[IAEP] Notes on Sugar on Virtual Box work session with a Math and Science teacher

[Caroline Meeks]

Notes on Sugar on Virtual Box

I am working with Laura, a teacher from Maine teacher who wants to use Sugar
with her students who already have 1-1 Macbooks.

Host F puts you into full screen mode.
Host I toggles mouse integration

Sugar works bes without mouse integration. Then you can get to the frame.

Doe anyone know how too create an icon that could be put in the doc that
would start up Virtual box with Sugar with minimal clicks?

How can she run a pilot with just her students next year?

What can she do for a Jabber server.  Can it be run on the teachrers
machine? Can she set up her own on random box on under her desk?
Server on a Stick.

Could she run the server in Virtual Box on her machine?

She is going to try creating her own XS server following these instructions:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Installing_Software

Here are some of the activities she uses in Math and Science teaching in
Middle school.

   - geogebra - has applets that people have created that show students
   concepts then student  can make their own.
   - University of Maine has an Open Sim for the kids in Maine. She feels
   the avatar free's the kids and allows them to practice social problem
   solving.  She finds doing that with avatars works better then the
   simulations she had been doing.  We probalby don't want to do something as
   heavy as Second Life, but we might think about something with Avatars that
   lets kids simulate social situations.
   - Interesting teaching method in Second Life. Students were asked to move
   to diffrent colored areas as they progres sthrough the lesson so its easy to
   see ho the class is doing.
   - Second life has also given her an ability to observe other teachres
   that she doesn't have in real life as she is in a 5 teacher school.


Laura also thinks it would be valuable as summer school. Her district
doesn't pay for summer school but she could have her kids do stuff and even
meet together online.  Some of the kids only have dialup but it should still
work.




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Caroline Meeks
Solution Grove
Caroline at SolutionGrove.com

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