[Educators] [support-gang] Facilitating teaching with Sugar (was: Re: LinuxTag & all are great, but WHERE are the teachers :-))

[Caryl Bigenho]

The folks at the BozemanLUG (Montana) also loved Physics!  Now, are there any great lesson plans to go with it?
Caryl

> From: gary at garycmartin.com
> To: tabitha at hrdnz.com
> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:30:47 +0100
> CC: dfarning at sugarlabs.org; educators at lists.laptop.org; simon at schampijer.de; support-gang at lists.laptop.org
> Subject: Re: [support-gang] Facilitating teaching with Sugar (was: Re:	LinuxTag & all are great, but WHERE are the teachers :-))
> 
> Hi Tabitha,
> 
> On 28 Jun 2009, at 05:18, Tabitha Roder wrote:
> 
> > Wow! Thanks heaps for your post Gary! These ideas would be great to
> > share on webpages that teachers and students visit. As someone who
> > already enjoyed using Physics, I know that I will definitely try these
> > and share these ideas with the testers here in NZ.
> 
> Cool, glad they caught your eye. Physics seems to have been quite  
> popular at the LinuxTag stand, think Simon may have some more ideas  
> from his time there :-)
> 
> > I put them on http://wiki.laptop.org/go/ 
> > Physics_(activity)#Ideas_to_try
> > - I hope this is okay!
> 
> Absolutely, thanks :-)
> 
> At the ActivityTeam meeting on Friday, we agreed to continue migrating  
> relevant Activity wiki content over from wiki.laptop.org to  
> wiki.sugarlabs.org**, adding a 'migrated' template message to the top  
> of the old pages so folks have a lead to documentation on currently  
> supported, maintained, Activities. The information can be somewhat  
> technical and ad-hoc for our target age ranges, here are the current  
> Activity pages on Sugar Labs infrastructure:
> 
> 	http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities
> 
> The general idea is that Activity Authors take some of the more  
> friendly information from the Activity wiki page (where any member of  
> the community may be making edits), here's an example for Moon...
> 
> 	http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Moon
> 
> ... and use this more friendly information on their  
> activities.sugarlabs.org download page, here's Moon's
> 
> 	http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4034/
> 
> Note that the download page does link to the more detailed community  
> editable wiki page.
> 
> **a lot of the wiki.laptop.org Activity information is out of date or  
> needs reworking so it may take some time.
> 
> > Does anyone know where else teachers/students might benefit from
> > seeing this list?
> 
> Not sure there is one right answer, but my best one just now is:
> 
> 	Teacher focused material -> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities
> 	Student summary material -> http://activities.sugarlabs.org/
> 
> And I'd propose using content from http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities 
>   pages, where needed, on an Activity by Activity bases and generating  
> a viable Journal entry that can be downloaded. Right now this would  
> likely be PDF, but in future, HTML could also be used off-line. This  
> would be close to off-line local help content / study guides, for  
> learners/teachers. With good tagging***, searching the Journal for  
> "pythagorus" could give a learner documents on TurtleArt experiments,  
> Etoys, and other learning material.
> 
> *** If you have SoaS v1 Strawberry .iso, have you tried searching the  
> Journal for place names?  E.g. typing "wellington" should pull up the  
> Oceania World Factbook Map (it's just a tagged PDF and will open in  
> Read). Would be great to provide this and other content at http://activities.sugarlabs.org/ 
>   for download, or for deployments to include for their own custom  
> Sugar images,
> 
> Regards,
> --Gary
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