On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 9:50 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > I am a lurker. I have just begun working as a consultant to Rice > University's stemscopes.com educational website to help them modify it to > accommodate dyslexic students. STEMscopes specializes in science > curriculum. > > Can Sugar be web-based? > > I used Sugar as a teacher and found it to be very interactive and adaptable > to dyslexic students. It would merge beautifully with STEMscopes' > objectives. > > There is the possibility that we could suggest that schools install Sugar to > use with their activities. However, as a long time teacher, I can tell you > that schools are unlikely to do that. It is too much work. It would be > better if it could be integrated into web-based lessons. > > What do you think? > > Marilyn
While there are many ways to get Sugar onto machines of nearly any type: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/DocumentationTeam/Try_Sugar If the concern is installing software, then you may want to look at Sugar on a Stick: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick You can download the latest here: http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/ The price of 1 or 2 GB USB drives (especially if purchased in bulk) have gotten quite reasonable. There have been pilots in American schools with SoaS. cjl _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
