Please see that Professor Stephen Jacobs and Eric Grace will soon be conducting an <a href="http://honors.rit.edu/courses/show_course.php?course_id=166">Honors Seminar at the Rochester Institute of Technology on Developing for the OLPC XO</a>. A Sugar Labs mailing list, <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/fourthgrademath">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/fourthgrademath</a> has been formed and attracting some attention.<div> </div><div>Professor Jacobs is a game design professor and described the class as follows: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; "> This course is a "Blended Course" which means much of the official course</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; "> happens on-line, not in the classroom, so I'll be building teams to</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; "> interface with community leaders and projects and the students will be</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; "> expected to have the equivalent of 2 hours a week just interacting</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; "> (live/e-mail, posting to forums etc) on-line.</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; "> </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; "> This will provide you with a strong pool of folks to prototype many</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; "> different approaches to math materials in the first 1/2 of your 6 months</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; "> exploratory development arc, both to work on "Mongo the Math Dungeon" and</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; "> other game/interactive activity ideas whether they be in Python, Etoys or</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; "> Scratch.</blockquote><div> </div>It would be great if some in the Etoys and Squeak communities could lend some assistance in this learning venture. --Fred On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Bert Freudenberg <<a href="mailto:bert@freudenbergs.de">bert@freudenbergs.de</a>> wrote: > > This weekend saw the annual meeting of the German Squeak association. > One of the sessions on Sunday's "unconference" day was how to make > Sugar activities using Squeak. Here is the example I made, a bit > refined (the hardest part was actually to make a not-too-embarrassing > icon in Inkscape): > > <a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4054">http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4054</a> > > If it works for anybody else, please report back so I can request that > it be moved from the "sandbox" to the "public" area. Before that it > won't show up in the "games" section. > > Just like the Etoys activity this depends on the etoys package being > installed. So it should work on SoaS-1 already, and on SoaS-2 as soon > as Sebastian figured out why etoys was not getting pulled in. It also > should work fine on older versions, like OLPC's 8.2 release. > > The activity's purpose is foremost to demonstrate how to write a > Squeak-based activity (on Sugar 0.84 use view-source to see the > Smalltalk code), but it also is a fun game in its own right. > > - Bert - > > _______________________________________________ > Etoys mailing list > <a href="mailto:Etoys@lists.laptop.org">Etoys@lists.laptop.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/etoys">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/etoys</a> </div>