Joel
Joined 8 May 2008
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== [[User:Joel/WhoWroteSugar | Who Wrote Sugar?]] == | |||
== [[User:Joel/AdelaideLocalLab | Adelaide Local Lab]] == | |||
== Sugar deployment == | |||
I've been helping Bill Kerr[http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/], a teacher at a local school who have been trialling Sugar in the classroom, using Live images on USB keys. The Live-USB method allows them to use a slightly-dated lab full of Dell machines that normally run Windows XP to run Sugar, without having to get the school sysadmin involved. | |||
The class has been using first a 650-based build, and more recently a 0.82 release of Sugar for a semester. They have maintained a wiki[http://xo-whs.wikispaces.com/] on the topic. | |||
== Spreading the word == | == Spreading the word == | ||
I'm slowly developing my public speaking skills by giving talks to groups - teachers, hackers, uni and highschool students - initially about OLPC, but now about Sugar in it's many forms. | I'm slowly developing my public speaking skills by giving talks to groups - teachers, hackers, uni and highschool students - initially about OLPC, but now about Sugar in it's many forms. | ||
A list of the formal talks I've done, for my own | A list of the formal talks I've done, for my own record | ||
* '''LinuxSA'''[http://www.linuxsa.org.au/meetings/], Adelaide, ''One Laptop per Child'', February 2007 | * '''LinuxSA'''[http://www.linuxsa.org.au/meetings/], Adelaide, ''One Laptop per Child'', February 2007 | ||
* '''Game makeing cluster'''[http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2007/06/joel-stanley.html], Melbourne, ??? 2007 | * '''Game makeing cluster'''[http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2007/06/joel-stanley.html], Melbourne, ??? 2007 | ||
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* '''Woodville Highschool''', Adelaide, September 2008 | * '''Woodville Highschool''', Adelaide, September 2008 | ||
* '''UniSA'''[http://godot.unisa.edu.au/digitalage/], Adelaide, Guest lectured for class ''Exploring the Digital Age'', October 2008 | * '''UniSA'''[http://godot.unisa.edu.au/digitalage/], Adelaide, Guest lectured for class ''Exploring the Digital Age'', October 2008 | ||
* '''VITTA 2008'''[http://archive.vitta.org.au/conference/2008/], Melbourne, November 2008 | |||
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== Itch == | == Itch == | ||
[[Image:Screenshot-Itch.png | right]] | [[Image:Screenshot-Itch.png | right]] | ||
Thanks to Roland, a teacher who I met while giving a talk on OLPC, I came into | Thanks to Roland Gesthuizen[http://plakboek.livejournal.com/], a teacher who I met while giving a talk on OLPC, I came into possession of a Scratch Board - now named [http://www.picocricket.com/picoboard.html Pico Board]. It's a small serial based breakout board, with a bunch of sensor inputs. I've hacked together some python to read this data out and display it. This has evolved into an activity for the XO. | ||
http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/joel/itch-activity;a=summary | http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/joel/itch-activity;a=summary | ||
I would like to see this become integrated with [[User:Arjs | Arjun]]'s sensor work in Measure and Turtle Art. Perhaps next would be turning the python into a library suitable for using the sensor data in these programs, and/or Pippy. | I would like to see this become integrated with [[User:Arjs | Arjun]]'s sensor work in Measure and Turtle Art. Perhaps next would be turning the python into a library suitable for using the sensor data in these programs, and/or Pippy. | ||