Re: [IAEP] R: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry)

2009-11-19 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 00:04, Jim Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote: Tomeu, Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive already will host any book that is in the public domain.  (I think they'll take Creative Commons stuff too).  Most of the books are in English because that's the native

Re: [IAEP] Creativity dynamics embedded into the Sugar Learning Platform

2009-11-19 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 23:27, Diego Uribe duri...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Community, I am Diego Uribe, creativity innovation consultant and researcher at the International Center for Studies in Creativity, Buffalo, NY. Not too long ago, I approached Walter Bender with the

[IAEP] Fwd: [olpc-nz] Iso image for Tutorius

2009-11-19 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Just wanted to mention my admiration for the Tutorious team: they have pushed forward a big feature that affects shell and activities, have set up their instance of AMO for tutorials, have pinged periodically the community for feedback, have made a spin of SoaS so others can more easily test their

Re: [IAEP] Creativity dynamics embedded into the Sugar Learning Platform

2009-11-19 Thread Diego Uribe
Tomeu, Note that the demo you saw in youtube is just photoshop and aftereffects; There is no code at all!!! We need people that will help create prototypes of such integration of creativity tools into Sugar. I agree with you, once we have a working prototype, we can start testing right away,

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] R: E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry)

2009-11-19 Thread Jim Simmons
Caroline, I'm unable to watch the YouTube video but if I was a teacher that wanted to have children create their own books I might recommend using View Slides to collect and organize image files created in other tools. For instance, children could get images from the Internet using Browse,

[IAEP] turtleArt and materials for education

2009-11-19 Thread roberto
Hello, i am about to start writing worksheet about possible uses of turtleArt in math education. I'd like to solve the following problems, otherwise i'll be able to do nothing :) - i've installed sugar on Debian 5.0 but, as you already know, a lot of activities are missing; turtleArt is one of

Re: [IAEP] turtleArt and materials for education

2009-11-19 Thread Walter Bender
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 1:34 PM, roberto robert...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, i am about to start writing worksheet about possible uses of turtleArt in math education. I'd like to solve the following problems, otherwise i'll be able to do nothing :) - i've installed sugar on Debian 5.0 but, as

[IAEP] [SLOBS] meeting reminder

2009-11-19 Thread Walter Bender
We'll be meeting at 10AM EST (15:00 UC) on Friday, 20 Nov. in irc.freenode.net #sugar-meeting, Please join us. The agenda can be found in the wiki: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Minutes#Agenda%20items -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org