[IAEP] TamTam Questions (More)

2010-12-15 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi, Several people in America-sur have responded to my questions about the keys used in the TamTam Suite. So far, they have all referred only to TamTam Mini. Have any of you used any of the other TamTam Activities (Jam and Edit). I need to know what keys are used for loops and special effect

[IAEP] FW: Leigh Honeywell 1st SCALE 9X keynoter

2010-12-15 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... Here is info about one of the keynote speakers for SCaLE 9X. For those of you who would like to do a presentation, the CFP has been extended to this Friday, December 17. Caryl > Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:05:08 -0800 > To: ca...@laptop.org > From: scale-annou...@socallinuxexpo.org > Subj

[IAEP] TamTam and Old Technology

2010-12-12 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All... I am trying to make a simple do-it-yourself overlay for the XO keyboard showing the musical keys (like on a piano) for TamTam.I have only played with it a little so I could use a little help about what keys to include in addition to the notes. If you are a TamTam fan and have used it

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

2010-12-05 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Don't forget the possibility of using the laptops to tailor the learning experience to fit the individual needs of each learner. With proper training, and planning, teachers can learn to do this easily in ways that will help all students achieve their highest potential. Of course, a more work

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] the 4 GB USB containing Soas-v3-Mirabelle appliance can be run interchangeably on a PC or a mac with VMPlayer or Virtualbox

2010-11-27 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All This is great news! I will work on learning to do this when I get back to SoCal in Dec. Then I can share it with others at presentations, visits and the like. I really like the way Etoys-to-go can move from system to system. If this works even half as well, it will be big news. Caryl (a

[IAEP] TSA Loves XOs!

2010-11-25 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All, I flew from DFW yesterday, the day before Thanksgiving, which is supposed to be one of the busiest days for flying. We arrived early because we had heard of plans for lot of people to "opt out" of the body scanners and ask for the "enhanced pat-down search" instead. The protest didn

[IAEP] newtechh...@coppell and Etoys info needed

2010-11-20 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks, I had a great visit yesterday with the folks at New Tech High @ Coppell, TX. It is a great place, where "facilitators" guide "learners" in their project based learning. We were very impressed. But, I was surprised to discover they do not teach any computer programming at the school.

[IAEP] (no subject)

2010-11-14 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All, Yesterday I did my 2 hour workshop and one hour presentation at the CUELA Tech Fair. I want to thank all of you who helped me solve some of the problems I was having with the software. My one hour presentation about OLPC and volunteering was great. Folks were interested, asked a lot of

[IAEP] Conozco Uruguay -> Conozco Nicaragua

2010-11-14 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks, I just learned from the Latin America lists that Byron Corrales has modified the Activity "Conozco Uruguay" and changed it into "Conozco Nicaragua". This is great! I had suggested some time ago that the Conozco Activity was perfect for localizing. It could be adapted as a histo

Re: [IAEP] [Olpc-uruguay] ¿Cómo beben los gato s?

2010-11-12 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Gracias Carolos ¡Qué buena idea! Tan creativo. Me gusta mucho este. Carolina For folks on the IAEP list who don't read Spanish... translate this one. It is a great science lesson idea. From: car...@mac.com Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:53:08 -0200 To: america-lat...@squeakland.org; olpc-...@lists

[IAEP] FW: Teaching with Technology in the Los Angeles Area

2010-11-11 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks... This is the latest announcement of the event I will be doing a 2-hour morning workshop for on Saturday. I have highlighted it in red below. I will also be doing a 1 hour presentation about getting involved with OLPC and Sugar Labs as volunteers, contributors, or school groups. That

[IAEP] Urgent Call for Help!

2010-11-11 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hey folks, I am having problems getting files together to distribute to a teachers workshop this Saturday. I have asked for help and a few people have been really good about it. But time is running out. I have been checking some of the files on the Sugar Creation Kit (which has a correct chec

[IAEP] Getting to BIOS (was Boot SoaS on Windows machines? Help!)

2010-11-10 Thread Caryl Bigenho
IOS setup is > different on every PC I've encountered. I've placed a sticker dot over > the proper function key on some of my machines. > > Mike > > > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > > Hi > > It has been about 6 mos since I

[IAEP] Boot SoaS on Windows machines? Help!

2010-11-10 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi It has been about 6 mos since I last ran SoaS on my eeePC. I am a "Mac person." I can't remember how to get Sugar running on the PC. I have tried a lot of different things... alt, ctrl, ctrl-c, ctrl-d, F2, ctrl-alt, and so forth. Nothing works. I tried opening Windows first and then acc

[IAEP] Will This Work???

2010-11-10 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All... Hypothetical Situation: Teacher wants to customize their student's XOs for Science. Teacher downloads files for all sorts of extra science activities on their PC or Mac from Sugar Labs Teacher copies all the files to SD cards (1-2GB) Teacher inserts SD cards in the XO slot for sa

[IAEP] FW: Follow-up. Next Question: How many boxes?

2010-11-07 Thread Caryl Bigenho
n...@gmail.com > To: cbige...@hotmail.com > CC: support-g...@laptop.org; test...@lists.laptop.org > > I've never used VB before so I'm not sure but I'm sure you can run > multiple VMs on Virtual Box. > > Peter > > On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Caryl Bi

Re: [IAEP] Follow-up. Next Question: How many boxes?

2010-11-07 Thread Caryl Bigenho
mail.com > CC: support-g...@laptop.org; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; > test...@lists.laptop.org > > Blueberry was just 32bit. Mirabelle was the first to support both 32 > and 64 bit, it was one of the side effects of the move to Fedora infra > and release process. > > Pe

[IAEP] Follow-up. Next Question: Which Fedora?

2010-11-07 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Thanks for the answers to the .iso vs .vdi question. Now, is SoaS Blueberry done in Fedora or Fedora 64? Caryl ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugar

[IAEP] Urgent: .iso or .vdi in Virtual Box?

2010-11-07 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All, I have included the testing list in this mailing because solving this problem will help me (and other Mac users) participate in testing SoaS. ;-D Still trying to get SoaS to run on Virtual Box. Need to do it today (hopefully). Will keep checking and trying off and on all day until I ge

[IAEP] Adam Changes a Tire

2010-11-05 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All... If you haven't checked Tim Falconer's blog about the trip he and Adam are making in Haiti, here is the link to yesterday's post. You can access the earlier ones and today's from there: http://waveplace.com/news/blog/archive/001013.jsp Be sure to enjoy the photos. Caryl

Re: [IAEP] Link for Maple Syrup?

2010-11-03 Thread Caryl Bigenho
ommunity/Distributions/Ubuntu#Maple-syrup_Ubuntu_10.04_LTS_with_Sugar_and_many_other_applications_for_netbooks http://people.sugarlabs.org/it/OLD/ (original site) Enjoy; Tom Gilliard satellit Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi All, I have a copy of Maine 1 to 1's Maple Syrup that I run in a Virtual Box on my MacBook. I need to share the link

Re: [IAEP] 90% fluency Re: Granny Cloud

2010-11-02 Thread Caryl Bigenho
OK, so along with watching DWTS and the election results, I read through "The Camel has Two Humps." If this isn't a spoof it is a travesty! I laughed and laughed! Having done a Master's Thesis and read my daughters PhD dissertation, I can see that this a a wonderfully funny parody of what a "

Re: [IAEP] 90% fluency Re: Granny Cloud

2010-11-02 Thread Caryl Bigenho
an From: K. K. Subramaniam To: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Sent: Tue, November 2, 2010 7:45:47 AM Subject: Re: [IAEP] Granny Cloud On Tuesday 02 Nov 2010 8:17:34 am Caryl Bigenho wrote: > Hi All... > Here is a concise article that summarizes Sugata Mitra's

[IAEP] Granny Cloud

2010-11-01 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All... Here is a concise article that summarizes Sugata Mitra's work with the "Granny Cloud." Note he says a 1 to 1 model doesn't work. He uses 4 to 1. http://dnc.digitalunite.com/2010/07/29/granny-cloud-to-teach-children-via-the-internet/ Caryl

Re: [IAEP] "Grannie" support for children's learning with computers

2010-11-01 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Caroline, Sounds like a great project! Take the time to watch all of this TED talk featuring Sugata Mirta. It is well worth the time! You will see how the Granny Cloud was used in Newcastle and how children filled the role in other situations. http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_

[IAEP] Link for Maple Syrup?

2010-11-01 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All, I have a copy of Maine 1 to 1's Maple Syrup that I run in a Virtual Box on my MacBook. I need to share the link on the olpc-socal list, but Google isn't very helpful this morning. Can someone send me the link for the download? TIACaryl __

[IAEP] Link for Maple Syrup?

2010-11-01 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All, I have a copy of Maine 1 to 1's Maple Syrup that I run in a Virtual Box on my MacBook. I need to share the link on the olpc-socal list, but Google isn't very helpful this morning. Can someone send me the link for the download? TIACaryl __

[IAEP] Link for Maple Syrup?

2010-11-01 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All, I have a copy of Maine 1 to 1's Maple Syrup that I run in a Virtual Box on my MacBook. I need to share the link on the olpc-socal list, but Google isn't very helpful this morning. Can someone send me the link for the download? TIACaryl __

[IAEP] FYI: Etoys-to-go works on PowerPC Macs

2010-11-01 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All... A bit of surprising info (Bert F. was surprised), I tried Etoys-to-Go on an older PowerBook G4 running OS-10.4.11. It works... really well! (So far). This should be good news to folks dealing with schools that have older G4 machines and no budget to upgrade. I wish we could do the sam

Re: [IAEP] NN, Mitra, and the role of the teacher

2010-10-31 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Great stuff! Thanks for the link, Sabbu. I need more time to explore this, but it looks very much like the old frontier one-room schools in the USA. Actually, there are still a lot of them in places like rural Montana. A lot of great people came out of this type of school with wonderful educa

Re: [IAEP] NN, Mitra, and the role of the teacher

2010-10-30 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Actually, Mitra's "Grannies" may not be actual grand parents and they do have a curriculum. They are chosen from older folks (he implies they are all women) who have time and want to volunteer to help children learn. They meet regularly with their assigned children in groups of 4 via the intern

[IAEP] FW: [Sur] Oscar Becerra contesta (2 5 veces) al artículo de Christoph Derndorfer

2010-10-29 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All... I know some of you have already seen and commented on this, but I found it via the Latin American lists and wanted to pass it along to the rest of you, who like me, may have missed it. Caryl The translation of the sur list title and comment: "Oscar Becerra answers the article by Chris

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] I'm VERY offline in Haiti for 2 weeks! [assume the role of peer-teacher indeed!]

2010-10-29 Thread Caryl Bigenho
and the role of the teacher Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:51:55 +0300 From: Teemu Leinonen To: IAEP SugarLabs On 26.10.2010, at 20.12, Caryl Bigenho wrote:

Re: [IAEP] an ardent proposal to bring *LOVE* back into Sugar Labs

2010-10-27 Thread Caryl Bigenho
+1 for the proposal to extend both the registration dates and filing dates. Caryl P.S. How about some "love" at SCaLE in Feb > Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 01:42:06 -0400 > From: h...@laptop.org > To: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org; > support-g...@laptop.org; olpc_bos...

Re: [IAEP] Dumb Questions... Input Wanted... Please Discuss!

2010-10-27 Thread Caryl Bigenho
perl...@timmcnamara.co.nz > CC: cbige...@hotmail.com; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; support-g...@laptop.org > > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Tim McNamara > wrote: > > On 28 October 2010 09:04, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > >> > >> Hi All... > >> > >> Here a

[IAEP] Dumb Questions... Input Wanted... Please Discuss!

2010-10-27 Thread Caryl Bigenho
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

Re: [IAEP] Ideas

2010-10-26 Thread Caryl Bigenho
+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, a

[IAEP] NN, Mitra, and the role of the teacher

2010-10-26 Thread Caryl Bigenho
HI All... I watched Negroponte on the Colbert show last night. Nice. He seems to have toned down his former "we don't need teachers... kids will do it all" line a bit, but it is still implied. Sugata Mitra implies the same in his TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_shows_ho

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Can't Wait..SF Summit Tips! (Oct 22-24)

2010-10-22 Thread Caryl Bigenho
+1 Maybe also fix it so those of us watching from afar can add things and can see what others have up... maybe put it somewhere "in the cloud?" Caryl Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 05:40:05 +0530 From: m...@laptop.org To: garycmar...@googlemail.com CC: gonz...@laptop.org; olpc...@lists.laptop.org; m...

Re: [IAEP] stepping down as maintainer

2010-10-19 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Tomeu, You will be greatly missed! Thanks for the many wonderful things you have done over the years. ¡Abrazos! Carolina (Caryl) > Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 20:18:26 +0200 > From: si...@schampijer.de > To: to...@sugarlabs.org > CC: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org > Subjec

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] DRAFT SF Summit Schedule Emerging (10 days away!!)

2010-10-12 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi...Sorry for the large type. Hotmail is doing funny things today.I would like to suggest that the 2 remote sessions also be recorded and made available online for viewing later. It seems that Sunday the 24th is a travel day for me and I will be without internet access all day. The stars jus

Re: [IAEP] Suggestions Needed!

2010-10-09 Thread Caryl Bigenho
pecialist and olpc volunteer tabi...@tabitha.net.nz Cell +64 21 482229 http://tabitharoder.wordpress.com/ http://tabitharoder.blogspot.com/ On 9 October 2010 12:14, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > > Hi Folks... > I'm working on the abstract for my proposed presentation at CUE 2011

Re: [IAEP] Suggestions Needed!

2010-10-08 Thread Caryl Bigenho
p on it and do a revision tomorrow. Caryl Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 16:38:25 +1300 Subject: Re: [IAEP] Suggestions Needed! From: paperl...@timmcnamara.co.nz To: cbige...@hotmail.com CC: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; support-g...@laptop.org On 9 October 2010 12:14, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi Fo

[IAEP] Suggestions Needed!

2010-10-08 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks... I'm working on the abstract for my proposed presentation at CUE 2011 in Palm Springs in March. The filing deadline is Monday, but I was hoping to put it in tomorrow morning since we will be traveling Sunday. They asked for an outline of the presentation in the abstract, that is wh

[IAEP] Please Discuss This in SF!

2010-10-06 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All, I would be feeling very depressed since I will miss our great gathering in SF weekend after next. But the reason I have to miss it, a vacation we made reservations for a year ago, will cheer me up! Maui will be a great cure for the blues. However, I do hope to be able to attend so

[IAEP] FW: Saturday LIVE! Show - "Life as a Networked Teacher"

2010-09-24 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... The speaker for this online event has been featured on TED. This could be worthwhile. If you miss it live, it will probably be available online later. Caryl Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 18:36:56 + From: m...@classroom20.com To: cbige...@hotmail.com Subject: Saturday LIVE! Show - "Life as a

[IAEP] Totally Off Topic! (But fun) WOMAN-FIGHTS-OFF-BEAR-ATTACK-WITH-ZUCCHINI-SQUASH

2010-09-24 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... Only in Montana! http://www.skyvalleychronicle.com/BREAKING-NEWS/MONTANA-WOMAN-FIGHTS-OFF-BEAR-ATTACK-WITH-ZUCCHINI-SQUASH-475399 Caryl ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sug

Re: [IAEP] [Olpc-uruguay] [Sur] Sugar Labs Oversight Board?

2010-09-22 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Tabitha I agree! Is there a tool out there somewhere that does simultaneous translations? Learning another language as an adult takes a real commitment and a lot of time. I have been working on Spanish for about 46+ years. I used it a lot in my teaching and counseling job in Los Angeles. I am

[IAEP] FW: [Olpc-uruguay] [Sur] Sugar Labs Oversight Board?

2010-09-22 Thread Caryl Bigenho
are you talking about? Who's Rosamel Ramírez? and where is she/ he from? Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:24:39 -0300 From: pbruccol...@adinet.com.uy To: olpc-urug...@lists.laptop.org Subject: Re: [Olpc-uruguay] [Sur] [IAEP] Sugar Labs Oversight Board? El 22/09/2010 12:53 p.m., Caryl Bi

Re: [IAEP] [Olpc-uruguay] [Sur] Sugar Labs Oversight Board?

2010-09-22 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... Hola... I agree! ¡Estoy de aquerdo! Someone like Rosamel Ramirez would be perfect. Alguín como Rosamel Ramirez sea perfecto. She has a great blog about all the things she and other teachers are doing. Ella tiene un gran blog sobre las cosas que ella y los otros maestros estan haciendo.

[IAEP] ¿No se habla español?

2010-09-21 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... Tonight I wanted to refer an RT ticket client from Argentina to the SoaS information. I couldn't find a translate button anywhere. Can someone tell me where to find it? If we really don't have one, we should! With some Latin American countries buying Windows machines, there will probabl

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] [MARKETING] Get Sugar landing page

2010-09-15 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... I have been advocating for SoaS to run on both Intel and PowerPC platforms all along. I think Sugar Labs has done pretty well with getting it up and running on the Intel machines and should continue working in that direction. At the same time, there are still a lot of the old PowerPC Ma

[IAEP] Spanish Anyone? Live Mocha 1/2 price sale today for twitter users

2010-09-14 Thread Caryl Bigenho
¡Hola! This for those of you who would like to get a start on learning Spanish. I ran across it on Twitter today. I have used the old free Live Mocha Chinese course and it is pretty good (and still free). This new format sounds even better... but no Chinese yet. They do have Spanish though

[IAEP] Tightwad Grannie's experiment for saving $$$ on USB Sticks

2010-09-13 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks, It seems like I am always having to buy another usb stick which often isn't filled to capacity. This seems like a huge waste of $$$. In some parts of the world this can also be a huge chunk out of a teacher's salary. So I did a little experiment today. I was downloading and inst

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Dextrose on XO-1?

2010-09-13 Thread Caryl Bigenho
puts a hex on things here. At least from what I've seen, anyway. I'd try setting up the USB drive on an XO 1.5 and see if that works. Anna Schoolfield Birmingham On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi Folks, I have successfully installed and run Dextros

[IAEP] Dextrose on XO-1?

2010-09-13 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks, I have successfully installed and run Dextrose on 2 XO-1.5s. The problem I was having yesterday was caused by a missing letter "g" in the instructions. But, that is history. Now I am trying to get it installed on an XO-1. So far, no luck. Here is the problem. I have downloaded both o

[IAEP] Dextrose is Working

2010-09-13 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Adam and all... Got Dextrose installed in an XO-1.5. The problem was caused by a missing letter in the instructions (py should be pyg). Finally managed to log into the wiki and fix it. Bob Braxton found the missing letter. We need a lot of "grannies" to test instructions for things like t

Re: [IAEP] Login Name?

2010-09-13 Thread Caryl Bigenho
OK... I found my way through the "openID" maze. Luckily I remembered a password and was able to connect. Hope I don't have to do this every time. I seldom use any of the services they mention in openID. Caryl From: cbige...@hotmail.com To: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:05:

[IAEP] Login Name?

2010-09-13 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... Somehow I thought I had an id and password on the Sugar Labs wiki. But, try as I may, I can't find it! I also can't find out how to get one. I wanted to edit something on the wiki and need to have one to do it. I don't have an "open id" that I can use. Can someone help? Thanks,Caryl

Re: [IAEP] [Testing] Dextrose Install Snags

2010-09-12 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 17:21:20 -1000 From: w...@laptop.org To: cbige...@hotmail.com CC: test...@lists.laptop.org; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; support-g...@laptop.org Subject: Re: [Testing] Dextrose Install Snags On 9/12/2010 5:09 PM, Caryl Bigenho wrote

Re: [IAEP] [Testing] Dextrose Install Snags

2010-09-12 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 16:41:34 -1000 From: w...@laptop.org To: cbige...@hotmail.com CC: test...@lists.laptop.org; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; support-g...@laptop.org Subject: Re: [Testing] Dextrose Install Snags On 9/12/2010 4:12 PM, Caryl Bigenho wrote

[IAEP] Dextrose Install Snags

2010-09-12 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... I was trying to install Dextrose on an XO-1.5 today. I was following the instructions on: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Dextrose There was only one file listed to download for the XO-1.5 : os373pyg.zd. I followed the directions on the page and got an error message that the file was

[IAEP] Web Resources for Translators

2010-09-10 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... Here are a few resources that Carlos Rebassa on the OLPC sur list just put up. This links to a translator that he likes: http://tradukka.com/ He says it works well with many idioms. When he is working in Spanish, he also likes to use the dictionary from the Royal Academy in Spain

Re: [IAEP] What builds for "show and tell?"

2010-09-09 Thread Caryl Bigenho
t;show and tell?" Caryl Bigenho wrote: Next week I will be taking 6 XO-1.5s to a Unix Administrator's group meeting at Montana State Univeristy in Bozeman MT. I will talk a bit about what OLPC and Sugar Labs are and then give them some time to play. At the moment I have th

[IAEP] What builds for "show and tell?"

2010-09-09 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All, Next week I will be taking 6 XO-1.5s to a Unix Administrator's group meeting at Montana State Univeristy in Bozeman MT. I will talk a bit about what OLPC and Sugar Labs are and then give them some time to play. At the moment I have the machines running 10.1.2 (os852). Are there some

[IAEP] FW: Invitation to Southern California Linux Expo 9x

2010-09-09 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All... How does Southern California in February sound? If you start saving your pennies (or frequent flyer miles) now, you can make it happen. SCaLE 9X will be the weekend of February 25-27. This is always a well attended event and, as you can see, they have had to move to a larger venue.

[IAEP] FW: Please publish and make link to Spanish version of MYOSA

2010-09-06 Thread Caryl Bigenho
e publish and make link to Spanish version of MYOSA > From: nices...@gmail.com > To: olpc-...@lists.laptop.org; disc...@lists.flossmanuals.net > CC: cbige...@hotmail.com > > Caryl Bigenho, myself, and several others have spent many hours > putting together a Spanish versio

[IAEP] FW: This Week's Live, Interactive, and Free Events in Elluminate

2010-09-06 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... Some of you may find these sessions interesting. Caryl Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 17:39:21 + From: m...@classroom20.com To: ca...@laptop.org Subject: This Week's Live, Interactive, and Free Events in Elluminate Message body C

[IAEP] Teachers Without Borders

2010-09-05 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All... I just stumbled on Teachers Without Borders through a link on twitter. This looks like something Sugar Labs might want to affiliate with. They have many organizational members including groups such as Airline Ambassadors International, Cisco Volunteers, and many others. It looks

[IAEP] More Info/Corrected Link/FW: Call for Papers for SCALE 9x opens

2010-09-02 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Again, I just read the "fine print" and it looks like this year's event will not have a track devoted specifically to open source educational software... OSSIE (Open Source Software In Education) but there will plenty of places to tell the OLPC and Sugar Labs stories. I also noticed that on

[IAEP] FW: Call for Papers for SCALE 9x opens

2010-09-02 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All... It is time to mark your calendars for SCaLE 9X, the Southern California Linux Expo which will be on Friday Feb 25-Sunday Feb 27 at the Los Angeles Airport Hilton (new venue). If you would like to apply to do a presentation or workshop, this email has all the info you need to get star

[IAEP] FW: [Sur] [ASLO] Nueva version FotoToon-4

2010-08-29 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All... What a fun Acitvity! You must try this one. Gonzalo Odiard of Buenos Aires has done a fantastic job. This has infinite educational possibilities. Perfect for PBL (Project Based Learning). Teachers of all subject areas can plan lessons for their students to work in teams, drawing, tak

[IAEP] Plan Ceibal on YouTube

2010-08-16 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks, Today someone on the Uruguay list posted several links, one of which goes to the index of the Plan Ceibal videos. I went on to the English version and picked one to watch... a second grade music lesson using Tam Tam Mini. It is totally amazing! A great lesson. It does say that the

[IAEP] Eating "el elefante"

2010-08-15 Thread Caryl Bigenho
How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. Well, I finally started on the translation of a few "bites" of James Simmons' excellent FLOSS manual. "Make Your Own Sugar Activities." It is slow going, but if everyone who has a pretty good grasp of both English and Spanish helps out a little

Re: [IAEP] [realness] RE: [support-gang] Fwd: Teacher training observations

2010-08-13 Thread Caryl Bigenho
ault reaction of the educator is that "we need to know what we > are educating folks in completely ourselves"... > > Perhaps one could try the trick of providing them an extremely thick > extremely useless foundation computer studies book with stuff like > binary / hex code in i

[IAEP] A Contributors Program project in Uganda

2010-08-12 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All...I wanted to share some photos posted on Facebook by Divinity Matovu about her NGO in Uganda. This spring she applied for and was approved for a Contributors Program project for 10 XOs to use with the children in her center. This summer, after I trained her via Skype, she took the lapto

[IAEP] ... a few questions...

2010-08-09 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi a few questions... When Gonzalo Odiard and others did their teacher training in La Rioja back in February they used SoaS Strawberry. At the present time, what is the best version of SoaS for Spanish Speakers? \\ Has there been any effort to produce a Spanish language version of SoaS? Ar

[IAEP] FW: Argentina Digest, Vol 40, Issue 3

2010-08-09 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All... Something to share from the Argentina list today... It's in Spanish, but you can open it in Google Translate (just paste the url of the link into the blank on the Google Translate page). The article says that Nicolas Negroponte will train some teachers who will later train others. it

Re: [IAEP] [FM Discuss] "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" in Spanish

2010-08-05 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Great! Thanks for doing this. I am already registered and will take a look soon. Caryl (aka Carolina, aka Grannie B) > Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 11:22:52 -0500 > Subject: Fwd: [FM Discuss] "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" in Spanish > From: nices...@gmail.com > To: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; raf..

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] OLPC-SF Community Summit Oct 22-24 -- highlighting Sugar Labs / Realness

2010-08-05 Thread Caryl Bigenho
before it's too late?! :) Caryl Bigenho wrote: Alas! There were several weekends under consideration. This is the only one I couldn't make. I will be traveling out of state that whole week. I really wish I could be there. For those of you that can attend, Southwest Airl

Re: [IAEP] OLPC-SF Community Summit Oct 22-24 -- highlighting Sugar Labs / Realness

2010-08-04 Thread Caryl Bigenho
mpact main page much like http://Realness.org, opening > a warm welcome, to large and small deployment professionals and > volunteers worldwide. > > It will be so exciting to finally meet the California crowd all > together, many of whom have still never met each other now the "

Re: [IAEP] "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" is on Lulu

2010-08-02 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... If some one will take care of getting it set up, I will be happy to help with the translations and try to recruit some of my bilingual friends to help. It may all take a while, but let's get the "ball rolling!" Caryl (aka Carolina, aka SweetXOGrannie > From: raf...@sugarlabs.org > Date: M

[IAEP] Catching Up

2010-07-27 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All... I'm back to the world camp Grandma and Grandpa has ended for the summer after lots of fun hiking, swimming, playing card games and Monopoly, doing cooking and crafts, playing music, pulling weeds, building a square-foot garden, dealing with sibling rivalries, etc. Now I'm tryin

[IAEP] Suggestions for 4.0 (raw_input)

2010-07-11 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Again, Dinko, Well, here goes on the big lesson 4.0. I finished checking it just as the World Cup match was about to start so, I will write this during the dull moments... if there are any! This time... I'll do suggestions in red italics and additions in plain red. Caryl -

[IAEP] 3.0 While Corrections

2010-07-08 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Dinko, More notes and corrections: I would divide this lesson into 2 parts or rename the examples. You have two Example 1s, two Example2s and so forth. See the other notes below. This is all I have tested so far. More later. Caryl P.S. If you haven't already guessed, I have used "*s" to sho

[IAEP] Corrections for 2.0 Variables

2010-07-08 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Dinko, I'm back to my computer for the evening but will be gone again tomorrow and until Sunday. I did take an XO and use Pippy to check things in some of the files you sent. I will do a separate one for each section. I might be able to check some of the others before I get back on Sunday.

[IAEP] FW: Feedback request for my Python tutorial

2010-07-08 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All.. I think Kevin meant for this to go to the entire list. Caryl > Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 13:28:57 +1000 > Subject: Re: [IAEP] Feedback request for my Python tutorial > From: kpkir...@gmail.com > To: cbige...@hotmail.com > > Hi Dinko and all, > > I did download the files but haven't had a

Re: [IAEP] Feedback request for my Python tutorial

2010-07-07 Thread Caryl Bigenho
l print them out and look them over as I am traveling today and tomorrow. Caryl From: dinko.gale...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 13:54:41 +0200 Subject: Re: [IAEP] Feedback request for my Python tutorial To: cbige...@hotmail.com CC: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 3:34 AM, Caryl Big

Re: [IAEP] Feedback request for my Python tutorial

2010-07-07 Thread Caryl Bigenho
t: Re: [IAEP] Feedback request for my Python tutorial To: cbige...@hotmail.com CC: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 3:34 AM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi Again... I can't get that link to work at all it starts to go somewhere then displays "Go to this address"

Re: [IAEP] Feedback request for my Python tutorial

2010-07-06 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Again... I can't get that link to work at all it starts to go somewhere then displays "Go to this address" in the address bar. The rest of the page is blank. Caryl From: dinko.gale...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 02:56:49 +0200 Subject: Re: [IAEP] Feedback request for my Python tutori

Re: [IAEP] Feedback request for my Python tutorial

2010-07-05 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi...I checked my copy of the email and the formatting I put in the example was "lost" in transmission! At least, it disappears when I open the message. Strangely, it reappears when I go into the "Reply" mode. I don't know if this is a flaw in the Mac, or Safari, or Hotmail. I hope you will be

Re: [IAEP] Feedback request for my Python tutorial

2010-07-05 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hello Dinko, This is a nice project and I will take some time over the next week or 2 to look at it in detail. I notice a few "typos" that I can help with and will send them along later. However I do have a question and a couple of suggestions at this point after glancing at the download. Que

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOBs] F11+0.88+XO1.* as a SL project

2010-07-01 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... I love Sean's idea of listing and linking to resources from deployments around the world. With Google Translate these are accessible to everyone regardless of their language. I would also like to see some of the Activities that are "living" back on the old OLPC wiki under "Activities All

Re: [IAEP] A Presentation You Might Want To "Attend"

2010-06-28 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Roland and All,It turns out that the live feeds from ISTE have been cut back this year and this talk will be recorded for later viewing. Chris plans to leave the discussion open for folks who would like to comment, ask questions and discuss it later.Two earlier versions of the presentation

[IAEP] A Presentation You Might Want To "Attend"

2010-06-27 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All... If you haven't seen this presentation before, you might want to check it out this Tuesday. It will be presented live at the ISTE (formerly NECC) conference in Denver and you can also attend remotely. The time given is 11 am to 12 pm Denver time. It tells how resources on the net

[IAEP] FW: [support-gang] Voting Continues: Gnome vs Sugar -- The judgement day

2010-06-26 Thread Caryl Bigenho
I agree with Sameer and Marife. From an educator's point of view, having both Sugar and Gnome available has a lot of advantages. Sugar offers a kid-friendly environment, while at the same time offering some great Activities for older children. The younger ones probably won't find mu

Re: [IAEP] Notes from OLPC/Waveplace Health Discussion

2010-06-25 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi, I just looked at the Archives, and the health list has been greatly underused for the last 18 mos or so. It is pretty much silent. If we move there, it would give it "new life," and give us a place for our list without having to create a new one. Caryl Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:59:51 -07

[IAEP] XOs, Robots, Droids, and Cell Phones from Uruguay!

2010-06-25 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... Here is a fun engineering application for the XO using Droids and other cell phones. Don't worry about the español! Click on the link. Fun stuff from the University of the Republic in Uruguay! Walter Bender was there checking it out this week. Code is included. Caryl From: alan...@hot

[IAEP] os180py now installed successfully... thanks all! :-D

2010-06-24 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All... Thanks to everyone who helped with last night's problem, installing os180py on an XO-1. At last it is sucessfully installed and running! Here are the things I did to get it to work: 1) Downloaded to a different usb drive (still a fairly new SanDisk, but 2GB instead of 4) 2) Ma

[IAEP] Tonight's Question: Read vs Read ETexts?

2010-06-24 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All... I haven't given up on os180py yet. I am doing the downloads again to a different usb stick. It is going better. No stalls yet, just the seventh blink on the drive is always a bit longer than the rest. Strange. Saturday I need to show someone via Skype how to use the XO as a book r

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