Comments for ep http://walterbender.org musing about things to think with Sat, 12 May 2012 09:09:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Sugar Digest 2012-05-11 by T.K. kang http://walterbender.org/?p=556&cpage=1#comment-76422 T.K. kang Sat, 12 May 2012 09:09:43 +0000 http://walterbender.org/?p=556#comment-76422 Great to see the n-back game in Recall. There are many other computer-based activities from Psychology research that could be ported to simple sugar activities. The dot-probe for attentional training is such an example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attentional_retraining Great to see the n-back game in Recall. There are many other computer-based activities from Psychology research that could be ported to simple sugar activities. The dot-probe for attentional training is such an example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attentional_retraining

]]> Comment on Sugar Digest 2009-03-10 by OLPC France » SugarLabs : les objectifs pour 2009 http://walterbender.org/?p=164&cpage=1#comment-75575 OLPC France » SugarLabs : les objectifs pour 2009 Sun, 25 Mar 2012 22:41:25 +0000 http://walterbender.org/?p=164#comment-75575 [...] Nous vous proposons ici une traduction du mail envoyé le 10 mars dernier (aussi disponible sur le blog de Walter [...] [...] Nous vous proposons ici une traduction du mail envoyé le 10 mars dernier (aussi disponible sur le blog de Walter [...]

]]> Comment on Sugar Digest 2012-03-22 by Turtle Art and Scratch at Vacation Camp (in Miami) | One Laptop per Child http://walterbender.org/?p=548&cpage=1#comment-75567 Turtle Art and Scratch at Vacation Camp (in Miami) | One Laptop per Child Sun, 25 Mar 2012 10:10:29 +0000 http://walterbender.org/?p=548#comment-75567 [...] Walter and Melissa Henriquez  ran Turtle Art and Scratch workshops las tweek, during a “vacation camp” for 3rd and 4th graders from Holmes Elementary School.  It sounds like a it was a great success, with the children using Portfolio to make presentations of their work at the end of the week.   Read more about it in the weekly Sugar Digest. [...] [...] Walter and Melissa Henriquez  ran Turtle Art and Scratch workshops las tweek, during a “vacation camp” for 3rd and 4th graders from Holmes Elementary School.  It sounds like a it was a great success, with the children using Portfolio to make presentations of their work at the end of the week.   Read more about it in the weekly Sugar Digest. [...]

]]> Comment on Sugar Digest 2012-02-23 by cjl http://walterbender.org/?p=545&cpage=1#comment-74951 cjl Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:06:36 +0000 http://walterbender.org/?p=545#comment-74951 Walter, I know of a few efforts in Sri Lanka. Our prolific Sinhala localizer, Daniska Navin, has added Sugar Desktop to the Hanthana Linux distro, which targets educational use on generic PCs (for both school and home use). I believe the KDE education suite is blended in and that the program has reached 15 schools so far. Possibly counting Sugar and KDE together adds up to the number 850? http://www.hanthana.org/ http://school.hanthana.org/ I've suggested Danishka apply to the OLPC Contributor's program to have a chance to try XO laptops as well. I also know of another Contributor's Program application that is just getting started via "Catalyst for Hope". Kandiyapita School http://www.catalystforhope.org/born-free.html BLOG: http://www.catalystforhope.org/olpc-blog.html Of course, everyone should be thankful to Kalpa Pathum Welivitigoda (IRC: callkalpa) http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Callkalpa who has been doing excellent work on packaging Sugar Activities for Fedora. I don't know who is in Colombo, but one of them hopefully will and as always, we should encourage the "weaving of the grassroots" to have the local efforts share resources and knowledge. cjl Sugar Labs Translation Team Coordinator Walter,

I know of a few efforts in Sri Lanka. Our prolific Sinhala localizer,
Daniska Navin, has added Sugar Desktop to the Hanthana Linux distro,
which targets educational use on generic PCs (for both school and home
use). I believe the KDE education suite is blended in and that the
program has reached 15 schools so far. Possibly counting Sugar and
KDE together adds up to the number 850?

http://www.hanthana.org/
http://school.hanthana.org/

I’ve suggested Danishka apply to the OLPC Contributor’s program to
have a chance to try XO laptops as well. I also know of another
Contributor’s Program application that is just getting started via
“Catalyst for Hope”.

Kandiyapita School http://www.catalystforhope.org/born-free.html
BLOG: http://www.catalystforhope.org/olpc-blog.html

Of course, everyone should be thankful to Kalpa Pathum Welivitigoda
(IRC: callkalpa)
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Callkalpa

who has been doing excellent work on packaging Sugar Activities for Fedora.

I don’t know who is in Colombo, but one of them hopefully will and as
always, we should encourage the “weaving of the grassroots” to have
the local efforts share resources and knowledge.

cjl
Sugar Labs Translation Team Coordinator

]]> Comment on Sugar Digest 2011-12-28 by Links 16/2/2012: Netrunner 4.1, More Ubuntu 12.04 Previews | Techrights http://walterbender.org/?p=517&cpage=1#comment-74785 Links 16/2/2012: Netrunner 4.1, More Ubuntu 12.04 Previews | Techrights Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:39:14 +0000 http://walterbender.org/?p=517#comment-74785 [...] Sugar Digest 2011-12-28 Much of the early development of Sugar took place in the MIT Media Lab. We began in the spring of 2006, in parallel with the work of the teams responsible for developing other aspects of the XO laptop’s software, including device drivers, power management, and security. One might ask how OLPC was able to create an entirely new learning platform from whole cloth, and do so with almost no investment in software engineering. The short answer is that they didn’t. OLPC solved the problem of how to develop the Sugar software with limited resources by attracting external resources—not creating them from scratch—while articulating clearly defined objectives. OLPC built upon decades of research into how to engineer software to promote learning and amplified OLPC’s staff resources by leveraging key partnerships within the Free Software movement. [...] [...] Sugar Digest 2011-12-28 Much of the early development of Sugar took place in the MIT Media Lab. We began in the spring of 2006, in parallel with the work of the teams responsible for developing other aspects of the XO laptop’s software, including device drivers, power management, and security. One might ask how OLPC was able to create an entirely new learning platform from whole cloth, and do so with almost no investment in software engineering. The short answer is that they didn’t. OLPC solved the problem of how to develop the Sugar software with limited resources by attracting external resources—not creating them from scratch—while articulating clearly defined objectives. OLPC built upon decades of research into how to engineer software to promote learning and amplified OLPC’s staff resources by leveraging key partnerships within the Free Software movement. [...]

]]> Comment on Sugar Digest 2012-02-11 by Desinformación y Distorsión sobre el Construccionismo, OLPC y SUGAR | Info Kids México http://walterbender.org/?p=538&cpage=1#comment-74724 Desinformación y Distorsión sobre el Construccionismo, OLPC y SUGAR | Info Kids México Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:32:52 +0000 http://walterbender.org/?p=538#comment-74724 [...] del Original por Walter Bender 1. “Papert, por supuesto, es bien conocido como el defensor del [...] [...] del Original por Walter Bender 1. “Papert, por supuesto, es bien conocido como el defensor del [...]

]]> Comment on Sugar Digest 2011-12-28 by Revisiting the history of Sugar | One Laptop per Child http://walterbender.org/?p=517&cpage=1#comment-74701 Revisiting the history of Sugar | One Laptop per Child Mon, 13 Feb 2012 07:21:27 +0000 http://walterbender.org/?p=517#comment-74701 [...] before the new year, Walter wrote up a quick recap of the history of Sugar design and development. Our principal partners in Sugar development were a small engineering team from Red [...] [...] before the new year, Walter wrote up a quick recap of the history of Sugar design and development. Our principal partners in Sugar development were a small engineering team from Red [...]

]]> Comment on Sugar Digest 2011-12-28 by ¿Cómo se desarrolló Sugar? | Info Kids México http://walterbender.org/?p=517&cpage=1#comment-74258 ¿Cómo se desarrolló Sugar? | Info Kids México Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:02:20 +0000 http://walterbender.org/?p=517#comment-74258 [...] del Original por Walter Bender  Hace poco me preguntaron “Lo siento si esto debería ser de [...] [...] del Original por Walter Bender  Hace poco me preguntaron “Lo siento si esto debería ser de [...]

]]> Comment on Sugar Digest 2011-12-28 by Fritz schenk http://walterbender.org/?p=517&cpage=1#comment-73716 Fritz schenk Thu, 05 Jan 2012 05:16:01 +0000 http://walterbender.org/?p=517#comment-73716 Magnificent example of Open Software collaborative development-would be nice to see a diagram or diagrams of interactions Magnificent example of Open Software collaborative development-would be nice to see a diagram or diagrams of interactions

]]> Comment on Sugar Digest 2011-12-01 by Maria Ayque Condori http://walterbender.org/?p=511&cpage=1#comment-72893 Maria Ayque Condori Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:40:52 +0000 http://walterbender.org/?p=511#comment-72893 Señores: Reciban un saludo afectuoso, soy profesora de una zona rural (Churcampa-Perú) me interesa muchos sus propuestas y saludo los interesantes trabajos que vienen haciendo en bien del desarrollo de la educación, quisiera saber mas sobre las aplicaciones en estudiantes del nivel secundario (secundary school). Thanks for your request Sincerelly Maria Ayque Señores: Reciban un saludo afectuoso, soy profesora de una zona rural (Churcampa-Perú) me interesa muchos sus propuestas y saludo los interesantes trabajos que vienen haciendo en bien del desarrollo de la educación, quisiera saber mas sobre las aplicaciones en estudiantes del nivel secundario (secundary school).

Thanks for your request

Sincerelly

Maria Ayque

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