Quick report on today's progress. I also have this on the wiki. <br><br>There is implied (I hope) help wanted on both the technical issues and on pedagogical ideas and how to implement them. I'm flying off to CA for a family event so I will be fairly out of touch but should still be reading email.<br>
<br>Thank you for your support! The teachers are very excited about the possibilities!<br><br><h2><span class="mw-headline">Critical Path Technical Issues</span></h2>
<p>Our biggest issue is collaboration. We either need to get local collaboration, jabber collaboration or a local XS working
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<pre>* Ticket 1014 <a href="http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1014" class="external free" title="http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1014" rel="nofollow">http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1014</a> - Jabber keeps dying, then it falls back to Salut, that only finds one computer, then it tried Jabber again, works briefly, dies.<br>
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<pre>* Ticket 1012 - not collaborating locally<br></pre><br clear="all">We met with 2 grades of teachers.<br><br><h3><span class="mw-headline">2nd Grade</span></h3>
<p>Next Tuesday we will work with the 2nd Graders on their science and
social studies. The theme of the week is responsibility and the
environment. They will be learning about their community and preping
for a cleanup of the local Charles River.
</p><p>The goal of the first project will be to label a map of where they do the clean up with what they find during their cleanup.
</p><p>We have half an hour on Tuesday. After kids get their keys and
boot up, enter their name and colors we will have them go to Turtle
Art. We will prepare maps and preload them on the sticks and show them
how to bring them into Turtle Art. Then we'll show them how to have the
turtle label them. Next week, after their cleanup they can label what
they find on the clean-up.
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<p>We are hoping that the kids can create a US version of the Uruguay
geography/facts game. Any ideas on how to make that easy to do? The
vision is they will learn things in class then make them into questions
to put into the game. We will meet with the third grade on Thursday
afternoons.
</p><br>-- <br>Caroline Meeks<br>Solution Grove<br>Caroline@SolutionGrove.com<br><br>617-500-3488 - Office<br>505-213-3268 - Fax<br>