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Created page with 'From Planetarium, translated from German. = Sugar Pilot Berlin = The purpose of this Sugar pilot project is to evaluate the Sugar Learning Platform for use in Berlin schoo…'
From [[Planetarium]], translated from German.
= Sugar Pilot Berlin =
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."
The [http://www.gsap.de/ Planetarium School] 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://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_% 29% 28Programmiersprache LOGO programming language]. 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.
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]. (Separately,) 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.
= Technical details =
Die bestehende Infrastruktur der Schule musste nur erweitert werden. Nachdem in den ersten Probeläufen auf [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick Sugar on a Stick] zurück gegriffen wurde, konnte in der zweiten Phase Sugar auf den Computern fest installiert werden. Bei den Laptops wurde die Windows-Installation um eine Linux-Installation inklusive Sugar erweitert. Beim Start der Computer kann somit zwischen den beiden Systemen gewählt werden. Als Linux-Distribution wurde [http://fedoraproject.org/ Fedora] 11 gewählt. Dies beinhaltet die Sugar-Version 0.84.
Der Server der Schule benutzt [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Directory_Access_Protocol LDAP] zur Authentifizierung der Benutzer. Fedora unterstützt diese Art der Authentifizierung und somit musste nur eine Konfiguration im Client angepasst werden. Für das Einbinden der Netzwerklaufwerke wird [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_File_System NFS] verwendet, welches ebenso durch das Anpassen einer Konfigurationsdatei auf den Clients freigeschaltet wurde. Um die Installation nicht auf allen Computern wiederholen zu müssen, wurde eine fertige Installation auf einem Computer mit der Software [http://clonezilla.org/ Clonezilla] dupliziert und auf den anderen Computern aufgespielt.
= Sugar Pilot Berlin =
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."
The [http://www.gsap.de/ Planetarium School] 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://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_% 29% 28Programmiersprache LOGO programming language]. 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.
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]. (Separately,) 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.
= Technical details =
Die bestehende Infrastruktur der Schule musste nur erweitert werden. Nachdem in den ersten Probeläufen auf [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick Sugar on a Stick] zurück gegriffen wurde, konnte in der zweiten Phase Sugar auf den Computern fest installiert werden. Bei den Laptops wurde die Windows-Installation um eine Linux-Installation inklusive Sugar erweitert. Beim Start der Computer kann somit zwischen den beiden Systemen gewählt werden. Als Linux-Distribution wurde [http://fedoraproject.org/ Fedora] 11 gewählt. Dies beinhaltet die Sugar-Version 0.84.
Der Server der Schule benutzt [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Directory_Access_Protocol LDAP] zur Authentifizierung der Benutzer. Fedora unterstützt diese Art der Authentifizierung und somit musste nur eine Konfiguration im Client angepasst werden. Für das Einbinden der Netzwerklaufwerke wird [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_File_System NFS] verwendet, welches ebenso durch das Anpassen einer Konfigurationsdatei auf den Clients freigeschaltet wurde. Um die Installation nicht auf allen Computern wiederholen zu müssen, wurde eine fertige Installation auf einem Computer mit der Software [http://clonezilla.org/ Clonezilla] dupliziert und auf den anderen Computern aufgespielt.