<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:38 AM, David Farning <<a href="mailto:dfarning@sugarlabs.org">dfarning@sugarlabs.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Roland Gesthuizen <<a href="mailto:rgesthuizen@gmail.com">rgesthuizen@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Speaking as a teacher, we could do the following: > > report back issues that make using the Sugar interface difficult when used > it in the classroom (collaborate) > develop and share lessons built around applications that work on Sugar > (curriculum) > share by word of mouth, blog and twitter with colleagues that we are using > Sugar (communication) > ask deep and hard questions about the learning that goes on when students > use Sugar (pedagogy) > work to answer these questions (research) > and more .. </div>Thanks Roland, All of that would be great. Sugar Labs is much more than writing code! All of those tasks are vitally important.</blockquote><div> Yes, so how do we take this concept and use it on Saturday. How do we inspire the audience but also give them concrete next steps that will contribute to the project and help them get more involved? </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> david <div><div></div><div class="h5"> > Regards Roland > > 2009/5/9 Caroline Meeks <<a href="mailto:solutiongrove@gmail.com">solutiongrove@gmail.com</a>> >> >> >> On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 5:36 AM, Bert Freudenberg <<a href="mailto:bert@freudenbergs.de">bert@freudenbergs.de</a>> >> wrote: >>> >>> On 09.05.2009, at 02:16, Kurt Gramlich wrote: >>> >>> > >>> > dear friends >>> > >>> > the German association FSuB e. V. has sponsored 1500 XOLiveCDs. >>> > >>> > This CDs are distributed within a Newspaper called LOG-IN. >>> > So we will reach about 1500 schools in Germany with 36 pages of >>> > information about OLPC. >>> > >>> > For those who are able to read German: >>> > >>> > <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> >>> > >>> > The XOLiveCd has more than 50 activities working out of the box. >>> >>> >>> Thanks to FSuB for that. >>> >>> This issue of the "LOG IN" journal (which is primarily aimed at >>> teachers) has many Sugar-related articles, about deployments, Sugar >>> itself, Activities, and even the School server: >>> >>> "Laptops vs. Satchels" editorial by Joachim Wedekind and Bernhard >>> Koerber >>> "OLPC - from vision to global movement" by Christoph Derndorfer >>> "The OLPC pilot in Ethiopia" by Hermann Härtel >>> "Learning with Etoys" by Rita Freudenberg >>> "Educational concepts vs. hardware" a discussion between Richard >>> Heinen and Joachim Wedekind >>> "Sugar - an operating system for learning" by Rita Freudenberg >>> "Programming the XO" by Joachim Wedekind and Christian Kohls >>> "First steps to visual programming with TurtleArt and Scratch" by >>> Rüdeger Baumann >>> "Networking the XO" - hardware, Sugar collaboration services, XS by >>> Volkmar Hinz >>> "The XO Live CD" - by Wolfgang Rohrmoser >> >> Wow, who caused this to happen? Thank you! Thank you! >> >> This sounds great! Can we get them translated? Anyone (Sean) know how to >> approach similar magazines around the world? >> Maybe the editors of Log In has contacts. >> >> Is there a call to action included? What would we want teachers and >> school administrators to do once they have tried Sugar? >> >> Cheers, >> Caroline >> >>> >>> >>> Thanks to all the authors and supporters! >>> >>> - Bert - >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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> >> >> >> >> -- >> Caroline Meeks >> Solution Grove >> Caroline@SolutionGrove.com >> >> 617-500-3488 - Office >> 505-213-3268 - Fax >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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> > > > > -- > Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College > <a href="http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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> > </div></div></blockquote></div> -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove Caroline@SolutionGrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax