[IAEP] Sugar Labs Colombia

[David Farning]

Great work!

This is exciting stuff.  Keep pinging us when and where you need help.
 Any issues the 'Global' Sugar community can help the Colombia with
will also apply to other regional deployment.

david

On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Rafael Enrique Ortiz
Guerrero<rafael at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> SugarLabs Colombia is now legally established! and  we are going to tell you
> about what we have been doing.
> In the last months we have been consolidating works, making contacts, doing
> project proposals  divulging, and seeking ways to bring the spirit of Sugar
> and free software to children in our country, trying to transmit our ideas
> (ideas that cheer us)  to more people. Results have been very good so far.
>
> In this moment we have in our hands our first deployment escenario.Along
> with the bunaima fundation, we have a project approved by Bogota's secretary
> of education, for installing and using Sugar in 12 public schools: 7 from
> Ciudad Bolivar
>   (María Mercedes Carranza,
> Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, Ciudad Bolívar Argentina, Bosco I, Rafael Uribe
> Uribe, Paraíso Manuela Beltrán y Buenos Aires) and 5 in other
> localities (Sorrento, Florentino González, Marco Fidel Suárez, San
> Pablo y Morisco). In these schools Sugar will be installed in informatics
> classrooms of primary grades.
>
> This step is the continuity of a process begun  with 30 professors, which
> have been already trained on Sugar use. Now with the possibility of having
> installed software, we are starting our second phase: making a follow-up of
> classroom works using investigation projects as pedagogical tool.
>
> Next six months will be accompanying professors in their use of Sugar for
> classes development and we will be helping them with use of wikis, blogs ans
> LMS (i.e moodle) .
> towards the end  of this process we hope that teachers will be an active
> part of Sugar's community  and we hope to have results of projects made by
> children of these schools. Of course we are counting that this experience
> can be replicated on other institutions and schools of Bogota and Colombia.
>
> We will be telling you the advances and difficulties in this process.
>
> Regards,
> Rafael Ortiz
>
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