+1!
Yes, I suggested this a couple of years ago. I used Cuisenaire rods in the
classroom years ago. They are a great way for students to understand some
basic math concepts. One of the nice things about Cuisenaire rods is that they
are based on the metric system with the unit as a cm (cc,
Hi Folks,
We have used Cuisenaire rods a lot for all grades.
We always take magic markers and draw arrowheads on one end of the rods to give
a sense of direction to the magnitudes when used in operations.
Vectors are a very powerful way of thinking about numbers and quantity and this
is a
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 05:10:30PM -0400, Walter Bender wrote:
==Sugar Digest==
1. Tomeu's departure from the project has set off a lot of
introspection, speculation, 'blunt' emails, and thoughtful responses.
There is no doubt that we will miss Tomeu. He has been not just a
prolific
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 12:32:09PM +, Aleksey Lim wrote:
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 05:10:30PM -0400, Walter Bender wrote:
==Sugar Digest==
1. Tomeu's departure from the project has set off a lot of
introspection, speculation, 'blunt' emails, and thoughtful responses.
There is no
Folks,
The Physical rods are best, but here is a set of virtual rods with direction
arrows http://www.squeakland.org/showcase/project.jsp?id=10356 with the
ability to change the transparency of all the rods on your playfield in
Etoys (to see how its done, just get the hale for a particular
Thanks Steve,
Yep, and I would love to do the building blocks for this a whole lot better in
the successor to Etoys (which we are starting to work on).
Cheers,
Alan.
From: Steve Thomas sthom...@gosargon.com
To: Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com
Cc: Caroline
Hi All...
Here are some dumb questions for you. In a couple of weeks I will be doing a
2-hr hands-on workshop (at the CUELA Tech Fair) about OLPC, Sugar, and open
source software teachers may want to try with their classes using the computers
they already have at their schools. I would like
Caryl Bigenho wrote:
Hi All...
Here are some dumb questions for you. In a couple of weeks I will be doing a
2-hr hands-on workshop (at the CUELA Tech Fair) about OLPC, Sugar, and open source
software teachers may want to try with their classes using the computers they already
have at
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
How do you make the Etoys-to-go usb from a file on a disk? Does it need
the Live usb Creator?
Just download the Etoys to go zip file from
herehttp://www.squeakland.org/download/ and
unzip it on your USB drive. You can
On 28 October 2010 09:04, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi All...
Here are some dumb questions for you. In a couple of weeks I will be
doing a 2-hr hands-on workshop (at the CUELA Tech Fair) about OLPC, Sugar,
and open source software teachers may want to try with their classes
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Tim McNamara
paperl...@timmcnamara.co.nz wrote:
On 28 October 2010 09:04, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi All...
Here are some dumb questions for you. In a couple of weeks I will be
doing a 2-hr hands-on workshop (at the CUELA Tech Fair) about
Hi...
Thanks for all the good stuff... please, keep it coming!
I just wanted to let you all know that I made the Etoys-to-go stick this
morning and have tested it on my MacBook, eeePC, and PowerBook (a older Power
PC!) and it seems to be working fine on all of them. Now, here is a crazy
Am 27.10.2010 19:03, schrieb Werner Westermann:
Hello to all.
Any Sugar advocates attending any of these events?
http://openedconference.org/2010/
http://www.drumbeat.org/festival
Best wishes,
werner
Sugar Labs Chile
Hi Werner,
I was planning on going and was even awarded a
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 16:04, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi All...
Here are some dumb questions for you. In a couple of weeks I will be doing
a 2-hr hands-on workshop (at the CUELA Tech Fair) about OLPC, Sugar, and
open source software teachers may want to try with their
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi...
Now, here is a crazy idea/question: If Etoys can be put on a usb as an
application and opened with all of these systems, would it be possible to do
the same with any of the Sugar Activities?
Sugar as an
(1) In-person meetings in between Bostonian
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board members and Sugar/OLPC
Local Lab Boston, quasimonthly. Community is neither a buzzword, nor a
fantasy, with Sugar Labs' only 4 active board members now living in
Boston today. Community is the 132
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