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Fwd: [Sudo-kids] sudo-kids "Code Docent" idea

by Matthew Senate

Hey all, Posted to the sudo-kids list, wanted to cross-post to make sure it's on your radar! // Matt ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jeffrey Gordon <jgordon.oakland(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, May 17, 2014 at 6:35 PM Subject: [Sudo-kids] sudo-kids "Code Docent" idea To: sudo-kids(a)lists.sudoroom.org Hi everyone. My name is Jeffrey Gordon. I'm a 4th grade teacher at Ruby Bridges Elementary School in Alameda, where I've taught for seven years. My school's population is 80% free/reduced lunch (high poverty) and 10% of our students are homeless, as our population zone includes The Alameda Point Collaborative. I've been developing a curriculum in Scratch, that I use to reinforce my math lessons. Each week, my students build a little modeler that reinforces that week's work in math. My students use their free time throughout the week to add to and change the projects. Here's a studio that my students have organized of some of those projects. We also use it to share resources for projects.: http://scratch.mit.edu/studios/373147/projects/ My goal this year was to create a portable and modular curriculum to share with other teachers to use in their own classrooms. What I've come to understand, is that this is a basically unfeasible goal; while nearly every educator I show them to sees the value of the modelers instantly, none of them has felt comfortable leading their students to build them. Here's a Google Doc of the curriculum in progress. I'm doing the page layouts this summer, but most of the actual projects have been coded and tested by kids at this point, and just need to be commented and laid out. I'm hoping to get about 25 lessons done over the next month or so: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WXwnMZTeIcZYLMyB_seGqaZ8R9JOhFQTh-wXP17… I spoke to Matt about the issues you've had with liability and insurance concerns. It sounds like a new space might solve some of those problems, but I think I have an idea that may compliment the existing sudo-kids project. Many elementary schools have art docent programs, which bring in community volunteers to lead students in art lessons while a teacher attends to the business of running the classroom. The liability and legal concerns in running one of these programs are relatively simple: volunteers will need to undergo a federal background check and Livescan fingerprinting. Districts have existing procedures in place for these sorts of things, which means the principal of the school will make the choice, rather than a committee of administrators (which is how most good things die in education.) I could arrange matchmaking for docents and teachers, facilitate background checks, model the lessons for docents with actual students, and assist with teachers with integrating the curriculum into their everyday math instruction. What I would need is one or two (to start) volunteers to work with a couple of known excellent educators and their 4th-grade students next year on a weekly basis. Those volunteers would need to be competent with Scratch and able to read and understand the code linked to above. That would mean about 60 kids would benefit. If you have the time and inclination, please, look closely at the modelers and the curriculum. If anyone is interested in working with me, there are a couple of weeks left in the school year, and I'd be happy to demo a lesson with my students. Thanks, Jeffrey Gordon 4th Grade Teacher Ruby Bridges Elementary School Alameda, CA _______________________________________________ sudo-kids mailing list sudo-kids(a)lists.sudoroom.org https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-kids

12 years, 3 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] current omni timeline?

by Yar

On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Marina Kukso <marina.kukso(a)gmail.com> wrote: > what's the current timeline for the move? It's one of many questions in the ongoing lease negotiation. We prefer June 1, the owners prefer July 1. We are going to reach a compromise that benefits as many people as possible. In the past week since I wrote that "Omni update", my personal sense has now become that July 1 is more likely to happen. George & Laurie have already been given notice, and they are ok with the ambiguous timeline, i.e. they won't be an issue one way or the other. We're very sorry about the ambiguous, opaque and last-minute nature of this process. We realize how this impacts our community's ability to plan and hold events, and how it strains our trust and faith. We will be able to talk in MUCH greater detail as soon as we have a lease. The lease will almost definitely be signed in less than two weeks, most likely sooner than that. We continue to encourage interested people to come to meetings and join working groups to help with this process. A few of us are getting burned out and would VERY MUCH welcome additional hands, brains, hearts, perspectives! Thanks everybody!

12 years, 3 months

Defcon 22

by Andrew

Hey Sudoers, Anyone going to FEDCON... I mean Defcon, this year? Want to go in on a hotel room? Anyone interested in driving/caravaning there? Anyone have any interested in spending the entire time there with me solving the badge crypto/puzzle challenge, like I did last year? --Andrew -- ------- Andrew Lowe Cell: 831-332-2507 http://roshambomedia.com

12 years, 3 months

hey! look at the Medicine to the People thread!!!

by johanna faust

just thought i would call attention to it. its down there somewhere in your indox. *☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟* *☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟* *☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟* *☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟* *☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟* *☟**☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟* *☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟*

12 years, 3 months

Medicine to the People: Stories from Community Health Projects (Sun May 25)

by Yar

In 8 days, Sudoroom will host these amazing people! https://www.facebook.com/events/1430569700530791/ -- The Bay Area is blessed to have some amazing and inspiring community health projects that bring healing and medicine to the people. These projects save lives, increase access and sustain communities in struggle. Come for an evening celebrating healers building projects to reclaim medicine in different communities and hear their stories! Donations will be accepted for Sharena of People's Community Medics in a effort to get her a van so she can continue her work Speakers: Sharena Thomas- People’s Community Medics http://www.peoplescommunitymedics.org/ Sharena is a long-time organizer, warrior and single mother of 4 who has co-founded People's Community Medics. She is the daughter of parents who she frequently stopped with as a child to respond to community emergencies. She has worked within her community of various projects including community cleanups and anti-police brutality efforts fighting for justice for families of victims in her community as well as family members. The People’s Community Medics (PCM) was founded in the summer of 2011 by Sharena Thomas and Lesley Phillips. As members of the Oscar Grant Committee we learned that the BART police refused to call an ambulance for 20 minutes for fatally wounded Oscar Grant, despite the passionate pleas for medical help from his friends who were detained at the Fruitvale station by the police. That experience as well as our knowledge that 911 calls often do not result in an ambulance arriving in a timely manner to Black, Brown and poor neighborhoods largely inspired us to teach our people basic emergency first aid so that we can help one another until an ambulance arrives. Michelle Steinberg- Consultas Naturistas Program at Street Level Health Project http://www.streetlevelhealth.org/ Michelle started Consultas Naturistas, the nutrition and herbal medicine clinic at Street Level Health Project, in 2009 to provide free, Spanish/English bilingual, integrative health care to low-income individuals in East Oakland. Hundreds of clients have received holistic care and medicine through the program. Visits last approximately 30-60 minutes per person and involve a client-centered discussion of health history and lifestyle, focused on nutrition, exercise, and sleep habits. Clients receive free custom blended tinctures and teas, as well as vitamins and supplements. Street Level Health Project, which houses the program, is a multi-purpose organization focused on both health care navigation and worker empowerment. In addition to Consultas Naturistas, there is a doctor on-site three days/week to provide basic medical treatment, while health navigators direct clients to outside service providers for on-going or specialized care. Other core programs include mental health services, exercise/yoga classes, free lunches and food bags, and a workers’ collective. Orlando- HEPPAC, Berkeley Free Clinic, Oasis http://www.casasegura.org/ http://www.berkeleyfreeclinic.org/ Orlando a community advocate at HEPPAC and BFC and a senior peer educator at Oasis Clinic. He will talk about his experiences in approaching hep c, hiv and other health related concerns, primarily among former and current consumers of substance. It's all in the approach. Laura--Berkeley Free Clinic Laura works with the Berkeley Free Clinic and will speak on her experience as well as the pitfalls of liberal healthcare.

12 years, 3 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] WOSP – City of Oakland’s Plan for Gentrification: A Target For Anti-Displacement Activity : Indybay

by Yar

On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Romy Snowyla <romy(a)snowyla.com> wrote: > The omni is cool but it's interesting how cleanly it dovetails with the MacArthur Bart transit village. It'll certainly make Temescal call again .. That neighborhoods gone downhill lately .. How do you think the Omni will dovetail with the "MacArthur BART Transit Village"?

12 years, 3 months

current omni timeline?

by Marina Kukso

hi all, what's the current timeline for the move? - marina

12 years, 3 months

Grant for schools

by markperlin＠gmail.com

I'm looking for a school teacher interested in teaching physical sciences and energy. Please let me know if that's you or you know anyone. A grant opportunity from PG&E: http://www.pge.com/en/about/community/education/brightideasgrants/index.page.

12 years, 3 months

[Omni] Feedback on Bylaws for the Omni Oakland Collective

by Jenny Ryan

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all! The Omni Oakland Collective is the non-profit organization serving as an umbrella for the current 'collective of collectives' seeking to move together into 4799 Shattuck. We are currently in the process of applying for 501c3 status. "OMNI Oakland Collective is comprised of several Bay Area collectives. Its express purpose is to build consensus among member collectives with minimal possible bureaucracy for the administration of a common space and sharing of resources for the use and stewardship of the greater community. The point of the OMNI Oakland Collective is NOT to function as any sort of governing body for the groups involved in any general sense. There are no senators. Its only and sole point is to administer the space, pay bills, make group decisions about the shared space, resolve any conflicts between the groups in the space, interface with the state, banks, authorities, etc. Logistics and bureaucracy: That's it." See the current draft of the bylaws here: http://wiki.omni-oakland.org/w/Bylaws Feedback is requested over the next month to incorporate them into the new version of the bylaws. You can post feedback or questions to this thread, make a diff on the wiki, or add to the Riseup pad: http://pad.riseup.net/p/omnibylaws Cheers, Jenny http://jennyryan.net http://sudomesh.org http://thevirtualcampfire.org http://technomadic.tumblr.com `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." - -Laurie Anderson "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." -Hannah Arendt "To define is to kill. To suggest is to create." - -Stéphane Mallarmé ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTdq4tAAoJEHTWWpBUSeDhSw8H/jzZiqjN7cTrTajxvZdkUUm9 24W9se4L+G1UQl7ojFQOSIDYvxOoZaDHVbZc1a/ua/6k+aTWm2VTnzXaRDg2lmjY F0hL4CmTqGUSlbkwSvXRpiIwAaoEj3PJcpmtJcbeLmPlZ8kB62ST3RhOIMOubBhI I6FBBQUWdwXVgTnEI+NyBZCsznxra09KB20da7nYfjkqWhBSDkUMje+lNi1GFkvg B+hI9vAtoqRYkGMRbykJNYR6VqgCvtynzGVhiTpXBxMiIvtjVRsYF2FdXck97XPg aahsb+7py6D5WAR4fd7OGSetKTv12zEREkm2FjFV32Blv5dDSee0WIk80CXAMW4= =9aeo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

12 years, 3 months

Fwd: Join the Open Coalition, and Help us Build a Better Open World

by Marina Kukso

thought folks here might be interested. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rebecca Kahn <bekka(a)p2pu.org> Date: Thu, May 15, 2014 at 3:06 AM Subject: Join the Open Coalition, and Help us Build a Better Open World To: Dear friends in the open world We're insanely proud to announce the launch of the Open Coalition - a collaborative project for all organisations working in the open space. Since late 2013 is has been apparent that many organisations working in the field of open share areas of overlap. The Coalition aims to eliminate duplication, keep lines of communication between organisations and communities strong and open and help develop closer ties between open groups. The project has been initially funded by Wikimedia UK, and is proud to include Creative Commons, Open Knowledge and Open Streetmap as first-phase collaborators. In order to celebrate this exciting new collaboration, we'd like to invite any organisations in London to an Open Coalition Meet & Greet: When: Mon, May 19, 4pm Where: Wikimedia UK Office and online Why? To help us start building the Open Coalition We'll also have a dial-in set up for those who are outside the UK, so everyone can take part. Can't make it to the Meet & Greet? There are some simple things you can do to get involved and help us build the coalition: Follow @opencoalition on Twitter for all the latest news Tweet this: Help spread open collaboration across the web. Join the #opencoalition Send us an email: stevie.benton(a)wikimedia.org.uk or bekka(a)p2pu.org Join the coalition - get involved on this wiki<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Open_Coalition>(later to be followed by a shared presence) and help to shape the project as it grows

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