Educational Toolkit - Revision history

Deepankgupta: /* About your project */

2009-04-15T01:35:27Z

About your project

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	The Sugar.Presence Service will also be imported to find out our own name(owner's name), buddies around you and shared activites.		The Sugar.Presence Service will also be imported to find out our own name(owner's name), buddies around you and shared activites.

	Another interesting idea can be its integration with GroupThink later on which is ~~also being pursued as a~~ GSoC ~~project seperately~~.		TALK : Another interesting idea can be its integration with GroupThink later which is another GSoC Project, but I am not very familiar with all its details. -Deepank

	Please find some of the diagrams shown below to aid in implementation of the project :		Please find some of the diagrams shown below to aid in implementation of the project :

Deepankgupta: /* About your project */

2009-04-15T01:16:38Z

About your project

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	The Sugar.Presence Service will also be imported to find out our own name(owner's name), buddies around you and shared activites.		The Sugar.Presence Service will also be imported to find out our own name(owner's name), buddies around you and shared activites.

			Another interesting idea can be its integration with GroupThink later on which is also being pursued as a GSoC project seperately.

	Please find some of the diagrams shown below to aid in implementation of the project :		Please find some of the diagrams shown below to aid in implementation of the project :

Deepankgupta: /* About your project */

2009-04-15T01:14:07Z

About your project

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	The software is being developed in Python with emphasis on easy User Interface. The software will use : PyGTK for User Interface; Telepathy and DBus Tubes for connectivity; XML DOM API for xml		The software is being developed in Python with emphasis on easy User Interface. The software will use : PyGTK for User Interface; Telepathy and DBus Tubes for connectivity; XML DOM API for xml
	I will be reusing widgets. For instance, the Write activity uses the abiword widget from pyabiword and the Browse activity uses the gecko widget from hulahop. ~~I will also try to write widgets to get functionality from other existing activites if desired. (Stretch Goal)~~		I will be reusing widgets. For instance, the Write activity uses the abiword widget from pyabiword and the Browse activity uses the gecko widget from hulahop.

	The major work in this project is to provide a consistent method to share information over the mesh network. Currently, there are three scenarios which need to be supported:		The major work in this project is to provide a consistent method to share information over the mesh network. Currently, there are three scenarios which need to be supported:
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	* Method calls are called on a single participant, and they do have a return value.		* Method calls are called on a single participant, and they do have a return value.

			We can either use them as illustrated by the HelloMesh Activity directly or we can use their wrappers written by olpcgames folder in the package olpcgames.mesh . This package contains functions like Unicast, Broadcast, lookupBuddy, myHandle etc. which can be used as-is.

			The Sugar.Presence Service will also be imported to find out our own name(owner's name), buddies around you and shared activites.


			Please find some of the diagrams shown below to aid in implementation of the project :

	<gallery>		<gallery>

Deepankgupta: /* About your project */

2009-04-15T00:56:17Z

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	* Signals are multicast - they are sent to all participants in the shared activity (including the sender). They send data and have no return value.		* Signals are multicast - they are sent to all participants in the shared activity (including the sender). They send data and have no return value.
	* Method calls are called on a single participant, and they do have a return value.		* Method calls are called on a single participant, and they do have a return value.


			<gallery>

			Image:EducationalToolkit MVC.png\|Standard MVC Model

			Image:EducationalToolkit_Model.jpg\|Model Component

			Image:EducationalToolkit_Controller.jpg\|Controller Component

			Image:EducationalToolkit_UseCase.png\|UseCase diagram

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Deepankgupta: /* About your project */

2009-04-12T08:08:31Z

About your project

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	The software is being developed in Python with emphasis on easy User Interface. The software will use : PyGTK for User Interface; Telepathy and DBus Tubes for connectivity; XML DOM API for xml		The software is being developed in Python with emphasis on easy User Interface. The software will use : PyGTK for User Interface; Telepathy and DBus Tubes for connectivity; XML DOM API for xml
	I will be reusing widgets. For instance, the Write activity uses the abiword widget from pyabiword and the Browse activity uses the gecko widget from hulahop. I will also try to write widgets to get functionality from other existing activites if desired. (Stretch Goal)		I will be reusing widgets. For instance, the Write activity uses the abiword widget from pyabiword and the Browse activity uses the gecko widget from hulahop. I will also try to write widgets to get functionality from other existing activites if desired. (Stretch Goal)

			The major work in this project is to provide a consistent method to share information over the mesh network. Currently, there are three scenarios which need to be supported:
			#Unicast
			#GroupCast
			#Broadcast

			D-Bus provides signals and methods:
			* Signals are multicast - they are sent to all participants in the shared activity (including the sender). They send data and have no return value.
			* Method calls are called on a single participant, and they do have a return value.


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	'''July 21 - July 28 : '''		'''July 21 - July 28 : '''
	~~Integrate the Question and Answer Package so as to make~~ it ~~a forum post on~~ Moodle ~~Servers. According to Martin, Moodle has been already integrated and authenticated with Sugar.~~		Do feasibility study of integrating it with Moodle

	'''July 29 - August 5 : '''		'''July 29 - August 5 : '''
	Work on documentation ~~and integrate the activity with Moodle.~~		Work on documentation

	~~'''August 5 - August 10 : '''~~
	~~Port the activity on Windows also.~~

	'''August 10 - August 17 : '''		'''August 5 - August 17 : '''
	Internal Alpha release cycle.		Internal Alpha release cycle.

Deepankgupta: /* About your project */

2009-04-12T07:56:42Z

About your project

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	It aims to act like a tool which does not take over the job of teaching, but promotes natural class environment and will aim to fit in the classroom environment. The software promotes better examination methods and encourages group work which is vital in any learning environment.		It aims to act like a tool which does not take over the job of teaching, but promotes natural class environment and will aim to fit in the classroom environment. The software promotes better examination methods and encourages group work which is vital in any learning environment.

	Comparison with Moodle		'''''Comparison with Moodle'''''
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	First of all, although Moodle has provided with a great learning system, it does not solve all the problems for teachers and students. Many-a-times, students or teachers are looking forward to engage in a group problem solving exercise which is often impromptu. It seems a lot of work to start up a course page or assignment page, asking all the students to log into Moodle using Browse; start the course and search for the newly made assignment or post. Afterwards everybody will need to submit this problem as assignment individually. The act of collaboration is missing here. Apart from this, there is always this chance of not having internet in the first place at the school.		First of all, although Moodle has provided with a great learning system, it does not solve all the problems for teachers and students. Many-a-times, students or teachers are looking forward to engage in a group problem solving exercise which is often impromptu. It seems a lot of work to start up a course page or assignment page, asking all the students to log into Moodle using Browse; start the course and search for the newly made assignment or post. Afterwards everybody will need to submit this problem as assignment individually. The act of collaboration is missing here. Apart from this, there is always this chance of not having internet in the first place at the school.
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	Thus, the proposed activity is better than Moodle in the following ways:		Thus, the proposed activity is better than Moodle in the following ways:
			# It promotes real-time group collaboration.
	1. It promotes real-time group collaboration.		# Does not require internet/school server.
	2. Does not require internet/school server.		# Is native to sugar and does not require students/teachers to go through a lot of steps before accessing it.
	3. Is native to sugar and does not require students/teachers to go through a lot of steps before accessing it.		# Discourages the assignment/test feedback cycle kind of routine.
	4. Discourages the assignment/test feedback cycle kind of routine.

	It also has the following disadvantages as compared to Moodle:		It also has the following disadvantages as compared to Moodle:
			# This is a new project while Moodle has lots of developers and a very healthy community.
	1. This is a new project while Moodle has lots of developers and a very healthy community.		# Moodle caters to students who do not have xos but other computers. It will need to be made specifically for other computers.
	2. Moodle caters to students who do not have xos but other computers. It will need to be made specifically for other computers.

Deepankgupta: /* About your project */

2009-04-12T07:55:18Z

About your project

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	It aims to act like a tool which does not take over the job of teaching, but promotes natural class environment and will aim to fit in the classroom environment. The software promotes better examination methods and encourages group work which is vital in any learning environment.		It aims to act like a tool which does not take over the job of teaching, but promotes natural class environment and will aim to fit in the classroom environment. The software promotes better examination methods and encourages group work which is vital in any learning environment.

			Comparison with Moodle
			---------------------------

			First of all, although Moodle has provided with a great learning system, it does not solve all the problems for teachers and students. Many-a-times, students or teachers are looking forward to engage in a group problem solving exercise which is often impromptu. It seems a lot of work to start up a course page or assignment page, asking all the students to log into Moodle using Browse; start the course and search for the newly made assignment or post. Afterwards everybody will need to submit this problem as assignment individually. The act of collaboration is missing here. Apart from this, there is always this chance of not having internet in the first place at the school.

			Educational toolkit does not require either server or internet to start working with. Just make up a problem and share it with others and start working on it together.

			Thus, the proposed activity is better than Moodle in the following ways:

			1. It promotes real-time group collaboration.
			2. Does not require internet/school server.
			3. Is native to sugar and does not require students/teachers to go through a lot of steps before accessing it.
			4. Discourages the assignment/test feedback cycle kind of routine.

			It also has the following disadvantages as compared to Moodle:

			1. This is a new project while Moodle has lots of developers and a very healthy community.
			2. Moodle caters to students who do not have xos but other computers. It will need to be made specifically for other computers.



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Deepankgupta: /* You and the community */

2009-04-12T07:53:34Z

You and the community

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	~~'''TODO''': ''Get one more paragraph''~~		One of the major aims of Sugar is to promote constructive learning. By using the power of mesh network this activity seems to satisfy the teachers and students needs of a learning platform on XO in an interactive environment. The idea of collaborative problem solving seems powerful and enabling for students and teachers. This activity if completed will prove out to be an integral part of the sugar activity package. Looking forward to see work on the same. - Assim

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			This project will help meet two of the most important goals of free software communities -
			1. To make the learning platform and activities readily available to learners everywhere;
			2. To explore and share best tools and practices.
			In most developing countries, the teacher student ratio is 1:35. An activity like educational toolkit ensures that the teacher is able to give personalized attention to each and every student in the classroom learning. Also, this activity brings collaboration to the driving seat. Collaborative learning helps build a learning eco-system in its true sense. This has been missing in most classroom learning environments. I wish to see this proposal getting selected and changing this current state of the educational system.

			Manusheel Gupta
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	Q.2 : '''Sugar Labs will be working to set up a small (5-30 unit) Sugar pilot near each student project that is accepted to GSoC so that you can immediately see how your work affects children in a deployment. We will make arrangements to either supply or find all the equipment needed. Do you have any ideas on where you would like your deployment to be, who you would like to be involved, and how we can help you and the community in your area begin it?'''		Q.2 : '''Sugar Labs will be working to set up a small (5-30 unit) Sugar pilot near each student project that is accepted to GSoC so that you can immediately see how your work affects children in a deployment. We will make arrangements to either supply or find all the equipment needed. Do you have any ideas on where you would like your deployment to be, who you would like to be involved, and how we can help you and the community in your area begin it?'''

Dfarning: fix camelcase links

2009-04-03T21:27:09Z

fix camelcase links

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	====Miscellaneous====		====Miscellaneous====
	[[Image:Deepank_developer_challenge.png\|thumb\|right\|My Screenshot of changes with my email address]]		[[Image:Deepank_developer_challenge.png\|thumb\|right\|My Screenshot of changes with my email address]]
	Q.1 : '''We want to make sure that you can set up a [[~~DevelopmentTeam~~#Development_systems\|development environment]] before the summer starts. Please send us a link to a screenshot of your Sugar development environment with the following modification: when you hover over the XO-person icon in the middle of Home view, the drop-down text should have your email in place of "Restart." See the image on the right for an example. It's normal to need assistance with this, so please visit our IRC channel, #sugar on irc.freenode.net, and ask for help.'''		Q.1 : '''We want to make sure that you can set up a [[Development Team#Development_systems\|development environment]] before the summer starts. Please send us a link to a screenshot of your Sugar development environment with the following modification: when you hover over the XO-person icon in the middle of Home view, the drop-down text should have your email in place of "Restart." See the image on the right for an example. It's normal to need assistance with this, so please visit our IRC channel, #sugar on irc.freenode.net, and ask for help.'''

	Ans : The screenshot is attached on the right.		Ans : The screenshot is attached on the right.

Deepankgupta: /* About your project */

2009-03-26T13:08:27Z

About your project

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	'''''Specifications'''''		'''''Specifications'''''

	# '''Individual Test Distribution Story''' ~~: [[Image:System_dia.png\|200px\|thumb\|right\|System Diagram]]~~		# '''Individual Test Distribution Story'''
	## A teacher shares~~/broadcasts~~ the Question files(Usually Write Docs or HTML Files) to all the students in the class.		## A teacher shares the Question files(Usually Write Docs or HTML Files) to all the students in the class. This means that the file is sent to all the children in the Class Group. A teacher usually classifies all the students according to classes as groups on her XO, and when she selects a group, the file is sent to all the members of that group.
	## The question file is displayed in the Educational Toolkit GUI with all the questions rendered as links in the original GUI. Clicking on a link opens up the respective ~~Activity(eg. Write or Browse)~~ to display the question.		## The question file is displayed in the Educational Toolkit GUI with all the questions present rendered as links in the original GUI. Clicking on a link opens up the respective Widget to display the question.
	## The students work individually on the problems and the answer files generated by each student are sent back to the teacher.		## The students work individually on the problems and the answer files generated by each student are sent back to the teacher.
	# '''Question Generation Story''' :		# '''Question Generation Story''' :
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	## Stretch Goal : Enable the user to specify rendering information for links through GUI.		## Stretch Goal : Enable the user to specify rendering information for links through GUI.
	## Question Package file will be generated.		## Question Package file will be generated.
	# '''Group Test Taking Story''' ~~: [[Image:Edu_Toolkit_-_System_dia3.png\|200px\|thumb\|right\|System Diagram]]~~		# '''Group Test Taking Story'''
	## Teacher/Student has distributed the question Package file to all the students. The person who starts this test also forms the group i.e. sends an invite to the neighbouring xos to join to form a group. This will be implemented using the groups in the Group View.		## Teacher/Student has distributed the question Package file to all the students. The person who starts this test also forms the group i.e. sends an invite to the neighbouring xos to join to form a group. (Or a pre-formed group can be used). This will be implemented using the groups in the Group View.
	## The students are sharing their activities in the form of groups.		## The students are sharing their activities in the form of groups.
	## A student marks an answer of any question.		## A student marks an answer of any question.
	## The ~~answer gets~~ reflected on every student of the group i.e. it is ~~multicasted~~. Two ways of doing it: ~~Either generate an intermediate answer.xml file OR call~~ a remote method on every person in the group using DBUS.		## The changes made by a student are reflected on every student of the group i.e. it is sent to all the members of the group. Two ways of doing it: By calling a remote method on every person in the group using DBUS.
	# '''Review Answers''' ~~: [[Image:Edu_Toolkit_-_System_dia2.png\|200px\|thumb\|right\|System Diagram]]~~		# '''Review Answers'''
	## Teacher has got 3 files : question Package; answer Package and student_answer Package		## Teacher has got 3 files : question Package; answer Package and student_answer Package
	## The two answer files are displayed along with the question Package to enable a teacher to review the answers of the students.		## The two answer files are displayed along with the question Package to enable a teacher to review the answers of the students.
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	The software is being developed in Python with emphasis on easy User Interface. The software will use : PyGTK for User Interface; Telepathy and DBus Tubes for connectivity; XML DOM API for xml		The software is being developed in Python with emphasis on easy User Interface. The software will use : PyGTK for User Interface; Telepathy and DBus Tubes for connectivity; XML DOM API for xml
			I will be reusing widgets. For instance, the Write activity uses the abiword widget from pyabiword and the Browse activity uses the gecko widget from hulahop. I will also try to write widgets to get functionality from other existing activites if desired. (Stretch Goal)

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	'''May 24 - May 31 : '''		'''May 24 - May 31 : '''
	Work on connection manager to provide : Unicast, Broadcast, ~~Multicast~~ of messages and also to make the activity shareable.		Work on connection manager to provide : Unicast, Broadcast, Group-cast of messages and also to make the activity shareable. (Note that we are avoiding the term multicast as it has a specific technical meaning and is very difficult to achieve on the physical layer in a mesh network.)

	'''June 1 - June 9 : '''		'''June 1 - June 9 : '''