Re: [IAEP] a little magic, Jamaica style!

2012-05-19 Thread Caryl Bigenho
What a wonderful project! I'm envious of all you people have accomplished and am looking forward to the call tomorrow to see how I might get involved, from afar for a while, maybe in person later! Caryl From: sve...@sfsu.edu Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 09:32:16 -0700 To:

[IAEP] XO Self-Test for XO-1.5?

2012-05-15 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks, I was trying to use the XO self-test on the 2 Roadshow XO-1.5s that were recently returned (including the one with the ripped key). I followed the instructions on the wiki: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Self_Test it goes for several lines, as far as: Testing /switches @(a character

[IAEP] Need XO-1.5 Keyboard Repair Suggestions

2012-05-14 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks, One of the XO-1.5s in my Roadshow collection was returned with a ripped key. The person who was responsible has offered to pay for a repair. It was a fairly new machine. I can think of three options: 1) Fix it with silicone tub an tile sealer as described in the article I wrote

[IAEP] FOSTBs! (Free Open Source Text Books) FW: News from CK-12 Foundation

2012-05-01 Thread Caryl Bigenho
¡Hola! Si deseas una traducción, puedes usar Google o preguntame. ¡Abrazos! Carolina Hi Folks! Lots of interesting new news from the CK-12 Foundation. Although the foundation started as a source of FREE, open source flex-books (a book that can be customized by the user), written for

[IAEP] FW: Need Sources of Images for FotoToon

2012-04-23 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Guys... Looks like this won't go through with the attached image, so I removed it. Too bad! I can't wait fro a moderator to check it... I meed answers! Thanks, Caryl From: cbige...@hotmail.com To: support-g...@laptop.org; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Subject: Need Sources of Images for

[IAEP] Doc Sprint Update for 04/08/12 (for remote participants and anyone else interested!)

2012-04-08 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All, The Doc Sprint has been progressing, both in Boston and remotely, so there are some chapters ready for review. You can find them at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Help_Activity_refresh/TOC Be sure to see the code at the top to know which ones are ready for Review. The images in a

[IAEP] Ready to Test: TamTamMini chapter for the Manual Refresh

2012-04-07 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks, I am sending this note out to the whole community since there has been so much interest in learning to use TamTam. This is a modified excerpt from the Fun With TamTamMini manual I have almost finished (only a few musical examples in standard score form have to be completed). If

[IAEP] FW: DocSprint Update

2012-04-04 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi SG'ers olpc-SoCal'ers and IAEP'ers... If you meant to sign up to help remotely with the upcoming DocSprint April 6-10, it is not too late. Here is a copy of the email I sent to those who signed up (and who I have email addresses for). If you would like to be added to the email list for

[IAEP] Doc Sprint... YOU can be a part of this!

2012-04-02 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi SG'ers and IAEP'ers, As you probably know, folks will be gathering in the Boston area April 6 (Fri)-10 (Tues) for a Doc Sprint where they will make a much needed update to the XO Users Manual. Some of you (Tony Anderson, Cherry Withers, and me to name a few) will be writing from afar.

Re: [IAEP] Forbidden words

2012-03-27 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... Children are under a lot of stress in a testing situation. We also have a bad history of cultural bias on standardized tests here in EEUU. Anything that they can do to make a testing less stressful and less biased seems like a good idea. I see no problem with getting the test makers to

[IAEP] FW: Upcoming Webinar: The Art of a Flipped Classroom

2012-03-23 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... For those of you who might like to learn more about Flipping A Class, this webinar could be of interest. Note they cite the ability of being able to have students work in small groups or individually at an appropriate pace in a flipped class. This can be very useful combined with the

[IAEP] Any Ideas For This?

2012-03-09 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... Anyone ever used Finale Note Pad (free mini version of Finale)? I need a way to move the bar lines. I have a 12 measure file of Mary Had A Little Lamb for my Tam Tam Mini FLOSS manual. Finale has put it on 3 lines of 6 measures, 5 measures and one very large measure that stretches

[IAEP] Tam Tam Mini Progress and User Manual Update

2012-03-07 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All! I'm happy to say I have finally gotten back to work on my Fun With Tam Tam Mini FLOSS manual after a hiatus (a So Cal word from the industry) brought on by all sorts of holiday and family distractions. There are a number of other, unrelated, things folks have asked me to work on

Re: [IAEP] Tam Tam Mini Progress and User Manual Update

2012-03-07 Thread Caryl Bigenho
things can complemente that one? Claudia On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi All! I'm happy to say I have finally gotten back to work on my Fun With Tam Tam Mini FLOSS

[IAEP] Etoys or Scratch?

2012-03-05 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks… If you were going to build an educational piece about disaster preparedness for possible cross platform worldwide distribution would you prefer to do it in Scratch or Etoys and why? The end product would need to be able to have animation, sound, possible narration, interaction

Re: [IAEP] Etoys or Scratch?

2012-03-05 Thread Caryl Bigenho
and remix, and large user base. Cheers, Maria Droujkova 919-388-1721 Make math your own, to make your own math On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Folks… If you were going to build an educational piece about disaster preparedness

Re: [IAEP] Etoys or Scratch?

2012-03-05 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Steve, Thanks so much for your thoughtful and very thorough answer. If this project happens, which is still not sure, it sounds like Scratch would be the way to go. Localization would be a lot easier in Etoys, from what you have described, but getting the initial product completed in

Re: [IAEP] [Sur] Google Summer of Code (GSOC) important

2012-03-02 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... I just added Tam Tam to the list of suggestions on the Sugar Labs wiki. While I can't help mentor with code, I can help with testing, documentation, and consulting on any musical questions that may arise. CarylP.S. While doing this, I noticed that I need to update my pages on the OLPC

[IAEP] Report from NAIS in Seattle

2012-03-01 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... If you are interested in technology in education (and I assume you all are) you might enjoy this report about the first day of the NAIS conference in Seattle this week. The keynote speaker was Bill Gates.

Re: [IAEP] All continents covered.

2012-02-16 Thread Caryl Bigenho
I think it's obviously One Laptop/Penguin Chick Note the baby penguin in the background! GrannieB From: cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:12:23 -0500 To: sve...@sfsu.edu CC: olpc-jama...@lists.laptop.org; olpc-o...@lists.laptop.org; market...@lists.sugarlabs.org;

[IAEP] Video Formats for JukeBox Activity???

2012-02-12 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Tried irc. Lots of people signed in but must be sleeping... no response after 30 min. Need to know what video formats the JukeBox Activity is capable of playing. Thanks,Caryl ___ IAEP -- It's An Education

Re: [IAEP] [squeakland] What makes examples good for novices? and How do we tell if an example is good for novices?

2012-02-02 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... RE the Khan Academy programming video... I have tried some of them in parallel with hands-on, and while they do teach some concepts well, they aren't particularly exciting. Perhaps that is why I stopped working on them. I really believe that the Khan Academy videos, and other video

[IAEP] FW: Feb 1 free webinar - Open Online Math Homework

2012-01-30 Thread Caryl Bigenho
If you are interested on open source ebook textbooks, you might find this free webinar interesting. Caryl Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:19:11 -0800 From: matkin...@onefortraining.org Subject: Feb 1 free webinar - Open Online Math Homework To: o...@listserv.cccnext.net The first CCCOER 2012

Re: [IAEP] Nice tool for learning Python

2012-01-29 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All… I took a look at this last night and agree with Tabitha that it is definitely not a stand-alone way to learn Python. I have also looked at, Pippy, and the ebook Byte of Python (among others), and the the Khan Academy videos for learning Python. It would be great if some master

[IAEP] CP Meeting @ 2:30pm EST...Please join us!

2012-01-27 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All… Message requested by Adam…. The CP irc meeting scheduled for 2 pm today will be at 2:30 pm EST (11:30 PST) instead. Go to http://forum.laptop.org/chat , pick an alias and type /join #olpc-meeting at the bottom of the chat page. See you all there! Caryl Full instructions here:

[IAEP] SCaLE 10X Recap

2012-01-25 Thread Caryl Bigenho
in the OSSIE track, one about SoaS by Caryl Bigenho and one about an after school Contributors Program project in LA by Abe Kazemzadeh, and, of course, a great booth in the Expo hall on Saturday and Sunday. With a total of 11 volunteers from the olpcSoCal mailing list, the booth was almost like

[IAEP] Thanks for the Media links... new request

2012-01-11 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks! Thanks so much for all the great media links so many of you sent. I am now compiling them into a short slideshow for SCalE 10X which I will happily share when finished. I will simply put a title on each slide identifying where the deployment shown is located. Thus, sound will not be

[IAEP] SoaS Breakthrough!

2012-01-10 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks, I called Tom Gilliard today during his ski vacation (oops!) to get some help prepping for showing SoaS at SCaLE 10X Jan 20-22. After we talked about several things I told him I had a wild idea that I thought the average non-techie teacher could handle. Why not run SoaS from a Live

Re: [IAEP] SoaS Breakthrough!

2012-01-10 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Ruben and All, Tom has warned me that the persistent usbs really are persistent and that eventually they fill up and fail! Not good. That would not be a problem with a Live CD as nothing is written to it. Therefore, the extra usb for file storage... journal items, extra Activities and

[IAEP] FLOSS Manual Update and Tam Tam FLOSS Manual

2012-01-05 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks…. Well, I'm just 6 days late with it, but I have completed the Tam Tam Mini section of the XO Users Manual (Rev 2011). This was the section I promised to have ready by New Years. I have also completed most of my Fun With Tam Tam FLOSS manual. I still want to add a few things my

[IAEP] NYTimes: Teachers Resist High-Tech Push in Idaho Schools

2012-01-04 Thread Caryl Bigenho
One-to-one is coming to Idaho high schools... maybe... Caryl Teachers in Idaho and elsewhere have been in revolt over policy makers thrusting technology into classrooms and shifting money to unproven teaching methods. http://nyti.ms/y2hb7a Sent from my iPod

[IAEP] FLOSS TamTamMini Manual Update

2012-01-02 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... I have moved from the text writing/editing stage to the gathering and inserting images state for the Fun With Tam Tam Mini FLOSS manual I am working on. The appendices also need to be done and will also include musical examples on a regular music staff (suggestion from my violinist

[IAEP] Questions RE Images for FLOSS Manual

2012-01-02 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks…. I am preparing several images for the TamTam Mini Floss Manual and the TamTam section in the updated users manual. I will be taking screenshots from the XO, editing, cropping, adding text and arrows and the like to illustrate different points. When I upload these to the

[IAEP] More RE: [support-gang] Questions RE Images for FLOSS Manual

2012-01-02 Thread Caryl Bigenho
I forgot to ask... what format do the images need to be in?ThanxCaryl Hi Folks…. I am preparing several images for the TamTam Mini Floss Manual and the TamTam section in the updated users manual. I will be taking screenshots from the XO, editing, cropping, adding text and arrows

[IAEP] Better than New Math, New Physics!

2012-01-01 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All…. Love this little package that ran on NRP today. Peer-to-peer, collaboration, scaffolding, and constructionism come to the college physics class. Worth a listen: http://n.pr/sIe7Ir Caryl ___ IAEP --

[IAEP] Project/Deployment Videos/Slides Needed

2011-12-31 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks, Next week I will be putting together a small DVD project to run continuously in the OLPC/Sugar Labs booth at SCaLE 10X (Jan 20-22). I plan to try to use the videos from Talat's project, the XO orchestra in Paraguay, and robots clips from Uruguay. I would love to include lots more!

[IAEP] A Very Successful Contributors Program Project

2011-12-17 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All If you haven't seen this blog and You Tube video from Talat Kahn's and Carol Ruth Silver's OLPC Contributors Program project in Pakistan, you need to check it out! Watch the video (link is on the blog) and then explore some of the creative ways the teachers and students are using

[IAEP] Update: Persistant SoaS on new Mac Persists!

2011-12-15 Thread Caryl Bigenho
I just tested the f15 SoaS usb Tom Gilliard sent me on my brand new MacBook Pro and it works there too. Still can't connect to the net, but otherwise seems to work as well as it did on my older MacBook. Still haven't tried the PC version on my eeePC. This new OSX Lion software will take

[IAEP] Persistant SoaS on Mac Persists!

2011-12-11 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Tom and All, After puzzling over the instructions for a while, I decided to just put the SoaS for Mac that Tom sent in, and try to boot from it. It works! I am running it on my 3+year old MacBook with the old os10.5.8 (Leopard) in its most up to date version. You are right about it not

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Easter Egg Time

2011-12-10 Thread Caryl Bigenho
, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi All, If you have an XO handy, here is something you might want to see. Open the Moon Activity sometime around 6:10 AM PST (14:00 UT) and see what you find. If you are living west of the Rockies in the US, you probably can guess what it will be. If not, you can

[IAEP] Need Help With SoaS! (Including Mac)

2011-11-20 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks... I finally have a couple of days with access to both PCs and my Mac, so now is the time to try SoaS! I need to be able to test it on both the Windows machines and the Mac. After about an hour of reading confusing, conflicting, and convoluted info online, I am now thoroughly

Re: [IAEP] SugarLabs Candidacy - Supporting Info

2011-11-15 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Nick, These things are all really good and much needed. But these are personal goals. What goals would you try to have Sugar Labs achieve if you are elected? For example something about facilitating the distribution of SoaS via model deployments, exposure at teacher's conferences such as

[IAEP] Sugar Labs Down?

2011-11-11 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks, Is the Sugar Labs site down for maintenance? I have been unable to access it at all for the past several hours. Caryl 12:01 AM PST ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Sharing of Memorize games

2011-11-09 Thread Caryl Bigenho
+1 Great idea! Then folks don't have to keep re-inventing the wheel.Caryl Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:14:02 +0100 From: e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at To: IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org CC: support-g...@lists.laptop.org Subject: [support-gang] Sharing of Memorize games Hi all, while playing

Re: [IAEP] Gus Andrews: What Kids These Days Don’t Learn From Technology

2011-11-08 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Yes, a very interesting read, indeed. This guy obviously forgot that he was supposed to guide the students in their learning. Of course they will try to game the system, if they are normal kids. He needs to accept the responsibility of being in charge. With a little bit of structure the

[IAEP] FW: Last Call for 2011 Global Education Conference Proposals!

2011-10-30 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks... Anyone want to present or participate in this online education conference? The CFP is still open. Please forward as appropriate. Caryl Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 06:04:21 + From: m...@classroom20.com To: cbige...@hotmail.com Subject: Last Call for 2011 Global Education Conference

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Need To Know: How to get the latest Help Activity on Macs and PCs???

2011-10-26 Thread Caryl Bigenho
; walter.ben...@gmail.com; support-g...@laptop.org Subject: Re: [support-gang] Need To Know: How to get the latest Help Activity on Macs and PCs??? On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 05:59:56PM -0700, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:46:23 -0400 Subject: Re: Need To Know: How to get

Re: [IAEP] Need To Know: How to get the latest Help Activity on Macs and PCs???

2011-10-25 Thread Caryl Bigenho
, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Walter, The Help Activity we want to work from is 11.3.0. It is version 13 and was updated by Bastien, David Farning, and Brian Jordan. I don't think they did anything with the Turtle Art Activity. As far as I can see, the last work

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Preparations for Friday's documentation session (was: Help Activity Refresh during summit?)

2011-10-21 Thread Caryl Bigenho
during the weekend. I will be available to work on Sunday most probably Sandra Thaxter www.smallsolutionsbigideas.org san...@smallsolutionsbigideas.org (617) 320-1098 - Original Message - From: ana.cichero To: Caryl Bigenho Cc: christoph.derndor...@gmail.com ; Community Support

[IAEP] Worker Bees Wanted For XO Manual Refresh!

2011-10-09 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hello! Here is a great opportunity for you to get involved in an important OLPC/Sugar Labs project! A new revised version of the XO Users Manual and Help Activity is coming, and we need your help. The XO Users Manual originated with a book sprint in Austin TX in summer 2008 and has had many

[IAEP] Six Week Old Email Mysteriously resurfaces! RE: 12-Year-Old XOs (even 18-yesr-olds)

2011-10-08 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Ignore this one! Don't know where it has been for the past six weeks since it was sent or why it has suddenly resurfaced. The problem has been resolved. Caryl From: cbige...@hotmail.com To: support-g...@lists.laptop.org; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; test...@lists.laptop.org Date: Sun, 28 Aug

[IAEP] Another Stale Email and an Invite RE: Oops! RE: [support-gang] Bigger Problem!

2011-10-08 Thread Caryl Bigenho
This email was sent way back on Sept 17. I have no idea why it suddenly reappeared. I am bringing the XO in question to the SF summit where Kevin Gordon will help fix it. Anyone at the SF Summit who wants to watch the process is welcome! We may try to do it Friday evening at the

[IAEP] First TamTamMini Lesson Resources

2011-09-22 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks, We had our first Tam Tam Mini lesson with the XOs at the new Contributors Program project at Arrowhead School in Pray Montana. I have written it up on our blog and have added a Resources section where you can get and use any of the resources I prepared for the lesson. You will find

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] OLPC SF Community Summit 2011 / Oct 21-23 / Registration Open!

2011-09-20 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Be careful when you register! Everbrite added $80 to my charges even though I did not authorize or ask for it. Also, you only get 15 min to complete your registration so if you are registering more than one person, best to do them separately to have time to enter all details. Caryl Date:

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Problems!

2011-09-15 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Again, I ran the test and found that the culprit is the 2 key, as I suspected. I have no qualms about dis-assembly and messing with the keyboard (done it before... remember my wiki article on Keyboard Field Repairs? http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Keyboard_field_repairs ). I left all my tiny

[IAEP] Problems!

2011-09-14 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks, Having trouble with one of the CP machines that was stored in a closet for about a year and thus had time problems (thought it was 1999) The rtc battery needed charging. Today I charged it all day (turned on) and then reflashed it. Up to this time it had worked fine, except for

Re: [IAEP] Problems!

2011-09-14 Thread Caryl Bigenho
I forgot to mention... before the reflash I was not able to get this machine to go to Open Firmware to reset the time (pressing esc while booting). All the other machines would do this even if their clocks were off. That's why I brought it home to try a reflash. No change. It still won't.

Re: [IAEP] [Testing] [support-gang] 12-Year-Old XOs (even 18-yesr-olds)

2011-09-13 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All... Translations for the rest of us: DHCP: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/D/DHCP.html OFW: http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/OFW (pick one out of 12!) NTP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol ESSID: http://www.cryer.co.uk/glossary/e/essid.htm RTC: Real Time Clock

Re: [IAEP] [Testing] [support-gang] 12-Year-Old XOs (even 18-yesr-olds)

2011-09-13 Thread Caryl Bigenho
AM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi All... Translations for the rest of us: DHCP: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/D/DHCP.html OFW: http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/OFW

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Need Wiki Help!

2011-09-09 Thread Caryl Bigenho
-0700, Caryl Bigenho wrote: I have hunted around for instructions for doing this and have even tried copying the format some other pages have used it, but so far haven't cracked the code. Can someone give me a link or two that will tell me how to do it? Go edit a page that does

[IAEP] FW: [Olpc-uruguay] Carita triste

2011-09-09 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks, Can one of our many solutions that were discussed in the past few days about incorrect dates help these folks in Uruguay? I'll translate the note below and if one of you knows the answer, but not how to tell them in Spanish, write it in English and I'll translate it and send it on.

[IAEP] Need Wiki Help!

2011-09-08 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks, I am working on some Grannie's Guides for the wiki and need to know how to make the little blue boxes with dotted lines around them that have the test written in something that resembles what you will see in Terminal. I think it may be the Courier typeface. I have hunted around for

Re: [IAEP] Funding team?

2011-09-06 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks, I was reading through the agreement with the Software Freedom Conservancy. It is great that this is in place. It can insure transparency, if the guidelines are followed. As a 501c3 non-profit organization, you have to be very careful to use the right terminology... Marketing is

[IAEP] XO Tam Tam Resources

2011-09-03 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks, I spent most of yesterday hunting up Tam Tam Resources for the IT teacher at a rural K8 school here in Montana. They just received 10 XO-1s from a stalled Contributors Program project at MSU. She is very excited about using them, especially Tam Tam, since they lost the funding for

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Fwd: unique activities TamTamMini-60 . . .

2011-09-02 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... Exactly what I was going to suggest. Is there a reason you friend hasn't updated? Check with him first and, if he doesn't mind go for a newer build. Can anyone suggest the best choice for this update? I would say maybe 860 since 874 is very new and still may have a few bugs. Caryl

Re: [IAEP] [Testing] [support-gang] 12-Year-Old XOs (even 18-yesr-olds)

2011-08-31 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Thanks James, Tabitha, and all... I already sent the instructions using the Open Firmware instructions. I rewrote it so it is very easy to follow and suggested they may even want to have some of their middle school students help with this. I had originally figured that Terminal would be the

Re: [IAEP] [Testing] [support-gang] 12-Year-Old XOs (even 18-yesr-olds)

2011-08-30 Thread Caryl Bigenho
2011 16:16, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Later, when I looked at the Journal entries on some of the machines, I found they were incredibly old like 12 years! (Image3). There was one that said 18 years ago also, but I seem to have misplaced the image. Did you check what year

[IAEP] SD Card Expert Needed

2011-08-24 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All I'm looking for an SD card expert... not just theoretical, but someone who has actually done what I want to be able to do. I am re-locating 10 XO-1 laptops from a CP project that has stalled to a K-8 school in rural Montana. They have some very enthusiastic teachers who really

Re: [IAEP] SD Card Expert Needed

2011-08-24 Thread Caryl Bigenho
¡Hola Alan! Did you see my other note to you about I Know America? Some questions about your answer... how do you keep the Activity from getting copied into the system (flash memory)? I just tested it again. I put in the SD card. Opened an Activity that was on it but not on the XO. When I

Re: [IAEP] SD Card Expert Needed

2011-08-24 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hu Does anyone know if what I want to do will work on os860? I just want to keep certain Activities on the SD card without having them install to the XO. I am currently using os874. Thanks!Caryl P.S. I am thinking that if this can work, it will be great for all XO-1 deployments who

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Quick Question

2011-08-06 Thread Caryl Bigenho
El 06/08/11 05:49, Caryl Bigenho escribió: Hi... I must be doing something wrong: idle Traceback (most recent call last): File stdin, line 1, in module NameError: name 'idle

[IAEP] Quick Question

2011-08-05 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks... I want to go through the Khan Academy videos for Python and need a suitable IDE for the Mac. I have Python 2.7.2 on my Terminal on my Mac, but it executes commands as they are typed in. I need an editor so I can list more than one command before they run. I know I could do this

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Quick Question

2011-08-05 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... I must be doing something wrong: idleTraceback (most recent call last): File stdin, line 1, in moduleNameError: name 'idle' is not defined This is where I am in Terminal: Python 2.7.2 (v2.7.2:8527427914a2, Jun 11 2011, 14:13:39) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5493)] on darwinType help,

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Proposed New K-12 Science Framework

2011-07-27 Thread Caryl Bigenho
...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Caryl, On 26 Jul 2011, at 06:07, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi Everyone, I received an email today from eSchool News with a link to a very important document everyone at OLPC and Sugar Labs should familiarize themselves with. It is the new K-12 Science Framework

Re: [IAEP] Proposed New K-12 Science Framework

2011-07-26 Thread Caryl Bigenho
-building and data-gathering activities should be sharable and self-documenting, to support integrating these practices. Jameson Quinn 2011/7/26 Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com Hi Everyone, I received an email today from eSchool News with a link to a very important document everyone

[IAEP] Proposed New K-12 Science Framework

2011-07-25 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Everyone, I received an email today from eSchool News with a link to a very important document everyone at OLPC and Sugar Labs should familiarize themselves with. It is the new K-12 Science Framework published by the National Academies of the United States. It is still in the

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Turn your frequency generator into a super powerful mosquito repeller

2011-07-20 Thread Caryl Bigenho
On 8 July 2011 18:08, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Let's put this to a test! With all the flooding we are having in Montana this summer the clouds of mosquitos are really fierce! Our family is visiting with their PCs and I have a Mac. We can try this in the next couple

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] [support-gang] [ANNOUNCE] Sugar Labs Licensing Referendum (non-binding) results

2011-07-11 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... I was in the middle of a crowd/parade of houseguests and completely overlooked the Selectricity email. A reminder message from Luke directly to the eligible voters with a catchy, not-to-be missed Subject line would be helpful next time. Sorry I missed this one. Caryl Date: Mon, 11

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Turn your frequency generator into a super powerful mosquito repeller

2011-07-08 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Let's put this to a test! With all the flooding we are having in Montana this summer the clouds of mosquitos are really fierce! Our family is visiting with their PCs and I have a Mac. We can try this in the next couple of days and see if it really works. It says it can be barely

Re: [IAEP] Music education and textbooks

2011-07-07 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Valerie, If you can give me a little bit more info I can probably point you in the direction of some useful resources. How many students are we talking about? How many minutes per week are devoted to music? How is it delivered... i.e. how many days a week will they have music?Is there

Re: [IAEP] Call for bids, Educational platform, curricular content for CEIBAL

2011-06-24 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hummm Sugar Labs could use $48G. Maybe folks in charge of development should take a good look at this one. Caryl Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:03:21 -0500 From: yamap...@gmail.com To: IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org Subject: [IAEP] Call for bids, Educational platform,curricular content for

Re: [IAEP] Narrative Interfaces at OLPC

2011-06-18 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All Thanks for recording and posting these. Do any of you remember the Apple ii game for Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? Must have been circa mid 1980s. All text. Fun problem solving. I got the Babelfish! On a more useful note... the folks in Uruguay have some good things going with

[IAEP] FW: [Sur] MUCH MORE THAN A COMPUTER - Just uploaded to YouTube by Canal Ceibal.

2011-06-17 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All FYI pass it around! I've seen it in Spanish. This one is for all of you angloparlantes Caryl P.S. Thanks to Carlos Rebassa for sending this. From: car...@mac.com Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 08:28:24 -0300 To: america-lat...@squeakland.org; squeakl...@squeakland.org; olpcp...@gmail.com;

[IAEP] Is Apple's New OS X Copying Sugar???

2011-06-17 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi folks, Maybe what seem to be problems with Sugar aren't so bad after all. In fact, it looks like Apple is using some of our stuff! The most striking is the new Air Drop feature which is, essentially, our mesh network! It uses wi-fi and even has a view that I swear is is a copy of our

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Olidata computers in Uruguay

2011-06-16 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hello Esteban (and all), It would be wonderful if you or someone else could write up some very easy to follow instructions for doing the screen scaling, in Spanish, for the teachers in Uruguay. Don't assume anything. Pretend the teacher is a total beginner (on the Olidata many will be). Make

[IAEP] Easter Egg In Moon Activity?

2011-06-14 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks, Is there an Easter Egg in the Moon Activity? Last December I turned on my XO to see what the moon would look like durning the last Lunar Eclipse. It was pink! Was this a fluke? ... my imagination? or a fun thing put in by the developer of the Moon Activity? Don't know for

[IAEP] FW: [OLPC Bolivia] No logro aprender Sugar / I cannot learn Sugar

2011-06-14 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks, This is a FYI... Carlos Rebassa, a Rap Ceibal volunteer many of us met in Uruguay has come up with a surprisingly critical complaint about Sugar. He included a link to an English version, but did not send it to IAEP or the Support Gang lists. I have no idea what prompted his

Re: [IAEP] Useful resource about organizing future OLPC / Sugar hackathons

2011-06-10 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Good stuff, but really the same-old, same old Plan Ahead! And, I might add one thing... find ways to make sure you reach those who might need a little extra encouragement to get them to attend... women and people of color. Check the photos of their otherwise well attended event to see what I

Re: [IAEP] Etoys Videos for Khan Academy

2011-06-05 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hola Paolo and all,The Khan Academy videos have already been converted to ogg and play very nicely on the XO-1. I put instructions for doing it on a blog we have for a Contributors Program project I work with in South Central Los Angeles. Here is a link to the instructions which includes a

Re: [IAEP] Membership fees

2011-06-05 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks, OK... my 2 cents (USA) worth. I think membership fees are a bad idea. SugarLabs membership should be as free as its software. If there is a valid need for funds, there are many other ways that other non-profits raise money. The first one that comes to mind is one that I have seen

[IAEP] The XOrobots in Montevideo

2011-05-20 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All, I have some photos and a short video that I took of the robot project they showed us in Montevideo. The file size of the email with all of them attached is to large and many of your email servers are bouncing it back. So I will send the files individually in separate files. I hope

Re: [IAEP] Please review Make Your Own Sugar Activities! on Amazon

2011-05-19 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hey! You don't need a Kindle to read a Kindle edition of a book! Just download the reader program from Amazon. Let's all buy a copy of the ebook! (it's only 99 cents!). That will boost the ratings quite a bit. You might pass these links on to others you know who might like to try their

[IAEP] Looking for the Animation

2011-05-18 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi I am looking for the source of the great multiplication tables animated cartoon that someone used in their talk at eduJAM. Can anyone help me? This was the one where the students were reciting the tables that were written on the chalkboard then they were sitting in front of computer

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] FW: Lots of Links!

2011-05-16 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Lori and all... We saw many projects done by primary school children using the Labyrinth Activity in Uruguay. One seven-year-old told me it was his actividad favorita. It is a simple mind-mapping Activity that allows children to organize and record their thoughts and information, and even

[IAEP] Back Up Your Data!

2011-05-11 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All... Here is my sad story. It's worse than losing my iPod in Buenos Aires. The hard drive on my Mac died on the ferry from Montevideo to Buenos Aires on Sunday. It was terminal. Got back to the US today and Apple Care is still in effect (26 more days!) So they installed a new one

[IAEP] FW: Lots of Links!

2011-05-09 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All... Have any of you used TamTam in the classroom? Lori has the CUELA XO library machines checked out until late summer. She wants to try to use TamTam as you can see below. Caryl P.S. Sent from a shared PC at a hostel in Buenos Aires. My Mac died on the ferry over from Montevideo

[IAEP] Greetings from Rural Uruguay!

2011-05-03 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All... Writing this using wifi on a bus in rural Uruguay. We will spend the day visiting a rural school in Durazno Department. Will finally get to meet my online friend, Rosamel! Lots of great experiences. Check out our group blog at: http://bit.ly/moHbEG Caryl

Re: [IAEP] What's on SoaS?

2011-04-24 Thread Caryl Bigenho
, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi All Is there a link that tells what is included (Sugar Activities, Gnome(?)) etc. on each build of SoaS? I poked around a bit on the Sugar Labs wiki, but couldn't find it. The list for SoaS v5 currently is: sugar-abacus sugar-browse

[IAEP] What's on SoaS?

2011-04-20 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All Is there a link that tells what is included (Sugar Activities, Gnome(?)) etc. on each build of SoaS? I poked around a bit on the Sugar Labs wiki, but couldn't find it. Thanks!Caryl ___ IAEP -- It's An

[IAEP] (Off Topic) Save a life. Read my blog. Seriously.

2011-04-19 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All... Some of you are compulsive programmers. I am a compulsive writer. I used to do it professionally for a local newspaper. Now, I sometimes miss the opportunity to share my work with tens of thousands of people, so I have started a blog. Usually, I wouldn't bother you folks with

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