User:Vtaylor/IAEP notes


 * Replacing textbooks, IAEP intro, SoaS, AITR challenges, afterschool stEm, assessment, educators network

== updates==


 * OLPdisAbledC - Improving Accessibility for OLPC and Sugar - HcUG as Holistic computing Usability Group


 * http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Waveplace - how to really use Etoys and the XO, Etoys video tutorials
 * forum - teachers, students and educators http://en.forum.laptop.org/viewforum.php?f=13


 * common core standards (CCSS) - Florida adopted - http://www.corestandards.org/


 * http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks - education team http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Education_Team, http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Education_Team/Creating_textbooks

Walter 2011.09.10 - educators community
 * http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Chat_Espanol_2011
 * http://en.forum.laptop.org/viewforum.php?f=13
 * http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks
 * https://www.yammer.com/australianxoteachers
 * http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Innovation_in_Evaluation

== Sugar Activities project==


 * Learn about the OLPC project - research background, current status of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), XO, Sugar Labs, features, typical installation, networking ? Portfolio presentation


 * Install Fedora and Sugar on a surplus laptop - minimum requirements for speed, memory


 * Test Sugar on a Stick - boot from USB drive - runs on most machines


 * Test drive basic activities - Read, Write, Journal, ...


 * Establish networking support to connect neighbors, collaboration


 * Translate Sugar documentation and tutorials from Spanish to English


 * Test drive Turtle Blocks activity - examples, slideshow of Sugar activities


 * Test drive Etoys activity - graphical programming languages, more...


 * Try some of the math challenges


 * Build Etoys and/ or Turtle Blocks activities to demonstrate Science lessons - many lessons/ activities in Come Fly With Me could be animated or programmed to perform calculations with graphical displays for a range of inputs

Turtle Art - http://replacingtextbooks.wordpress.com/2011/08/11/preschool-turtle-art/

Tam Tam - http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Tam_Tam_Resources

== Sugar in progress==

big picture - goals, projects, distribution, priorities, contributors, communication, needs work, wish list, volunteers, learn more...


 * goals / objectives - long-term, short-term, priorities - 5 key ideas


 * new development - [Design team], Development team, features, proposals, decision-making


 * projects - Replacing textbooks, Dextrose, Sugar Creation Kit, Sugar on a Stick, TOAST


 * on-going - maintenance, support, CBB / needs work, manuals, teacher training, translation


 * infrastructure - organization, foundation, governance, proposals / process, roles / responsibilities, code libraries, versions, releases, security, tools, guidelines, wiki, mentoring, funding


 * communication - Planet Sugar blog aggregation, chat


 * contributors - whois - Walter, project leads


 * how to help - volunteering, donating


 * learn more... - other resources, sources of more detail


 * Sugar - overview, Activities, Sugar OS, connections, features


 * in the media - video, images, articles, press releases, conferences, presentations

cbb
 * wish list not very extensive or actionable


 * promotion / communications - news, updates, target more different audiences [educators, general public]


 * Planet Sugar - current - post in last 3 months?

== notes and projects==


 * Sugar Replacing Textbooks Project - identify/catalog OERs, review, search,  XO collection - links to resources, catalog, tag, search - testing, prototype


 * XO curriculum - mapping Sugar Activities / curriculum units, guided exploration, XO fractions - specific example - Activities / curriculum


 * XO teacher training - overview, identify existing, FAQs, Sugar manual - edited version for FM - without technical information - just general description of functionality,


 * XO demo - like E-Paath demo http://www.pustakalaya.org/external-content/static/epaath/epaath/


 * Planet Sugar - http://feedwordpress.radgeek.com/wiki/themes-designed-feedwordpress

lessons - demonstrate, describe


 * Basic Etoys - series of Flash presentations to teach the main Etoys functions


 * Immokalee, Florida - 2008 ? TurtleArt

Volunteers, help wanted


 * translations - manuals - English > Spanish, Spanish > English, Nepali > English
 * teacher training
 * documentation
 * marketing plan
 * testing

== summaries, updates== 2011.06.16
 * Nick Montfort will give a short talk on Curveship, his model-based interactive fiction system,
 * Chris Ball will present some related recent hacking.
 * Angela Chang will present her Tinkerbooks early-literacy platform, which allows kids to interactively change the written story on the page.


 * C.Scott Ananian - discuss Neal Stephenson's novel The Diamond Age (a recap of a short talk I gave at EduJAM in Uruguay), and give concrete suggestions for how Diamond Age's Primer might influence the software architecture for the XO-3.


 * C.Scott Ananian - how to make software testing semantically indistinguishable from writing a game!)
 * Chris Ball and C.Scott Ananian have also been collecting best-of-breed "comic books that teach you something" as examples of educational narrative; we'll pass those around and post a reading list after the event.

== Sugar setup== just want to get the basics running to see what the fuss is about
 * Sugar on a Stick - ordered ?? arrived ??
 * Mac Air - no CD to boot from > Virtual Box > Fedora 13 ? Home, Fedora 14 - need password - forgot / don't know
 * boot CD for Windows

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

It looks like that there are prebuilt packages more or less ready to go, once you get VirtualBox running.

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Emulator_image_files#VirtualBox