Good points. The OLPC is designed around collaboration. The model really
works well where every child in a class has his/her own laptop, uses it in
and out of school, and lives in close enough proximity to other class
members to make the Mesh work. In class one kid discovers how to do
something
At the current rate of XO software churn, any printed book will be
obsolete/inaccurate before the ink is dry.
Todd Kelsey wrote:
I have been struggling with my literary agent and trying to knock
someone over the head with a wet noodle into realizing that there
*will* be a market for a book,
heh, I totally agree, but this doesn't mean that there isn't a market
for a book like that (unfortunately!).
Apart from the fact that some people feel disabled without a book,
there still is *not* a user-friendly introduction on how to use the
laptop (let alone how it works) and I doubt that
fyi val scarlata and i went back through material to try and make something
more user friendly. she scanned through wiki and assembled various links as
good cop, then I played bad cop to try and control scope, she had a
documentation party with a couple of students to assemble material -- and
now
On 10/15/07, Ed Trager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
translate and easier for younger readers to understand. This will also
help the writer avoid the passive construction, which is very
difficult for some non-native English speakers to understand.
I agree completely that the English passive
I sent these ideas to Jim Gettys, who suggested that I send them to
the development and localization mailing lists.
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Summary:
* Write/ Edit primary documentation according to an explicit set
of writing conventions designed to minimize ambiguity and complexity
in order to facilitate
Hi, Michael,
Just a few comments for consideration by everyone:
...
Doc writing conventions:
Some linguistic research has been done on simplified English as a
subset of English to use for low-level learners, and I think that it
might be a good place to look for ways to simplify the
Hi Ed and all,
I fully appreciate the detail. However, IMHO I think that there is some
re-thinking required re: the traditional user documentation. The core of
the OLPC (literally one laptop per child; the model does not work as well if
there is not possession of a laptop for each child) is
I am amazed and inspired by all the wonderful projects and activities that
have arisen from the laptop project -- and though I was skeptical at first,
I have also come to appreciate the constructivist approach to education; I
didn't get it until I came to appreciate the notion of allowing children
