Sugar Labs - User contributions [en]

GoogleCodeIn2012/Assessment

2012-12-02T20:29:26Z

Clayton Condon:

;Background: Some children have been using Sugar for almost five years, and yet we have little quantitative data on what impact it has had on their learning.

;Task: Research how Sugar is used by students. What is being learned? Survey students and teachers. How well does it deliver its goals?

;Contact: Sugar Learning team

[[Category: GCI2012]]

 
 
 
Research Background:

During my free block, I went to seven teachers classrooms with sugar on a stick. While their class was working on some assignments I personally sat down, and showed the teachers Sugar. After showing them a few things, I let them browse for themselves. They opened a few activities, and played around for around 30 min. Following the initial experience, they answered a few questions, and let me talk to a few students. Each student had 10+ min. to get an initial look at Sugar. They asked me a few questions, and I answered them. I then showed them a few new things, and asked a similar set of questions. Immediately following their answers, I thanked them for their time and went to the next classroom after thanking everyone for their time.

 
 
 
<hr />

Having shown Sugar to a few students and teachers, SugarLabs is performing excellent. I asked each person a set of questions pertaining to Sugar, and how they liked it. The responses are below:</p?>
<hr />

 
 

Teacher’s Answers:

 

Q.) How did you enjoy collaboration in Sugar?

A.) I was able to proof-read a student’s paper without leaving my computer, collaboration can improve, but as it stands it is a very decent product.

 

Q.) How many activities did you try, and would you use them in your unit plans?

A.) I know there are a lot, but I only tried around five. I would use a majority of them in my classroom lesson plans. (Journal, Maps, Etc.)

 

Q.) What was your first impression of Sugar?

A.) It was confusing at first, but after I messed around with it for a while I understood it a lot more.

 

Q.) If given the opportunity would you use Sugar in your everyday classroom environment?

A.) Yes, It definitely has a lot of potential, I cannot wait to see what they come up with next.

 

 

<hr />
 
Student Opinions:

I asked students a few questions after showing them Sugar. They provided some very positive answers/responses. Some even asked the teachers to use it in the class.

 

Q.) Did you learn anything using Sugar?

A.) I was skeptical at first, but then I learned something new. Sugar is a very interesting thing.

 

Q.) What activity did you like most?

A.) I preferred Journal/Write it worked excellent, while I typed a five paragraph essay for class.

 

Q.) Given the opportunity, would you like to use Sugar again?

A.) Of Course! I might even develop a few activities for it; it was very fun.

 

Q.) Are you going to download Sugar at home?

A.) I want to play around with it a little more, and see what I can do, so yeah.

 

Q.) What would you add to Sugar?

A.) I would like more activities, but who wouldn’t?

GoogleCodeIn2012/Assessment

2012-12-02T20:29:07Z

Clayton Condon:

;Background: Some children have been using Sugar for almost five years, and yet we have little quantitative data on what impact it has had on their learning.

;Task: Research how Sugar is used by students. What is being learned? Survey students and teachers. How well does it deliver its goals?

;Contact: Sugar Learning team

[[Category: GCI2012]]

 
 
 
Research Background:

During my free block, I went to seven teachers classrooms with sugar on a stick. While their class was working on some assignments I personally sat down, and showed the teachers Sugar. After showing them a few things, I let them browse for themselves. They opened a few activities, and played around for around 30 min. Following the initial experience, they answered a few questions, and let me talk to a few students. Each student had 10+ min. to get an initial look at Sugar. They asked me a few questions, and I answered them. I then showed them a few new things, and asked a similar set of questions. Immediately following their answers, I thanked them for their time and went to the next classroom after thanking everyone for their time.

 
 
 
</hr>

Having shown Sugar to a few students and teachers, SugarLabs is performing excellent. I asked each person a set of questions pertaining to Sugar, and how they liked it. The responses are below:</p?>
<hr />

 
 

Teacher’s Answers:

 

Q.) How did you enjoy collaboration in Sugar?

A.) I was able to proof-read a student’s paper without leaving my computer, collaboration can improve, but as it stands it is a very decent product.

 

Q.) How many activities did you try, and would you use them in your unit plans?

A.) I know there are a lot, but I only tried around five. I would use a majority of them in my classroom lesson plans. (Journal, Maps, Etc.)

 

Q.) What was your first impression of Sugar?

A.) It was confusing at first, but after I messed around with it for a while I understood it a lot more.

 

Q.) If given the opportunity would you use Sugar in your everyday classroom environment?

A.) Yes, It definitely has a lot of potential, I cannot wait to see what they come up with next.

 

 

<hr />
 
Student Opinions:

I asked students a few questions after showing them Sugar. They provided some very positive answers/responses. Some even asked the teachers to use it in the class.

 

Q.) Did you learn anything using Sugar?

A.) I was skeptical at first, but then I learned something new. Sugar is a very interesting thing.

 

Q.) What activity did you like most?

A.) I preferred Journal/Write it worked excellent, while I typed a five paragraph essay for class.

 

Q.) Given the opportunity, would you like to use Sugar again?

A.) Of Course! I might even develop a few activities for it; it was very fun.

 

Q.) Are you going to download Sugar at home?

A.) I want to play around with it a little more, and see what I can do, so yeah.

 

Q.) What would you add to Sugar?

A.) I would like more activities, but who wouldn’t?

GoogleCodeIn2012/Assessment

2012-12-02T19:47:04Z

Clayton Condon:

;Background: Some children have been using Sugar for almost five years, and yet we have little quantitative data on what impact it has had on their learning.

;Task: Research how Sugar is used by students. What is being learned? Survey students and teachers. How well does it deliver its goals?

;Contact: Sugar Learning team

[[Category: GCI2012]]

 
 
 

Having shown Sugar to a few students and teachers, SugarLabs is performing excellent. I asked each person a set of questions pertaining to Sugar, and how they liked it. The responses are below:</p?>
<hr />

 
 

Teacher’s Answers:

 

Q.) How did you enjoy collaboration in Sugar?

A.) I was able to proof-read a student’s paper without leaving my computer, collaboration can improve, but as it stands it is a very decent product.

 

Q.) How many activities did you try, and would you use them in your unit plans?

A.) I know there are a lot, but I only tried around five. I would use a majority of them in my classroom lesson plans. (Journal, Maps, Etc.)

 

Q.) What was your first impression of Sugar?

A.) It was confusing at first, but after I messed around with it for a while I understood it a lot more.

 

Q.) If given the opportunity would you use Sugar in your everyday classroom environment?

A.) Yes, It definitely has a lot of potential, I cannot wait to see what they come up with next.

 

 

<hr />
 
Student Opinions:

I asked students a few questions after showing them Sugar. They provided some very positive answers/responses. Some even asked the teachers to use it in the class.

 

Q.) Did you learn anything using Sugar?

A.) I was skeptical at first, but then I learned something new. Sugar is a very interesting thing.

 

Q.) What activity did you like most?

A.) I preferred Journal/Write it worked excellent, while I typed a five paragraph essay for class.

 

Q.) Given the opportunity, would you like to use Sugar again?

A.) Of Course! I might even develop a few activities for it; it was very fun.

 

Q.) Are you going to download Sugar at home?

A.) I want to play around with it a little more, and see what I can do, so yeah.

 

Q.) What would you add to Sugar?

A.) I would like more activities, but who wouldn’t?

GoogleCodeIn2012/Assessment tools

2012-12-02T00:35:15Z

Clayton Condon:

;Background: Assessment is a idea ''du jour'' in education circles. Although Sugar promotes self-assessment through mechanisms such as the Sugar Journal and [[Activities/Portfolio]], we do provide some mechanisms for more traditional, automated assessment (See [[Platform_Team/sugar-stats]] and [[Activities/Analyze Journal]]).

;Task: Research what metadata about Sugar activity usage would be helpful to teachers for assessment purposes.

;Contact: Sugar Learning team

[[Category: GCI2012]]

----

---My Submission--

Current Metadata, and Why It Is Useful: 



Storage Space Used:

This data shows how much storage space is available to other students, and how much is used per individual student. Monitoring this would be able the teacher to decide how much storage that the class would need to have. 



Time Monitor Inactivity Reset:

The time spent on each window is logged, and if a student is not actively participating in that window it will reset the time, thus providing high quality statistics. 



Sugar/Network Uptime:

View the exact time Sugar has been running, and how long your network has been connected. Teachers can send this data to School Network Administrators if there are any issues. 



Collaboration Reports:

 View who is collaborating with each other, and what they are doing. This will allow the teacher to give partner assignments to their classroom without worrying if they are actually doing the assignment. 



Viewing Buddies/Interaction:

By using this you can see who the student interacts with most. 





----

Possible Future Metadata, and Why It Is Useful: 



Activity Usage Data:

This could help the teacher incorporate the student’s favorite activities into their lesson plans.



Student Usage Data Log:

View a summary of each student's activities. Could be used to see if student is on task. 



Screenshots of Student Activity:

Maybe include periodical screenshots sent to the teacher of student activity, in case of student misconduct. 



View Student’s Exact Usage:

This will allow a teacher to view a student report with data such as: 

<ol class="ve-ce-branchNode">

<li class="ve-ce-branchNode">

Time spent per activity
</li>

<li class="ve-ce-branchNode">

Time spent per session 
</li>

<li class="ve-ce-branchNode">

User actions
</li>

<li class="ve-ce-branchNode">

References (Did they paste anything if so, where from?)
</li>

<li class="ve-ce-branchNode">

Time inactive 
</li>

</ol>



Accelerometer/Light Sensor:

Not I, nor my teachers have thought of anything useful using this metadata if created. 





----

 I have found a few research papers regarding metadata and teachers.

 

1. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&ved=0CEAQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fciteseerx.ist.psu.edu%2Fviewdoc%2Fdownload%3Fdoi%3D10.1.1.102.2835%26rep%3Drep1%26type%3Dpdf&ei=Npm6UJ-LBI_m8gSbwYEQ&usg=AFQjCNHIby5NObp--xPMdoxaAGX3iPJY2g&sig2=Ek8WMnCwXli6vAR6968uMg



 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_object_metadata



 3. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january10/kout/01kout.html

GoogleCodeIn2012/Assessment tools

2012-12-01T19:47:49Z

Clayton Condon: