<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 1:34 PM, Sebastian Silva <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sebastian@fuentelibre.org" target="_blank">sebastian@fuentelibre.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I noticed this post on Sugar Planet this morning... does anyone
know what software they are using? Sugar+Scratch?<br></p></div></blockquote><div>I think that OLPC NL3 comes with a default interface of Ubuntu 16.04, and Scratch is kinda available for Ubuntu alone. Also i think Scratch is no longer supported in Sugar Labs because it is not available <a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org">activities.sugarlabs.org</a>. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><p>
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<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Sebastian<br>
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<p>Pilot project provides laptops, training</p>
<p>Eric McCarthy <a href="mailto:newsroom@journalpioneer.com" target="_blank">newsroom@journalpioneer.com</a><br>
<span style="font-weight:normal!important">Published on March
7, 2017</span></p>
<p>John J. Sark Memorial School students give a demonstration of
the digital animation skills they acquired using laptops donated
to them by Princes Charities Canada and One Laptop Per Child
Canada.</p>
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<p><b><strong>LENNOX ISLAND – Carson Thomas thinks he will be
better equipped going forward in doing Internet searches for
school projects.</strong></b></p>
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<p>Thomas and his fellow Grade 5 and 6 students at John J Sark
Memorial School on Lennox Island spent two hours after school
each day last week receiving computer animation and programming
training.</p>
<p>Prince’s Charities Canada, the charitable office for His Royal
Highness, The Prince of Wales, partnered with One Laptop Per
Child Canada to provide computers and training to indigenous
youth. Lennox Island was one of seven First Nations across
Canada to benefit from the pilot project this winter.</p>
<p>Thomas said he learned how to change colors on computer
projects and how to make his name animated and dance.</p>
<p>Matthew Rowe, Director of Operations, Prince’s Charities
Canada, said the participating schools and their students get to
keep the computers.</p>
<p>Rowe said the students in the Lennox Island project created
digital animation projects, talking mostly in Mi’Kmaq, about the
traditions of their community. “The idea was to build digital
skills while getting them to create projects that were giving
them a chance to use the language and to learn it,” he said.</p>
<p>While digital animation is a new approach for the students,
Rowe said the Grade 5 and 6 students was a good age range to
work with. “They actually soak it up like sponges,” he said of
the simplified coding language.</p>
<p>Grade 5/6 teacher, Nicole Gorrill, said the students already
possessed basic computer skills but the shared project taught
them new skills. “What happened, for most of the students, it
really piqued more of their interest for technology,” she
observed. “They’ve been learning these new computer skills, but
they are also now able to kind of take what they’re learning in
their cultural class here at the school and they have a new way
of displaying that so that they can teach their friends or other
family members,” she suggested.</p>
<p>“It’s been really, really good to boost their self confidence.”</p>
<p>Grade 6 student, Kavon Bernard is excited about the potential.
He’d like to “make animations, set them up to the internet and
get famous on animation.”</p>
<p>The students, working in teams of two, prepared one to two
minute animation projects which they shared with other students,
family members and elders. Lieutenant Governor Frank Lewis and
former premier Robert Ghiz, a member of the Prince’s Charities
Advisory Council were in attendance for the presentations.</p>
<p>“Lots of big, big smiles today,” Gorrill said in describing her
students’ sense of accomplishment.</p>
<p>Rowe said schools involved in the pilot project also receive a
year of ongoing support.</p>
<p><a class="m_-4639785745463939077moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.journalpioneer.com/news/local/2017/3/7/lennox-island-students-learn-digital-animation.html" target="_blank">http://www.journalpioneer.com/<wbr>news/local/2017/3/7/lennox-<wbr>island-students-learn-digital-<wbr>animation.html</a></p>
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