Re: [IAEP] I have booked a space for Sunday May 16th Sugar Labs meeting

2009-05-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Sean DALY wrote: > La Ruche > 84 quai de Jemmapes > 75010 Paris > Tél.:+33 (0)1 48 03 92 00 > http://www.la-ruche.net Hmmm. I am a bit lost. Where will the camp be? I thought OLPC-France or someone else there was offering rooms Sat/Sun and maybe even Fri. cheers,

[IAEP] FW: On Classroom 2.0: EduBloggerCon 2009/CR2.0 Meetup and NECC "Unplugged" - On-site or Virtually

2009-05-12 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All... Do we have a presence at this very important conference? If not, and if no one else has plans to do something for it, I could update my presentation from CUE in Palm Springs this spring and do a virtual presentation. Caryl > Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 19:10:46 + > From: m...@classr

[IAEP] OLPC Volunteer Infrastructure Group Meeting: [Today]

2009-05-12 Thread Stefan Unterhauser
The Volunteer Infrastructure Group (/gang) Meeting is today (May 12th) at 4pm (EST) The Volunteer Infrastructure Group is a team of Volunteer Sysadmins who help maintain services and systems around OLPC and the OLPC/SugarLabs community. The weekly VIG meeting is an excellent chance to get involve

Re: [IAEP] How Can We Showcase Turtle Art Portfolio

2009-05-12 Thread Gary C Martin
On 12 May 2009, at 23:23, John Tierney wrote: > Hello All, > > Would like commentary from the community on how we can try and > showcase the abilities of Turtle art Portfolio > along with the things each of us are working on. The email below > came from my inability(due to my confusing questio

Re: [IAEP] How Can We Showcase Turtle Art Portfolio

2009-05-12 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 3:23 PM, John Tierney wrote: > Hello All, > > Would like commentary from the community on how we can try and showcase the > abilities of Turtle art Portfolio We are hearing excellent reports from schools about how it impacts learning. I think we could get a sampling of act

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] versus, not

2009-05-12 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Costello, Rob R wrote: > We’ve had some of this discussion before : Alan has mentioned the arch > metaphor before–as a key insight in building / architecture, that is > distinct from mere brick laying, and so is never reached through repetition > of laying however

[IAEP] How Can We Showcase Turtle Art Portfolio

2009-05-12 Thread John Tierney
Hello All, Would like commentary from the community on how we can try and showcase the abilities of Turtle art Portfolio along with the things each of us are working on. The email below came from my inability(due to my confusing question) to start the thread in our IRC marketing me

[IAEP] Help wanted packaging Scratch

2009-05-12 Thread Caroline Meeks
I just tried downloading Scratch onto my Sugar Stick running the latest snapshot 5-31. It works! I've exchanged and email with John Maloney and he is happy to support us in getting Scratch on the next SoaS Beta but can't do the work himself. His recommendation given our timeline is to focus on 1

[IAEP] Fwd: Open Education Conference 2009!

2009-05-12 Thread Caroline Meeks
Anyone going to this conference or want to try to get a paper in? It would be a good place to get some visibility, the funders who fund OCW usually send people. -- Forwarded message -- From: David Wiley Date: Mon, May 11, 2009 at 6:39 PM Subject: Open Education Conference 2009! T

Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 14, Issue 57

2009-05-12 Thread James Simmons
Caroline, I have been thinking a bit along the lines you mention. Several people seemed to have the idea that my Read Etexts program should not just read Gutenberg etexts, but should enable you to go find and download said texts easily. I had resisted that idea, but now I'm beginning to see

Re: [IAEP] 1500 XOLiveCD in German schools

2009-05-12 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:38 AM, David Farning wrote: > On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Roland Gesthuizen > wrote: > > Speaking as a teacher, we could do the following: > > > > report back issues that make using the Sugar interface difficult when > used > > it in the classroom (collaborate) > >

Re: [IAEP] The eBook "ah ha" moment for Sugar on a Stick

2009-05-12 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
This issue was discussed at length about a week ago, and James Simmons and Alexei (I think) were discussing the provision of a library activity. Until that happens, I think James' reader activity and Sayamendu's fbreader activity should be packaged for SOAS to allow epub, comic format and text for

Re: [IAEP] The eBook "ah ha" moment for Sugar on a Stick

2009-05-12 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Gary C Martin wrote: > On 12 May 2009, at 18:37, Caroline Meeks wrote: > > For the next SoaS Beta I'd like to help users trying out Sugar, especially >> educators, have an "ah ha" moment about how Sugar on a Stick can open a huge >> world of books for their stude

Re: [IAEP] The eBook "ah ha" moment for Sugar on a Stick

2009-05-12 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Edward Cherlin wrote: > Add the Bible and Qur'an reader programs? Those should at least be on the activity portal. Can you see if you can get in touch with the maintainers? Thanks, Caroline > > > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Caroline Meeks > wrote: > >

Re: [IAEP] The eBook "ah ha" moment for Sugar on a Stick

2009-05-12 Thread Gary C Martin
On 12 May 2009, at 18:37, Caroline Meeks wrote: > For the next SoaS Beta I'd like to help users trying out Sugar, > especially educators, have an "ah ha" moment about how Sugar on a > Stick can open a huge world of books for their students. > > The US elementary schools I visit have a computer

Re: [IAEP] The eBook "ah ha" moment for Sugar on a Stick

2009-05-12 Thread Edward Cherlin
Add the Bible and Qur'an reader programs? On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Caroline Meeks wrote: > For the next SoaS Beta I'd like to help users trying out Sugar, especially > educators, have an "ah ha" moment about how Sugar on a Stick can open a huge > world of books for their students. > > Th

[IAEP] The eBook "ah ha" moment for Sugar on a Stick

2009-05-12 Thread Caroline Meeks
For the next SoaS Beta I'd like to help users trying out Sugar, especially educators, have an "ah ha" moment about how Sugar on a Stick can open a huge world of books for their students. The US elementary schools I visit have a computer lab and they have books. But they certainly don't have the bu

[IAEP] I have booked a space for Sunday May 16th Sugar Labs meeting

2009-05-12 Thread Sean DALY
La Ruche 84 quai de Jemmapes 75010 Paris Tél.:+33 (0)1 48 03 92 00 http://www.la-ruche.net La Ruche ("The Beehive") describes itself as a "living laboratory". It's an alternative space which provides office infrastructure and support in a relaxed environment for ethical entrepreneurs ("social bus

Re: [IAEP] Proposed meeting Thursday, May 21 at UTC 16:15 on #sugar-meeting for help with Sugar Labs, DC

2009-05-12 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 16:42, Jeff Elkner wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm a High School (and now Community College) teacher at the Governor's > Career and Technical Academy in Arlington > (http://www.apsva.us/1540108115320583/blank/browse.asp?A=383&BMDRN=2000&BCOB=0&C=59085). > I've been a Free Software

Re: [IAEP] Experiences with Soas2-200904231400.iso

2009-05-12 Thread James Simmons
Caroline, I have nothing to add to what I wrote before as far as the boot diskette issue. However, I got an email about the need for new boot CDs which was responded to here: http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/812#comment:1 The response includes a script to generate a boot CD for a given USB st

[IAEP] Proposed meeting Thursday, May 21 at UTC 16:15 on #sugar-meeting for help with Sugar Labs, DC

2009-05-12 Thread Jeff Elkner
Hi All, I'm a High School (and now Community College) teacher at the Governor's Career and Technical Academy in Arlington ( http://www.apsva.us/1540108115320583/blank/browse.asp?A=383&BMDRN=2000&BCOB=0&C=59085). I've been a Free Software activist for 10 years, and have experience with several smal

Re: [IAEP] Experiences with Soas2-200904231400.iso

2009-05-12 Thread Caroline Meeks
Hi, Unburrying old email. I have a bug in on the need for a floppy boot-helper: http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/597 James are there any notes that you can add to the ticket to help someone who takes on this task? Is there anyone out there who would like to take on this task? Thanks, Caroline

Re: [IAEP] Wanted: Videos of Sugar and XOs in action

2009-05-12 Thread Muriel de Souza Godoi
You can also get some media at: http://lia.dc.ufscar.br/olpcod/index.php/P%C3%A1gina_principal On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 12:51 AM, wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> for a presentation here in Vienna that's coming up at the end of the >> week Tano (in CC) and myself are looking for videos (in English or with

[IAEP] seen: one laptop per teacher policy - Indonesia

2009-05-12 Thread alan c
I do not think it says what os the laptop is running extract: Satria Dharma, chairman of the Indonesian Teachers Club (KGI), said on Monday that the education revolution should begin with teachers, and that a laptop would provide educators a relevant tool to keep up with the modern times. [snip] S