Re: [IAEP] Computer as a tool

2009-08-12 Thread K. K. Subramaniam
On Monday 13 Jul 2009 9:11:10 pm K. K. Subramaniam wrote: On Monday 13 Jul 2009 7:02:33 pm Caroline Meeks wrote: What sort of results do you have so far? The new academic year has just started. In the prev one, around 75% of the kids learnt to handle the computer well enough to create at

Re: [IAEP] Computer as a tool

2009-08-12 Thread Caroline Meeks
Great news! please do keep us informed and also let me know when you do publicity so I can link to you. Thanks! Caroline On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:17 AM, K. K. Subramaniam subb...@gmail.comwrote: On Monday 13 Jul 2009 9:11:10 pm K. K. Subramaniam wrote: On Monday 13 Jul 2009 7:02:33 pm

Re: [IAEP] Computer as a tool

2009-08-12 Thread K. K. Subramaniam
On Thursday 13 Aug 2009 2:12:07 am Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: What have been the issues preventing you from using Sugar? What blockers still exist which would prevent you from using Sugar? LaTeX and Stellarium were two big show stoppers. We just wanted a 'digital kit' that children

Re: [IAEP] Computer as a tool

2009-08-12 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 8:21 PM, K. K. Subramaniamsubb...@gmail.com wrote: SCIM (m17n) was not stable enough when we started. Recent versions are much more stable and we are trying them out this year. Good. I can't judge, but here is a Kannada Inscript keyboard layout done in SCIM. ` ೧ ೨ ೩ ೪ ೫

Re: [IAEP] Computer as a tool

2009-07-14 Thread K. K. Subramaniam
On Tuesday 14 Jul 2009 12:03:35 am David Farning wrote: Have you considered using Sugar or Sugar on a stick for your program? The project was conceived before SoaS. We faced severe constraints with power budgets and tech support. Wifi and ethernet couldn't compete with sneakernet ;-). It was a

Re: [IAEP] Computer as a tool

2009-07-13 Thread Caroline Meeks
Thanks! This is really interesting. What sort of results do you have so far? Technologically: How many USB sticks failed? How many were lost/stollen? Did the kids find any places to use the sticks outside of school? Do you have any measure of how much content was created? Is there much sharing

Re: [IAEP] Computer as a tool

2009-07-13 Thread K. K. Subramaniam
On Monday 13 Jul 2009 7:02:33 pm Caroline Meeks wrote: What sort of results do you have so far? The new academic year has just started. In the prev one, around 75% of the kids learnt to handle the computer well enough to create at least one project in Etoys in a space of about four calendar

[IAEP] Computer as a tool

2009-07-02 Thread K. K. Subramaniam
Hi, This thread was spun off Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and Mastering Educational SW There are differences in the use of computers in schools between Sikshana (sikshana.blogspot.com) and Sugar Labs/OLPC. Sikshana's tech pilot is only three years old and will