<div>On 6/27/09, Tomeu Vizoso <<a href="mailto:tomeu@sugarlabs.org">tomeu@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;"> On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 02:19, Caroline Meeks<<a href="mailto:caroline@solutiongrove.com">caroline@solutiongrove.com</a>> wrote: > First off it went well. The teacher's loved Sugar, saw a lot of > possibilities and are motivated to help us go forward. People talked with me > about it the entire conference. > > That said, I learned a lot of lessons and there are things I would do > differently. > > Always bring an AP. Don't use existing wireless. > > When I tested before class the wireless seemed great. We packed the room. > The wireless network got very flacky. Next time I'm going to bring an AP > and just try to collaborate locally. I'm thinking of getting one of the > open-mesh $29.00 units and seeing how that works. > > Either get USB sticks to boot OR teach about Sugar, don't try to do both at > once. > > The class was packed and although most of the computers finally booted to > sugar it took a lot of time. Until we really get things down I think I'm > going to hand out LiveCDs then after wards tell people I'll work with them > one-on-one to get it to boot from USB. Perhaps the main medium of SoaS distribution should be a SoaS LiceCD with an activity that would make very simple to flash a USB stick? That would allow us to control better the flashing process, where is very easy to get into trouble. And maybe that LiveCD could double as a Boot helper?</blockquote><div> +1 +1 +1!!!! Pretty Please with Sugar on Top!!!! Should I put in a ticket? </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Regards, Tomeu > We need to create a list of Sugar Basics that we cover before we turn people > loose to explore. > > This is the Home Screen. > This icon represents you and its your colors > Here is how you get to the frame. > This is the Neighborhood view. You can get there from the frame or from F1. > Here is how you connect to the AP. More color in the circle means stronger > signal (Someone told me that he thought he should go for the empty ones > cause it meant they had more room) > This the your group view. Your friends will show up here. > This is the Journal where your work is saved. > To do something go to your Home screen and click on any of these icons. They > are the activities. > > We didn't do this and people got frustrated needlessly. We want them to > explore but I think we need to figure out what people need to oriented too > before they explore. I wonder if showing the demo movie would have been a > good way to cover this. > > We didn't get to the lesson plan I created because we had so many people and > so many problems booting. Luckily Walter can do a Sugar and Turtle Art > presentation in his sleep. > > One thing we should have done, and would have gotten to if we had been able > to follow our plan, is to demo Write and peer editing. This is a big deal > for teachers. We need to remember to do it early in the presentation, > before we get sucked into playing with the cute turtle. > > -- > 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">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> > </blockquote></div> -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove Caroline@SolutionGrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax