[IAEP] Sebastian interview; picked up by Kompas (ID), CanalAR (AR), Elektronik Tidningen (SE), ES-Mas (ES), MyDrivers News (CN), Antharius (FR)
http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/computer/989765/ http://tekno.kompas.com/read/xml/2009/06/26/21383170/quotgula.batanganquot.hidupkan.lagi.komputer.tua http://www.canal-ar.com.ar/noticias/noticiamuestra.asp?Id=7571 http://www.etn.se/index.php?option=com_contentview=articleid=49393 http://blogs.esmas.com/loretdemola/index.php/2009/06/26/proyecto-educativo/ http://news.mydrivers.com/1/138/138204.htm http://www.antharius.com/blog/?p=2299 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] My Flickr photostream from LinuxTag 2009
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39656...@n02/sets/72157620524327203/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Et français? (was Re: New mailing li st: ita...@lists.sugarlabs.org)
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 2:52 AM, Bernie Innocentiber...@codewiz.org wrote: Hello Sugarians, I'd like to introduce yet another list for the Italian Sugar community: http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/italia Che bella! Mais où est la liste française, pour toutes les pays de la Francophonie? Comme Rwanda, Ghana, Cambodge, et Haïti? We also have a IRC channel #sugar-it for local-scope topics. Please, keep global communication on #sugar to avoid fragmentation. The Italian Local Lab might be coming soon if someone steps forward to lead the effort: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Local_Labs Other local communinties with enough critical mass and motivation are encouraged to contact me for requesting communication and web presence resources. -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. http://earthtreasury.org/worknet (Edward Mokurai Cherlin) ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Loading videos onto a Sugar Stick for local access
2009/6/23 Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com: I'd like to put the videos that are on dailymotion onto my master stick so that people at FOSSED will be able to view them even if internet is no good. Any idea how to do this? Had any luck with this? If not, please explain a bit more what you want to do. Regards, Tomeu Thanks, Caroline -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax ___ 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
[IAEP] Fwd: IEEE Education Society: Call For Editorial Board members...
FYI. -- Forwarded message -- From: IEEE E-Notice owner-ieee-e-not...@ieee.org Date: Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 11:50 AM Subject: IEEE Education Society: Call For Editorial Board members... To: echer...@gmail.com IEEE Education Society members, **Note: all inquiries in regard to this notice should be sent to Matt Ohland (ohl...@purdue.edu). The IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies (IEEE TLT) is a new archival quality journal jointly published by the IEEE Computer Society and the IEEE Education Society. More information about the journal is available at: http://www.computer.org/tlt To handle an increasing volume of submissions, IEEE TLT plans to extend its editorial board and solicits applications from academics and professionals who are interested to serve. Applications are sought from experts in a range of innovative learning technologies including, but not limited to: * Innovative online learning systems * Intelligent tutors * Educational software applications and games * Simulation systems for education and training * Collaborative learning tools * Devices and interfaces for learning * Interactive techniques for learning * Personalized and adaptive learning systems * Tools for formative and summative assessment * Ontologies for learning systems * Standards and web services that support learning * Authoring tools for learning materials * Computer support for peer tutoring * Learning via discovery, field, and lab work * Learning with mobile devices * Social learning techniques * Social networks and infrastructures for learning and knowledge sharing * Creation and management of learning objects Successful candidates should be established and recognized experts in their field of research, as indicated by a solid number of published papers on topic, high citation rates (measured by ISI or Google Scholar), editorial and reviewing experience, and other commonly accepted factors. Please send an application letter by e-mail to Matt Ohland (ohl...@purdue.edu). The letters should include URL(s) that provide access to your CV and a list of relevant publications. You have received this mailing because you are a member of IEEE and/or one of the IEEE Technical Societies. To unsubscribe, please go to http://ewh.ieee.org/enotice/options.php?SN=CherlinLN=E025 and be certain to include your IEEE member number. If you need assistance with your E-Notice subscription, please contact k.n@ieee.org -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. http://earthtreasury.org/worknet (Edward Mokurai Cherlin) TLT.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Et français?
[cc += syst...@] On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 01:42 -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: Mais où est la liste française, pour toutes les pays de la Francophonie? Comme Rwanda, Ghana, Cambodge, et Haïti? To avoid ending up with dozens of deserted lists, let's adopt the rule that a minimum of 5 initial subscribers are required in order to start a new local list. Your proposal counts as 1 vote for all the lists you mentioned, as you are presumably going to subscribe yourself. Interested people please follow up with on syst...@lists.sugarlabs.org only to avoid spamming the other lists. -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Reflections on giving a Sugar Demo
Thanks Andrea! I put this thread into a Wiki page for future reference: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Intro_to_Sugar_Session On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Andrea Mangiatordi andrea.mangiato...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everybody, Caroline Meeks wrote: 1. This is the Home Screen. [snip] 8. To do something go to your Home screen and click on any of these icons. They are the activities. in the last months I was (and I still am, but for short) in Uruguay for my PhD research project, which involves educational software and special needs. I was asked to give some Sugar classes to teachers, and more or less the procedure I used was the same described above by Caroline. I would like to add some more points, to introduce the teachers to activity sharing: 9. This baloon is the Chat Activity - it only has a simple toolbar, and it can be easily used to explain activity sharing essentials. 10. This - the share with: combo box - makes your activity appear in the neighborhood view. Your friends can connect to it. Enjoy a little chat with your friends and see how important are Sugar colors to identify you. 11. This pen and paper icon is a text editor. Yes, it has the same toolbar of the chat. No, you don't have to use it like a chat.. :) Hope this hint could be useful to someone. Saluti Andrea -- Andrea Mangiatordi www.farfalla-project.org www.bglug.it ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Trouble With Helper CD
I am running a Mac Book with OS 10.5.6. I tried using the Helper CD and SoaS stick distributed at the FOSSed conference. Following the wiki directions, the Helper CD booted up then required a decision about booting options. After choosing the boot my machine locked up. When I restarted my machine, it did not recognize my boot drive. I can no longer get into OS X. Before I reimage my machine any suggestions? ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Trouble With Helper CD
Problem resolved. Removed battery and forced a restart to the hard drive. Laura Johns la...@penobscotschool.org On Jun 28, 2009, at 11:42 AM, Walter Bender wrote: Anyone have a clue what this could be about? (I know nothing at all about Macs.) -walter -- Forwarded message -- From: la...@penobscotschool.org Date: Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:35 AM Subject: [IAEP] Trouble With Helper CD To: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Cc: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org I am running a Mac Book with OS 10.5.6. I tried using the Helper CD and SoaS stick distributed at the FOSSed conference. Following the wiki directions, the Helper CD booted up then required a decision about booting options. After choosing the boot my machine locked up. When I restarted my machine, it did not recognize my boot drive. I can no longer get into OS X. Before I reimage my machine any suggestions? ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Get Internet Archive Books Activity available soon
I uploaded the first version of Get Internet Archive Books to ASLO about an hour ago, so perhaps by the time you read this it will be available to try out there. I'm sending this email to IAEP because I'd like some feedback from those who might use the Activity. What this Activity does is to provide a front end to the Advanced Search function of the Internet Archive website. In essence it gives you a nice GUI to search through the archive, get information about books, then download the books you choose to the Journal. It's very similar to the offline catalog feature of Read Etexts, but better, because it has much more information on the books. The screenshots at ASLO tell the story so I won't give more details here. Suffice it to say if you are looking for books with pictures, or books in languages other than English, then this Activity will be of interest. If you've ever dreamed of reading the works of Jules Verne in Yiddish then this Activity will make those dreams come true. Currently the Activity can only download the DJVU format. This format is an alternative to PDF for documents consisting of scanned in book pages. It gives better results than PDF in less than half the disk space. You can use Read to view these files. Unfortunately, Read's support for DJVU is flaky, at least in .82 on the XO, I'm pretty sure I'm downloading the books correctly, but it's possible I'm to blame for this. I'll need to do some more testing to know for sure. Future versions will support downloading PDFs and other formats offered by this website. I'm hoping that some of you will give it a look and make whatever suggestions you can. If you don't like the icon I'm using feel free to make suggestions there 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] Get Internet Archive Books Activity available soon
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 2:31 AM, Jim Simmonsnices...@gmail.com wrote: I uploaded the first version of Get Internet Archive Books to ASLO about an hour ago, so perhaps by the time you read this it will be available to try out there. I'm sending this email to IAEP because I'd like some feedback from those who might use the Activity. What this Activity does is to provide a front end to the Advanced Search function of the Internet Archive website. In essence it gives you a nice GUI to search through the archive, get information about books, then download the books you choose to the Journal. It's very similar to the offline catalog feature of Read Etexts, but better, because it has much more information on the books. The screenshots at ASLO tell the story so I won't give more details here. Suffice it to say if you are looking for books with pictures, or books in languages other than English, then this Activity will be of interest. If you've ever dreamed of reading the works of Jules Verne in Yiddish then this Activity will make those dreams come true. Currently the Activity can only download the DJVU format. This format is an alternative to PDF for documents consisting of scanned in book pages. It gives better results than PDF in less than half the disk space. You can use Read to view these files. Unfortunately, Read's support for DJVU is flaky, at least in .82 on the XO, I'm pretty sure I'm downloading the books correctly, but it's possible I'm to blame for this. I'll need to do some more testing to know for sure. Future versions will support downloading PDFs and other formats offered by this website. http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/Read-56.xo will give much better performance in 8.2.x OLPC OS releases. On a related note - you will probably be interested to know that the Internet Archive has started work on experimental OPDS support: http://bookserver.archive.org/ (unfortunately they only link to the PDF variants from that catalogue) Cheers, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Idea's for projects page
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Ideas_for_Projects Please edit and add ideas! its linked from get involved. Feel free to link it to other useful places thanks -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Sugar on Wireless
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.comwrote: Were the VirtualBox VM networks set up correctly? I think NAT is the default setting for VirtualBox, and I'm pretty sure that will fail for Salut. Think of that NAT behaving like new virtual local network, as if your VM was running behind another separate AP. Regards, --Gary Hi, I just double checked this. NAT does not work with local collaboration. It works fine with a collaboration server. Bridged does work with local collaboration. I am looking into using the Export Appliance feature of Virutalbox to preset the network settings. Dave ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Get Internet Archive Books Activity available soon
Sayamindu, On the OPDS issue with only linking to PDF the Internet Archive uses some pretty rigid file naming conventions, so if you want a DJVU and the URL for PDF is given it could be as simple as changing the filename suffix from .pdf to .djvu. I especially hope that you will have time to give my Activity a try. I'm also interested to know what you think would be possible with OPDS that I'm not already doing. Project Gutenberg has a huge XML file in Dublin Core format that tells you everything about their books except the URL to download them from, which makes their far simpler offline catalog a better deal for what I'm trying to do. I'm a lot better pleased with the IA Advanced Search. It seems to give your everything they have, though at times I wish that was more. For instance, they have a field publication date. But it isn't the *books* publication date, it's the date the *ebook* became available. And some of the books have decent descriptions but most just say who scanned and uploaded it and where they got the original book. PG's contents are also available through the Internet Archive, so it might be possible to use my new Activity to download PG books in epub format, when you have that working. I read a book last week about the MIT Media Lab written by Stewart Brand back in the 1980's and back then the buzzword was convergence. That's how I feel now: lots of stuff *that close* to converging. And when it does look out. We'll bury those kids in books. James Simmons On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Sayamindu Dasguptasayami...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 2:31 AM, Jim Simmonsnices...@gmail.com wrote: I uploaded the first version of Get Internet Archive Books to ASLO about an hour ago, so perhaps by the time you read this it will be available to try out there. I'm sending this email to IAEP because I'd like some feedback from those who might use the Activity. What this Activity does is to provide a front end to the Advanced Search function of the Internet Archive website. In essence it gives you a nice GUI to search through the archive, get information about books, then download the books you choose to the Journal. It's very similar to the offline catalog feature of Read Etexts, but better, because it has much more information on the books. The screenshots at ASLO tell the story so I won't give more details here. Suffice it to say if you are looking for books with pictures, or books in languages other than English, then this Activity will be of interest. If you've ever dreamed of reading the works of Jules Verne in Yiddish then this Activity will make those dreams come true. Currently the Activity can only download the DJVU format. This format is an alternative to PDF for documents consisting of scanned in book pages. It gives better results than PDF in less than half the disk space. You can use Read to view these files. Unfortunately, Read's support for DJVU is flaky, at least in .82 on the XO, I'm pretty sure I'm downloading the books correctly, but it's possible I'm to blame for this. I'll need to do some more testing to know for sure. Future versions will support downloading PDFs and other formats offered by this website. http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/Read-56.xo will give much better performance in 8.2.x OLPC OS releases. On a related note - you will probably be interested to know that the Internet Archive has started work on experimental OPDS support: http://bookserver.archive.org/ (unfortunately they only link to the PDF variants from that catalogue) Cheers, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] NECC Unplugged Reminder
Hi All... Don't miss the NECC Unplugged sessions on Monday (tomorrow) and Tuesday! Just follow the link below to get in and participate. Here are some sessions you may want to attend (virtually): All times are EDT Monday 11-11:30 AM Intro to Sugar by Walter Bender Virtual Room A 11:30-NoonDC Learning Club and MiFi by Mike Lee Onsite main room 12:30-1:30 PMAlternate Reality Gaming by Chris Bigenho Onsite main room(not OLPC/Sugar yet, but he has plans for it) 1:30-2:00 PM SOAS by Caroline Meeks Virtual Room A Tuesday 11-11:30 AMOLPC, Sugar, and the Contributors Program by Caryl Bigenho Virtual Room A 11:30-Noon OLPC and Math4 by Stephen Jacobs of RIT Virtual Room A Of course, there are other sessions you may want to join as well. Check at the website below for these and other offerings: http://www.neccunplugged.com/ See you there!Caryl ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
