[IAEP] Announcement: New Virtualbox Appliances of Trisquel-3-sugar and Debian-squeeze-sugar available for download

2010-12-06 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
The new Virtualbox appliances have been uploaded to: http://download.sugarlabs.org/images/VirtualBox/ Current appliances are listed here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Emulator_image_files#Other_virtual_machines They were built on a MacBook Air with Oracle VM VirtualBox (3.2.10-r66523) then

Re: [IAEP] [realness] a school is not a building

2010-12-06 Thread Dr. Gerald Ardito
I think back to the various work (especially Piaget, Vygotsky, and Papert) that investigates learning as a social phenomenon. The XO Laptops and Sugar derive directly, in my humble opinion, from these principles, especially Papert's concept of Constructionism. The issue for me, then, is not

[IAEP] Los ceibales están en flor en Uruguay

2010-12-06 Thread Carlos Rabassa
Los ceibales están en flor en Uruguay https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1K-cfwuqZP3W-uxvk3k687CLN-0aoLPrqQKbqxJKNwgI Carlos Rabassa Volunteer Plan Ceibal Support Network Montevideo, Uruguay ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop

[IAEP] Fwd: olpc votes for booki?

2010-12-06 Thread James Simmons
Adam is trying to get votes for Booki to win an Open Web Award from Drumbeat. Booki is the software behind FLOSS Manuals, which we used to create our OLPC and Sugar manuals, including my own Make Your Own Sugar Activities! and E-Book Enlightenment. Booki will also enable students and teachers to

[IAEP] Fwd: Google Science Fair competition: Students ages 13 - 18 years old.

2010-12-06 Thread Kevin Cole
--- GOOGLE SCIENCE FAIR --- On 11 January, 2011, we are launching the inaugural Google Science Fair. We have partnered with NASA, CERN, National Geographic, Scientific American and the LEGO Group to create a new STEM competition that is more open, accessible and

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: Google Science Fair competition: Students ages 13 - 18 years old.

2010-12-06 Thread Brenda Wallace
It's a shame the timing is so bad for anyone in the Southern Hemisphere - middle of summer break. Students usually return first week in Feb, so the north will get more than a 3 week headstart. On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Kevin Cole dc.l...@gmail.com wrote: --- GOOGLE

Re: [IAEP] [realness] Re: [realness] a school is not a building

2010-12-06 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 11:07 +0430, Kenneth Adam wrote: Maybe it’s a good idea to go for digital collaboration, or at least laptop-based/ e-learning, instead of bricks and mortar when resources are scarce, but maybe not. The problem is that a proper evidence base to support the proposition

Re: [IAEP] votes you missed

2010-12-06 Thread Claudia Urrea
+1 in all! On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 5:20 AM, Dr. Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote: +1 to all motions from me as well. Gerald On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: In case you are interested in casting your vote on the 3 motions we passed

Re: [IAEP] [squeakland] a school is not a building

2010-12-06 Thread Kim Rose
Why does it have to be one or the other -- instead??? I'd build a case to try to find a way of supporting both. Kim Rose Viewpoints Research On Dec 6, 2010, at 3:18 AM, Timothy Falconer wrote: Hi all, A favor: help me make this case (or refute it) as we prepare once more for Haiti