Education for Kids
Frances Tait
frances.tait at kdab.com
Mon Sep 6 17:09:57 BST 2021
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 <frances.tait at kdab.com> wrote:
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> 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 :-)
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> Have a good weekend, meanwhile,
>
> Frances
>> On 27 Aug 2021, at 15:27, Timothée Giet <animtim at gmail.com <mailto:animtim at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> 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 <aiswaryakk29 at gmail.com <mailto:aiswaryakk29 at gmail.com>
>>>> <mailto:aiswaryakk29 at gmail.com <mailto:aiswaryakk29 at gmail.com>>> 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 <echarruau at gmail.com <mailto:echarruau at gmail.com>
>>>>>> <mailto:echarruau at gmail.com <mailto:echarruau at gmail.com>>> 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 <aiswaryakk29 at gmail.com <mailto:aiswaryakk29 at gmail.com>
>>>>>> <mailto:aiswaryakk29 at gmail.com <mailto:aiswaryakk29 at gmail.com>>> 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 <paul.brown at kde.org <mailto:paul.brown at kde.org>
>>>>>>> <mailto:paul.brown at kde.org <mailto:paul.brown at kde.org>>> 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>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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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Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, a KDAB Group company
Tel: Sweden (HQ) +46-563-540090, USA +1-866-777-KDAB(5322)
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