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[[Category:Deployment|Planetarium]]
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== Summary ==
The purpose of this Sugar pilot project is to evaluate the Sugar Learning Platform for use in Berlin schools. The Learning Platform will be integrated into Berlin schools under the motto "A Global Project In The Neighborhood."
== Contact ==
* Name: [[User:Erikos| Simon Schampijer]]
== Location ==
The elementary school [http://www.gsap.de/ Grundschule am Planetarium] is the partner of the Berlin pilot project for the school year 2009-2010. The school is focused on sports and is located in the heart of Berlin. In addition to promoting children's interest in sports, the school focuses on learning with new media. For example, a course was taught in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_%28programming_language%29 LOGO programming language].
== Language ==
The language used is German (de_DE).
== Size ==
There are 15 students in the Sugar course, and the majority are female. I do teach the Sugar course myself.
== Hardware ==
The infrastructure of the school is designed for the use of computers in the classroom. For example, there is a room with 30 laptops, with 2 more computer labs plus a school server on which each student has an account.
== Technical Details ==
* Sugar version: 0.84
* OS distribution: Fedora 11
The existing infrastructure of the school only needed to be expanded. The first test runs used [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick Sugar On A Stick], but in the second phase Sugar was directly installed on the computers. The laptops, previously Windows-only, have been dual-booted with Linux ([http://fedoraproject.org/ Fedora] 11) using Sugar version 0.84. Users can choose between Windows and Sugar (Linux) on startup.
The school server uses the school's [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Directory_Access_Protocol LDAP server] to authenticate the user. Since Fedora supports this type of authentication, only one configuration had to be adjusted in the client. [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_File_System NFS] is used to bind network drives; this was done by adjusting a configuration file on the clients. So that the installation would not need to be manually duplicated, a complete installation was snapshotted with [http://clonezilla.org/ Clonezilla] and loaded onto the other computers.
== Activity Usage ==
* [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Memorize The Memorize Activity]
* [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/TurtleArt TurtleArt]
* [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Physics Physics]
* [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Etoys Etoys]
* Read
* Browse
* Paint
* ImageViewer
* Record
* Write
== Curriculum ==
Sugar was introduced at the start of the school year in a school project for grades 4, 5 and 6. A two-hour lesson involved designing [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Memorize Memorize] games and drawing simple geometric shapes with the [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/TurtleArt TurtleArt Activity]. The elementary school at the planetarium offers electives that children can choose from. Sugar is offered as an elective course this year. The course is taught for one hour, once per week. There are 15 students in the Sugar course, and the majority are female.
The lessons are divided into blocks according to topic. [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Memorize The Memorize Activity] was chosen as an introduction to working with Sugar. Another class block was dedicated to [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/TurtleArt TurtleArt], and another to [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Physics Physics]. The students are currently working on a major project in [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Etoys Etoys]. After an introduction to the capabilities of the program (such as its usage to create interactive games) they will be using Etoys to tell a story.
== History ==
Sugar was introduced using [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick Sugar On A Stick].
== Links ==
[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Planetarium/en english text]
[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Planetarium german text]
== Comments and Discussion ==
* See [[{{TALKPAGENAME}}|discussion tab for this deployment]]
[[Category:Deployment|Planetarium]]
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== Summary ==
The purpose of this Sugar pilot project is to evaluate the Sugar Learning Platform for use in Berlin schools. The Learning Platform will be integrated into Berlin schools under the motto "A Global Project In The Neighborhood."
== Contact ==
* Name: [[User:Erikos| Simon Schampijer]]
== Location ==
The elementary school [http://www.gsap.de/ Grundschule am Planetarium] is the partner of the Berlin pilot project for the school year 2009-2010. The school is focused on sports and is located in the heart of Berlin. In addition to promoting children's interest in sports, the school focuses on learning with new media. For example, a course was taught in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_%28programming_language%29 LOGO programming language].
== Language ==
The language used is German (de_DE).
== Size ==
There are 15 students in the Sugar course, and the majority are female. I do teach the Sugar course myself.
== Hardware ==
The infrastructure of the school is designed for the use of computers in the classroom. For example, there is a room with 30 laptops, with 2 more computer labs plus a school server on which each student has an account.
== Technical Details ==
* Sugar version: 0.84
* OS distribution: Fedora 11
The existing infrastructure of the school only needed to be expanded. The first test runs used [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick Sugar On A Stick], but in the second phase Sugar was directly installed on the computers. The laptops, previously Windows-only, have been dual-booted with Linux ([http://fedoraproject.org/ Fedora] 11) using Sugar version 0.84. Users can choose between Windows and Sugar (Linux) on startup.
The school server uses the school's [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Directory_Access_Protocol LDAP server] to authenticate the user. Since Fedora supports this type of authentication, only one configuration had to be adjusted in the client. [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_File_System NFS] is used to bind network drives; this was done by adjusting a configuration file on the clients. So that the installation would not need to be manually duplicated, a complete installation was snapshotted with [http://clonezilla.org/ Clonezilla] and loaded onto the other computers.
== Activity Usage ==
* [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Memorize The Memorize Activity]
* [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/TurtleArt TurtleArt]
* [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Physics Physics]
* [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Etoys Etoys]
* Read
* Browse
* Paint
* ImageViewer
* Record
* Write
== Curriculum ==
Sugar was introduced at the start of the school year in a school project for grades 4, 5 and 6. A two-hour lesson involved designing [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Memorize Memorize] games and drawing simple geometric shapes with the [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/TurtleArt TurtleArt Activity]. The elementary school at the planetarium offers electives that children can choose from. Sugar is offered as an elective course this year. The course is taught for one hour, once per week. There are 15 students in the Sugar course, and the majority are female.
The lessons are divided into blocks according to topic. [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Memorize The Memorize Activity] was chosen as an introduction to working with Sugar. Another class block was dedicated to [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/TurtleArt TurtleArt], and another to [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Physics Physics]. The students are currently working on a major project in [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Etoys Etoys]. After an introduction to the capabilities of the program (such as its usage to create interactive games) they will be using Etoys to tell a story.
== History ==
Sugar was introduced using [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick Sugar On A Stick].
== Links ==
[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Planetarium/en english text]
[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Planetarium german text]
== Comments and Discussion ==
* See [[{{TALKPAGENAME}}|discussion tab for this deployment]]