One more try!

[C. Cossé]

Dear All,

As of today, March 13 2018, I am re-starting efforts to make this project "fly".

I have sought FSF endorsement and help with community building, but if they aren't interested I'm fully prepared to move forward without further adieu.

My first order of business is to populate the demo parent / student sites with some "sticky" assignments so that visitors aren't facing blank pages and having to create their own right-off.

After that (later today, hopefully) I will begin writing posts to various groups, such as homeshoolers, Ed-Tech groups, Raspberry-Pi groups, parenting groups, Edu-FLS projects, and the likes.

If you have time and/or interest remaining then please feel free to help campaign and build the parent and developer communities needed for this project's success.

I still have the 80 emails that Kirby and I collected at PyCon2017, and will resend invites to those people, as well.

Greetings to all from New Mexico and thanks for your continued interest and participation!

-Charles

[David Bucknell]

Hi Charles,

A roughly/barely formed thought:

I've been working in a junior high that has lots of IT -- almost everything is Google apps.  It's all via wi-fi.  I think they have the itch you're trying to scratch.  The kids have their assignments, but they're constantly distracting themselves with whatever they can find.  So, if teachers could lock them out of any non-assignment sites until they've gained the required # of points per day, I think that might be helpful.  The school has been looking into goguardian and other snooping tools, but I like your solution better:  they should police themselves.

Keep on truckin'.

David

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[C. Cossé]

Hi David,  thanks for posting, did you have a chance to discuss the project with the powers-that-be there in Hawaii?  IIRC you have one of the older, original eBox units.  Do you have a Raspberry-Pi 3 by any chance?  I would be happy to burn-and-send you the latest plug-and-play SD image so that you could demo the platform to your colleagues.  I am planning a local event here in New Mexico with our local school system -- a one hour Q&A /demo to enlist some early-adopters, both parents and teachers.  There are many angles from which to pitch, another being that a successful NetDispenser project would create a financial incentive for new/young developers to develop their ideas for education software.  This is elaborated upon, somewhat, in the "Big Picture" section at the end of the project webpage, which received some updating today.  Thanks for your continued efforts!
Cheers,
-Charles

On Tuesday, March 13, 2018 at 11:12:37 PM UTC-6, David Bucknell wrote:

Hi Charles,

A roughly/barely formed thought:

I've been working in a junior high that has lots of IT -- almost everything is Google apps.  It's all via wi-fi.  I think they have the itch you're trying to scratch.  The kids have their assignments, but they're constantly distracting themselves with whatever they can find.  So, if teachers could lock them out of any non-assignment sites until they've gained the required # of points per day, I think that might be helpful.  The school has been looking into goguardian and other snooping tools, but I like your solution better:  they should police themselves.

Keep on truckin'.

David

[kirby urner]

Oops, I meant to share this with the list!

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: kirby urner <kirby...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 11:43 AM
Subject: Re: One more try!
To: "C. Cossé" <cco...@gmail.com>

Hey Charles --

I'm in the schools every week seeing how they're attracted to games.  They especially like the ones where they can find each other and play on the same team, as bugs or whatever.  Surviv.io is one of 'em. 

But I'm there to teach Codesters (Python in the browser, with sprites and everything).  Sometimes I just let 'em play games as their "reward" for doing work (did they do any?).

You schema is life in a nutshell:  do what you've gotta do to win the right to do what you wanna do.

Kirby

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[C. Cossé]

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Bucknell <hid...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 2:28 PM
Subject: Re: [netdispenser] Re: One more try!
To: "C. Cossé" <hid...@gmail.com>

>Hello Charles et friends, I'd like to present it. I made a fumbling beginning, though. I'd like to organize a five-minute presentation for next week at a tech dept meeting.  I'll need graphics and main points -- and, especially, a list of main points to cover.  Suggestions welcome.

Hi David, I'm just sending this to the forum since it's obvious you meant to ... I changed the group settings so that "reply" sends only to the forum; it must not work if you replied to a post from before those changes were made.

I was out of town for a couple days but back now.  I will prepare slides and a narrative which you can customize to your taste.  I'll shoot for sending you something by Saturday, if that works.  I did create some "sticky" reading assignments on the demo Credit-Feeder website.  Just to remind you how it's setup -- each new IP addr that shows up there gets a new account auto-created, and all you need to do is click either parent or student login.  Logging-in as parent first, you should see something like 9 reading assignments about a schmattering of topics from Roadrunners to Ghandi.  They are all just cut/pasted from wikipedia, and not complete by any means, just to illustrate that a mear reading activity can cover a lot of different subject matter.  You said a 5 min presentation, so stick to screenshots (I'll send some by Saturday which you can use or not) and perhaps close by pointing them to the demo site(s) to try after your 5 min is up, as well as the website.  We can skype beforehand if you like, too.  I'm working to setup a demo for our school system's Dept of Instruction next week, as well.  

Not that you'll have time to receive an SD card via mail before next week in Hawaii, but do you have an RPi3?  We'll have to find a way to get you one asap if not.  Otherwise I can send the micro SD already.  Okay, talk soon!  Thanks!!

-Charlie