[SoaS] [IAEP] Sugar minimum set

[Thomas C Gilliard]

mokurai at earthtreasury.org wrote:
> On Wed, June 29, 2011 2:29 pm, Valerie Taylor wrote:
>   
>> Is there a minimum set of Sugar teacher/tutor training, hardware and
>> software that could be implemented by a community supported remedial
>> program that works with kids outside regular elementary school? Is
>> this something that could be considered and/or suggested?
>>     
>
> That is a whole set of questions bundled up into one. XOs and their Sugar
> distributions are the minimum standard set. The maximum is whatever is
> currently on Activities.sugarlabs.org.
>
> You can buy individual used XOs on eBay for about $150 each. If some NGO
> would be willing to buy 10,000 units and make them available in smaller
> quantities to other NGOs, we could talk about all sorts of programs.
> Prices would likely be in the $200-$250 range. The initial investment
> would be about $2 million up front, with delivery date to be determined
> later. Nobody has so far been willing to operate on those terms.
>
>   
>> A local program provides small group time as their primary learning
>> activities and has some computers that they use already. Most of the
>> software is the usual proprietary kids educational products. Their
>> regular program would lend itself to including basic Sugar Labs
>> Activities.
>>     
>
> Sugar on a Stick
>
>   
Besides to the fedora Soas Project,
You should look at this polished SugarLabs (Ubuntu Based) Project :
It uses alsroot's sugar sweets 0.88.1, and shares some features with  
the XO-1 OLPC Dextrose software

* 
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Trisquel_On_A_Sugar_Toast#trisquel-sugar_4.5.1_i686
---More Information:
       http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Trisquel
---Importable Virtualbox appliance:
        
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Emulator_image_files#Trisquel-Gnome-sugar_4.5_Release_Candidate
---dd write to 2 GB USB:
        
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Trisquel_On_A_Sugar_Toast#dd_writable_2GB_USB_.img
---Testing:
        
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Community/Distributions/Trisquel#trisquel-sugar_4.5.1_i686

FYI Sugar-desktop is available in all of these Linux Distributions
        
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#Community_Distributions

Sugar-Activity Information is available from these links:
        http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sck/activities

Tom Gilliard
satellit
>> Are there guidelines for when Sugar Labs Activities can be beneficial
>> even if it isn't possible or practical to provide the all-inclusive
>> OLPC environment?
>>     
>
> Always. ^_^
>
>   
>> In this case, the computers could probably loaded with Linux and
>> Sugar, and would be stand-alone (without a classroom or school
>> server). I don't know if the machines are networked so that groups and
>> neighborhoods could be available.
>>     
>
> Any of the above.
>
>   
>> Is anyone doing this now? Does Sugar Labs encourage this? What is a
>> minimum setup that could be considered? What are the "gotcha's" for
>> doing something like this?
>>     
>
> Various NGOs have various programs around XOs and Sugar in other forms.
>
> Sugar Labs encourages this.
>
> Sugar on a Stick
>
> There are some technical issues. SoaS is not easy enough to create. It
> does not work on every computer. Therefore preplanning and testing is
> necessary. Mostly, the issue is that prospective teachers do not have
> enough guidance on how to use Sugar effectively. That is one of the
> targets for the Replacing Textbooks program. Of course, you can buy
> pre-recorded SoaS USB units, although I don't know which versions of SoaS
> are available.
>
>   
>> To replace textbooks, is there a strategy for moving to wider use of
>> Sugar as part of the process?
>>     
>
> Of course. The idea is to integrate Sugar into every topic where it is
> practical in every subject. That is the equivalent of more than 100
> textbooks, with more than 10,000 topics.
>
>   
>> Thanks
>> ..Valerie
>>     
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