[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [Marketing] New Fedora Spins Site

[Walter Bender]

Looks great. FWIW, I had done some editing of Sam's text, included below.

Understanding and creating content
----------------------------------

* Write. Make a story, poem, report or anything with write. Use
  formatting tools to add images or colors. Work together with friends to
  write together in real time.
* Labyrinth. Put complex ideas on the computer. Use Labyrinth activity to
  mind map about new concepts, to explore new ideas or to reflect.
* FotoToons. Use images and text to create comic strips. FotoToons provides
  many options to add motion, speech and though to creations.
* Paint. Paint provides to tools to make artistic creations. Use brushes,
  stamps, shapes, text and images to create beautiful pictures.

Learning by doing
-----------------

* Turtle Blocks. Learn programming concepts with snap together blocks.
  Create art, animations and interactive programs in a graphics focused
  environment. Export your creations as SVG, PNG, or Logo and/or Python.
* Physics. Create real life simulations using shapes, motors, ropes and
  bolts to explore physics in the world. Work collaboratively on your
  simulation with friends.

Getting technical
-----------------

* Pippy. Program applications in a simple yet powerful environment.
  The Python back end provides unlimited opportunities within a simple
  language and environment. (Programs created in Turtle Blocks can be
  imported into Pippy from which new Sugar activities can be created.)
* Develop. Make Sugar activities within Sugar itself. Develop provides
  templates for new games, native and web activities as well as simple
  environment to edit existing activities.

Exploring the wider world
-------------------------

* Browse. Access the internet with Browse activity. Bookmark sites to
  research with friends and save sessions to the Journal to keep organized.
* Get Books. Download electronic books from all over the web. Explore the
  classics and modern books with ease.
* Read. Explore reports, documents, books and comic books with the
  Read activity. Bookmarking and commenting tools integrate with the
  Journal to allow limitless possibilities.

Reflection on what you've learned
---------------------------------

* Journal. The Sugar Journal provides an interface into a datastore of
  everything you've created in Sugar. It also provides access to files
  in the GNU/Linux file system and a variety of web services. The
  Journal also acts as a lab notebook: it contains metadata about our
  activities, including a description of your work and commentary on
  your work from others.
* Portfolio. The primary approach to assessment within Sugar is to
  make learning visible to the user. The Portfolio provides a means to
  create periodic snapshots in slideshow form of representative work
  that shows what the learner can do, not just what s/he knows.


On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Sam, Gonzalo et el,
>
> I've worked with the Fedora web team to update it some based partially
> on Sam's details below.
>
> Details are here:
> http://spins.stg.fedoraproject.org/en/soas/
>
> Let me know of any feedback, I personally think it looks really fab!
>
> Peter
>
> On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 12:49 PM, Sam P. <sam.parkinson3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The new site looks very nice!!!
> >
> > Here is my attempt at some featured applications:
> >
> > Understanding and Creating Content
> > -------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > * Write.  Make a story, poem, report or anything with write.  Use
> formatting
> > tools to add images or colors.  Work together with friends to write
> together
> > in real time.
> > * Labyrinth.  Put complex ideas on the computer.  Use Laybrinth activity
> to
> > mind map about new concepts, to explore new ideas or to reflect.
> > * FotoToon.  Use images and text to create comic strips.  FotoToon
> provides
> > many options to add motion, speech and though to creations.
> > * Paint.  Paint provides to tools to make artistic creations.  Use
> brushes,
> > stamps, shapes, text and images to create beautiful pictures.
> >
> > Learn by Doing
> > ----------------------
> >
> > * Turtle Blocks.  Learn programming concepts with snap together blocks.
> > Create art, animations and interactive programs in a graphics focused
> > environment.
> > * Physics.  Create real life simulations using shapes, motors, ropes and
> > bolts to explore physics in the world.  Work collaboratively on your
> > simulation with friends.
> >
> > Getting Technical
> > -------------------------
> >
> > * Pippy.  Program applications in a simple yet powerful environment.  The
> > Python back end provides unlimited opportunities within a simple language
> > and environment.
> > * Develop.  Make Sugar activities within Sugar itself.  Develop provides
> > templates for new games, native and web activities as well as simple
> > environment to edit existing activities.
> >
> > Exploring the Wide World
> > -------------------------------------
> >
> > * Browse.  Access the internet with Browse activity.  Bookmark sites to
> > research with friends and save sessions to the Journal to keep organized.
> > * Get Books.  Download electronic books from all over the web.  Explore
> the
> > classics and modern books with ease.
> > * Read.  Explore reports, documents, books and comic books with Read
> > activity.  Bookmarking and commenting tools integrate with the Journal to
> > allow limitless possibilities.
> >
> > I think we could use the activity icons for the icons.  Maybe we should
> > color them, but that would not be consistent with the reset of sugar
> sites
> > (aslo...).
> >
> > Also, could we use a better screenshot?  I'm not sure what the policy is,
> > but the current one has no journal icons and therefore no color on the
> home
> > view.  Color is a good thing.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sam
> >
> > (I'm not sure we should mention collab, 'cause collab always seems to
> fail
> > on fedora over jabber.slo.  Bugs to look at for this new release!!!)
> >
> > On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 1:06 AM Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at sugarlabs.org>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Fedora Design Team is working in the new Fedora Spins site.
> >>
> >> Sugar on a Stick is included there, and they are asking for feedback and
> >> content.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://blog.linuxgrrl.com/2015/05/07/time-to-kick-the-tires-on-the-new-fedora-websites-in-staging/
> >>
> >> Who can provide the information requested?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Gonzalo Odiard
> >>
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