Dennis Daniels
Joined 2 August 2009
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=whoami= | |||
I am a teacher that believes most schools are teaching 19th century skills in a 21st century world.Sugar, and similar projects can help reverse that sorry state of affairs. | |||
=scope and info= | |||
I want to reproduce something like I did [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5202122558113609861&ei=vHQlSpmEE4GyqAOEmMXjBQ&q=LTSP here]. | |||
=links= | |||
Ck out the project here: http://www.sugarlabs.org/ | Ck out the project here: http://www.sugarlabs.org/ | ||
Sugar project has great promise in helping build schools where students are evaluated on performance rather than testing. | Sugar project has great promise in helping build schools where students are evaluated on performance rather than testing. | ||
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irc://irc.freenode.net#sugar | irc://irc.freenode.net#sugar | ||
=ongoing issues= | =ongoing issues= | ||
*no | |||
==general== | |||
*sometimes after installing a new .xo users will not see it in the 'ring' | |||
**fix is to restart Sugar... :( | |||
*users are not notified of new .xo versions | |||
*no easy way to report a bug as anonymous | |||
**In fact, it takes 16 clicks(knowing what you are doing!) to post a bug to the tracker | |||
*arrow keys and delete key in emulator do not work in (many,Write) activity | |||
*NO OBVIOUS save/commit button or hot key (UI makes no change to indicate save has happened) | |||
*no mouse control or button to activate frames or home view (ctrl +shift doesn't allow for use of Sugar hot keys) | *no mouse control or button to activate frames or home view (ctrl +shift doesn't allow for use of Sugar hot keys) | ||
*ctrl + shift in emulator is a real pain | *ctrl + shift in emulator is a real pain | ||
*-no indication in the UI that a save has taken place | *-no indication in the UI that a save has taken place | ||
*-copy and paste out of the emulator does not work | *-copy and paste out of the emulator does not work | ||
*-can't name chats | *-can't name chats | ||
==sharing== | |||
*-no indication in the UI to let me know if someone is sharing/editing with me (?) | *-no indication in the UI to let me know if someone is sharing/editing with me (?) | ||
**I want to find a way to 'play' with others in the neighborhood | |||
*-announcements to neighborhood to indicate 'let's play/work together' | *-announcements to neighborhood to indicate 'let's play/work together' | ||
*-control over edits to shared docs? | *-control over edits to shared docs? | ||
*my shared documents are not 'connected to me' in the neighborhood view | |||
===wish=== | |||
*That every open source developer make more screencasts | |||
*Something like http://www.clubpenguin.com/ for sharing learning activities where kids could play each other's games, interact, code... :) | |||
*list of public or portal jabber sites that are using Sugar for collaboration among schools... | |||
==activities== | |||
===write=== | |||
*new icons don't say much about their functionality | |||
===labyrinth=== | |||
*re name to 'map my ideas'? | |||
*linking is awkward | |||
*save save as image? how?where? | |||
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xzjchQ1pUk | |||
===Pippy=== | |||
*Pippy doesn't load examples | *Pippy doesn't load examples | ||
===Speak=== | |||
== | *No easy way to edit robot text or speech | ||
===Turtle ARt=== | |||
where does HTML from TA get saved? v67 no joy | |||
: supposed to be in the journal but it doesn't appear to work | |||
:need to figure out templates(?) | |||
===map=== | |||
*Doesn't work very well in emulator mode | |||
==don't work at all== | ==don't work at all== | ||
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*cartoonbuilder | *cartoonbuilder | ||
*help activity | *help activity | ||
==tags== | |||
sugar linux olpc education screencast collaboration ubuntu jhbuild speak pippy neighborhood open_source computer computing learning programming python squeak logs python mindmap drawing teaching free sharing networking recordmydesktop think learn read explore guided_instruction | |||
==links== | ==links== | ||
<code> irc://irc.freenode.net#sugar </code> | <code> irc://irc.freenode.net#sugar </code> | ||
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==pages I watch== | ==pages I watch== | ||
[[16Sep9 Presentation of Sugar to Gnocode in New Orleans]] | |||
[[Sugar Perspective]] | |||
[[Make error on hulahop]] | [[Make error on hulahop]] | ||
[[Using Moodle as an Activity Host]] | [[Using Moodle as an Activity Host]] | ||
[[Reporting a bug activity diagram with suggested solution]] | |||
[[hotkeys]] | [[hotkeys]] | ||