edu team meeting August 12
Avigail reported from a workshop she did together with Kathleen Smith and Kathleen Harness. It went very well, the teachers were interested and worked long hours.
corr. from Avigail: The workshop I reported about was for high and middle school CS teachers, was organized by Prof. Lenny Pitt, Dr. Morten Lundsgaard, Kathleen Harness, Kathleen Smith and Avigail Snir. Became possible by a grant from GOOGLE.
Rita reported the recent news about planning a Squeakfest in Uruguay next year. Mariana already started talking to people. Now she needs a letter from Squeakland where we state what is special about Etoys, why it is important to have the event etc. The education team will start writing it. We also talked about ideas for online courses. We'll try to get funding for the development, it could be a joint effort with UNCW, EtoysIllinois, University Magdeburg, Uruguay, Brazil.
Then we talked about the upcoming Etoys release. We think we should not change the look of Etoys to indicate that we have a new version. We don't want to confuse users. It is sufficient to have the version info in the about flap.
We need to come up with a structure for a website for teachers, we need to define what should be on the first page, what comes next etc. We do already have a lot of material, we need to figure out how to present it better.
Here is the chat log:
avigail reports from a summer course with teachers which went very wel
[12.08.10 18:48:44] Rita Freudenberg: Mariana needs a letter from Squeakland about why Etoys is important, why the event is so important etc.
[12.08.10 18:56:30] Rita Freudenberg: the education team should start writing it, then refine it
[12.08.10 18:56:47] Rita Freudenberg: write a proposal to develop online courses
[12.08.10 18:57:13] Rita Freudenberg: doing it together with UNCW, Illinois, Brazil, Uruguay
[12.08.10 19:07:39] Rita Freudenberg: http://translate.sugarlabs.org/projects/etoys/
[12.08.10 19:09:16] Rita Freudenberg: ask Bert about string like "increase by" in translations. it is not translated in portuguese.
[12.08.10 19:14:17] Rita Freudenberg: maybe change the color of the car to indicate the new version?
[12.08.10 19:15:29] Rita Freudenberg: edu team doesn't want to change the look of Etoys
[12.08.10 19:16:57] Rita Freudenberg: because it is very recognizable
[12.08.10 19:28:48] Rita Freudenberg: how should a starting page for teachers look like?
[12.08.10 19:34:24] Rita Freudenberg: get to find projects in a non-serial way
[12.08.10 19:35:10] Rita Freudenberg: make a path for teachers on the website
[12.08.10 19:38:23] Rita Freudenberg: rita will make a doodle to schedule a week for the book sprint
avigail reports from a summer course with teachers which went very wel
[12.08.10 18:48:44] Rita Freudenberg: Mariana needs a letter from Squeakland about why Etoys is important, why the event is so important etc.
[12.08.10 18:56:30] Rita Freudenberg: the education team should start writing it, then refine it
[12.08.10 18:56:47] Rita Freudenberg: write a proposal to develop online courses
[12.08.10 18:57:13] Rita Freudenberg: doing it together with UNCW, Illinois, Brazil, Uruguay
[12.08.10 19:07:39] Rita Freudenberg: http://translate.sugarlabs.org/projects/etoys/
[12.08.10 19:09:16] Rita Freudenberg: ask Bert about string like "increase by" in translations. it is not translated in portuguese.
[12.08.10 19:14:17] Rita Freudenberg: maybe change the color of the car to indicate the new version?
[12.08.10 19:15:29] Rita Freudenberg: edu team doesn't want to change the look of Etoys
[12.08.10 19:16:57] Rita Freudenberg: because it is very recognizable
[12.08.10 19:28:48] Rita Freudenberg: how should a starting page for teachers look like?
[12.08.10 19:34:24] Rita Freudenberg: get to find projects in a non-serial way
[12.08.10 19:35:10] Rita Freudenberg: make a path for teachers on the website
[12.08.10 19:38:23] Rita Freudenberg: rita will make a doodle to schedule a week for the book sprint