[IAEP] [ANNOUNCE] OLPC OS 10.1.3 final release
Dear olpc community, we are very pleased to announce build os860 as the final 10.1.3 release build for XO-1 and XO-1.5 laptops! This is an update to software release 10.1.2 that fixes important bugs and includes some new improvements (listed at the bottom of this mail). The release is based on Fedora 11 and contains the latest Sugar 0.84 and the GNOME desktop. The full release notes can be found at [1]. Instructions for installing the release on an XO can be found at [2]. Many thanks to everyone -- testers, translators, documenters, developers and others -- who contributed to this release! On behalf of the OLPCA-team, Simon [1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/10.1.3 [2] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/10.1.3#Installation ==New features== ===Collaboration under a tree on XO-1.5=== We have significantly improved collaboration when XO-1.5 is used with no Access Points available (under a tree). The Neighborhood View now shows three default Ad-hoc networks (for channels 1, 6, and 11) in user-friendly icons, and XOs will auto-connect without user intervention. This behavior is similar to the mesh behavior on XO-1. ===Sharing/Backup Journal entries using a mass storage device=== You may now share Journal entries with another learner using a [[USB drive]] or SD card. The user experience is: Martin wants to give a picture he has been drawing to Simon. He plugs in his USB drive and copies the Journal entry on the drive. Simon plugs in Martin's drive in his laptop. The entry will be shown with Martin's XO color on the drive. Simon copies Martin's entry into his Journal. You can use this feature to backup Journal entries to a USB drive or SD card. ===Connect your XO to external projectors and monitors=== We have added support for USB2VGA adapters. You can now connect an XO to a projector over a USB2VGA adapter and project what is on your XO screen onto a screen or for many people to see. ===Screen Rotation on XO-1.5=== On XO-1.5 it is now possible to rotate the screen using the 'rotate' button. This allows learners to use the XO in ebook mode. ===Protected Activities Support=== In this build certain activities are protected from being deleted by accident. In the activity list in the home view the erase option is disabled for those. Protected activities are: Browse, Terminal, Log, Write, ImageViewer and Record. ===Better interaction between GNOME and Sugar=== Switching between Sugar and GNOME user interfaces is smoother. Changes of settings in GNOME now do not affect Sugar, and vice-versa. The ~/Activities directory is now hidden from the user in GNOME, to prevent accidental deletions that could harm Sugar. The networking settings are now synchronized so enabling/disabling networking is unified. Users can now change GNOME panels and fonts without risk of breaking GNOME -- invalid settings are reset on restart. The dialog to set a GNOME keyring password when connecting to a secure wireless network has been disabled. ===Browse=== A home button has been added into the Browse toolbar. The button returns to the home page, where important links are. A busy cursor has been added for when a page is loading. This was present in 8.2.1 but missing from 10.1.2. Finally, previews for downloaded images have been added, so that the Journal will show appropriate thumbnails of downloaded images. ===Paint=== The Paint activity has been improved a lot: * The cursor has been enhanced and realigned, * Text tool has been improved * New filters: invert colors and mirror effects * Tool size and shape are shown * Improvements to copy and paste ===Read=== Scrolling has been improved. The up and down directional keypad to the left of the XO display will now scroll, which is especially useful if the laptop is in ebook mode. Using the fn key with the up and down arrow keys will now scroll by page. ===Write=== You can now paste images into Write. Images can be copied from Browse, Paint or Write. You can now put images into tables and export to PDF. The style list has been reordered to place paragraph text styles before heading styles. ===Wikipedia=== Page loading has been sped up and several smaller fixes made. ===Scratch=== A new camera plugin adds importing from camera on XO-1. ===Activity Updates=== We included the latest versions of Calculate, Colors, Distance, Etoys, Help, InfoSlicer, Jukebox, Labyrinth, Memorize, Physics, Pippy, Turtle Art and Typing Turtle. ===System Lid Behavior=== When the lid is closed on the XO, the laptop will suspend its operations and turn off the screen. Historically re-opening the lid has turned on the screen and woken up the laptop for normal use. In order to avoid a problem where stacked XO units may accidentally turn each other back on, this wake-up behavior has been disabled. To wake up the laptop from suspend press the power button once. ___ IAEP --
[IAEP] Fwd: [Math 2.0] Don Cohen The Mathman: Calculus by and for Young People, live event Wednesday 9:30pm ET
Don Cohen, the Mathman, has a program that begins with teaching 7-year-olds calculus in depth, starting with the ideas rather than the symbols and manipulations. He and I are discussing turning his materials into Sugar activities. Would anybody be interested in helping with development, QA, field testing, localization, and so on? We are thinking of using Smalltalk for this project, but we are open to Python. -- Forwarded message -- From: Maria Droujkova droujk...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 18:14 Subject: [Math 2.0] Don Cohen The Mathman: Calculus by and for Young People, live event Wednesday 9:30pm ET To: naturalm...@googlegroups.com, mathfut...@googlegroups.com *Calculus By and For Young People* [image: Don_Cohen_shell_head.jpg] During the event, Don Cohen-The Mathman will have participants graphing things they have never done before and understand what graphing an equation or function means. He will show how to use his latest creation- *A Map to Calculus*, originally just a poster, but with the help of a former student Jonathan Storm, is now clickable! Each spot on the Map links to his student's work and sample problems from his books. We can also ask Don questions about his past and present work with students ages four and up, his books, and his books that were translated into Japanese and sold in Japan. Login All Math 2.0 events are free and open to the public. Information about all events in the series is here:http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/events Wednesday, August 4th 2010 we will meet in the LearnCentral public Elluminate room at 6:30pm Pacific - 9:30pm Eastern time. *WorldClock for your time zonehttp://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8day=4year=2010hour=21min=30sec=0p1=207 *. [image: webinar_buttons.png]https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?password=M.FCAF787B38E30D58F943EB7232EE27 *To join:* - Follow this link: *http://tinyurl.com/math20eventhttps://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?password=M.FCAF787B38E30D58F943EB7232EE27 * - Click OK and Accept several times as your browser installs the software. When you see Elluminate Session Log-In, enter your name and click the Login button - You will find yourself in a virtual room. An organizer will be there to greet you, starting about half an hour before the event. If this is your first Elluminate event, consider coming a few minutes earlier to check out the technology. The room opens half an hour before the event. Agenda *Graphing (Cartesian complex plane, polar, parametric and 3D) and its interrelation to algebra, arithmetic, functions, empirically determined functions, iteration, geometry, geometric transformations with matrices, infinite series, infinite sequences, complex numbers, derivatives, integrals, math in nature, math in science, use of applets, and hands-on, as done by Don with students ages 4- to 73- using Don's A Map to Calculushttp://www.mathman.biz/html/map.html, as the base.* *Don expects to learn something and get enjoyment from, the questions and graphs the participants will make, as he does with children. He will show how the Map can be used to help students, parents, teachers and* *teachers of teachers. P**articipants will* *also see how a 4 yo walked to the points for x+y=5 on his kitchen floor, to seeing the points of inflection of a function by graphing the function and the 1st and 2nd derivatives on one graph, and get the area under curves to get the integral by Don's plotting points on a calculator.* Event Host [image: Don-Cohen.jpg] *Donald Cohen* has been teaching math for 56 years. He has taught in Junior HS, college, worked with Dr. Robert B. Davis for about 15 years with The Madison Project training teachers, and developed student lessons on PLATO, a computer-based program at the U of Illinois. He co-founded and taught in The Math Program, a private program, tutoring children since 1976. Some exciting things that have happened since then: He and his partner, Jerry Glynn, have small groups of students after school; this gave them time to work together on mathematics, on how kids learn, and on sharing with the world some things they enjoy doing. Jerry has written two books, on *Derive* and *Mathematica*. In 1988, Don wrote and published his book Calculus By and For Young People (ages 7, yes 7 and up) which was reviewed in the Dec.'88 issue of *Scientific American*, among others, and then made 2 videotapes, a book Calculus By and For Young People-Worksheets, and a book Changing Shapes with Matrices,and A Map to Calculus-- all under the name of Don Cohen-The Mathman. The Japanese translation of his book Calculus By and For Young People (ages 7, yes 7 and up) was published by Kodansha Ltd., in August 1998; they sold over 30,000 copies in 10 years! Don's book Calculus By and For Young People-Worksheets was put on a CD-ROM in Japanese and English, published by Mr. Hiroshi Takimoto. Don's book Changing Shapes With Matrices was also published in
