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2. Claudia Urrea and I spend the first half of the week in Managua with Felix Garrido and the deployment team at Fundación Zamora Terán. The overall purpose of the visit was to discuss strategies for evaluation in light of the foundation's recent expansion of its laptop program to the Island of Ometepe. I spent some time acquainting the learning team with the latest feature of the Portfolio tool and some enhancements to Sugar that will "make learning visible" not just to administrators, but also to the learners themselves. While we were there, also I had a chance to catch up with Daniel Drake and consume some taco soup.

2. Claudia Urrea and I spend the first half of the week in Managua with Felix Garrido and the deployment team at Fundación Zamora Terán. The overall purpose of the visit was to discuss strategies for evaluation in light of the foundation's recent expansion of its laptop program to the Island of Ometepe. I spent some time acquainting the learning team with the latest feature of the Portfolio tool and some enhancements to Sugar that will "make learning visible" not just to administrators, but also to the learners themselves. While we were there, also I had a chance to catch up with Daniel Drake and consume some taco soup.

During the conversation with the learning team, the topic of nutrition came up. FZT is working with USAID on a nutrition curriculum. We discussed ways to integrate the curriculum into Sugar, by or example, using the Turtle Art [[Activities/TurtleArt#Nutrition|Food Plugin]]. I was inspired by our discussion of the Food Pyramid, so on the flight back to Boston, I wrote a new activity, [[Activities/Nutrition]]. What is potentially fun about it is that not only can you explore the precompiled database of foods, but you can also load your own foods into the database. So, for example, a child could take a photo (using Record) or draw a picture (using Paint) of dinner, and then load that food into the activity.

During the conversation with the learning team, the topic of nutrition came up. FZT is working with USAID on a nutrition curriculum. We discussed ways to integrate the curriculum into Sugar, by for example, using the Turtle Art [[Activities/TurtleArt#Nutrition|Food Plugin]]. I was inspired by our discussion of the Food Pyramid, so on the flight back to Boston, I wrote a new activity, [[Activities/Nutrition]]. What is potentially fun about it is that not only can you explore the precompiled database of foods, but you can also load your own foods into the database. So, for example, a child could take a photo (using Record) or draw a picture (using Paint) of dinner, and then load that food into the activity.

3. The Scratch team has updated their license documentation such that it is once again compatible with Sugar's Free Software guidelines. Please see [http://info.scratch.mit.edu/GPLv2_Licensed_Scratch_Code].

3. The Scratch team has updated their license documentation such that it is once again compatible with Sugar's Free Software guidelines. Please see [http://info.scratch.mit.edu/GPLv2_Licensed_Scratch_Code].