<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF1314"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Español luego del Inglés</span></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF1314"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Re Tour of Uruguay</span></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF1314"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Walter,</span></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">There was a small book in my father´s library,</span></font></blockquote><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Since then, I got married and moved a few times. Have no idea where did the book end up.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">My idea of using Etoys was not to scare kids or teachers with math formulas or precise engineering drawings.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">I just thought of asking students to express with Etoys the best answer they can come up to my question:</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Why can we ride a 2-wheel bike when most of us are heavier and fatter than the bike itself?</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Carlos Rabassa</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 19, 20); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Español:</span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 19, 20); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Re Vuelta Ciclista del Uruguay</span></font></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Walter Bender escribió:</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Puedes escanear algunas páginas? Algunos buenos ejemplos podrían estimular a algunos maestros y desarrolladores a hacer algo específico!</span></font></div></blockquote><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Carlos Rabassa le contestó:</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Había un pequeño libro en la biblioteca de mi padre ...</span></font></blockquote><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Desde entonces me casé y me mudé varias veces. No tengo idea de donde habrá ido a parar el libro.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Mi idea de usar Etoys no era para asustar a los niños y maestros con fórmulas matemáticas o con dibujos de ingeniería exactos.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Simplemente pensé en pedir a los alumnos que expresen usando Etoys la mejor respuesta que se les ocurra a mi pregunta:</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">¿Por qué somos capaces de andar en una bicicleta de dos ruedas cuando la mayoría de nosotros somos más gordos y pesados que la bicicleta misma?</span></font></div><div><br></div><div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Carlos Rabassa</div><div>Voluntario</div><div>Red de Apoyo al Plan Ceibal</div><div>Montevideo, Uruguay</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div> <br><div><div>On Feb 24, 2011, at 4:07 PM, Walter Bender wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 6:58 AM, Carlos Rabassa <<a href="mailto:carnen@mac.com">carnen@mac.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Spanish text follows english text<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I answer the request for suggestions in reference to Tour of Uruguay.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">There was a small book in my father´s library, published in French,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> probably one hundred years ago, entirely dedicated to the theory of the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">plain old bicycle.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">It had many mathematical formulas and lots of physics concepts.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">It also had some good explanations I still remember.<br></blockquote><br>Can you scan in some pages? Good examples might spur some teachers and<br>developers into concrete action!<br><br>regards.<br><br>-walter<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Many of us learned how to ride a bicycle and we never wondered how marvelous<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">it is we can keep our balance on two wheels while our center of gravity is<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">so high.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Most of us never noticed we are constantly starting to fall, when we react,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> moving the handlebar a little bit, while we keep pedaling.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">We thus recover our balance just to start falling to the other side.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">When trying to learn Etoys I thought maybe someone would like to use it to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">study this basic question:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">How come we can ride a bicycle with only two wheels?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Spanish text:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Contesto la solicitud de sugerencias en relación con la Vuelta Ciclista del<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Uruguay.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Siendo niño, había en la biblioteca de mi padre un pequeño libro,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> publicado en Francés, tal vez hace unos cien años, dedicado totalmente a<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">la teoría de la simple y vieja bicicleta.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Tenía muchas fórmulas matemáticas y conceptos de física.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Tenía también muy buenas explicaciones que aún recuerdo.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">La mayoría de nosotros aprendimos a andar en bicicleta y nunca más pensamos<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">lo maravilloso que es que podamos mantener nuestro equilibrio sobre dos<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">ruedas mientas nuestro centro de gravedad está tan alto.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">La mayoría de nosotros nunca notamos que constantemente estamos comenzando a<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">caernos, cuando reaccionamos moviendo un poquito el manillar, mientras<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">continuamos pedaleando.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Recuperamos así nuestro equilibrio para comenzar a caernos hacia el otro<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">lado.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Al tratar de aprender Etoys, he pensado que tal vez a alguien lo desee usar<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">para estudiar la pregunta básica:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">¿Cómo es posible usar una bicicleta con solamente dos ruedas?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Carlos Rabassa<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Voluntario<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Red de Apoyo al Plan Ceibal<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Montevideo, Uruguay<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On Feb 24, 2011, at 2:33 PM, Walter Bender wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">===In the community===<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">9. We had a preliminary brainstorming session regarding what types of<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">projects we might do in conjunction with the Sugar Labs cycling team's<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">participation in the Tour of Uruguay at the end of April. Read about<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">it here: [[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Vuelta_a_Uruguay]].<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br><br><br>-- <br>Walter Bender<br>Sugar Labs<br><a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>