1 == Fri, Mar 12 - Interview with "los scratcheros" ==
3 {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/scratcheros/00008.jpg | maxwidth=480 | The Scratcheros: Nadia, Benedicto and Alberto}}{{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/scratcheros/00003.jpg | maxwidth=480 | A sugar "hack" (zoom to see detail) }}
4 {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/cyber_nick/00029.jpg | maxwidth=480 | Kids asking for Sugar 0.84 }}
6 Today I spent some time with a boy of Caacupe who has impressed me and the
7 educators very much with his original creations in Scratch. Scratch is not
8 a school subject, these kids are learning it on their own.
10 * **What's your name?**
15 * **How old are you?**
20 * **How did you learn Scratch?**
21 * B: We tried all the functions. First, we'll try one function, and see what it does.
22 * N: Like he said, we experimented with all the functions and check the results.
23 * A: By looking at the animations of the games bundled with Scratch
25 * **What job would you like to do when you're done with school?**
26 * B: Software engineer
30 * **Do you like Turtle Art? What can you do with it?**
31 * B: Si. I can create rectangles and other geometrical shapes.
32 * N: Mostly geometric shapes
33 * A: Only basic shapes: square, triangle...
35 * **How much time do you spend with your laptop every day?**
37 * N: 6 hours, more or less.
39 * (Mother's note: they don't use the laptop enough in school!)
41 * **Nobody is teaching you, yeah? You're learning everything on your own?**
42 * B: No, with my sister. We try all activities, and when we find one we like, we spend some time on it together.
43 * N: I learned the basics of Turtle Art at the trainer's course.
44 * A: Yes, I learned it there too.
46 * **What other activities do you like besides Scatch and Turtle Art?**
47 * B: //Ablar con Sara// [Speak] and //Super Vampire Ninja Zero//, //Máquina de discos// (Jukebox).
48 * N: //eToys//, to edit photos. I need someone to teach me all the rest.
49 * A: //Grabar// (Record), to take videos, interview people...
51 * **What would you like to add to Sugar?**
55 * Mom: They need an automatic spell checker
57 * **What's the most annoying problem for you with Sugar?**
58 * B: Can't use the "robot" function in //Ablar con Sara// (
59 * N: I want bigger fonts in //Pintar// (Paint).
60 * A: //Escribir// (Write ;-)
62 * **Would you like to learn a little bit of Python with Pippy?**
65 Then we got started. Python is easy, you can explain the basics to a smart kid in less than 30 minutes.
66 We also updated Benedicto's laptop to [[http://oficina.paraguayeduca.org/~bernie/py-xo1/ | build 65]],
67 containing the latest version of the Sugar 0.84 branch. Benedicto had been previously testing my previous
68 build 45, which contained some networking bugs.
70 == Tue, Mar 02 - Charla @ Facultad Politecnica ==
72 Today I gave an opening talk at the [[http://www.pol.una.py/ | Facultad Politecnica de la Universidad Nacional de Asuncion]].
73 The title was "//Empoderar a los estudiantes con el Software Libre//" (//Empowering students with Free Software//).
75 * [[http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/sugar/slides/sugar-paraguay-v6-es.odp | Spanish, OpenDocument]]
76 * [[http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/sugar/slides/sugar-paraguay-v6-es.pdf | Spanish, PDF]]
77 * [[http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/sugar/slides/sugar-paraguay-v5-en.odp | English, OpenDocument]] (older version with fewer slides and some factual errors)
79 {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/facultad_politecnica/00043.jpg | maxwidth=640 }}
80 {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/facultad_politecnica/todos-son-maestros-y-alumnos.jpg | maxwidth=640 | Everyone is a learner and a techer}}
81 {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/facultad_politecnica/la-base-pedagogica-de-sugar.jpg | maxwidth=640 | The pedagogical base of Sugar}}
82 {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/facultad_politecnica/00048.jpg | maxwidth=640 }}
84 See [[pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/facultad_politecnica | all the photos ]] in my Codew'z photostream.
86 Note: I'm not really affiliated with MIT and I'm not even an engineer, but it's a flattering mistake ;-)