From: bernie Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 14:53:09 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Edit page TrueHeroes X-Git-Url: https://codewiz.org/gitweb?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cafce69cc384a65a852b07bc10b083daa0ba0f73;p=wiki.git Edit page TrueHeroes --- diff --git a/TrueHeroes b/TrueHeroes index 0250c59..d0814d7 100644 --- a/TrueHeroes +++ b/TrueHeroes @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ "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." @@ -31,14 +31,14 @@ 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." @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ "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?) diff --git a/blog/2010/03 b/blog/2010/03 index 9d0d2aa..f133236 100644 --- a/blog/2010/03 +++ b/blog/2010/03 @@ -98,90 +98,90 @@ OLPC and Sugar were created. (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 ==