[IAEP] Getting Involved

[Edward Cherlin]

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
> On 18 Jan 2009, at 11:34, Gabriel Eirea wrote:
>
>> Gary,
>>
>> That work is wonderful. However, I believe there is a very important
>> role that is missing. It is the role of the theacher as a designer of
>> activities with specific pedagogic goals. It is somehow in the
>> intersection of the Content Writer, the Designer and the Developer,
>> but I believe the role is distinct and deserves special attention.
>
> Gabriel, I've added an Educator role today to the Getting Involved
> wiki page as per your and others input – let me know if you have any
> additional feedback (I might make some additions to the Educator icon,
> but I think it's close):

So that would be the place to put the Earth Treasury digital textbook
creators, then?

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Creating_textbooks

>        http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/GettingInvolved
>
> Please do take a look at the role description and see if it's missing
> something or needs rewording.
>
>> What plans does Sugar Labs have with respecto to working with
>> teachers, not only hearing what they have to say but incorporating
>> them in the design and development teams?
>
> With my Activity developer hat on for a moment, I picked up work on
> porting Labyrinth (a mind-map editor) to make it sugar friendly and
> improve its UI (still a work in progress). Mind-mapping was a specific
> request from teachers in Uruguay. Walter is also pushing real hard
> with regard to opening up TurtleArt/Portfolio as a case study in
> lowering the entry level for making code changes – it's a two way
> thing – developers need ongoing actionable communication with
> educators, and some educators need to be willing to get involved in
> activity development.
>
> Being cheeky here... I know it's relatively new, but there seems to be
> no teachers yet brave enough to put their name on the EducationalTeam
> list ;-)
>
>        http://sugarlabs.org/go/EducationTeam/Contacts
>
> The todo list is pretty sparse as well:
>
>        http://sugarlabs.org/go/EducationTeam/TODO
>
> Doesn't look like there has been an EducationTeam meeting yet, any one
> know if one is planned soon?
>
> Regards,
> --Gary
>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Gabriel
>>
>>
>> 2009/1/18 Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com>:
>>> On 18 Jan 2009, at 02:22, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
>>>
>>>> Gary,
>>>>
>>>> your work on http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/GettingInvolved is
>>>> TOTALLY AWESOME!
>>>>
>>>> Thank you very much for taking care of it.
>>>
>>> Thanks Bernie, glad you liked it!
>>>
>>> The example role texts still in need of some additional edits (more
>>> Sugar, teacher, education, student targeted language I think). I did
>>> make additions/changes in that direction already – the original
>>> Fedora
>>> text was very much aimed at hardcore FOSS geeks :-)
>>>
>>> There are some roles not so well covered by the page yet (also hinted
>>> at in Rob Costello's email). Specifically QA/testing/BugSquad
>>> (currently falls under the developer role); educational-content/
>>> teaching-material (currently falls mostly under the content writer
>>> role – is this core SL or are we trying to enable teachers to do
>>> this).
>>>
>>> To all: Edits welcome! :-) Try and look at the roles you think you're
>>> currently involved with, and make sure their descriptions hint at the
>>> kind of things you do and skills you needed. I can always build some
>>> new role icons if folks think they can't fit in anywhere else (might
>>> be worth adding a single 3 span strip below current roles, as a catch
>>> all).
>>>
>>> --Gary
>>>
>>>> --
>>>>  // Bernie Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/
>>>> \X/  Sugar Labs       - http://www.sugarlabs.org/
>>>
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