[IAEP] Sugar Labs Colombia

[Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero]

Hello David.

We certainly  will  continue on giving feedback and asking form help from
the community!.


p.s: our work is serving as base for other countries of LA to organize their
on Local Labs

Rafael Ortiz


On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 2:01 PM, David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org>wrote:

> 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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