Hi Edward, Ah thank you for asking, I think a translation is in order.  Lesson plans on the web are just text documents.  There are unknown gazzilions of Lesson Plans on the web.  Here are some examples of Service Learning Lesson Plans thanks to Google. <a href="http://bostonteachnet.org/chang_feeney_wong/sigproj.htm">http://bostonteachnet.org/chang_feeney_wong/sigproj.htm</a> <a href="http://bostonteachnet.org/bwm/mccullough/sigproj.htm">http://bostonteachnet.org/bwm/mccullough/sigproj.htm</a> <a href="http://www.learningtogive.org/lessons/unit242/lesson1.html">http://www.learningtogive.org/lessons/unit242/lesson1.html</a> <a href="http://www.fsu.edu/~flserve/sl/standards.html">http://www.fsu.edu/~flserve/sl/standards.html</a>  - At the bottom of the page you can download lesson plans. It still a lot to get done in time for  G1G1 but it does not require any new software to be written. <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Edward Cherlin <<a href="mailto:echerlin@gmail.com">echerlin@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I'm not clear on what software we could have ready in time, beyond the last release. G1G1 starts in three weeks. <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"> On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <<a href="mailto:mpgritti@gmail.com">mpgritti@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Caroline Meeks > <<a href="mailto:caroline@solutiongrove.com">caroline@solutiongrove.com</a>> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm going to do a bit of preaching to the choir but I thought it was worth >> sharing my thoughts to see if everyone is on the same page and to see if >> anyone has anything to add. >> >> Why Now? >> >> If we can get some activities ready in time for G1G1 then we could end up >> with some synergy on the marketing.  Teachers could use it as a way to >> encourage students to ask for it for Christmas, and our tester recruiting >> program could get a bunch of publicity. >> >> Why is it important? >> >> -For Sugar >> >> Growth in adoption will mean more activities which means we need more >> testing. >> Teachers are a key factor in getting adopted in the developed world, the >> success of Moodle shows us that, this is a way to reach teachers >> We can explicitly put in the curriculum a suggestion for students to show >> Sugar to one of their old elementary school teachers. >> Some high school kids are very good programmers, this could potentially be >> an avenue for programmer recruitment. >> Some geeky high school kids have parents who are very good programmers, this >> could be another avenue for programmer recruitment >> In developing the curriculum we will hopefully find other high quality >> curriculum that we can reuse.  This is an opportunity to find partners that >> can help in marketing and future curriculum development. >> >> -For Students >> >> There is a tremendous amount that can be learned and an excellent >> opportunity for authentic, situated, project based learning. Hardware and >> Software, Education Theory, Understanding the differences in education world >> wide >> It is an opportunity to bridge the gender gap that currently exists in the >> US. More girls tend to be interested in Community Service and more boys in >> computers. >> >> Anything to add/subtract? > > I don't have much to add, but I think it's a fantastic idea. Sugar is > not getting enough testing, because, unlike other open source > projects, his developer and user base are different (and mostly > disconnected). Also testing is often a good way to make your first > steps inside a project and then contribute to the development. > > Marco </div></div>> _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> > -- Don't panic.--HHGTTG, Douglas Adams <a href="http://www.obamapedia.org/page/polls" target="_blank">http://www.obamapedia.org/page/polls</a> Moving into landslide territory! <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai</a> For the children Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. 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