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<title><![CDATA[Explicitar los lugares comunes]]></title>
<link>http://ladulcebefana.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/explicitar-los-lugares-comunes/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 06:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Algunas notas sobre el grupo de Implementación de Sugar Hace un par de semanas me propusieron ayudar]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><strong>Algunas notas sobre el grupo de Implementación de Sugar </strong></p>
<p>Hace un par de semanas me propusieron ayudar en la coordinación del grupo de Implementación de Sugar Labs. Es una de esas misiones que uno asume con una mezcla de felicidad y preocupación. Casualmente esta última semana se ha discutido bastante sobre el tema en la lista de <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2009-August/017765.html">sugar-devel</a>. Así que dispuesta a aceptar el cargo, estas son algunas de mis impresiones sobre el  grupo de implementación de Sugar Labs y sobre los retos de esta tarea.</p>
<p>Cual es la mision del Grupo de Implementación?</p>
<p>Del <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Deployment_Team">wiki</a>: &#8220;The mission of the Deployment Team is to voice the needs of Sugar deployments to the Sugar community, to find ways to support those needs, to organize forums for the exchange of experiences between Sugar users and Sugar developers, and to build local Sugar Labs organizations worldwide.&#8221;</p>
<p>Teniendo eso en cuenta, lo que interesaría es tratar de contactar y mantener una relación estrecha con las implementaciones.</p>
<p>¿Quiénes serían el grupo objetivo de esta búsqueda de cercanía?</p>
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<li>los usuarios directos de Sugar: niños, niñas y docentes que utilizan cotidianamente Sugar en un proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje.</li>
<li>Los administrativos a cargo del proceso de implementación en las instituciones, a quienes se les debe &#8220;convencer&#8221; de la necesidad de esta comunicación. La idea de &#8220;convencer&#8221; debería dar cuenta de darles algo que también les sirva. Ofrecer a la institución algo que sirva de intersección y a la vez permita empoderar a los individuos de la comunidad.</li>
<li>Los desarrolladores de Sugar, que necesitan una retroalimentación constante para mejorar la plataforma.</li>
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<p>Ser la voz de las implementaciones implica estar en ellas, padecerlas y conocerlas. En últimas el grupo de implementación debe preguntarse por cómo construir posturas válidas desde dentro, incluyendo a todas las partes del proyecto, siendo consciente de lo local.</p>
<p>Buscar la manera de soportar las necesidades es estar conscientes de los retos y las limitaciones que impone el tipo de trabajo en el que estamos. Quienes somos, o quienes creemos ser: un proyecto comunitario, mayoritariamente voluntario, donde generalmente hay una gran distancia entre aquellos que elaboran el software y los otros que lo implementan.  Esas distancias muchas veces han sido legados de procesos pasados de los que aun conservamos cierta tendencia al centralismo, al asistencialismo y a abstraer tanto a usuarios como a desarrolladores. Teniendo esto en cuenta necesitamos pensar, ¿cuáles son los espacios de confluencia? ¿cuáles son los mecanismos que nos permiten una comunicacipn más fluida?, ¿cómo se  logran romper las barreras impuestas por el idioma y las idiosincrasias?, ¿cómo darles voz a aquellos cuya opinión generalmente no ha sido tomada en cuenta?, ¿cómo volver este proceso más transversal?</p>
<p>En cuanto al trabajo de los desarrolladores y el grupo de Implementación, ¿hemos logrado mejorar el software y la interfaz gráfica a partir de supuestos o estamos más cercanos y atentos a las verdaderas necesidades? ¿cómo conocerlas? ¿cómo dejar las suposiciones?  Es necesario lograr tener interlocutores (pares capaces de dialogar) antes que interpretes.</p>
<p>¿Qué tipo de foros y en que tipo de espacios se deben encontrar los desarrolladores y las personas de implementación? Foros de maestros, listas de correo, foros de discusión de software, eventos de divulgación, eventos académicos, eventos de promoción de tecnología, ferias de ciencia? Será alocado pensar que los desarrolladores deben buscar la cercanía y no tratar de forzar a los maestros a que participen en un proceso que sienten lejano. Necesitamos espacios de conversaciones transversales, no espacios donde se va a escuchar al que sabe (conferencias, foros&#8230;)  y más espacios de escucharnos entre los que construimos y tenemos saberes distintos (world café, open space&#8230;) Hay que construir espacios de diálogo, hay que dejar de esperar que vengan a contar como ha sido la experiencia de uso y tal vez ir a ver que es lo que buscan, quieren o necesitan ¿Cómo se puede construir en conjunto?</p>
<p>¿Qué aportan los local labs en este proceso? De la forma como se están generando los local labs pueden ser espacios de confluencia. Lugares donde permitir que haya una mayor circulación de las ideas y donde la limitaciones de idioma e idiosincrasia suelen ser fácilmente salvables. Faltan en estos procesos lograr mayor autonomía y autosostenibilidad en el tiempo.</p>
<p><strong>Los peligros del pasado</strong></p>
<p>Algo que encuentro desafortunado y que definitivamente no podemos repetir es el centralismo que ha caracterizado a OLPC como organización y la necesidad de mantener el control de las implementaciones, impidiendo la cercanía de la comunidad con muchas de ellas. Esto aparece como un obstáculo para que el grupo de implementación tenga una injerencia real en las implementaciones. A título personal creo que la falta de visión de OLPC como una gran comunidad, donde se favorezcan grupos locales antes que globales y donde el proyecto se centre en procesos  de apropiamiento tecnológico desde lo micro y no desde lo macro ha sido un factor que ha contribuido al alejamiento, desconocimiento e incluso recelo a la participación de las comunidades en estos procesos. Si a eso se suma que generalmente los proyectos no han sido consultados ni construidos con aquellos a los que directamente se les hace responsables de las implementaciones nos vemos con un problema mayor.</p>
<p><strong>El reto planteado</strong></p>
<p>Abramos canales que permitan ser mantenidos desde la cercanía, ¿conocen un proyecto que use Sugar que no tenga acompañamiento? del que no tengamos retroalimentación, por más distante siempre será posible conseguir los datos de las personas responsables de él, podemos ofrecerles la idea de convertirnos en una comunidad que los apoye, donde sus inquietudes puedan ser oídas,  donde sus aportes permitan mejorar su trabajo, podemos proponer eventos de intercambio de experiencias o de intercambio de prácticas. Facilitemos dinámicas que empoderen a los docentes pero que sirvan también a la institución. El reto es buscar lugares de intersección con las instituciones donde potenciar a los individuos y crecer como comunidad.</p>
<p>Finalmente, para mí, estos son nuestros &#8220;lugares comunes&#8221;. Las acciones que nos pueden permitir encontrarnos: transvesalizar, flexibilizar, favorecer microcambios que generen macrocomportamientos, tender puentes, crear comunidades sostenibles autónomas pero vinculadas, lograr apropiación tecnológica, escalar los procesos, crecer y madurar como comunidad, incluir otras experiencias, favorecer lo local, construir lo global, crecer orgánicamente&#8230;</p>
<p>Nuestra ventaja es que tenemos un elemento didáctico, tenemos el software, las actividades, la propuesta de interfaz, pero nuestros objetivos nos llevan más allá a pensar en el ambito pedagógico y la pregunta por como mejorar la educación siempre implica apuestas políticas, si se quiere ideológicas.  ( No lo digo yo, lo retomo de Freire, de la pedagogía de la esperanza). Pensar en personas críticas que puedan solucionar de forma creativa problemas, pensar en personas éticamente convencidas de la utilización de herramientas libres y contribuir a la construccion de una sociedad con valores dieferentes es una apuesta política. Pero en la realidad muchos son los lugares comunes y muy pocas las prácticas que nos permiten visualizarlos. Ese es el reto.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Printing from moodle just works.]]></title>
<link>http://materializingsweetness.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/printing-from-moodle-just-works/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>iwikiwi</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[As the title speaks, Printing from Moodle just works. Screen1 Screen2 A few things to note, the thin]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>As the title speaks, Printing from Moodle just works.<br />
<a href="http://i27.tinypic.com/2rrv58p.jpg"> Screen1</a><br />
<a href="http://i28.tinypic.com/2hzl1mq.jpg"> Screen2</a><br />
A few things to note, the thing is still messed up. There is quite a lot of work to be done.<br />
1) Add a settings page for the administrator (global File upload limit*)<br />
2) Clean the UI messages<br />
3) Get the messy XML-RPC code working! ( I cant figure out how to save the sent binary data as a pdf&#8230;)</p>
<p>If that&#8217;s done 85%-90% of this project will be done.</p>
<p>Tim (from Moodle) and Martin had suggested I redo my module as a block, BUT my idea was before I pull out something new, get at least this working <strong>completely</strong> so I have a backup.<br />
So anyway, apologies for the late update, but fighting with xml-rpc is taking longer, and I had been travelling too.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[SugarLabs Colombia en el Campus Party]]></title>
<link>http://sugarlabscolombia.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/sugarlabs-campus-party/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sugaradmin</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Campus Party es reconocido como el mayor evento de tecnología, creatividad, ocio y cultura digital e]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&#34;">Campus Party es reconocido como el mayor evento de tecnología, creatividad, ocio y cultura digital en red del mundo. Un encuentro anual realizado desde 1997  en España,  y desde el año pasado en Colombia, que reúne durante siete días a miles de participantes con sus computadores, con el fin de compartir inquietudes, intercambiar experiencias y realizar todo tipo de actividades relacionadas con el computador, las comunicaciones y las nuevas tecnologías.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&#34;">Y SugarLabs Colombia no podía faltar.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&#34;"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&#34;">Unas cuantas imágenes de nuestra participación.</span></p>

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<div id="_mcePaste" style="overflow:hidden;position:absolute;left:-10000px;top:319px;width:1px;height:1px;">SugarLabs Colombia</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Fotos Sugar Labs Colombia en Campus Party</span> by <strong><a rel="cc:attributionURL" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/aztlek/">Luis Alejandro Bernal</a></strong> is licensed under a<strong> <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/co/">Creative Commons Atribución-No Comercial-Compartir Obras Derivadas Igual 2.5 Colombia License</a></strong>. La foto de las máquinas es propiedad de Darío Fernando Andrade.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&#34;">Además de la conferencia durante la semana presentamos las soluciones de Sugar en el XO, Sugar en un Classmate 2, Sugar on a Stick y Sugar como Live CD. Durante la Campus se lanzó un programa de <a href="http://elhistoriadordigital.blogspot.com/2009/07/dona-una-usb-de-1gb-al-proyecto.html">donación de memorias de 1GB para crear SOAS</a>. <span> </span>Estuvimos muy inquietos!!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&#34;">También fuimos entrevistados por la Gente de FCM, quienes nos preguntaron sobre nuestros proyectos, la historia de OLPC y Sugar Labs y las diferentes alternativas para usar Sugar. Un pequeño resumen de la entrevista:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">“<em>El Proyecto <strong><span style="font-family:&#34;">OLPC One Laptop per Child</span></strong> se anuncio en  2005 y a partir de entonces inicio su desarrollo tanto del Diseño de la máquina como tal es decir el Hardware, así como el Diseño del programa el Software, que tipo de programas deberían estar dentro de ese computador, que sirvieran con el propósito específico de educación.” </em><strong><a href="http://feriasycongresosdelmundo.com/index.php/olpc-one-laptop-per-child-presente-en-campus-party-colombia-2009-corferias-con-la-fundacion-sugar-labs-colombia/">Seguir leyendo la entrevista</a></strong>.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&#34;">Campus Party Colombia fue el primer evento en el que formalmente se presenta la Fundación Sugar Labs Colombia. Esperamos estar presentes en los demás eventos de Tecnología, Educación y Software Libre realizados en Colombia, siempre apoyando, difundiendo y sobre todo enseñando alternativas para los niños, niñas y jóvenes en las que estamos trabajando. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&#34;">Si eres un gomoso de la tecnología y el software libre, si estás interesado en el uso de plataformas libres para educación y quieres <a href="http://co.sugarlabs.org/go/Involucrarse">involucrarte en nosotros equipos de trabajo</a> aun puedes hacerlo, sólo ingresa en el <a href="http://www.kristianpaul.org/~paul/sugar/">formulario de voluntarios</a> y envíanos </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&#34;">tus datos.</span></p>
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<link>http://bytheways.wordpress.com/2009/06/28/gula-batangan-hidupkan-lagi-komputer-tua/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 04:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Komputer-komputer tua yang masih berfungsi komponen-komponen hardwarenya tak perlu masuk ke gudang a]]></description>
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<p>Sugar merupakan sistem operasi open source yang sebelumnya didesian untuk komputer sejuta umat dalam program OLPC (one laptop per child). Spesifikasinya sangat sederhana dan tidak boros sumber daya.</p>
<p>Pengembangnya, Sugar Labs telah merekayasa agar software tersebut dapat berjalan di komputer desktop tanpa harus melakukan instalasi. caranya dengan memasukkannya ke dalam sebuah batang USB dan dapat dijalankan langsung saat komputer melakukan booting atau dihidupkan.</p>
<p>&#34;Sugar om a Stick memberikan kesempatan napas kehidupan baru bagi mesin-mesin tua,&#34; ujar Walter Bender, pendiri Sugar Labs seperti dilansir BBC. Software yang dirancang untuk anak-anak ini dipamerkan dalam konferensi LinuxTag di Berlin, Jerman baru-baru ini.</p>
<p>Kelebihan dari software ini adalah kelengkapan aplikasi tambahannya. Selain mendapat tampilan baru dan kinerja sesuai kapasitas mesin tua, penggunananya terutama anaka-anak yang menjadi saaran dapat mengakses berbagai paket dan layanan software edukasi.</p>
<p>Versi terbaru Sugar on a stick dapat digunakan dengan USB flash sebesar 1 GB. Di dalamnya sudah termasuk 40 program, termasuk program untuk mengetik, menggambar, dan games. Software ini bisa jalan di jenis komputer apapun baik yang berbasis Linux, Macs, maupun Windows.</p>
<p>Sugar sebelumnya dibuat sebagai satu-satunya platform yang berjalan di XO Machine, laptop seharga 100 dollar untuk program OLPC. Namun, pendirinya menyatrakan mundur setelah Nicholas Negroponte yang merupakan pendiri program OLPC memutuskan untuk membuka kerja sama dengan Microsoft agar Windows juga bisa dijalankan di XO Machine. (<a href="http://www.kompas.com" target="_blank">Kompas.com</a>)</p>
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<p>The last ODFTOPS script was pretty generic, it was done keeping in mind only the abiword 2.6.8 version. So  here we have a pretty efficient script which works checking for capabilities a specific version of abiword would have, and writes the PostScript accordingly for maximum efficiency.</p>
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Did I stumble into any glitches while making this?</strong></p>
<p>Yes, in fact the problem was I didn&#8217;t realize that CUPS and its executioner the lp user write to their own special TMPDIR, and when I was debugging defining it to /tmp/ , it wouldn&#8217;t work. Also the new script invites subshells, so we dont have to mess with system specific messages like &#8220;Aborted&#8221; and/or abiword specific messages. But SubShells could not write in the lp user&#8217;s TMPDIR, so I had to make define a TMPDIR1 in /tmp/, so as to perform the subshell related operations there.</p>
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Do we have an algorithm for the approach?</strong></p>
<p>Yes, we do.<br />
1) Check if abiword can output to different folders other than the one in which the input file is in. Meaning we would be checking if our abiword is 2.6.6+<br />
    for that output to .doc, so that we wouldnt be crossing out 2.6.8, as it can write to other folders, but not output directly as .ps<br />
2) if true, check if its abiword 2.6.8, so that we do an intermediate doc conversion and then proceed<br />
3) Else, just convert to ps directly<br />
4) if 2.6.6&#8211;, then do a cp into the cups defined tmp dir and then perform operations</p>
<p><strong>Where is the code?</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/read/repos/print/blobs/master/odftops-filter/odftops">The filter code</a></p>
<p>Thats about it.</p>
<p><strong>Current Activities</strong><br />
* I am currently reading the <a href="http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html">D-BUS Specification</a>, so I get a grip on how our IPC model works, and how objects are handled in read. </p>
<p>Current Design scheme for the fork of Read, i.e. <strong>The Print Activity</strong>, that I am following is,<br />
1) Abandon edit, as the print activity is meant only for preview purposes, the parent activity is better imo for editing<br />
2) Make a new toolbar to Open and close documents from within the journal. Also make a Print toolbar<br />
3) Implement a module which converts odt to pdf using pycups code, and in the end results in that pdf being displayed<br />
4) Add pycups code as a handler to another print button, and save that already converted pdf into journal as the execution for the PDFify button<br />
5) As a bonus configure the pycups print configuration features realistically based on how our document looks in the Print activity. Essentially this would mean, add pycups code in each module of the Print activity for configuring. </p>
<p>I&#8217;m open for suggestions on this design scheme. Also, I&#8217;ve started work only on the most generic features, I will proceed with the actual design once we agree on it.</p>
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<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>I had hoped to add to my <a href="http://keithlyons.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/point-of-departure-food-for-thought-11-w-to-s/">Food for Thought 1.1</a> post last week but events overtook me! I was thinking that by the time I reached <a href="http://memeosphericpressure.wordpress.com/">Adrian Hill</a>&#8217;s blog I would have written a Food for Thought 1.4 post. Instead I am at week two in the Rs.</p>
<p>In this week in review, <a href="http://ruthdemitroff.blogspot.com/">Ruth Demitroff</a> posted about Blip.fm, Chief Justice John Roberts and Barack Obama&#8217;s Inauguration Address. In her post on the Address, Ruth links to a new York Times article by <a href="http://fish.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/22/barack-obamas-prose-style/?em">Stanley Fish</a>. Ruth draws attention to text as <em>parataxis</em> and I think this has implications for how we write in our blogs.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thecleversheep.com/">Rodd Lucier</a> posted about the inauguration too (as did <a href="http://teacker.blogspot.com/2009/01/good-work-mr-president.html">Pierfranco Ravotto</a> with links to YouTube, <a href="http://macmomma.blogspot.com/2009/01/obama-first-ever-digital-presidential.html">Lee Kolbert</a> on the first digital presidential portrait and <a href="http://possibilitiesabound.blogspot.com/2009/01/january-20-2009.html">Lani Hall</a>). In other posts this week Rodd discussed: online identity (and offered advice about security, see too Kristina Hoeppner&#8217;s <a href="http://virtualbreath.net/curious/2009/01/between-good-and-bad/">post</a>); pendulum swings in education and included a Teacher 2.0 podcast (see <a href="http://nelliemuller.blogspot.com/2009/01/quality-learning.html">Nellie Muller</a>&#8217;s post along these lines); and concluded the week with a post about Creative Commons.</p>
<p>Rhondda had a busy week of posts. Early in the week she reviewed the <a href="http://rhondda.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/icerocket-searching-blogs-and-other-media/">Icerocket</a> search engine. In her next post (<a href="http://rhondda.wordpress.com/2009/01/21/its-not-about-the-technology/">It&#8217;s not about the technology</a>) she observes that &#8220;In the past 12 months I have found an amazing world on-line, that offers me so much for my own professional learning, making me a better teacher and I hope that some of my posts/links have assisted others as well&#8221;. She then posted about <a href="http://rhondda.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/real-time-statistics-worldometers/">Worldometers</a> (world statistics updated in real time) and day later abour reading options and <a href="http://rhondda.wordpress.com/2009/01/23/reading-options-and-dailylit/">DailyLit</a>. Rhondda&#8217;s week concluded with her post about <a href="http://rhondda.wordpress.com/2009/01/25/useful-links-weekly-3/">useful links</a>. All this whilst preparing for a new school term in Melbourne, Australia.</p>
<p>Pat Parslow&#8217;s most recent post was a position paper (with Shirley Williams and Karsten Oster Lundqvist) on <a href="http://brains.parslow.net/node/1507">the future of social networking</a>.</p>
<p>Nellie Deutsch has been incredibly busy with the <a href="http://digifolios.ning.com/">Digifolios and Personal Learning Spaces Ning site</a>. Most recently she was involved in a Wiziq discussion about online identity (recording available at the <a href="http://digifolios.ning.com/">Ning</a> site).</p>
<p>This week the <a href="http://librarytechnz.natlib.govt.nz/2009/01/source-news-about-digital-libraries-and_23.html">LibraryTechNZ</a> <a href="http://librarytechnz.natlib.govt.nz/2007/08/introducing-source-news-about-digital.html">Source</a> post provided an update on digital libraries and library innovations from around the world. In the post <span class="post-author vcard"><span class="fn">Maria Nagelkerke gives readers wide ranging links to publications in North America, Europe and Australia. </span></span></p>
<p><span class="post-author vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="http://teacherleaders.typepad.com/teacher_in_a_strange_land/">Nancy Flanagan</a> discussed teacher quality in her first post this week. A second post on the  <a href="http://teacherleaders.typepad.com/teacher_in_a_strange_land/2009/01/carnival-of-education-virtual-inaugural-balls-edition.html">Virtual Inauguration Ball</a> for Edubloggers (<a href="http://ll2ndlife.blogspot.com/2009/01/barack-obama-is-going-to-clean-up-mess.html">Lori Landay</a> had a Second Life Inauguration event) was a wonderful essay synthesising a large number of posts. Her post was rich in detail and links and I think it is an exemplar of sharing thoughts and ideas (I was fascinated by the fifty or so edubloggers introduced during the post). There was <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02Ao9jyq5Vk">music</a> too as you worked your way through rooms that were hosting Inspiration, Challenge, Creative Solutions, 21st Century Learning, and Higher Education events. The post reminded me of <a href="http://www.films.pierre-marteau.com/hist_filme/2002_r_russian_ark.html">Russian Ark</a>.</span></span></p>
<p><span class="post-author vcard"><span class="fn"><a rel="attachment wp-att-430" href="http://keithlyons.wordpress.com/2009/01/26/food-for-thought-21/ra111/"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-430" title="ra111" src="http://keithlyons.wordpress.com/files/2009/01/ra111.jpg?w=300" alt="ra111" width="300" height="168" /></a> Photograph <a href="http://www.films.pierre-marteau.com/hist_filme/2002_r_russian_ark.html">Source</a></span></span></p>
<p><span class="post-author vcard"><span class="fn">Nancy&#8217;s final <a href="http://teacherleaders.typepad.com/teacher_in_a_strange_land/2009/01/none-of-us-can-do-anything-great-on-our-own-but-we-can-all-do-a-small-thing-with-great-love-mother-teresalike-much-of-ameri.html">post</a> of the week used Aretha Franklin&#8217;s &#8220;audacious and appealing&#8221; hat at the inauguartion to prompt discussion about school reform and student learning:</span></span></p>
<blockquote><p>it is the smart and sensitive teacher, endlessly re-inventing her practice, noticing what works for individual kids, that makes the difference. Or the creative and flexible principal, willing to suspend the Big Expensive Program, guaranteed to yield (and I hate the way this word has been co-opted) results&#8211;in favor of something that meets the needs of real kids.</p></blockquote>
<p>Milton Ramirez had a busy week of posts including <a href="http://www.miltonramirez.com/2009/01/web-teaching-celebrities-based-on.html">teaching as an attractive and exciting career opportunity</a>, the results of the <a href="http://www.miltonramirez.com/2009/01/social-networks-are-for-adults-too-says.html">PEW report</a>, a <a href="http://www.miltonramirez.com/search?updated-max=2009-01-20T17%3A18%3A00-05%3A00&#38;max-results=7">discussion</a> (inspired by a post by <a href="http://doug-johnson.squarespace.com/blue-skunk-blog/2009/1/13/thinking-about-time.html">Doug Johnson</a>) of the impact of books, blogs, articles and columns, three posts on Barack Obama, and a discussion of <a href="http://www.miltonramirez.com/2009/01/definition-of-collaborative-learning-in.html">connectivism</a>. Milton&#8217;s last post of the week introduced me to <a href="http://sugarlabs.org/go/Main_Page">Sugar Labs</a>. I hope to return to <a href="http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/FAQ#What_is_Sugar.3F">Sugar Labs</a> soon!</p>
<p>Mike Gotta drew attention to a <a href="http://mikeg.typepad.com/perceptions/2009/01/more-on-digitals-knowledge-sharing-efforts.html">Web 0.0 paper</a> from 1991 in his first post of the week. He followed this up with a discussion of the importance of <a href="http://mikeg.typepad.com/perceptions/2009/01/why-lotusphere-2009-is-important.html">Lotuspere 2009</a> and <a href="http://mikeg.typepad.com/perceptions/2009/01/what-difference-a-year-doesnt-makes-lotus-connections-sharepoint.html">Lotus Connections and SharePoint</a>.</p>
<p>Mike Bogle&#8217;s Techticker was a mine of information this week. He <a href="http://techticker.net/2009/01/18/lessig-on-free-culture-creative-commons/">discussed</a> free culture and Creative Commons and linked to Lawrence Lessig. (Melanie McBride <a href="http://melaniemcbride.net/2009/01/14/lessig-appears-on-colbert/">posted</a> about Lawrence Lesig this week too.) Mike&#8217;s post reports how he has created an audio archive of Lawrence&#8217;s four free culture presentations. Mike includes the workflow of how he did this.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8230; in the interests of transparency and respect for open source purists, I wanted to include the work flow process I used to ultimately produce the OGG version.  I relied upon as much open source software as I could (as always), however there are two notable exceptions that I’d like to menition. Namely, the process was conducted on Windows XP and included the <a title="Wikipedia article on MPEG-4 Part 14" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4_Part_14">MP4 codec</a> during the initial rip from YouTube.</p></blockquote>
<p>(See Mike&#8217;s discussion of <a href="http://techticker.net/2009/01/23/mandating-open-source-use-is-an-oxymoron/">Open Source</a> this week for his take on sharing.)</p>
<p>Mike&#8217;s second post of the week was a <a href="http://techticker.net/2009/01/22/initial-thoughts-on-the-digital-youth-project/">slow blog</a> about the Digital Youth Project and includes a video blog about his thoughts. Mike observes that &#8220;the results (of the project) point to a dynamic and complex ecosystem of interaction amongst young people that I believe we would do well to consider in discussions on elearning and new media &#8211; and in particular the manner with which education should seek to foster engagement and lifelong learning amidst young people.&#8221; His final post of the week discusses <a href="http://techticker.net/2009/01/24/totlol/">TOTLOL</a> and children&#8217;s digital literacy.</p>
<p>In addition to her <a href="http://melaniemcbride.net/2009/01/14/lessig-appears-on-colbert/">post</a> about Lawrence Lessig, Melanie McBride shared <a href="http://melaniemcbride.net/2009/01/19/speaking-at-web-weekend-vancouver/">news</a> of her presentation at <a href="http://magazinescanada.ca/professional_development.php?cat=webweekend">Web Weekend in Vancouver</a> in February. Her talk, “Magazines2.0: The Sharing Revolution,” will consider existing and emergent issues related to the publisher and reader of web2.0 publications.</p>
<p>Matthias Melcher considered <a href="http://x28newblog.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/2008/12/07/tilted-taxonomy/">connectivist taxonomy</a> this week. His post addresses the visualisation of a taxonomy in a very interesting way and he draws upon his native German landscape to to help him. He concludes that &#8220;the concept cluster of learning network/ <strong>ecology</strong>/ space is too overburdened and deserves some dissection.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://lisahistory.net/wordpress/?p=176">Lisa Lane</a> discussed videoconferencing this week. She reflected on a Business Week article to develop her own use of videoconferencing. Mike Bogle commented on Lisa&#8217;s post and shared <a href="http://techticker.net/2008/10/30/videoconferences/">this link</a>. Lisa <a href="http://lisahistory.net/wordpress/?p=176&#38;cpage=1#comment-16946">responded</a> with a discussion of Seesmic and its potential. (It was interesting to read Kristina Hoeppner&#8217;s <a href="http://virtualbreath.net/curious/2009/01/the-lens-eye/">post</a> on the lens-eye after reading Lisa and Mike&#8217;s exchange.)</p>
<p>Lee Kolbert&#8217;s <a href="http://macmomma.blogspot.com/2009/01/nibipedia-in-schools-friend-or-foe.html">post</a> this week took a close look at the potential of <a href="http://www.nibipedia.com/">Nibipedia</a> for teachers and students. She considers some of the access issues that might occur with some of the content and one of the creators of Nibipedia, Troy Peterson responds to Lee&#8217;s observations.  (Stephen Downes <a href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=47462">posted</a> on Nibipedia too this week.)</p>
<p>Kristina Hoeppner posted three times this week. In her <a href="http://virtualbreath.net/curious/2009/01/between-good-and-bad/">first post</a> she discusses some of the issues raised by the availability of Userfly (a new online service which allows you to record a screencast of anybody who comes to your website) and the appearance of <a href="http://transition.turbulence.org/Works/tumbarumba/">Tumbarumba</a>. Her <a href="http://virtualbreath.net/curious/2009/01/time-travelling/">third post</a> of the week reports the discovery of an apartment in Leipzig that was in an untouched condition from almost a decade before the fall of the Berlin Wall.</p>
<p>I was unable to access <a href="http://teachandlearn.ca/blog/">Konrad Glogowski</a>&#8217;s blog at the time of writing this summary.</p>
<p>Kevin Jones&#8217; post this week reports on <a href="http://engagedlearning.net/post/americorps-conference-how-conferences-should-be-done/">How Conferences Should Be Done</a> and points to the Americorps Ning site.</p>
<p>I could not think of a better place to end my alphabet review this week with a visit to the busy week of <a href="http://karynromeis.blogspot.com/">Karyn Romeis</a> and her learning journey. Her blog is <span>&#8220;a catch-all for things that have caught my eye, links to helpful information and the odd soapbox moment&#8221;.</span> Tuesday&#8217;s picture of the day was &#8216;<a href="http://karynromeis.blogspot.com/2009/01/pic-of-day-computer-hell.html">Computer Hell</a>&#8216; ( &#8220;Oh, for a techie to come and look over my shoulder and say, &#8220;Ah yes. I see what the problem is.&#8221; And then FIX it.&#8221;) (By <a href="http://karynromeis.blogspot.com/2009/01/articulate-community-to-rescue.html">Thursday</a> the Articulate User Community had come to her rescue.) Karyn linked to <a href="http://www.blurb.com/">Blurb</a> in another of her posts and discussed the idea of publishing your own bespoke book.</p>
<p>There are 16 Js in my Nourishment list so I will draw breath here and hope that nature and workflow this week give me an opportunity to write Food for Thought 2.2. I am off to Sydney to celebrate <a href="http://samlyons.id.au/">our son</a>&#8217;s birthday. Somehow we have persuaded him that a trip to a <a href="http://www.liveguide.com.au/Tours/608703/Leonard_Cohen/Leonard_Cohen_Australian_Tour?event_id=608703">Leonard Cohen</a> concert is just what he needs!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[OLPC Scales Back, Cuts 50 Percent of Staff]]></title>
<link>http://gigaom.com/2009/01/07/olpc-scales-back-cuts-50-percent-of-staff/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Om Malik</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Nicholas Negroponte, the promoter of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, says that economic hard ti]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><img src="http://gigaom.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/classmateolpc.gif" alt="" align="left" />Nicholas Negroponte, the promoter of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/The_OLPC_Wiki">says</a> that economic hard times have hit the OLPC effort, and the group will cut its staff by half; the remaining 32 employees will take a big salary cut.  The work on version 2.0 continues, but some of the software efforts are being passed on to the community. Over past 12 months, OLPC has been hit with problems including <a href="http://gigaom.com/2008/05/16/open-sugar-microsoft-end-of-olpc-as-we-know-it/">exodus of key OLPC team members</a>. I was skeptical of OLPC from the very beginning. The<a href="http://gigaom.com/2007/11/26/cloud-client-computers/"> irony is that</a> the idea behind OLPC &#8212; small, rugged, anytime, lightweight computers &#8212; has taken hold. <a href="http://gigaom.com/2008/12/26/for-amazon-netbooks-are-a-smash-hit/">Netbooks were one of the hottest selling items</a> this holiday season.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Showing Sugar Labs Folks How To Create A Blog]]></title>
<link>http://jt4sugar2.wordpress.com/2009/01/04/showing-sugar-labs-folks-how-to-create-a-blog/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jt4sugar2</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Having followed the easy steps set forth you are now officially blogging! Make sure that you categor]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Having followed the easy steps set forth you are now officially blogging!</p>
<p>Make sure that you categorize your posts!</p>
<p>You can change the look of your Blog by going to &#8220;My Dashboard&#8221; and clicking the &#8220;Appearance&#8221; button on the left hand panel.</p>
<p>Enjoy!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Το Sugar ανεξαρτητοποιείται και γίνεται Sugar Labs]]></title>
<link>http://altervedo.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/%ce%a4%ce%bf-sugar-%ce%b1%ce%bd%ce%b5%ce%be%ce%b1%cf%81%cf%84%ce%b7%cf%84%ce%bf%cf%80%ce%bf%ce%b9%ce%b5%ce%af%cf%84%ce%b1%ce%b9-%ce%ba%ce%b1%ce%b9-%ce%b3%ce%af%ce%bd%ce%b5%cf%84%ce%b1%ce%b9-sugar-labs/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 08:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>altervedo</dc:creator>
<guid>http://altervedo.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/%ce%a4%ce%bf-sugar-%ce%b1%ce%bd%ce%b5%ce%be%ce%b1%cf%81%cf%84%ce%b7%cf%84%ce%bf%cf%80%ce%bf%ce%b9%ce%b5%ce%af%cf%84%ce%b1%ce%b9-%ce%ba%ce%b1%ce%b9-%ce%b3%ce%af%ce%bd%ce%b5%cf%84%ce%b1%ce%b9-sugar-labs/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Μετά την αποχώρησή του από το OLPC project, o Walter Bender, δημιουργός του Sugar, λειτουργικού και ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><img class="alignleft" style="float:left;" src="http://img368.imageshack.us/img368/921/sugarlabspg7.png" alt="" />Μετά την αποχώρησή του από το OLPC project, o Walter Bender, δημιουργός του Sugar, λειτουργικού και interface που μέχρι τώρα ( διάβασε <a title="Microsoft και OLPC μαζι" href="http://altervedo.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/microsoft-%ce%ba%ce%b1%ce%b9-olpc-%ce%bc%ce%b1%ce%b6%ce%af/" target="_blank">Microsoft και OLPC μαζί</a> ) βρίσκαμε στα OLPC, προχώρησε στη δημιουργία ενός ανεξάρτητου open source project, το <a title="Sugar Labs web site" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Main_Page" target="_blank">Sugar Labs</a>.</p>
<p><a title="Announcing SugarLabs" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Announcing_SugarLabs" target="_blank">Σε ανακοίνωσή της</a>, η Sugar Labs εξηγεί τους σκοπούς και τους στόχους της, οι οποίοι παραμένουν βασικά οι ίδιοι με αυτούς που αρχικά εξέφραζε το project OLPC&#8230;σε επίπεδο software αυτή τη φορά. Βασικός στόχος η παροχή της αναγκαίας software platform για μια καλύτερη εκπαιδευτική εμπειρία των παιδιών.</p>
<p>Σημαντικό είναι ότι οι περισσότεροι developers του Sugar ακολούθησαν το Bender στην νέα αυτή περιπέτεια.</p>
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