[IAEP] Teacher in OLPC-Sur list enchanted to see his idea integrated, into global Sugar update [First approach] (luis ACEVEDO)

[Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero]

Hello,

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>wrote:

> There are still a few loose ends to tie with the Turtle Art
> modification. I am trying to make it into somewhat of a case study
> that can be hopefully a catalyst not just to rote imitation but also
> to some deductive or model-based thinking about thinking. Also, the
> exercise has raised a few questions for me about our process that I
> hope to address/document.
>
> I realize that teachers don't have time to be developers, but I aspire
> that everyone will move towards all kinds of appropriation.
>
> Alas, I wish that OLPC had included the chapter on Modifying Sugar in
> their Help activity...
>
> -walter
>

I  get the feeling from the field that a guide for customizing and modifying
Sugar would be very beneficial and fun  for kids and teachers, also would be
a good tool to appropriate the technology.

Kids are always asking about ways to make the computer more like them ;).



> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:10 PM, luis ACEVEDO
> <patitoacevedo at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi Greg:
> >
> >          TurtleArt-11.xo  worked perfectly. My report with  teacher´s
> > comment, screenshoots, and pedagogical support (only in spanish) here:
> >
> >
> http://patricioacevedo.blogspot.com/2008/09/mi-reporte-para-sugar-labs.html
> >
> >        I want to try this features:
> >     1.- A Beep function in  TurtleArtwithsensors.
> >     2.- A easy way for to write "Hello word". I received a report about
> > uruguayan´s kids  writing  letters  with  the turtle´s lines, but this
> way
> > is slow and not fun.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Pato Acevedo
> >
> > www.patricioacevedo.blogspot.com
> >> Hi Luis,
> >>
> >> I believe that Walter updated TurtleArt with a square root function to
> >> address this.
> >>
> >> Was that a satisfactory response? Let us know how that worked for you
> >> and the people who requested it. Any comments or input appreciated.
> >>
> >> What else do teachers and users need? Let's see if we can address some
> >> more requests and start to improve the quality of the dialog at the same
> >> time.
> >>
> >> Walter,
> >>
> >> Essentially the same questions for you. Did that go the way you wanted?
> >> I get the impression you wanted teachers to modify the code themselves.
> >> Maybe you can elaborate on that. Perhaps you could have asked if anyone
> >> wanted to learn how to do it.
> >>
> >> In the cycle of praxis, there's the action and the reflection. If we're
> >> done with the action on this one (still want to hear the final ack) then
> >> a little reflection may be in order until we pick the next small
> >> challenge.
> >>
> >> At the same time we can think about what tools work best to address
> >> these in the future. I didn't see the bug ID come through
> dev.laptop.org
> >> but I may have missed it. I assume IRC didn't work for Luis either...
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Greg S
> >>
> >> > Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:24:27 +0000
> >> > From: luis ACEVEDO <patitoacevedo at hotmail.com>
> >> > Subject: [IAEP] Teacher in OLPC-Sur list enchanted to see his idea
> >> > integrated into global Sugar update [First approach]
> >> > To: <iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org>
> >> > Message-ID: <BAY117-W10834903938401661B4A59A74C0 at phx.gbl>
> >> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Hello:
> >> > My name is Luis Acevedo, live in Santiago, Chile. I participate
> actively
> >> > in the mailing list OLPC-Sur and is closely monitoring the mailing
> list
> >> > Sugar Labs. Yesterday in the Sur- List we had a report about a
> required
> >> > feature for Turtle art activity. This is root square function.
> Teachers
> >> > found necessary this function in activities like figure 28 and others
> from
> >> > this page http://neoparaiso.com/logo/ejercicios-de-geometria.html
> >> > I suggested to obtain a ticket trac in http://dev.laptop.org/ and to
> try
> >> > in the irc channel.
> >> > Is there a other way like to contact directly the authors? Is this a
> >> > correct place for this questions?
> >> > I feel it is a first opportunity to move from discussion to action.
> >> > Thanks in advance
> >> >
> >> > Luis "Pato" Acevedo
> >> > www.patricioacevedo.blogspot.com
> >> > www.ucpn.cl
> >> >
> >> >
> >
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