<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Offray,<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>We're using the same approach in Project Waveplace, using storytelling as the end goal with math & programming along the way. (Much as Alice and Scratch did).</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Our chief reason for the storytelling approach is to help with buy-in for the educational approach, for both the kids and the adults. It's also a way to get the kids talking to adults about their shared history.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>At the end we'll have a musical celebration where the kids show off their folklore projects, which we hope will make more of a connection with the community than math/science examples might.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>It also helps that the Caribbean has a strong storytelling tradition, much as other cultures (though less and less American culture).</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thanks,</DIV><DIV>Tim</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Oct 8, 2007, at 9:41 PM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cardenas wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">For this semester I'm thinking in something like "dramabotics"... a way</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">to use Bots Inc mixed with Etoys for storytelling on local folklore as</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">an attempt to mix narration and programming and making bridges between</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">ways to think and ways to "make and express culture". We know about</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">experiences using Squeak for making young people to learn about</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"universal" concepts of Science and Technology, but it would be nice to</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">use this metamedium also for making young people to learn about "local"</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">things on folklore. Making bridges between Science, Technology and</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Folklore and knowing the limits on how them affect, talk and explain the</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">world is important in keeping a cultural rich and diverse environment.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>