Thanks for your thoughtful responses Caroline. It is good to more clearly understand where things stand, especially with Sugar and the XO. I started thinking more about how I can use SoaS in my PC/XO classroom this year, and my mind drifted back to the field test we did in my classroom last spring (http://tinyurl.com/5ev6xc).
The software we tried out was Classroom Presenter for the XO: http://orderedpixels.com <http://orderedpixels.com/> It's listed on the OLPC wiki under "All Activities". I just tried out the program, with an XO as the teacher, and my ThinkPad running Soas beta as a student, connected via jabber.sugarlabs.org Everything worked so well, I was prompted to take a few pics and blog about it: http://tinyurl.com/cc3a7p Thanks again - Mark On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Mark Ahlness <[email protected]> wrote: Caroline, thanks once again for getting back to me. I definitely have thoughts and feedback to offer, but I've not said anything on the list because I'm worried about 1) sounding like an uninformed idiot, or 2) sounding like a know it all and offending everybody - both real possibilities! I'll float a couple thoughts by you. This email is excellent in my opinion! Thank you! Where is the XO in this process? My hope would be for a SoaS that could be used on an XO and a PC, and yes, even a MAC :-) My experience has indicated that once a stick has booted on an XO or PC, it will not boot on the other platform. I understand part of the technical hurdles, but has this just been given up on, or it is a priority at all? I know there was a falling out with sugar and olpc, and I'm really hoping they do not both lose as a result. from where I sit, it does not look good.
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