Hello World (re: Ubuntu Sugarteam)

[Caroline Meeks]

Hi Makho,

Very nice to meet you!  I do think you have valuable skills to help us.

There are so many ways to get started.  One thing I might suggest is looking
at the "teach kids to program" resources available for eToys and Scratch.
These seem to be the main ways young kids get started with programming via
Sugar.  They are also powerful story telling tools.

Also have you seen Using the XO in the Classroom:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sdenka_Salas_-_The_XO_Laptop_in_the_Classroom

Perhaps from there you can see what resources are needed to make Sugar an
even better platform for kids learning the powerful 21st Century skill of
making technology do what you want it to.  Or maybe you can run a Sugar on a
Stick dropin programming class at a local library?

Tell me more about what strikes your fancy and I'll probably have more
suggestions.

Cheers,
Caroline


On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Makho Mashoba <mmashoba at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm Makho.  I heard about the team through Jeff Elkner, volunteering
> during a couple python classes.  I don't know how to program, and I
> don't know much about Linux or Sugar (though I do use Xubuntu on one
> of my old computers).  I have free time, and I'd like to be
> productive.
>
> That's partially why I'm hoping to get involved and help the Ubuntu
> Sugarteam.  Ultimately, I want to design and build online interactive
> tutorials that teach kids in developing nations to program.  Hopefully
> it would help them earn an income for their families.  Every journey
> begins with a single step, so I want to learn the ropes of the open
> source community and open learning first.
>
> The skills I bring: I have a BA in Psychology from Yale, with
> coursework in Educational Psychology.  I'm a decent writer, a great
> researcher, and sometimes inspiration strikes me with a good idea.
> More often passion strikes me with a vague and impractical aspiration.
>  I speak a little Spanish, and I lived in France for a year in high
> school.
>
> I look forward to helping.
> Thanks,
>
> Makho Mashoba
>
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