Re: [IAEP] Sugar in a Plug

2009-07-13 Thread Sean DALY
This is totally true, a protruding stick is asking for trouble. I usually use SD Cards, most netbooks have slots. Well-designed machines (XO-1, EeePC, Dell education Latitude 2100) keep the cards recessed, flush with an edge; no protrusion=no accidents other machines protrude even the SD Card,

Re: [IAEP] subscribe to the mailing list

2009-07-13 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi Penny, please see the section titled Subscribing to IAEP in http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep and tell us if you had any problems. Regards, Tomeu On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 16:06, Penelope Nuttingpnutt...@fairpoint.net wrote: I would like to subscribe to the mailing list to keep up

Re: [IAEP] New version of Read Etexts available, now supports annotations and multiple bookmarks

2009-07-13 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 19:37, Jim Simmonsnices...@gmail.com wrote: I spent a good part of this week adding a new feature to Read Etexts: annotations and bookmarks.  What this means is the following: 1).  You can add a note to a page that will appear below the page text whenever that page is

Re: [IAEP] Sugar in a Plug

2009-07-13 Thread Walter Bender
FWIW, in the schools Caroline and I are piloting this summer, we are using USB cable extenders. This has at least three advantages: (1) easier for the kids to find where to insert the key... no reaching around the back of computers; (2) if the key is bumped, the cable moves, but neither the key

Re: [IAEP] Potential manual for inclusion with Sugar on a Stick

2009-07-13 Thread David Farning
Has Pauline been introduced to the FLOSS Manuals team? It would be great if she could include her updates and improvements upstream. We will have another book sprint this fall to update the manual. Anne Gentle, the manual maintainer is publishing her first book on 'community documentation'

Re: [IAEP] Measure Log?

2009-07-13 Thread Claudia Urrea
Thanks Walter. Yes, Wad patched measure based on my feedback, but we have not made it available. I run a few workshops in Colombia and Peru using sensors (microphone port), measure, scratch and social calc and based on the feedback I got, I would like to get couple of features implemented.

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Problems Saving in Scratch

2009-07-13 Thread Ton van Overbeek
On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Caryl Bigenhocbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Walter and All, I tried your suggestion and the Terminal returned(blue but not a link): /home/olpc/Activities/Scratch.activity I went back into Scratch and it still failed to Save.  I assumed the l characters were

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Paint improvements?

2009-07-13 Thread Ton van Overbeek
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Aleksey Limalsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 07:28:09AM -0500, David Farning wrote: On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Aleksey Limalsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 06:26:00PM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote: Nod, I've done

Re: [IAEP] Feedback on installing the Windows sugar stick

2009-07-13 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
(just received this email today, what's going on with the lists?) On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 23:15, Sean Dalysd...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Many thanks Klaas for reporting the error and proposing a workaround! Mathieu, could you or someone you know get this info to the LiveUSB Creator people? Here

[IAEP] [Fwd: activities]

2009-07-13 Thread Tony Anderson
Wade, I have finally posted the ShowNTell activity to ASLO. I hope to post the Quiz activity tomorrow. The BotSpeak activity appears to be redundant. The ShowNTell activity needs a help button to show how the activity works. It also needs lots of testing on collaboration. In the meantime, I

Re: [IAEP] [Fwd: activities]

2009-07-13 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 02:46:27PM +0200, Tony Anderson wrote: Wade, I have finally posted the ShowNTell activity to ASLO. I hope to post the Quiz activity tomorrow. The BotSpeak activity appears to be redundant. The ShowNTell activity needs a help button to show how the activity works.

Re: [IAEP] Computer as a tool

2009-07-13 Thread Caroline Meeks
Thanks! This is really interesting. What sort of results do you have so far? Technologically: How many USB sticks failed? How many were lost/stollen? Did the kids find any places to use the sticks outside of school? Do you have any measure of how much content was created? Is there much sharing

Re: [IAEP] Sugar in a Plug

2009-07-13 Thread Mike Lee
SD card in a netbook slot seems like the cleanest approach in that situation. The cable extenders work great too. In fact, I think for some home-based uses of SoaS, even longer cable extenders will be needed to reach USB ports on the backs of PCs which may be on the floor under a desk or in a

Re: [IAEP] New version of Read Etexts available, now supports annotations and multiple bookmarks

2009-07-13 Thread Jim Simmons
Tomeu, Read Etexts is in pootle right now. Unfortunately, since I tend to develop my project incrementally there are probably strings in my Activity that never made it into pootle. If there is anything anyone needs from me to get this properly translated let me know. I've been leaving the

Re: [IAEP] Computer as a tool

2009-07-13 Thread K. K. Subramaniam
On Monday 13 Jul 2009 7:02:33 pm Caroline Meeks wrote: What sort of results do you have so far? The new academic year has just started. In the prev one, around 75% of the kids learnt to handle the computer well enough to create at least one project in Etoys in a space of about four calendar

Re: [IAEP] New version of Read Etexts available, now supports annotations and multiple bookmarks

2009-07-13 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi James, On 13 Jul 2009, at 15:46, Jim Simmons wrote: Tomeu, Read Etexts is in pootle right now. Unfortunately, since I tend to develop my project incrementally there are probably strings in my Activity that never made it into pootle. If there is anything anyone needs from me to get

Re: [IAEP] community discussion plan

2009-07-13 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 22:56, David Farningdfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: I have been looking at community building needs for the next 6 months to a year..  I am thinking about taking it pretty slow; there don't seems to be any major blockers to community development Phase I Focus on

Re: [IAEP] community discussion plan

2009-07-13 Thread Frederick Grose
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 22:56, David Farningdfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: I have been looking at community building needs for the next 6 months to a year.. I am thinking about taking it pretty slow; there don't

Re: [IAEP] Evolution of Sugar Labs

2009-07-13 Thread David Farning
Sorry, I am not very experienced with Talk: page but it does make sense:) david On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Frederick Grosefgr...@gmail.com wrote: Please also contribute to the issues being discussed on the http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Sugar_Labs/Roadmap page. On Sat, Jul 11, 2009

[IAEP] Conozco Uruguay on Activities.Sugarlabs.org?

2009-07-13 Thread Caroline Meeks
Hi, I'd like to let the GPA 3rd graders play with Conozco Uruguay on Weds. Is there any chance someone could put it onto Activities.Sugarlabs.org for me? It would be easier for kids to find and it would also teach them how to get new activities. Its not a show stopper,we can have them find it

Re: [IAEP] Potential manual for inclusion with Sugar on a Stick

2009-07-13 Thread Caroline Meeks
Sounds good. Let me know when a good time to try to start the collaboration is. On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 8:21 AM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.orgwrote: Has Pauline been introduced to the FLOSS Manuals team? It would be great if she could include her updates and improvements upstream. We