[OLPC_Boston] Question on eToys Older kids and adults??

[Anastasia]

Thank you all for allowing me & Mike mcrory to participate in your initiative and activities.

We are clearing our plates to focus on assisting and participating with you.

On another note another programmer friend named Greg demchak is wanting to engage with you and to assist in creating the afterschool focus. His attention is toward the older kids. Therefore I truly appreciate your follow up Nicholas.

He was planning to attend last night but broke his foot yesterday n was instead at the doctors. Sugar would be more his focus and wants to attend your next meeting regarding sugar & also olpc.

On another note a professor friend of mine can possibly assist w challenges around curriculum building across varied cultures w different dynamics & challenges. His name is Daniel Yalowitz & is a founding member of the Peaceful Schools initiative at Lesley University. I am meeting with him next weekend & wants to hear more. Although he travels a lot in his work & is only available electronically & for consultation & writing curriculum.

Thank you once again.  

Anastasia 

Nicholas Doiron <ndoiron at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

>
>To clarify an e-mail I wrote quickly last night:
>
>There are a lot of ideas out there about how to do intro-to-programming
>and I like what people have done with eToys at the primary school level (
>if you haven't seen Waveplace's experiences in Haiti, read
>http://waveplace.org/news/blog/ )
>
>As you target middle school level students or above, they're interested in
>the internet and media.  Some are interested in technical details - ask
>any programmer you know when they started.  You can make a high school kid
>an expert in eToys, but they won't be any closer to making their own
>website or Space Invaders game.  If you would give someone a power tool in
>shop class, you should give them a real programming language on the
>computer.
>
>Mozilla's Hackasaurus program is designed for learning HTML at this level.
> Two amazing workshops in the past month: 
>http://spotlight.macfound.org/featured-stories/entry/at-hackasaurus-jam-mozilla-encourages-young-programmers-to-change-the-web/
>and http://brettgaylor.tumblr.com/post/3526122151/web-made-movies-at-bavc 
>They have information about setting up your own workshop at
>hackasaurus.org
>
>Regards,
>Nick Doiron
>
>
>On Sat, March 12, 2011 12:05 am, Holt wrote:
>> What a great meeting of 14 minds tonight, spending our Friday night in
>> style, facing OLPC's most serious challenges:
>> http://flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/5518687706/sizes/l/in/photostream/
>>
>>
>> On 3/11/2011 10:52 PM, Nicholas Doiron wrote:
>>
>>> There were a couple of people at the meeting today talking about using
>>> eToys or Scratch to engage older kids and/or adults with programming.
>>>
>>> Would I be able to reach them through the OLPC Boston e-mail list?
>>> I'll
>>> write a longer e-mail to share http://hackasaurus.org and
>>> http://palpable-video.appspot.com/sample and one of my blog posts with
>>> them, for online websites and media-making with a real visual and
>>> creative feel.
>>>
>>> It's a lot more real-world and web-related than eToys, still very
>>> hands-on and constructive
>>
>> Derek,
>> Do you have the email addresses for Anastasia, the clinical testing
>> software/dba gentleman she came & Brooks? Can you send these email
>> addresses (privately, please) to me and/or the group of-14 who attended
>> tonight?
>>
>> - Mike
>> - Marina
>> - Anastasia
>> - Holt
>> - Dogi
>> - Andi
>> - Allison
>> - Jennifer
>> - Nick D
>> - Jean-Paul L
>> - Brooks
>> - Derek
>> - (Anastasia's friend)
>> - Matt who left early
>>
>>
>> --
>> Help kids everywhere map their world, at http://olpcMAP.net !
>>
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