"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you"
- * Gandhi - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi
+ * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi|Gandhi]]
"There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for."
Ubuntu has various aspects.
- * Mother Teresa of Calcutta - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa
+ * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa|Mother Teresa of Calcutta]]
"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier."
"When I was crossing into Gaza, I was asked at the checkpost whether I was carrying any weapons. I replied: Oh yes, my prayer books."
- * Martin Luther King, Jr. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.
+ * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.|Martin Luther King, Jr.]]
"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality."
"Taken on the whole, I would believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time."
- * Socrates - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates
+ * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates|Socrates]]
"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."
(pretty modern mindset, eh?)
(photos courtesy of Carla Crosa)
-|| {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/scratcheros/00008.jpg | maxwidth=480 | The "Scratcheros": Nadia, Benedicto and Alberto}} || {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/scratcheros/1.00011.jpg | maxwidth=480 | Albertito, our youngest volunteer, helping one of our trainers }} ||
+|| {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/scratcheros/00008.jpg | maxwidth=480 | The "Scratcheros": Sofia, Jose and Aldo}} || {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/scratcheros/1.00011.jpg | maxwidth=480 | Albertito, our youngest volunteer, helping one of our trainers }} ||
Today I spent some time with three siblings of Caacupé who has impressed me and the educators very
much with their original creations in Scratch. Scratch is not a school subject, these kids are
learning it on their own driven by their own passion.
* **What's your name?**
- * B: Benedicto
- * N: Nadia
- * A: Alberto
+ * J: Jose
+ * S: Sofia
+ * A: Aldo
* **How old are you?**
- * B: 12
- * N: 11
+ * J: 12
+ * S: 11
* A: 9
* **How did you learn Scratch?**
- * B: We tried all the functions. First, we'll try one function, and see what it does.
- * N: Like he said, we experimented with all the functions and check the results.
+ * J: We tried all the functions. First, we'll try one function, and see what it does.
+ * S: Like he said, we experimented with all the functions and check the results.
* A: By looking at the animations of the games bundled with Scratch
* **What job would you like to do when you're done with school?**
- * B: Software engineer
- * N: Paediatrician
+ * J: Software engineer
+ * S: Paediatrician
* A: Nada... ;-)
* **Do you like Turtle Art? What can you do with it?**
- * B: Si. I can create rectangles and other geometrical shapes.
- * N: Mostly geometric shapes
+ * J: Si. I can create rectangles and other geometrical shapes.
+ * S: Mostly geometric shapes
* A: Only basic shapes: square, triangle...
* **How much time do you spend with your laptop every day?**
- * B: A few hours.
- * N: 6 hours, more or less.
+ * J: A few hours.
+ * S: 6 hours, more or less.
* A: Same for me.
* (Mother's note: they don't use the laptop enough in school!)
* **Nobody is teaching you, yeah? You're learning everything on your own?**
- * B: No, with my sister. We try all activities, and when we find one we like, we spend some time on it together.
- * N: I learned the basics of Turtle Art at the trainer's course.
+ * J: No, with my sister. We try all activities, and when we find one we like, we spend some time on it together.
+ * S: I learned the basics of Turtle Art at the trainer's course.
* A: Yes, I learned it there too.
* **What other activities do you like besides Scratch and Turtle Art?**
- * B: //Hablar con Sara// [Speak] and //Super Vampire Ninja Zero//, //Máquina de discos// (Jukebox).
- * N: //eToys//, to edit photos. I need someone to teach me all the rest.
+ * J: //Hablar con Sara// [Speak] and //Super Vampire Ninja Zero//, //Máquina de discos// (Jukebox).
+ * S: //eToys//, to edit photos. I need someone to teach me all the rest.
* A: //Grabar// (Record), to take videos, interview people...
* **What would you like to add to Sugar?**
- * B: The "Snake" game
- * N: Strategic games
+ * J: The "Snake" game
+ * S: Strategic games
* A: ...hmm...
* (Mom: They need an automatic spell checker... and a **screensaver**, of course).
* **What's the most annoying problem for you with Sugar?**
- * B: Can't use the "robot" function in //Hablar con Sara// (
- * N: I want bigger fonts in //Pintar// (Paint).
+ * J: Can't use the "robot" function in //Hablar con Sara// (
+ * S: I want bigger fonts in //Pintar// (Paint).
* A: //Escribir// (Write ;-)
* **Would you like to learn a little bit of Python with Pippy?**
- * B: Very well!
+ * J: Very well!
-Then Benedicto and I got started. Python is easy, you can explain the basics to a smart kid in less than 30 minutes.
+Then Jose and I got started. Python is easy, you can explain the basics to a smart kid in less than 30 minutes.
I've shown him a few Pippy examples, describing the code briefly before running it, then making small changes to make
-Benedicto grasp the possibilities. From his questions and comments, I'm pretty sure that he could figure out the
+Jose grasp the possibilities. From his questions and comments, I'm pretty sure that he could figure out the
concepts despite my very poor Spanish fluency and my usual disorganized style.
-Nadia shows plenty of design talent: she uses Sugar to create short stories featuring her friends. She
+Sofia shows plenty of design talent: she uses Sugar to create short stories featuring her friends. She
cookie-cuts their photos and uses Scratch to animate them on fantasy backgrounds with music, sound
effects and text. Recently, she started creating line-art versions of the photos using eToys, so her
-new creations look more like cartoons. At this point, Benedicto mentioned the [[http://htf.atom.com/ | Happy Tree Friends]],
+new creations look more like cartoons. At this point, Jose mentioned the [[http://htf.atom.com/ | Happy Tree Friends]],
an innocently named Internet series which makes even South Park seem politically correct in comparison!
HTF is Flash-only and doesn't seem to work with Gnash -- at least, we should be above any bigot criticism
for conveying "inapprorpiate content" to young hack^Wchildren.
-Nadia also created a platform videogame in which a dog needs to jump around to find the way out from
+Sofia also created a platform videogame in which a dog needs to jump around to find the way out from
each level, while a bouncing arrow chases him. Technically simple, but shows sensitive use of
game-design principles. I'm not sure if the code is entirely new or comes in part from pre-existing
Scratch games. It doesn't matter: in Free Software, remixing other people's work is the rule.
-We updated Benedicto's and Nadia's laptops to [[http://oficina.paraguayeduca.org/~bernie/py-xo1/ | F11-XO1 Paraguay, build 65]],
-which contains the latest release of [[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.84/Notes | Sugar 0.84]]. Benedicto had been previously
+We updated Jose's and Sofia's laptops to [[http://oficina.paraguayeduca.org/~bernie/py-xo1/ | F11-XO1 Paraguay, build 65]],
+which contains the latest release of [[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.84/Notes | Sugar 0.84]]. Jose had been previously
testing my build 45, revealing some bugs in networking and activities.
-|| {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/scratcheros/00005-game-written-in-scratch.jpg | maxwidth=480 | Perro Bros }} || {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/scratcheros/00016-nadias-work-in-etoys.jpg | maxwidth=480 | Nadia's line-art image }} ||
+|| {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/scratcheros/00005-game-written-in-scratch.jpg | maxwidth=480 | Perro Bros }} || {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/scratcheros/00016-nadias-work-in-etoys.jpg | maxwidth=480 | Sofia's line-art image }} ||
== Mon, Mar 8 - Children want Sugar 0.84, for the wrong reasons ==
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