evaluation

As a final task for this course I asked the students to evaluate the different programs and activities that we did. Here are some of the results:

Class votes of what students thought about what we did, out of 5 :
Scratch 4.3
Physics 4.1
Guest speakers 3.9
SVG icon / hacking sugar / command line 3.5
Turtle Art 3.5
Other activities 3.5
EToys 2.9

BEST THING
Physics (5)
Turtle Art (3)
new sugar activities (2)
SVG icon / hacking sugar / command line (2)
Sugar UI

WORST THING
Etoys (5)
Turtle Art (2)
blogging (2)
SVG icon / hacking sugar / command line
guest speakers
Scratch

MOST INTERESTING
Scratch (2)
Food force (2)
SVG icon / hacking sugar / command line (2)
Turtle Art (2)

guest speakers (2)
new sugar activities
etoys
Physics

MOST DIFFICULT
Etoys (9)
SVG icon / hacking sugar / command line (3)
Scratch
Turtle Art

Thanks again to the guest speakers: Rosemary about Timor Leste and Joel about the xo development

The SVG icon activity meant developing your own icon using raw XML and then hacking through the linux command line to replace the existing xo icon

Air Sok's final blog provides a positive account of what some students got out of this course

Thanks to the students for being a great class