On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 18:47, Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero <dir...@gmail.com> wrote: > Also this should be asked to future XO 1.5 deployments, > they could have another ideas for activities to be included in the list.
Should we ask in olpc-sur? Thanks, Tomeu > > > > > Rafael Ortiz > > > > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Jim Simmons <nices...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Chris, >> >> I agree with Gerald on either Get Books or Get IA Books (not both). >> Get Books is still being worked on by Sayamindu Dasgupta but perhaps >> he could get it in shape for inclusion in time. Right now it doesn't >> work on .82, but I can't see that being an issue. >> >> Get IA Books works on either but is limited to the books in the >> Internet Archive. There are only about a million books there! It is, >> however, ready to go. It isn't a popular download on ASLO but it >> deserves to be. >> >> You might also consider Read Etexts, because of its text to speech >> with highlighting feature and its own built in book search. It only >> works with Project Gutenberg titles, so no pictures. The present >> version is useable, but I'm working on a new version that supports >> word wrapping on PG texts and saving font size and speech preferences >> (pitch and rate). This is a popular download on ASLO. >> >> I've never tried the IRC Activity so I'm not knocking it, but I wonder >> if children would find that useful. They already have Chat and Speak. >> >> If you're going to include Read you should consider what evince >> modules, etc. to include with it. With the right modules Read can do >> DJVU, .cbz, and EPUB documents as well as PDFs. DJVU in particular is >> useful for Internet Archive books. >> >> James Simmons >> >> >>> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:26:22 -0500 >>> From: Gerald Ardito <gerald.ard...@gmail.com> >>> Subject: Re: [IAEP] Wanted: List of Sugar activities for the XO-1.5 >>> To: Chris Ball <c...@laptop.org> >>> Cc: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org, de...@lists.laptop.org >>> Message-ID: >>> <9403b1570911231226j58f91cafhbce60f25d00c...@mail.gmail.com> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >>> >>> Chris, >>> >>> I would suggest at least one of the Activities to get books, like Get IA >>> Books. >>> >>> Otherwise, this list looks good. >>> >>> Thanks. >>> Gerald >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep