[IAEP] Fwd: Lennox Island students learn digital animation

[Samson Goddy]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 1:34 PM, Sebastian Silva <sebastian at fuentelibre.org>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I noticed this post on Sugar Planet this morning... does anyone know what
> software they are using? Sugar+Scratch?
>
I think that OLPC NL3 comes with a default interface of Ubuntu 16.04, and
Scratch is kinda available for Ubuntu alone. Also i think Scratch is no
longer supported in Sugar Labs because it is not available
activities.sugarlabs.org.

> Thanks!
>
> Sebastian
>
>
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> Subject: Lennox Island students learn digital animation
> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 20:24:29 GMT
> From: Diriana Teran <>
>
> Pilot project provides laptops, training
>
> Eric McCarthy newsroom at journalpioneer.com
> Published on March 7, 2017
>
> John J. Sark Memorial School students give a demonstration of the digital
> animation skills they acquired using laptops donated to them by Princes
> Charities Canada and One Laptop Per Child Canada.
>
> [image: PI-AXX-XXXX2017-Princes-Charities.jpg]
>
> *LENNOX ISLAND – Carson Thomas thinks he will be better equipped going
> forward in doing Internet searches for school projects.*
>
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>
> Thomas and his fellow Grade 5 and 6 students at John J Sark Memorial
> School on Lennox Island spent two hours after school each day last week
> receiving computer animation and programming training.
>
> Prince’s Charities Canada, the charitable office for His Royal Highness,
> The Prince of Wales, partnered with One Laptop Per Child Canada to provide
> computers and training to indigenous youth. Lennox Island was one of seven
> First Nations across Canada to benefit from the pilot project this winter.
>
> Thomas said he learned how to change colors on computer projects and how
> to make his name animated and dance.
>
> Matthew Rowe, Director of Operations, Prince’s Charities Canada, said the
> participating schools and their students get to keep the computers.
>
> Rowe said the students in the Lennox Island project created digital
> animation projects, talking mostly in Mi’Kmaq, about the traditions of
> their community. “The idea was to build digital skills while getting them
> to create projects that were giving them a chance to use the language and
> to learn it,” he said.
>
> While digital animation is a new approach for the students, Rowe said the
> Grade 5 and 6 students was a good age range to work with. “They actually
> soak it up like sponges,” he said of the simplified coding language.
>
> Grade 5/6 teacher, Nicole Gorrill, said the students already possessed
> basic computer skills but the shared project taught them new skills. “What
> happened, for most of the students, it really piqued more of their interest
> for technology,” she observed. “They’ve been learning these new computer
> skills, but they are also now able to kind of take what they’re learning in
> their cultural class here at the school and they have a new way of
> displaying that so that they can teach their friends or other family
> members,” she suggested.
>
> “It’s been really, really good to boost their self confidence.”
>
> Grade 6 student, Kavon Bernard is excited about the potential. He’d like
> to “make animations, set them up to the internet and get famous on
> animation.”
>
> The students, working in teams of two, prepared one to two minute
> animation projects which they shared with other students, family members
> and elders. Lieutenant Governor Frank Lewis and former premier Robert Ghiz,
> a member of the Prince’s Charities Advisory Council were in attendance for
> the presentations.
>
> “Lots of big, big smiles today,” Gorrill said in describing her students’
> sense of accomplishment.
>
> Rowe said schools involved in the pilot project also receive a year of
> ongoing support.
>
> http://www.journalpioneer.com/news/local/2017/3/7/lennox-
> island-students-learn-digital-animation.html
>
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