[IAEP] Need ideas for 1 hour Sugar introductory lessons

[James Simmons]

Caroline,

Since you're working with a library a natural topic for a session
would be a demo of the reading related Activities.  You could start
with either Get Internet Archive Books or Get Books to demonstrate
just how many free books there are and how easy it is to get them
copied to your computer.  Then demonstrate the Read Activity and how
it supports multiple bookmarks and annotation, show some nice picture
books in DJVU format (like "Abroad") to demonstrate how much an ebook
can be like a real book (better than Kindle!), download some books
using Read Etexts and demonstrate text to speech with highlighting.
Maybe show InfoSlicer.  Show how many rare books are available.  I've
seen a bunch of stuff on PG and IA that I could read no other way.
All the Oz books.  More Jules Verne and H.G. Wells than I knew
existed.  A biography of German WWI ace Oswald Boelke.   Books using
the Bible to defend slavery, others using it to condemn slavery.  Free
science fiction books from the Baen Free Library.

I was thinking of maybe creating another FLOSS Manual on just
reading-related Activities, where to get free books, how to create
your own e-books, etc.  Sugar has a lot to offer in that area, and I
wonder if Sugar users realize that.

James Simmons



> Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:50:01 -0500
> From: Caroline Meeks <caroline at solutiongrove.com>
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> We are planning for April vacation week and working with the public library
> a few blocks from the GPA school.
>
> We will be doing 1 to 5 1-hour sessions with a few students during April
> vacation week.  We will then extend that program to after school.
>
> My thought is to do focus on a different activity each session.  Its a
> recreational setting. We can ask for different age ranges for different
> sessions when we advertise.
>
> I definitely want to do one with Physics.
>
> Do people have suggestions for what are some of the best 1 hour
> introductions for kids?
>
> Thanks,
> Caroline
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