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===Explore===
===Explore===


The Explore subject contains courses which provide orientation in the use of the OLPC laptop, Karma Learning System and the preparation of lessons. It also has a course which provides examples of different types of lessons or Learn activities.
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The getstarted course has four milestones. Each milestone is a section from the 0.82 version of the Help activity (http://laptop.org/8.2.0/manual/). This illustrates how documentation can be made into Learn activities.
The sample coontent in the Explore subject is organized into six courses:
#examples
#getstarted
#learn
#lesson
#quiz
#library
 
====Examples====
 
The examples course has three milestones:
 
=====Basic Lessons=====
 
This milestone illustrates the capabilities of basic lessons. These are five activities (or lessons)
in this milestone:
#text only (lesson in French from Haiti)
#text plus image (lesson from École Shalom in Haiti)
#multi-screen lesson (lesson from Siyavula)
#text + image with audio (lesson from Rwanda Curriculum Workshop 2010).
#text with interactive quiz (taken from a past P6 leaving exam in Haiti (French)).
 
====Sugar Activities====
 
The second milestone shows some examples of using a Sugar activity in a lesson. The Learn activity stores the lesson content in a bundle in the Journal and then resumes the activity from that Journal object. To return to the Learn activity, quit the 'launched' activity.
#ShowNTell - This activity launches ShowNTell with a slide show illustrating how to use Turtle Blocks to draw Vertical, Horizontal, and Oblique lines. This is an example of a 'Step-by-Step'. This concept is explained in more detail below.
#Quiz - This activity launches the Quiz activity with a quiz on body parts (in French). Look for version 6 on activities.sugarlabs.org which will support this example. The current version 5 does not work.
#Memorize - This activity launches the Memorize activity with a bundle on Roman Numerals.
#Turtle Blocks (Turtle Art) - This activity launches Turtle Blocks in support of the first example.
#Wordsearch - This example launches the Wordsearch activity with a specific wordlist. This requires a modification to Wordsearch to be able to use a bundle when resumed from the Journal. This example does not work with Version 1 (It launches Wordsearch but the word list is the default sample).
#British Council - This activity does not launch a Sugar activity. It does show an example of having students read a short story with audio. This is one of a group of thirty-four stories which can be used in a deployment by arrangement with the British Council. These stories have one or more separate exercises in reading comprehension or vocabulary development which can also be used with Learn by arrangement with the British Council.


The learn course has three milestones. The first milestone describes the use of the Gnome desktop which may be installed on an XO in recent builds of the software. The next two milestones describe building courses and milestones. Much of this material is not applicable to this version of Learn, but does illustrate how courses can be constructed. These milestones were created using the tools in Learn.
====Khan Academy====


The lesson course has a single milestone with a single activity. This activity launches the ShowNTell activity to show a step-by-step method to create a new activity. This step-by-step is incomplete but illustrates the procedure. When using Learn to launch Sugar activities, there are two important points. First, the activity being launched must be installed. Second, quit the launched activity to return to Learn.
This milestone has two activities:


The quiz course has three milestones which describe how to build a question bank using Moodle and how to create quiz activities using these questions.
#video - This activity plays the Basic Addition video by launching the Jukebox activity. Any Khan Academy video can be used with the Learn activity, currently after conversion to .ogv format. At École Saint Jacobs, the Mathematics subject in Term 2 has about a dozen of these videos covering basic arithmetic topics.
#exercises - Many Khan Academy videos are accompanied by exercises. This example runs the exercise associated with the Basic Addition video. This exercise is in a format which is no longer used on the Khan Academy site.  


The library course describes how to use the Library activity to access the school digital library on the school server. This capability is a part of the Karma Learning System and is not available independent of a school server with KLS installed.


The examples course contains many examples showing the range of activities that can be included in a Learn course.
===Get Started===


The first milestone gives five examples of lessons prepared by teachers for use in the classroom.  
The getstarted course has four milestones. Each milestone is a section from the 0.82 version of the Help activity (http://laptop.org/8.2.0/manual/). This illustrates how documentation can be made into Learn activities.


The second milestone shows examples of using a Sugar activity in a lesson. These activities use ShowNTell, Quiz, Memorize, and Turtle Art. The Quiz activity currently uploaded is not set up to work with Learn. A new version with this capability will be uploaded soon. The last activity is one of the British Council stories. These stories and other materials can be included in a KLS installation through arrangements with the British Council.  
The learn course has three milestones. The first milestone describes the use of the Gnome desktop which may be installed on an XO in recent builds of the software. The next two milestones describe building courses and milestones. Much of this material is not applicable to this version of Learn, but does illustrate how courses can be constructed. These milestones were created using the tools in Learn.


The templates course is in preparation. It has an example of using wordsearch; however, this depends on a version of the Wordsearch activity which can be resumed from the Journal. This version will be uploaded soon.  
The lesson course has a single milestone with a single activity. This activity launches the ShowNTell activity to show a step-by-step method to create a new activity. This step-by-step is incomplete but illustrates the procedure. When using Learn to launch Sugar activities, there are two important points. First, the activity being launched must be installed. Second, quit the launched activity to return to Learn.


The other two activities are examples of using the math.js script in the Karma library. This is also under development but illustrates the possibility of a lesson in mathematics which generates relevant problems for practice and which can show a student the correct procedure to work a problem when the student supplies an incorrect answer.  
The quiz course has three milestones which describe how to build a question bank using Moodle and how to create quiz activities using these questions.


The last milestone has two activities. The first activity launches the Jukebox activity to show a Khan Academy video. The second milestone provides exercises related to the video. KLS includes an extensive collection of videos and exercises from the Khan Academy which are relevant to typical primary school mathematics courses.
The library course describes how to use the Library activity to access the school digital library on the school server. This capability is a part of the Karma Learning System and is not available independent of a school server with KLS installed.


==Creating Lessons==
==Creating Lessons==
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