November at 9AM EST
(2PM GMT). Please join us on irc.freenode.net #sugar-meeting
(chat.sugarlabs.org)
Tenemos una reunión
Caryl,
I am really intrigued by this idea, and am interested in participating in
the project.
I would encourage that you add Turtle Blocks to the scope of work.
Thanks.
Gerald
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 12:42 AM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.comwrote:
Hi Folks…
First I would like to state
Thanks Luke.
On Dec 29, 2013 3:36 PM, Luke Faraone l...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
Hello all,
Since we only had three candidates for three slots, the three candidates
will assume their roles on the board. That is,
* Chris Leonard (cjl) 2013 Candidate Statement
Just to add my $.02, I agree with Walter and Claudia's approach in this
paper. Making the specifics of learning visible to teachers and students,
and doing the development from this perspective, I think is the best way to
go.
Thanks.
Gerald
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Walter Bender
Agreed.
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 6:02 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote:
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Sameer Verma
Walter,
I agree with your position about this. I often think of it in these terms:
we want to talk about depth of learning and not just proficiency in regards
to skills and content. To do that, we need to offer al alternative world
to the one that argues for more and more high stakes testing. The
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