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My name is Ryan Stush and I am a rising senior at the Rochester Institute of Technology studying New Media Interactive Development. I recently took a FOSS class and was able to obtain a Co-Op with the RIT FOSS Box this summer. My team and I will be working on implementing the Mozilla Open Badges into the Sugar Labs XO laptops from their "One Laptop Per Child" program.

Hello Everyone,

There have been some great things happening here in Sky-Time Land. We had the game set up on some of the FOSS Box computers during imagine RIT, and it was a hit with the kids!

Don’t trust my word, this video of one child's excitement speaks for its self: http://jlk9713.cias.rit.edu/videos/index.gif

www.playskytime.com

Success! We will be at Imagine RIT in FOSS Box in the Innovation Center!

The download is not quite ready yet, but should be up shortly!

This week we rethought the interface and user interaction with the keyboard. At Ryan’s suggestion we are now using the shift keys to move the clock hands. This allows the player to use both hands comfortably. We also have some plans for positive reinforcement with animation of clock hands when the student gets an answer correct. (For now we just have an image that pops up)

Hi all,

So there have been some pretty amazing things going on around here in Sky-Time land, way better than I would have ever dared to hope. We are talking with a school that is interested in using our game to teach time. They have made some good suggestions to improve our game before release. Ryan and Ian are currently working on merging their code, and will then jump on making those improvements. I have been working on the Sky-Time website. I’ll post the link here when that’s online.

Howdy,

This week has been full of fun FOSS related activities.

For Sky-Time I created the small icon that will appear on the desktop. The Pythonistas meet up was very useful. Some suggestions really helped the coding end of our project.

I saw Walter Bender speak! That was awesome. And after we talked about what icons he would like to see re-designed. So I will be attempting to make those real soon. Today he is coming to class to speak again.

This weekend is the Space Apps Challenge! And also Bar Camp.

See yah there!
-Jenn

All of the art assets are done! Wahoo. Code is going slowly but starting to come together.

Next few steps:
-Write out questions
-lesson plan
-Prettify website
-translate languages

It feels like it just started, but the HFOSS Spring course is already past half-done! Perhaps the 13 day excursion to Silicon Valley and Harvard had something to do with that...

Part 1: PyCon 2013: Santa Clara, CA

FOSS@RIT took four students out to PyCon 2013. There were two main components to our Lab's involvment at PyCon; the Education Summit, and the Poster Session.

It feels like it just started, but the HFOSS Spring course is already past half-done! Perhaps the 13 day excursion to Silicon Valley and Harvard had something to do with that...

Part 1: PyCon 2013: Santa Clara, CA

FOSS@RIT took four students out to PyCon 2013. There were two main components to our Lab's involvment at PyCon; the Education Summit, and the Poster Session.

Currently my teammates are still learning Python and I made some really cute assets aimed at the first grade audience. We are currently on target to complete this weeks schedule.

I attached the in progress assets. :)

Working on Sky Time has been really fun so far. We have a planned schedule. I missed week four because I was at GDC but it sounds like they did a great job presenting out design to the class. I have high hopes that our project will be successful! :D

http://jlk9713.cias.rit.edu/skytime/skytime.html