<html>
<head>
<style>
.hmmessage P
{
margin:0px;
padding:0px
}
body.hmmessage
{
font-size: 10pt;
font-family:Verdana
}
</style>
</head>
<body class='hmmessage'>
The folks at the BozemanLUG (Montana) also loved Physics! Now, are there any great lesson plans to go with it?<div><br></div><div>Caryl<br><br>> From: gary@garycmartin.com<br>> To: tabitha@hrdnz.com<br>> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:30:47 +0100<br>> CC: dfarning@sugarlabs.org; educators@lists.laptop.org; simon@schampijer.de; support-gang@lists.laptop.org<br>> Subject: Re: [support-gang] Facilitating teaching with Sugar (was: Re: LinuxTag & all are great, but WHERE are the teachers :-))<br>> <br>> Hi Tabitha,<br>> <br>> On 28 Jun 2009, at 05:18, Tabitha Roder wrote:<br>> <br>> > Wow! Thanks heaps for your post Gary! These ideas would be great to<br>> > share on webpages that teachers and students visit. As someone who<br>> > already enjoyed using Physics, I know that I will definitely try these<br>> > and share these ideas with the testers here in NZ.<br>> <br>> Cool, glad they caught your eye. Physics seems to have been quite <br>> popular at the LinuxTag stand, think Simon may have some more ideas <br>> from his time there :-)<br>> <br>> > I put them on http://wiki.laptop.org/go/ <br>> > Physics_(activity)#Ideas_to_try<br>> > - I hope this is okay!<br>> <br>> Absolutely, thanks :-)<br>> <br>> At the ActivityTeam meeting on Friday, we agreed to continue migrating <br>> relevant Activity wiki content over from wiki.laptop.org to <br>> wiki.sugarlabs.org**, adding a 'migrated' template message to the top <br>> of the old pages so folks have a lead to documentation on currently <br>> supported, maintained, Activities. The information can be somewhat <br>> technical and ad-hoc for our target age ranges, here are the current <br>> Activity pages on Sugar Labs infrastructure:<br>> <br>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities<br>> <br>> The general idea is that Activity Authors take some of the more <br>> friendly information from the Activity wiki page (where any member of <br>> the community may be making edits), here's an example for Moon...<br>> <br>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Moon<br>> <br>> ... and use this more friendly information on their <br>> activities.sugarlabs.org download page, here's Moon's<br>> <br>> http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4034/<br>> <br>> Note that the download page does link to the more detailed community <br>> editable wiki page.<br>> <br>> **a lot of the wiki.laptop.org Activity information is out of date or <br>> needs reworking so it may take some time.<br>> <br>> > Does anyone know where else teachers/students might benefit from<br>> > seeing this list?<br>> <br>> Not sure there is one right answer, but my best one just now is:<br>> <br>> Teacher focused material -> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities<br>> Student summary material -> http://activities.sugarlabs.org/<br>> <br>> And I'd propose using content from http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities <br>> pages, where needed, on an Activity by Activity bases and generating <br>> a viable Journal entry that can be downloaded. Right now this would <br>> likely be PDF, but in future, HTML could also be used off-line. This <br>> would be close to off-line local help content / study guides, for <br>> learners/teachers. With good tagging***, searching the Journal for <br>> "pythagorus" could give a learner documents on TurtleArt experiments, <br>> Etoys, and other learning material.<br>> <br>> *** If you have SoaS v1 Strawberry .iso, have you tried searching the <br>> Journal for place names? E.g. typing "wellington" should pull up the <br>> Oceania World Factbook Map (it's just a tagged PDF and will open in <br>> Read). Would be great to provide this and other content at http://activities.sugarlabs.org/ <br>> for download, or for deployments to include for their own custom <br>> Sugar images,<br>> <br>> Regards,<br>> --Gary<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> support-gang mailing list<br>> support-gang@lists.laptop.org<br>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang<br></div></body>
</html>