[IAEP] Leading and Learning article

2009-08-13 Thread Roland Gesthuizen
The ISTE journal Learning Leading current issue Vol 37.1 has a netbook article on page 14. You can download and read the free online PDF version from this link. http://tr.im/wjuI It is a good 4 page summary of the different options spanning thick, ultraportable and thin computers and gives good

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] Competitive landscape: Intel Classmate executive blog post re updated software

2009-08-13 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Thanks for the link, definitely an interesting article! Some of the features provided by that SMART Classroom Suite (http://www2.smarttech.com/st/en-US/Products/SynchronEyes+Classroom+Management+Software/) would also be very useful additions for Sugar... Cheers, Christoph Sean DALY schrieb:

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] Competitive landscape: Intel Classmate executive blog post re updated software

2009-08-13 Thread David Van Assche
This actually looks like a commercial ripoff of iTalc, an opensource app that does exactly what synchronous Eyes does: http://italc.sourceforge.net/ On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote: Thanks for the link, definitely an interesting

[IAEP] GPA ain't the world (was: [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2009-08-11)

2009-08-13 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Sean DALY schrieb: IMHO, close study of small deployments makes them incredibly useful to all teachers and Learners. The observations and take-aways need to be triaged of course, starting with what can/should be done by Sugar Labs, but I am convinced many learnings will benefit large

Re: [IAEP] GPA ain't the world (was: [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2009-08-11)

2009-08-13 Thread Walter Bender
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:42 AM, Christoph Derndorfere0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote: Sean DALY schrieb: IMHO, close study of small deployments makes them incredibly useful to all teachers and Learners. The observations and take-aways need to be triaged of course, starting with what

Re: [IAEP] GPA ain't the world (was: [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2009-08-11)

2009-08-13 Thread David Van Assche
H... I have to agree with Christoph here. I didn't really see it as being dramatic at all, but quite factual in fact. The western small deployments really don't give us any useful stats on what is happening on a larger scale in the third world. And its important to acknowledge the differences

Re: [IAEP] GPA ain't the world (was: [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2009-08-11)

2009-08-13 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 15:51, David Van Asschedvanass...@gmail.com wrote: H... I have to agree with Christoph here. I didn't really see it as being dramatic at all, but quite factual in fact. The western small deployments really don't give us any useful stats on what is happening on a

Re: [IAEP] GPA ain't the world (was: [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2009-08-11)

2009-08-13 Thread David Van Assche
I think you are misunderstanding what I am saying... all I said was we need more data from the field I am in no way blaming anyone for not getting feedback, on the contrary, I am frustrated that the calls for feediback are not being heard enoguh, and I am well aware of people's efforts to try and

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] GPA ain't the world (was: [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2009-08-11)

2009-08-13 Thread Walter Bender
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:17 PM, David Van Asschedvanass...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Or are you saying the feedback is getting through and I'm just not seeing it? We all seem to agree that feedback is important. We mostly agree that there is value in feedback from all deployments, big and

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] GPA ain't the world (was: [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2009-08-11)

2009-08-13 Thread David Van Assche
From my end, I can offer extensive feedback on Sugar usage in Andalucian schools, when we ship our next release in September. As this is a pretty controlled environment, we should be able to get some automated statistics. I'd love to hear some ideas on this. What could we install on the client

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] GPA ain't the world (was: [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2009-08-11)

2009-08-13 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
Also please share your ideas on have to better this feedback on the deployment team, meetings and wiki-pages. as a side note. we need also more feedback from XO deployments with Sugar, are OLPC and Countries willing to help ?. or just passing all the responsibility to SugarLabs?. I know that

[IAEP] develer.com: switch to new uplink, Aug 13 23:00 UTC

2009-08-13 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Today Develer will be switching its public infrastructure to a new 10mbit symmetrical uplink operated by Consiagnet on a dedicated, redundant foil cable. All hosted machines will change their IPs to the new 83.149.158.208/28 subnet (16 public IPv4 addresses). The machine bender.sugarlabs.org,

[IAEP] Yet more feedback from Boston! - Chat and Speak

2009-08-13 Thread Caroline Meeks
Neither wind nor rain nor flaming emails will deter me from telling you about what happened with kids and Sugar today in Boston! You however are free to use your delete key at any time. Today, working with 6th grade students at the Museum of Science Computer Clubhouse I learned not to start a

[IAEP] Computer ClubHouse at the Boston Museum of Science

2009-08-13 Thread Caroline Meeks
http://www.computerclubhouse.org/ The Computer Clubhouse is an international network of computer centers for youth. Their flagship clubhouse is housed in the Museum of Science in Boston and they were kind enough to host us for two days this week. Keith has also mentioned that he would be able to

[IAEP] Physics - Lesson plans ideas?

2009-08-13 Thread Caroline Meeks
Physics is so cool! One of the students today did a really great job with it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nseWyxaN6g Does anyone have an idea for a 1 hour or so lesson I could do with Physics that would teach a Physics concept and still be incredibly engaging? -- Caroline Meeks Solution

Re: [IAEP] Yet more feedback from Boston! - Chat and Speak

2009-08-13 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Caroline Meekscarol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: Neither wind nor rain nor flaming emails will deter me from telling you about what happened with kids and Sugar today in Boston! You however are free to use your delete key at any time. Today, working with 6th

Re: [IAEP] Physics - Lesson plans ideas?

2009-08-13 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Caroline Meekscarol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: Physics is so cool! One of the students today did a really great job with it:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nseWyxaN6g Does anyone have an idea for a 1 hour or so lesson I could do with Physics that would teach 

Re: [IAEP] GPA ain't the world

2009-08-13 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
David Farning schrieb: And yes, Christoph I _am_ holding your writing to a higher standard. Several times, you have described yourself as the voice of the project. David, just for the record: I definitely don't consider myself the voice of Sugar Labs, that's just ludicrous and I can't