User:Vtaylor/Afterschool projects

teen community service, math /science projects, activity development, game builder

== Project ideas==


 * programming - test/suggest activities, help younger kids Squeakland Etoys - runs as application on USB stick - reference manual, save to stick
 * kahn academy + etoys
 * branching stories, animations


 * resources - research, review ? blog, tag, reviews
 * Tar Heel Reader - books for young adult learners - picture books - topics - locate, create
 * Project Gutenberg - Distributed Proofreading - adult volunteers, as well as some kids


 * Sugar activities - TurtleArt - problems with installation, instructions
 * storytime - library staff read - Port Orange Library - Volusia County FL - Nancy, Tamara, Cindy

== Sugar demo==


 * Write - general features, function
 * Speak ? see what was typed
 * Turtle - basic closed sided - forward, turn x degrees > closed y/n > ? sides
 * Read - Project Gutenburg ? kids booka


 * http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/ Sugar on a Stick - 1-to-1 computing environment for K-8 students to collaborate with others in exploring the world around them, Sugar is used every day by over one and a half million students in classrooms throughout the world. It is now deployable for the cost of a stick rather than a laptop; students can take their Sugar on a Stick thumbdrive to any machine - at school, at home, at a library or community center - and boot their customized computing environment without touching the host machine’s hard disk or existing system at all.


 * http://www.sugarlabs.org/assets/sugar_demo.ogg - Information is about nouns. Learning is about verbs. Designed specifically for children and based on cognitive and social constructivism, the Sugar user interface differs from traditional user interfaces with their "office productivity" orientation. To see the difference for yourself, check out the guided video tour.

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/How_to_present_Sugar Sugar presentation guide - hands-on steps, suggestions


 * slides - some good, different audience ?? pick out slides
 * https://docs.google.com/View?id=dddknwgs_439dmckm3dn&pli=1 Sugar intro workshop lesson plan - 3hr, some links, video - could do with kids

New use for One Laptop Per Child’s user interface, Sugar.

The open-source education software developed for the “$100 laptop” can now be loaded onto a $5 USB stick to run aging PCs and Macs with a new interface and custom educational software. “What we are doing is taking a bunch of old machines that barely run Windows 2000, and turning them into something interesting and useful for essentially zero cost,” says Walter Bender [...] “It becomes a whole new computer running off the USB key; we can breathe new life into millions of decrepit old machines.” http://blog.ted.com/2009/06/24/a_sweet_deal_fo/

Intro - Walter Bender @ TEDxKids@Brussels http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bUYtgLhAfo video

http://www.tedxkids.be/ TEDxKids@Brussels

Maker Kids? - The future aims of primary education could be a rich mix of learning by doing, hacking the physical world and taking direct control of the technologies around us. Kids could use this knowledge to be more connected to each other and the wider world. We want to give them the tools to directly influence the physical and social ecosphere in the hope that this creates freedom and empowerment for the future. http://www.tedxkids.be/html/about.html


 * http://www.sugarlabs.org/ Sugar
 * http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick Sugar on a Stick
 * http://activities.sugarlabs.org//en-US/sugar/ Activities - concept - individual, sharing
 * interface - activities, groups, neighborhood
 * Journal - record, return, search - http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8zwgr_sugar-084-using-journal_tech video demo

examples
 * Read
 * Write
 * Browse
 * Tam Tam
 * Turtle Art - http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9coz8_turtle-art-basics_creation basics video
 * Etoys

Library programs suggestions
 * creating - text, pictures, narration, music, video
 * graphics - drawing, animation
 * audio - voice, music
 * programming - games, activities
 * science & math - Tony
 * http://gcompris.net/ language learning - English, first, foreign

Learn more...

Collections


 * http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/collection/miel Honey - set of demonstration activities


 * http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/collection/gcompris GCompris - educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10. Some of the activities are game orientated, but nonetheless still educational

Documentation, help, training


 * http://en.flossmanuals.net/sugar/ Sugar manual