Speaking as a teacher, we could do the following:<br><br>report back issues that make using the Sugar interface difficult when used it in the classroom (collaborate)<br>develop and share lessons built around applications that work on Sugar (curriculum)<br> share by word of mouth, blog and twitter with colleagues that we are using Sugar (communication)<br>ask deep and hard questions about the learning that goes on when students use Sugar (pedagogy)<br>work to answer these questions (research)<br> and more ..<br><br>Regards Roland<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/5/9 Caroline Meeks <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:solutiongrove@gmail.com">solutiongrove@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 5:36 AM, Bert Freudenberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bert@freudenbergs.de" target="_blank">bert@freudenbergs.de</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div>On 09.05.2009, at 02:16, Kurt Gramlich wrote:<br> <br> ><br> > dear friends<br> ><br> > the German association FSuB e. V. has sponsored 1500 XOLiveCDs.<br> ><br> > This CDs are distributed within a Newspaper called LOG-IN.<br> > So we will reach about 1500 schools in Germany with 36 pages of<br> > information about OLPC.<br> ><br> > For those who are able to read German:<br> ><br> > <a href="http://log-in-verlag.de/PDF-Dateien/LOG_IN_156_PUB.pdf" target="_blank">http://log-in-verlag.de/PDF-Dateien/LOG_IN_156_PUB.pdf</a><br> ><br> > The XOLiveCd has more than 50 activities working out of the box.<br> <br> <br> </div>Thanks to FSuB for that.<br> <br> This issue of the "LOG IN" journal (which is primarily aimed at<br> teachers) has many Sugar-related articles, about deployments, Sugar<br> itself, Activities, and even the School server:<br> <br> "Laptops vs. Satchels" editorial by Joachim Wedekind and Bernhard<br> Koerber<br> "OLPC - from vision to global movement" by Christoph Derndorfer<br> "The OLPC pilot in Ethiopia" by Hermann Härtel<br> "Learning with Etoys" by Rita Freudenberg<br> "Educational concepts vs. hardware" a discussion between Richard<br> Heinen and Joachim Wedekind<br> "Sugar - an operating system for learning" by Rita Freudenberg<br> "Programming the XO" by Joachim Wedekind and Christian Kohls<br> "First steps to visual programming with TurtleArt and Scratch" by<br> Rüdeger Baumann<br> "Networking the XO" - hardware, Sugar collaboration services, XS by<br> Volkmar Hinz<br> "The XO Live CD" - by Wolfgang Rohrmoser</blockquote></div></div><div><br>Wow, who caused this to happen? Thank you! Thank you!<br><br>This sounds great! Can we get them translated? Anyone (Sean) know how to approach similar magazines around the world? <br> Maybe the editors of Log In has contacts.<br><br>Is there a call to action included? What would we want teachers and school administrators to do once they have tried Sugar?<br><br>Cheers,<br>Caroline<br><br></div><div class="im"> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <br> <br> Thanks to all the authors and supporters!<br> <font color="#888888"><br> - Bert -<br> </font><div><div></div><div><br> _______________________________________________<br> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br> <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div></div><font color="#888888"><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Caroline Meeks<br>Solution Grove<br>Caroline@SolutionGrove.com<br><br>617-500-3488 - Office<br>505-213-3268 - Fax<br> </font><br>_______________________________________________<br> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br> <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College<br> <a href="http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au">http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au</a><br><br>"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<br>