Is this being run as a face-to-face workshop or online with something like Elluminate :-) Regards Roland (ICT teacher in Melbourne Australia) <div class="gmail_quote">2008/12/2 Edward Cherlin <<a href="mailto:echerlin@gmail.com">echerlin@gmail.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Who wants to join in? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: kirby urner <<a href="mailto:kirby.urner@gmail.com">kirby.urner@gmail.com</a>> Date: 2008/12/1 Subject: [Edu-sig] Python for Teachers approved, woo hoo To: "<a href="mailto:edu-sig@python.org">edu-sig@python.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:edu-sig@python.org">edu-sig@python.org</a>> So I just learned we've gotten a green light for Python for Teachers already. I've started circulating promotional materials already: <a href="http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=1863073&tstart=0" target="_blank">http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=1863073&tstart=0</a> Kirby PS:  anyone have one of these Acers?  Good deal?  Ubuntu even? <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/17157315@N00/3070254912/" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/17157315@N00/3070254912/</a> (might recommend to students, then there's the HP for $100 more -- same Photostream). _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list <a href="mailto:Edu-sig@python.org">Edu-sig@python.org</a> <a href="http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig" target="_blank">http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig</a> Python for Teachers Posted: Dec 1, 2008 12:08 AM        Click to see the message monospaced in plain text       Plain Text        Click to reply to this topic    Reply So our Python for Teachers was approved for Pycon next year, a three hour workshop. The idea is slightly confusing in that we're suggesting private sector trainers might use this "other tomorrow" approach of assuming a defacto Python Nation wherein we do things a little differently, in terms of how we educate our young and so on. That gives us an excuse to have some fun with the motif, somewhat Wild West, while pretending to be in say 9th grade again, learning about functions, sets, Venn Diagrams -- except we've added SQL. The curriculum moves on through vectors in VPython, and who can deny that computer animation is an important business, even in tough economic times? I'm bringing to my Chicago audience a taste of how we do it in Portland, am heading into teaching just such a course (the math behind movie making) upon my return, under the auspices of Saturday Academy. There'll be more info on the Pycon website and elsewhere, in case you're thinking about coming. It's not a given that everyone there knows much Python, although some background in programming really helps. We have a small contingent of actual classroom teachers usually, though most of us are from private companies like Google. Kirby Urner 4Dsolutions.net Resources: <a href="http://showmedo.com/videos/series?name=JkD78HdCD" target="_blank">http://showmedo.com/videos/series?name=JkD78HdCD</a> <a href="http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/cp4e.html" target="_blank">http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/cp4e.html</a> -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai</a> _______________________________________________ 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></blockquote></div> -- Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College <a href="http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au">http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au</a> "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead