Re: [IAEP] Moon-9, almost (Re: [Sugar-devel] addons.sugarlabs.org is starting to work)

2009-03-04 Thread James Simmons
that was set up. There was a strange problem with timestamps that happened when I uploaded View Slides the first time and I believe that David had to remove some rows from the database to resolve it. It looks like its been messed up since then. James Simmons Tomeu Vizoso wrote: It's working now

[IAEP] Experiences with Soas2-200904231400.iso Snapshot

2009-04-27 Thread James Simmons
. James Simmons ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] Experiences with Soas2-200904231400.iso Snapshot

2009-04-28 Thread James Simmons
computer to update the Wiki with a link to my hardware profile. I found that SoaS would not recognize that I had inserted a second USB thumb drive and automatically mount it. It seems to me that this is something it should be able to do. James Simmons Caroline Meeks wrote: Hi James, Thanks

Re: [IAEP] Experiences with Soas2-200904231400.iso Snapshot

2009-04-28 Thread James Simmons
the same result. I don't have any computers that can do that, unfortunately. James Simmons Sebastian Dziallas wrote: James Simmons wrote: Another comment on SoaS snapshot: When I found myself without a Browse activity in the first stick I had a notion to copy the Smolt text from Terminal

Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 13, Issue 86

2009-04-28 Thread James Simmons
sources and package them up as bundles that sounds to me like a web application on a server, not an Activity. In any case, if you want to download books from Gutenberg to the XO check out Read Etexts and see what you think. James Simmons The portion that I'll paraphrase as content is king

[IAEP] Project Gutenberg, etc.

2009-04-29 Thread James Simmons
books and share them. If you did this maybe Activities for reading would cease to exist. Reading books would just be something that Sugar knew how to do. James Simmons Martin Dengler wrote: James, Thanks for your reply... On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 05:07:15PM -0500, James Simmons wrote: [I

Re: [IAEP] Books Books Books

2009-04-29 Thread James Simmons
referring to any other texts. She didn't do nearly as well teaching _The Martian Chronicles_. Maybe we should have studied the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Henry Kuttner, and Stanley G. Weinbaum at the same time. James Simmons ___ IAEP -- It's

Re: [IAEP] Project Gutenberg, etc.

2009-04-29 Thread James Simmons
is the target audience for the XO and Sugar in general may find something like Calibre to be overkill. James Simmons Carol Farlow Lerche wrote: I wonder if you use an ebook reader? An ebook reader, similarly to a music player, needs a good way to organize and find content ON THE MACHINE to read. You

[IAEP] Experiences with Soas2-200904231400.iso

2009-04-30 Thread James Simmons
. James Simmons ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] Project Gutenberg, etc.

2009-05-01 Thread James Simmons
the total to 90%. I also didn't care for the book reader supplied with Calibre. To use it for Gutenberg plain text files you need to convert then to Sony ebook format, and I wasn't all that pleased with the results. I wrote Read Etexts so I could read the books without converting them. James

Re: [IAEP] Experiences with Soas2-200904231400.iso

2009-05-01 Thread James Simmons
boot to wait for. I only use the diskette when a suitable version of the boot CD is unavailable, because the diskette works with any version of SoaS, whereas the CD needs a kernel, etc. that matches what's on the stick. James Simmons Caroline Meeks wrote: Hi James, If you would could you

Re: [IAEP] Project Gutenberg, etc.

2009-05-01 Thread James Simmons
, where he claimed to own a sword that turned into a cane so the muggers would feel sorry for him. James Simmons ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] Experiences with Soas2-200904231400.iso

2009-05-04 Thread James Simmons
recognized 1.1 ports you'd have the same situation. You might try making the diskette following the instructions on that website. It isn't that difficult, and the software doesn't cost anything to download. James Simmons Interesting. How hard would it be for someone to create a GPL version

Re: [IAEP] Project Gutenberg, etc.

2009-05-04 Thread James Simmons
Gutenberg, Internet Archive, etc. where the kid is hunting for his own books and has to either bundle them himself or use Activities that don't require bundling. James Simmons Edward Cherlin wrote: It only took me a few minutes on Ubuntu, but then I had almost all of the Python dependencies

Re: [IAEP] Library Activity

2009-05-04 Thread James Simmons
got my XO. If the Library activity would do much the same thing I wouldn't do it. James Simmons Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 15:51, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:39:52PM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote: Yes! In theory

Re: [IAEP] Library Activity

2009-05-04 Thread James Simmons
store the pickle file as a Journal entry. I would not try to recreate ALL of Calibre, just the parts I would find the most useful. That way the Activity could be entirely self contained. James Simmons Carol Farlow Lerche wrote: Calibre makes a sqlite3 database which is the basis for its

Re: [IAEP] Library Activity

2009-05-04 Thread James Simmons
function. Read Etexts has supported TTS with highlighting for months, but getting the needed external (outside the Activity bundle) software on everyone's XO is a whole other problem, that will take a lot longer to solve. If there was a way to avoid that I would have. James Simmons Carol Farlow

Re: [IAEP] Library Activity

2009-05-05 Thread James Simmons
finally have some idea of what my end users must go through. It sure sounds useful, but some mocked up screen shots would help explain the idea and sell it. Even a back of the napkin effort like Tomeu linked to would be better than nothing. James Simmons

Re: [IAEP] Library Activity

2009-05-05 Thread James Simmons
and Subject are optional. A tree structure is good for hiding stuff you don't want to look at. If you want to browse through everything (expand the entire tree) it wastes vertical space. James Simmons Samuel Klein wrote: The screenshots help the discussion a great deal. Thinking in terms of how

Re: [IAEP] Library Activity

2009-05-05 Thread James Simmons
that most users of Sugar are going to be children enforcing a minimum structure couldn't hurt. James Simmons Aleksey Lim wrote: Well, in my mind the best solution is let user choose the right way :) So Library will have several tags views * cloud of tags * tree of tags * plane list of objects i.e

Re: [IAEP] Library Activity

2009-05-05 Thread James Simmons
leaves the computing to Mom). My wife, when asked where walnuts could be found in the supermarket, answered In the Nut Section. The answer I was looking for would have been In the Baking aisle. James Simmons Carol Farlow Lerche wrote: Jim, children are great collectors. I just think

Re: [IAEP] Library Activity

2009-05-06 Thread James Simmons
it is a necessary feature, because what is the use of a nice, organized, sharable Library if you have to go back to the Journal to read one of the books in it? James Simmons Aleksey Lim wrote: On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 04:12:39PM -0500, James Simmons wrote: Aleksey, It isn't clear to me

Re: [IAEP] Creating Your First Sugar Activity

2009-05-11 Thread James Simmons
David, I created a new page and linked to it from here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team#Sugar_Activities The text is more or less what I wrote to Kathy. James Simmons David Farning wrote: Very nice summary. Could you you add it to the wiki:) david Message: 1 Date: Fri, 8

Re: [IAEP] Creating Your First Sugar Activity

2009-05-11 Thread James Simmons
not make the second one an old piece of junk running Fedora? As I told Kathy, she can feel free to ignore any advice I give that doesn't seem to be applicable. James Simmons Wade Brainerd wrote: Also check out http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/Resources. It has a Getting Started

Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 14, Issue 57

2009-05-12 Thread James Simmons
(in which case no conversion would be necessary). The file is human readable. James Simmons Message: 2 Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 13:37:40 -0400 From: Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com Subject: [IAEP] The eBook ah ha moment for Sugar on a Stick To: iaep iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 14, Issue 58

2009-05-18 Thread James Simmons
with an offline catalog. It would be nice to give the core Read Activity a catalog search like this, but there are no comparable catalogs of PDFs. Maybe Sayamindu's fbreader could use something like this for EPUB files from Gutenberg. James Simmons Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 11:42:33 -0700 From

Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 14, Issue 58

2009-05-18 Thread James Simmons
that's easy to sell. James Simmons Kathy Pusztavari wrote: James, I'm curious. Can't it be as simple as putting books on memory or a thumbdrive and having a program find the books locally and let you pick from that list? Like MS Reader searching for .lit books or Peanut Reader (whatever

Re: [IAEP] Read Etexts with offline Gutenberg catalog search

2009-05-19 Thread James Simmons
to the Zip file, resequence them, and view them. Maybe let you use the XO camera too. The growing one step at a time is a necessity considering how little time I have to do this kind of work. James Simmons Tomeu Vizoso wrote: I think this an awesome idea and that this attitude of growing one

Re: [IAEP] Read Etexts with offline Gutenberg catalog search

2009-05-20 Thread James Simmons
myself so far. I can create properly named Journal entries for a bunch of etexts in a few minutes, and open them from the Journal with one click. This is a great improvement over using Browse to download them from the PG website. James Simmons Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Sounds great, what I would

[IAEP] Google reader with blogs

2009-05-21 Thread James Simmons
I tried using Google Reader on these blogs, and the translation to English was outstanding. Very readable. James Simmons Message: 8 Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 15:56:39 -0400 From: Luke Faraone l...@faraone.cc Subject: Re: [IAEP] spanish posts in the planet To: David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org

Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 14, Issue 58

2009-05-26 Thread James Simmons
think that we need to communicate that packaged materials are not the ONLY way to get content on the machine and read it, and that in fact there is a large amount of content that Sugar can use as is. James Simmons Carol Farlow Lerche wrote: James, I think it is wonderful to make it easy

[IAEP] Journal criticism

2009-05-27 Thread James Simmons
with the right Activity with one click is to make the Activity open the Journal entry with the Object Chooser, then save it back out as a new Journal entry. Then the user deletes the original Journal entry. We need something easier than that. James Simmons

Re: [IAEP] Journal criticism

2009-05-27 Thread James Simmons
Tomeu Vizoso wrote: 4). For the Journal proper, I agree that a temporal view has value. However, in addition to that I'd like to sort by the Title meta tag. This would be a natural for etexts, because you could look for a book more easily if they were all in alphabetical order. If you had a

Re: [IAEP] Journal criticism

2009-05-27 Thread James Simmons
to group things into folders. The Journal gives you better ways to organize your work. It may grow on you. Give it a chance. James Simmons Lucian Branescu wrote: I'm new to Sugar, so I may be horribly wrong. But to me, the Journal seems more of an annoyance than anything else. A lot

Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 14, Issue 58

2009-05-28 Thread James Simmons
with. Second, the activity is 100% python, so if you have the .xo file you have all the source there is. I understand there is an option in python setup.py that lets you create a source package but I've never used it. If I created such a package where would I post it? James Simmons David

Re: [IAEP] PG Books

2009-05-29 Thread James Simmons
be a lot more useful, but my time available for Python programming is just a few hours a week. If I can get 80% of the benefit for 20% of the work that's what I'll do first. James Simmons Elena of Valhalla wrote: On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:15 PM, James Simmons jim.simm...@walgreens.com wrote

[IAEP] Library-1 Feedback

2009-06-02 Thread James Simmons
the idea of the Activity is a bit sophisticated to be grasped by a first time user. James Simmons ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [math4] Activity Awards, Activity Alerts

2009-06-08 Thread James Simmons
could also keep track of the most popular download links, etc. so kids looking for something good to read would get some ideas. James Simmons ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org

[IAEP] ASLO Suggestion

2009-06-09 Thread James Simmons
better. James Simmons ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] ASLO Suggestion

2009-06-09 Thread James Simmons
suggestions on what might be worth a recommended status will be welcomed. Your other ideas sound good, but I still think we need some highly visible counts in there. As someone once said, You gotta tell 'em to sell 'em! Thanks, James Simmons Aleksey Lim wrote: You are an editor now and can

Re: [IAEP] Some Comments on Digital Textbooks In California

2009-06-09 Thread James Simmons
in the public domain (and they should be) then cheap printed copies of the textbooks should also be available. James Simmons Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 09:53:04 -0700 From: Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com Subject: [IAEP] Some Comments on Digital Textbooks In California To: Community Support

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] ASLO Suggestion

2009-06-09 Thread James Simmons
with a few Activities over my lunch break. I should have some recommendations by next week. James Simmons Aleksey Lim wrote: the problem is - we depend on upstream AMO code, so patching ASLO code a lot will mean problems while merging new AMO commits (we can suggest our changes directly

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] ASLO Suggestion

2009-06-09 Thread James Simmons
there are other ways to install something, but downloading to the Journal works just fine for me. James Simmons ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] ASLO Suggestion

2009-06-10 Thread James Simmons
showcase our most essential Activities and also give people a place to download stuff they may have removed by mistake. When I first got my XO I didn't have a wireless router, so I had to copy everything in using a thumb drive. I agree that some simple instructions would be worthwhile. James

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] ASLO Suggestion

2009-06-10 Thread James Simmons
in mind other than keeping me in the damned store as long as possible. On the other hand Costco arranges stuff in reasonable categories. James Simmons Martin Dengler wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 05:34:29PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: I think that's a great idea - will be very helpful

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] ASLO Suggestion

2009-06-11 Thread James Simmons
in use. Our numbers will be less impressive, of course. James Simmons Gary C Martin wrote: Not too much input from existing teachers unfortunately back then, but the list I was keeping track of ended up at something like the below: Art Communication Games Geography Literacy Maths Music

Re: [IAEP] the SoaS term (was: Press release flurry planning...)

2009-06-19 Thread James Simmons
it to their parents and their teachers. What we consider freedom they consider being disorganized. James Simmons ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] What can I do in an hour?

2009-06-22 Thread James Simmons
there, not literally 1 hour. James Simmons ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] View Slides an alternative to PowerPoint?

2009-06-22 Thread James Simmons
the story. Unfortunately they tell the story out of sequence. There doesn't seem to be any way to arrange the pictures in order. James Simmons ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http

[IAEP] New version of Making Sugar Activities for review

2010-02-15 Thread James Simmons
you could put in a book like this and I'm still hoping some of you will want to write the chapters I'm not qualified to do, like: Sugarizing existing programs Writing Activities In Languages Other Than Python Hulahop etc., etc. James Simmons ___ IAEP

Re: [IAEP] Kurzweil in Wine?

2010-02-18 Thread James Simmons
Activity that supported copying text to the clipboard and the new code would display the text in the clipboard in a window and speak it with highlighting. Nothing came of this. James Simmons Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:03:17 -0500 From: Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com Subject: [IAEP

Re: [IAEP] Parichay Parivesh Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

2010-02-22 Thread James Simmons
://objavi.flossmanuals.net/books/ActivitiesGuideSugar-en-2010.02.15-18.18.25.pdf I have asked for the book to be published and linked to the Read page at flossmanuals.net. When that happens (later today, I hope) this will be newer than the PDF. The PDF should be adequate to get you started. James

Re: [IAEP] Drama / Theater in Sugar?

2010-02-26 Thread James Simmons
be in the public domain. James Simmons Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:26:29 -0500 From: Sebastian Silva sebast...@somosazucar.org Subject: [IAEP] Drama / Theater in Sugar? To: iaep iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Message-ID:        289760091002252026y4e123f0cy89045520bf8df...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type

Re: [IAEP] Drama / Theater in Sugar?

2010-02-26 Thread James Simmons
. There is also a project called Our Stories that may be of interest: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Our_Stories James Simmons On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Sebastian Silva sebast...@fuentelibre.org wrote: Hello James, Thank you for your quick response. I have been navigating thru ASLO looking

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Girls in Open Source

2010-02-27 Thread James Simmons
, which is an enormous plus. If anyone on the lists knows their parents and could help make this happen I'd be obliged. James Simmons On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Oops! I forgot

Re: [IAEP] [POLL] Non Sugar Platform activities in Activity Library

2010-02-28 Thread James Simmons
be to treat Java as a less objectionable alternative to Flash. You would not be able to write a first class Activity in it, but you could create a non-collaborating applet run by hulahop and distribute it on ASLO. James Simmons Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 02:26:30 + From: Aleksey Lim alsr

Re: [IAEP] [POLL] Non Sugar Platform activities in Activity Library

2010-03-01 Thread James Simmons
Sugar components (not a trivial undertaking) the Java programs would still look different from everything else. One of the strong points of Activities now is the consistent look and feel they all have. Supporting Java for more than just applets would undermine that. James Simmons On Mon, Mar 1

Re: [IAEP] guidance for developing activity

2010-03-01 Thread James Simmons
a program called The GIMP which is a good alternative to Adobe Photoshop and may be of interest to you. I hope you'll check out my book. It should help you learn just what a Sugar Activity is and is expected to do and hopefully will convince you that Flash can't get you there. James Simmons Date

[IAEP] PyGame Activity chapter ready for review

2010-03-02 Thread James Simmons
Activities can be fun and not too difficult for children, teachers, and other non-programmers. A picture of an older teacher programming might be good too. James Simmons ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org

[IAEP] Chapter complete version of Make Your Own Sugar Activities! is available for review

2010-03-04 Thread James Simmons
the chapters and examples for awhile, and I'm hoping that some of you will want to contribute guest chapters (and author bios for the About The Authors chapter). I still need a cover image for Lulu too. Having said that, I think the book as it stands now is good enough to use. Thanks, James Simmons

Re: [IAEP] OLPC/Sugar Radio--Sunday 12Noon Boston Time then Brunch--Manu Gupta presenting from India

2010-03-06 Thread James Simmons
.) and the website should have those corrected soon. Thanks, James Simmons Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:53:56 -0500 From: Holt h...@laptop.org Subject: [IAEP] OLPC/Sugar Radio--Sunday 12Noon Boston Time then        Brunch--Manu Gupta presenting from India To: Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond

Re: [IAEP] Test developed activity for XO Laptop.

2010-03-09 Thread James Simmons
a good idea. James Simmons Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 23:09:23 + From: Parichay Parivesh parivesh.paric...@googlemail.com Subject: [IAEP] Test developed activity for XO Laptop. To: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org, satyaa...@gmail.com Message-ID:        5967519c1003081509s8c9525v22d3c1ad1697b

Re: [IAEP] Need ideas for 1 hour Sugar introductory lessons

2010-03-14 Thread James Simmons
in that area, and I wonder if Sugar users realize that. James Simmons Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:50:01 -0500 From: Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com Subject: [IAEP] Need ideas for 1 hour Sugar introductory lessons To: iaep iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Message-ID

Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 24, Issue 39

2010-03-20 Thread James Simmons
of books to read with Read (from a collection of over a million). James Simmons On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Mel Chua m...@melchua.com wrote: The short version is that instead of include all Activites by default, we're thinking of shipping very few (6) Activities by default - the ones

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] ebooks

2010-04-07 Thread James Simmons
, use the Journal Activity to copy them to a thumb drive, then use the Terminal Activity to unzip them from the command line. You would then copy the PDFs back to the Journal using the Journal Activity. James Simmons On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Marina verhovz...@yahoo.com wrote: Warm

[IAEP] Proposed book on Reading and Publishing for Sugar

2010-04-15 Thread James Simmons
set up a bunch of empty chapters. We're still working on the chapter outline so I'd prefer just an Introduction chapter and a Credits chapter to begin with. The website only handles three word titles so maybe Reading and Sugar would do as a title for now. Please let me know what you think. James

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] [SoaS] SoaS Creation Saga

2010-04-22 Thread James Simmons
Caryl, Here's the link. http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/GranniesGuideSugar/WebHome I actually prefer FLOSS Manuals to our Wiki. The information is better structured and it's easier to find information you're looking for. James Simmons On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Caryl Bigenho

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] FLOSS Grannie's Guide

2010-04-23 Thread James Simmons
instructions with lots of screen shots I think we'll do a lot of good. Unfortunately, I don't have a Mac, just Windows and Linux. I would do instructions for Windows, because the Linux folks won't need them. Good luck with the convention! James Simmons P.S. Netbook case? My XO-1 fits nicely

[IAEP] New FLOSS Manual Reading And Leading With Sugar chapters need review

2010-05-06 Thread James Simmons
and Project Gutenberg. The book will document the whole process. In the meantime the Sugar-y chapters are pretty much complete and could use a review. Any suggestions or feedback would be welcome. The book is at: http://en.flossmanuals.net/ReadingandSugar/Introduction Thanks, James Simmons

[IAEP] New chapters of Reading And Leading With Sugar could use a review

2010-05-17 Thread James Simmons
. Thanks, James Simmons ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] New chapters of Reading And Leading With Sugar could use a review

2010-05-17 Thread James Simmons
more interesting than I thought it would be when I began this book. In the next few years our ideas about publishing could change drastically, and I think for the better. James Simmons On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Rebecca Hargrave Malamud webch...@invisible.net wrote: Hi, James - I

Re: [IAEP] New chapters of Reading And Leading With Sugar could use a review

2010-05-17 Thread James Simmons
) as contributors. They could write up their projects as case studies, for one thing. I'm trying to get teachers interested in the potential of free e-books and case studies of actual students working in that area would be a terrific addition to either book. James Simmons On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:46 PM

Re: [IAEP] Books and educational achievement

2010-05-26 Thread James Simmons
, but we won't know the real effect of that from this study. James Simmons Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 17:26:37 -0400 From: Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com Subject: [IAEP] Books and educational achievement To: iaep iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Message-ID

[IAEP] Fwd: Testing the production use of ebooks

2010-05-30 Thread James Simmons
I meant to copy the lists on my response to Samy: -- Forwarded message -- From: James Simmons nices...@gmail.com Date: Sun, May 30, 2010 at 8:42 PM Subject: Re: Testing the production use of ebooks To: samy boutayeb s.bouta...@free.fr Samy, Thanks for your detailed feedback

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Tonight's Question: Read vs Read ETexts?

2010-06-25 Thread James Simmons
. The same trick works with Read Etexts. The books you download using Read Etexts will have the Read Etexts icon from the beginning. James Simmons On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Tim McNamara paperl...@timmcnamara.co.nz wrote: On 25 June 2010 14:39, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote

Re: [IAEP] Activity Proposal.

2010-07-13 Thread James Simmons
Vishal, If this is to be your first Sugar Activity you should find this useful: http://en.flossmanuals.net/ActivitiesGuideSugar/Introduction James Simmons Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:42:49 +0530 From: Vishal Garg vishalgar...@gmail.com Subject: [IAEP] Activity Proposal. To: iaep

[IAEP] Make Your Own Sugar Activities! is on Lulu

2010-07-30 Thread James Simmons
My FLOSS Manual Make Your Own Sugar Activities! made it to Lulu.com: http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/make-your-own-sugar-activities/12047878 FLOSS Manuals get the profits for book sales, not me, but I thought you'd all like to know it's available. James Simmons

Re: [IAEP] Make Your Own Sugar Activities! is on Lulu

2010-08-01 Thread James Simmons
if anyone wanted to do a Spanish translation I'd be tickled to death. So no plans, but none are really needed in this case. James Simmons On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 06:35, James Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote: My FLOSS Manual Make

Re: [IAEP] Looking for suggestions

2010-08-02 Thread James Simmons
Android tablets that are coming out. There are lots of free e-books, many of which would be of interest to high school students. Let me know what you think. James Simmons Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2010 18:50:18 -0500 From: Brett Neese brne...@brneese.com Subject: [IAEP] Looking for suggestions To: iaep

[IAEP] Make Your Own Sugar Activities! in Spanish

2010-08-04 Thread James Simmons
on the translation but nobody wants to be in charge of it. This is understandable. So, assuming that If you build it they will come I'd like to have a Spanish version of Make Your Own Sugar Activities! set up. Thanks much, James Simmons On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote

Re: [IAEP] Make Your Own Sugar Activities! in Spanish

2010-08-04 Thread James Simmons
of technical language in the manual, so it shouldn't be too hard to translate. One or two technical Spanish speakers to review the translation should be plenty. James Simmons On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Werner Westermann werne...@gmail.com wrote: Please count with Sugar Labs Chile to translate

[IAEP] Fwd: [FM Discuss] Make Your Own Sugar Activities! in Spanish

2010-08-05 Thread James Simmons
also subscribed to the book so I'll be notified when anyone updates the book. Again, in addition to registering at the site I'd recommend that you join the discuss mailing list for the site and monitor it. James Simmons To: disc...@lists.flossmanuals.net Subject: Re: [FM Discuss] Make Your Own

Re: [IAEP] Make Your Own Sugar Activities! in Spanish

2010-08-06 Thread James Simmons
Franco, You need to create an account on the site and give your real name. This is important because your contributions to the book are copyrighted and the site needs to know who you are to do that properly. James Simmons Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:29:53 -0600 From: Franco Castro fcastr

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Activities manual in Spanish

2010-09-13 Thread James Simmons
of the English manual should be available in the Lulu store in a month or maybe less. I have revised the pages to print in a larger font and we've got some great new cover art from a student in Oregon. I'm just waiting on some contributor bios. James Simmons ===In the community=== 3. Jim Simmon's

Re: [IAEP] FW: [Olpc-uruguay] MiguelEstudia (Versi?n 1)

2010-09-15 Thread James Simmons
Caryl, I haven't tried this out yet but I think it's a great idea. Text to speech is underutilized in Activities, in my opinion. It isn't that difficult to add TTS to an Activity, and every kid I've ever shown my XO to has been delighted to hear it speak! James Simmons Date: Wed, 15 Sep

Re: [IAEP] Text to Speech in other Activities (was Re: FW: [Olpc-uruguay] MiguelEstudia (Version 1))

2010-09-16 Thread James Simmons
, and we hope to have printed versions available from Lulu in time for Christmas. James Simmons On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Tim McNamara paperl...@timmcnamara.co.nz wrote: [adding Sugar devel] On 16 September 2010 07:14, James Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote: Caryl, I haven't tried

[IAEP] Make Your Own Sugar Activites! is on Lulu.com

2010-10-07 Thread James Simmons
. That doesn't mean I don't want it to be a best seller! James Simmons ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] Make Your Own Sugar Activites! is on the Internet Archive

2010-10-08 Thread James Simmons
a chance I'll try that too and if it looks good I'll make that format part of this entry as well. James Simmons ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] stepping down as maintainer

2010-10-19 Thread James Simmons
Tomeu, Let me join the chorus of thank-yous. You helped me a great deal when I was learning how to make Sugar activities, and if my book on the subject is any good at all you deserve a large portion of the credit. Good luck in all your future endeavors. Jame Simmons

[IAEP] Lulu free download of Make Your Own Sugar Activities! is now working

2010-10-21 Thread James Simmons
Archive. James Simmons ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] NN, Mitra, and the role of the teacher

2010-10-26 Thread James Simmons
and trial and error. Somewhere along the line I must have had teachers who encouraged me to learn on my own, but they weren't all like that. I do have a great respect for teachers and if I ever ran into my old teachers I'd apologize to half of them for wasting so much of their time. James Simmons

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] More new and revised chapters of Make Your Own Sugar Activities! ready for review, feedback

2010-11-08 Thread James Simmons
Aleksey, I've changed the paragraph in http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/ActivitiesGuideSugar/SugarDebugging It is not published yet, but if you use the link above you can see it. If it looks OK to you I'll ask for the changes to be published. Thanks, James Simmons On Sat, Nov 6, 2010

[IAEP] Group name for our FLOSS Manuals

2010-11-24 Thread James Simmons
this. The other thing to know is that the *published* books will still be presented to the public the same way they already are. It's just the authoring tool that is changing. Thanks, James Simmons ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP

Re: [IAEP] Group name for our FLOSS Manuals

2010-11-28 Thread James Simmons
is probably as good as anything else. I don't belong to any OLPC mailing lists. If you think any of them need this information feel free to forward it to them. Thanks, James Simmons On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Tabitha Roder tabi...@tabitha.net.nz wrote: Hi James et al If we had one group named

[IAEP] The great OLPC/Sugar manual Booki migration begins

2010-11-28 Thread James Simmons
the question on the FM mailing list. James Simmons ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] The great OLPC/Sugar manual Booki migration begins

2010-11-28 Thread James Simmons
it to the list and try to get a resolution. My error had something to do with a log directory not being found. If Django debug mode was turned off since I had my problem maybe they need to turn it on again to get to the bottom of yours. James Simmons On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Walter Bender

[IAEP] Fwd: olpc votes for booki?

2010-12-06 Thread James Simmons
free content into the hands of students. I encourage you to check out booki.cc and if you like what you see register on drumbeat and give it a vote. Thanks, James Simmons -- Forwarded message -- From: adam hyde a...@flossmanuals.net Date: Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:14 AM Subject

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] When teaching restrains discovery

2011-01-19 Thread James Simmons
school there, but there's no way I could have qualified at that age. Mel Chua went there. James Simmons On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Folks... The retired teacher talking here. Discovery learning in a properly prepared, semi-structured

[IAEP] Internet Archive now supports text to speech with sentence highlighting

2011-01-20 Thread James Simmons
what constitutes a sentence). The IA code doesn't always get it right, but it does OK. What is neat is that it works on books like BigAviationBook that were created by photographing page images. This makes me think we could get TTS working in the Read Activity. Anyway, have a look. James Simmons

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Local download page for 16 Sugar Related Floss Manual .pdf files

2011-01-21 Thread James Simmons
Kevin, This is a known problem with the Spanish version of MYOSA. The table of contents has an odd encoding. It will take someone who knows Spanish and about character encodings to fix this. The actual pages in the manual seem to be OK. James Simmons On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Kevin

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