Re: Education for Kids

Hi everybody,
Friday 18h30 is difficult for me, I am very often still on the road
from school. We have very long school days in France.
Wednesday is better as it is a free day.
Regards,
Emmanuel

Le lun. 6 sept. 2021 à 21:18, Timothée Giet <[email protected]> a écrit :
>
> Johnny answered he's interested to participate, he can talk about the
> code/dev part.
> I'm adding him to the discussion.
>
> Still waiting for Bruno's answer.
>
> Timothée
>
> Le 06/09/2021 à 19:15, Timothée Giet a écrit :
> > Hi Frances, and everyone.
> >
> > This looks like a big but good plan.
> > I've just sent a mail to ask Bruno if he's OK to participate. I will
> > also ask directly to Johnny if he's interested, it would be nice to have
> > him participate too.
> >
> > For the Kick-off meeting, both of the suggested dates could work for me
> > and Aish.
> >
> > All the best,
> > Timothée
> >
> > Le 06/09/2021 à 18:09, Frances Tait a écrit :
> >> Hi again, Timothée, Aish (I hope it’s OK if I call you that!) Paul and
> >> Emmanuel, also Robert, as we can’t do it without you :-),
> >>
> >> This is our rough Plan for how to go forward. It entails 3 or 4 short
> >> videos, 5 - 10 minutes long, introduced by KDAB.
> >> Our first step would be to have a joint Zoom call to discuss and
> >> refine the ideas below (I know you hate Zoom but it’s just for the
> >> planning - happy to use something else if there’s technical reasons it
> >> won’t work for you). See end of this mail for suggested dates and time.
> >>
> >> Rough Plan 1 <start>
> >> Video 1. An Intro and Overview of GCompris, where it’s in use, what
> >> inspired it, both in the education approach and the software
> >> development - why Qt?  This would also include mention of KDE’s
> >> involvement in all this.
> >>
> >> Possible participants: Robert, Paul, Bruno and Tim with help from
> >> Emmanuel on the intro that Robert will give.
> >>
> >> Video 2. Development of the educational concepts, some examples of
> >> classroom application, perhaps Emmanuel and Aish talking about their
> >> experiences developing the teaching material and in the classroom.
> >> Development of the software, challenges along the way, including
> >> mention of the graphics, maintaining it. Plans for the future.
> >>
> >> Possible participants: Robert, Aish, Emmanuel, Tim and Bruno (can also
> >> use clips from the recorded material not used in Video 1).  Possibly
> >> also the principal maintainer, Johnny Jazeix, though perhaps we can
> >> just be sure to mention him.
> >>
> >> Video 3: Q & A from the first two (we’ll invite people to ask
> >> questions). No plan yet - maybe we have to extend 1 and 2 into 3 and
> >> make the Q&A be Video 4 if we get a lot of material. Q&A could be
> >> recorded a few weeks/months later, after we collect questions. The
> >> idea is "you" answer them :-)
> >>
> >> Ideas of how we film/record these.
> >> 1. We’ll turn the above descriptions (of Video 1 and Video 2) into a
> >> few trigger questions and let people speak freely in probably two BBB
> >> calls, then edit it afterwards. (It’s OK if parts of it are in French).
> >> 2. If it’s not [possible to get people together, we can home in on
> >> more precise questions and record individual answers independently,
> >> depending on practical issues around recording. Ideally we’d like at
> >> least Bruno and Tim to discuss the software development together (for
> >> Video 1) and Aish and Emmanuel to discuss the educational benefits and
> >> challenges together (for  Video 2).
> >> 3. We are assuming BBB can output raw footage of high quality that we
> >> can then work with.
> >>
> >> Rough Plan 1 <end>
> >>
> >> @Tim: If you would like to approach Bruno and ask him if he’d be
> >> willing to participate, that would be great! I expect we’d start
> >> recording this some time late September, early October if that suits him.
> >>
> >> Kick-off meeting - Suggested dates
> >> Wednesday September 8th at 18:30 CEST or Friday September 10th at
> >> 18:30 CEST. Please let me know if you can make either of those and
> >> I’ll send an invite if there’s one that suits us all. After that it
> >> will have to be week 38 as I’m away all of week 37.
> >>
> >> Looking forward to meeting you guys :-)
> >>
> >> All the best,
> >>
> >> Frances
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> On 27 Aug 2021, at 15:33, Frances Tait <[email protected]
> >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi Timothée,
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for connecting - great you are happy to participate :-) And
> >>> apologies for not getting back in touch sooner.
> >>> Robert and I will come back some time next week with some suggested
> >>> dates for a kick-off meeting… and a Plan :-)
> >>>
> >>> Have a good weekend, meanwhile,
> >>>
> >>> Frances
> >>>> On 27 Aug 2021, at 15:27, Timothée Giet <[email protected]
> >>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi Frances,
> >>>>
> >>>> I didn't answer before as you said you'll get back in touch later, but
> >>>> just to confirm, I'd be glad to participate ;)
> >>>> Same availability as Aish.
> >>>>
> >>>> Cheers,
> >>>> Timothée
> >>>>
> >>>> Le 25/08/2021 à 10:41, Frances Tait a écrit :
> >>>>> Welcome, Timothée! And thanks Aśwarya for your availability and other
> >>>>> comments.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I’ll be in touch again later this week after a pow-wow with the
> >>>>> team here.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Frances
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> On 24 Aug 2021, at 20:55, Aiśwarya KK <[email protected]
> >>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>
> >>>>>> <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>>
> >>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Hello again Frances,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Hi Emmanuel, Everyone,
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> On discussing this with the team, we felt this topic merits its own
> >>>>>>> video, not just a news item, (probably via Zoom or similar
> >>>>>>> - unfortunately we are still under too many restrictions to risk
> >>>>>>> actual filming, I think). We hope you’d still like to contribute, of
> >>>>>>> course.
> >>>>>> Good idea!
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Here we would go for Jitsi instead of Zoom 😉
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Essentially we are looking to follow the trail from creation of the
> >>>>>>> software (with reference to Qt, we hope, and KDE) to how it helps
> >>>>>>> teachers, where it’s used, how it's received, just as you suggest.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> This means starting with a conversation with Timothëe, who doesn’t
> >>>>>>> even know about this yet :-).
> >>>>>> I added Timothée in CC.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Perhaps you (Emmanuel and Aiśwarya) can give us some idea of your
> >>>>>>> availability (CEST time) in the coming couple of weeks so we can
> >>>>>>> propose an initial online meeting to talk about it - assuming you’re
> >>>>>>> still interested.
> >>>>>> I am available from 18:30 to 20:30 during week days.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Cheers,
> >>>>>> Aish
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Meanwhile I shall talk to Timothée and see if he’s happy to join us..
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> All the best,
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Frances
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> On 24 Aug 2021, at 12:29, Emmanuel Charruau <[email protected]
> >>>>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>
> >>>>>>>> <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>>>> I am also happy to participate. My knowledge of GCompris in class is
> >>>>>>>> only restricted to my own usage but I could for example explain how
> >>>>>>>> GCompris helps on several key moments of teaching:
> >>>>>>>> - notion presentation
> >>>>>>>> - explicit research
> >>>>>>>> - research with two pupils
> >>>>>>>> - research alone
> >>>>>>>> - training
> >>>>>>>> and how it eases to organise the work in groups of needs instead of
> >>>>>>>> the usual unique group that we find so often in classes.
> >>>>>>>> Regards,
> >>>>>>>> Emmanuel
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Le mar. 24 août 2021 à 12:22, Aiśwarya KK
> >>>>>>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> >>>>>>>> <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>>
> >>>>>>>> a écrit :
> >>>>>>>>> Hello Frances,
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> I am happy to participate. Just a correction, I am not a teacher
> >>>>>>>>> by profession but I have a good network of teachers from south
> >>>>>>>>> India.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Thank you so much!
> >>>>>>>>> Aish
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Le 24/08/2021 à 10:54, Frances Tait a écrit :
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Hi Paul,
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Thanks for the prompt reply.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> On 23 Aug 2021, at 21:27, Paul Brown <[email protected]
> >>>>>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>
> >>>>>>>>> <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> On Monday, 23 August 2021 16:33:46 CEST Frances Tait wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Hi Folks,
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Hello Frances,
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> How are you doing?
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Good, thanks. Hope you are as well.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> We’re thinking of doing a feature on Education for Kids in our
> >>>>>>>>> October
> >>>>>>>>> edition of KDAB News
> >>>>>>>>> <https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6CJYn40gN6iAaspdiKGS0Bs2wDOIVj8f
> >>>>>>>>> <https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6CJYn40gN6iAaspdiKGS0Bs2wDOIVj8f>
> >>>>>>>>> <https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6CJYn40gN6iAaspdiKGS0Bs2wDOIVj8f
> >>>>>>>>> <https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6CJYn40gN6iAaspdiKGS0Bs2wDOIVj8f>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Might KDE have something to contribute to that? We’d be looking,
> >>>>>>>>> probably,
> >>>>>>>>> to Zoom interview somebody who could talk about what’s on offer
> >>>>>>>>> via KDE,
> >>>>>>>>> how it’s being received, who’s interested, something like that.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> We came across Kturtle and KAlgebra, but perhaps there’s also
> >>>>>>>>> something else
> >>>>>>>>> you might want to suggest. Wed be happy to have suggestions on an
> >>>>>>>>> angle
> >>>>>>>>> that allows you to tell viewers about your stuff.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> What about GCompris?
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> https://www.gcompris.net/index-en.html
> >>>>>>>>> <https://www.gcompris.net/index-en.html>
> >>>>>>>>> <https://www.gcompris.net/index-en.html
> >>>>>>>>> <https://www.gcompris.net/index-en.html>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> This is great - thank you. Just what we were looking for. Albert
> >>>>>>>>> also alerted me to this, and to Timothée, who programs it.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> That is arguably our most popular educational software, used
> >>>>>>>>> literally in
> >>>>>>>>> thousands of schools worldwide to educate hundreds of thousands of
> >>>>>>>>> kids.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> I am putting Aiśwarya and Emmanuel, both teachers, both experts in
> >>>>>>>>> GCompris,
> >>>>>>>>> on CC. They would probably be the best people to ask about the
> >>>>>>>>> software and
> >>>>>>>>> how and where it is used.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Very good to meet you, Aiśwarya and Emmanuel. Would you be willing
> >>>>>>>>> to be interviewed for our KDAB News?
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> I appreciate that’s a bit vague! We’re figuring out how to present
> >>>>>>>>> something on kids education and likely yours won’t be the only one
> >>>>>>>>> we’ll talk about, so it’s a bit unclear yet how we’ll do it/how
> >>>>>>>>> much time we’ll have.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Let me discuss this with the News team and we'll come back with
> >>>>>>>>> some ideas. Perhaps next step is a meeting to talk about it.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Many thanks again,
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Frances
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Cheers
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Paul
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