[IAEP] Summary of eBooks lists... Thanks to all who contributed.

Hi All, A few days ago I asked for links to sites with free digital textbooks. Thanks to all who sent links. I thought it would be a good idea to put them all in one place and share them with you all. (I'm sorry the formatting of this page seems to have a mind of its own!) >From Tabitha Rode

[IAEP] os180py still not installed :(

Hi Chris, James, and All... Thanks for the quick replies, Chris and James! But, I'm still trying! I did the "probe usb" command. it returned with: /pci/u...@f , 5/s...@3,0 /pci/u...@f , 5/w...@0,0 /pci/u...@f , 5/s...@3,0/disk USB1 devices: ok So... then I typed in "copy-nand usb:\os1

[IAEP] What does "No wp tag" mean?

Hi Again, OK, so I finally found time to try again to install os180py. I managed to get to Open Firmware (I discovered you have to just quickly type the ESC key, not hold it down). Now I am unable to disable security... the next step. I type in: disable-security and it reponds: No wp

[IAEP] eBooks for Primary Students?

Hi Can some of you send me some links to sites with free ebooks/digital textbooks suitable for use in primary schools... English is ok. Need to be culturally unbiased if possible. I need these for for folks doing Contributors Program projects in Uganda and on the Crow reservation in Montan

Re: [IAEP] Problems with "Best OS Image Ever"

OK, I decided that if I am going to get into "trouble", I might as well do it with the more recent 180 build. I have it downloading now. Will these same instructions (see below) work? Does anyone have a link to better ones? They need to be fairly easy to understand, as the ones below are (e

[IAEP] (For SoaS on Macs) FW: Oracle What ’s New Webinar: Introducing Oracle VM VirtualBox 3 .2

Hi... If you are a Mac user and want to run SoaS using Virtual Box, this may interest you. Cheers!Caryl (Mac/Apple user since 1979!) Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:46:56 -0700 To: cbige...@hotmail.com Subject: Oracle What’s New Webinar: Introducing Oracle VM VirtualBox 3.2 From: re...@oracle-mail.co

[IAEP] Problems with "Best OS Image Ever"

Hi I would like to try the dual boot software for the XO-1 that Bernie and his team have developed in Paraguay. I've downloaded: http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/olpc/f11-xo1-py/os140py.img and http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/olpc/f11-xo1-py/os140py.crc I am trying to follow th

[IAEP] Free Online Conference About Online Learning

Hi All, Here is a chance to see what educators are thinking about in online learning. This "Online Teaching Conference 2010" is being held in San Diego June 16-18. As its name implies, if you can't attend in person, you can attend online! Registration for online participation is free. If t

Re: [IAEP] Health nuts

"Learning tools" works too. Caryl From: b...@waveplace.org Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:23:46 -0400 To: dfarn...@ubuntu.com; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Subject: Re: [IAEP] Health nuts Wise idea. This is just me writing at a mile a minute. But 100% agreed! Beth --- Beth Santos Outreach Coordinator

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] urgent - need Spanish translator for 600 words

Hi Sean, I looked at the link, but the text wasn't included on the page. Caryl > From: sdaly...@gmail.com > Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:37:30 +0200 > To: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; market...@lists.sugarlabs.org; > support-g...@lists.laptop.org; olpc-...@lists.laptop.org > Subject: Re: [support-gang

Re: [IAEP] Apple Eases Restrictions On iPhone Developers

ks. I don't think anyone would accuse me of having tried to reinvent the wheel, or admonish me to try not to (but the range of random opinion out there is wide indeed). However, I am worried that the big propensity today is that so many people in both computing and education are "reinv

Re: [IAEP] Apple Eases Restrictions On iPhone Developers

but the range of random opinion out there is wide indeed). However, I am worried that the big propensity today is that so many people in both computing and education are "reinventing the flat tire". Cheers, Alan From: Caryl Bigenho To: Alan Kay ; Bert Freudenberg ; IAEP SugarLabs Sent:

Re: [IAEP] Apple Eases Restrictions On iPhone Developers

but the range of random opinion out there is wide indeed). However, I am worried that the big propensity today is that so many people in both computing and education are "reinventing the flat tire". Cheers, Alan From: Caryl Bigenho To: Alan Kay ; Bert Freudenberg ; IAEP SugarLabs Sent:

Re: [IAEP] Apple Eases Restrictions On iPhone Developers

Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 12:43:14 -0700 From: alan.n...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [IAEP] Apple Eases Restrictions On iPhone Developers To: cbige...@hotmail.com; b...@freudenbergs.de; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org The reason I told Steve a few years ago to make the iPhone screen at least 5" by 8" is that

Re: [IAEP] Apple Eases Restrictions On iPhone Developers

Hi... I sincerely hope that this easing of restrictions will mean that these apps will also be available for the iPod touch. The cost of the iPad starts at $499 while the iPod touch starts at $199. With extreme budget problems abounding in most school districts, the cost difference makes s

[IAEP] Crazy Idea

Hi All... Here is a crazy idea for you all to laugh at, think about, or act on: Sugar Apps! Some schools are getting iPod touches (??? is that the plural) for their elementary schools to use. Apple has a big push with this and has several demo projects going. I saw one at CUE in March. Very imp

[IAEP] Mirabelle for Macs

Hi... Your friendly Mac-person here... I am on this page: http://mirrors.mit.edu/sugarlabs/soas/docs/creation-kit/sect-Creation_Kit-Preparation-Mac_Instructions.html I have started the SoaS image download. When I clicked on the second link for the image-writer-mac tool, the download was

Re: [IAEP] [Testing] deployment meeting and how we can support through testing

Do these times take into account Daylight Savings Time? If so, I have added the "Left Coast." see below...Caryl Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 09:20:21 +1200 From: tabi...@tabitha.net.nz To: to...@sugarlabs.org CC: olpc...@lists.laptop.org; ear...@plan.ceibal.edu.uy; hernan.pac...@gmail.com; test...@lis

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] [Marketing] Soliciting SoaS v.4 Codename & Colour Suggestions

Mirabelle isn't a berry... it is a plum! Caryl > From: sdaly...@gmail.com > Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 17:32:23 +0200 > To: sebast...@when.com > CC: s...@lists.sugarlabs.org; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; > sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org; market...@lists.sugarlabs.org > Subject: Re: [SoaS] [Marketing] S

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] [Marketing] Soliciting SoaS v.4 Codename & Colour Suggestions

I thought it was fruit and varieties of fruit? Things you might combine with Sugar to make a "Jam"? Caryl > From: b...@freudenbergs.de > Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 11:43:40 +0200 > To: pbrobin...@gmail.com > CC: s...@lists.sugarlabs.org; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; > sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org; m

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] Soliciting SoaS v.4 Codename & Colour Suggestions

Hi... Funny this has come up. I was just thinking about this how about "Sequoia"? Sequoia is a variety of strawberry, a national park, and a Native American (more properly spelled Sequoyah) who independently invented a written language, bringing literacy to his Cherokee Nation. In additi

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] Soliciting SoaS v.4 Codename & Colour Suggestions

Hi... Funny this has come up. I was just thinking about this how about "Sequoia"? Sequoia is a variety of strawberry, a national park, and a Native American (more properly spelled Sequoyah) who independently invented a written language, bringing literacy to his Cherokee Nation. In additi

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] OLPC rules out Windows for XO-3

Hi All... See comment/question below Caryl > From: w...@laptop.org > Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 17:27:12 -0400 > To: csc...@cscott.net > CC: market...@lists.sugarlabs.org; to...@sugarlabs.org; > iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; raf...@sugarlabs.org > Subject: Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] OLPC rules out Window

[IAEP] JAMedia Activity for XO-1 on YouTube: Check It Out!

Hi All... This really has the "wow" factor! Yesterday I mentioned that the folks in Uruguay, working in their Ceibal Jam, had come up with a "JAMedia" Activity that allows you to listen to radio and watch TV on the XO-1. Now they have posted a demo on YouTube. I can hardly wait to try it on

[IAEP] FW: [Olpc-uruguay](Watch TV on your XO!!!) JAMedia.activity ¡¡¡ Mira el mundial en tu xo !!!

Hi All Exciting things are happening in Uruguay with some of their CeibalJam work, assisted by some friends in Argentina. Their JAMedia Activity does some amazing things on the xo. You can see the whole discussion in this forwarded message below (paste into Google Translate if you need).

[IAEP] Uruguay's Open Source Software In Education "Jam" Wins International Recognition

Hi All, As you may have heard, Uruguay's Ceibal Jam has received an Honorable Mention in the Digital Community division of the prestegious Prix Ars Electronica of Linz, Austria. Project Ceibal is the official name for Uruguay's educational program that has distributed OLPC's XOs, running ope

[IAEP] Need Help With A Small XO-1 Problem

Hi Folks... A couple of quick XO-1 questions. I have pasted 2 photos from Record into Write. It will not let me paste any more. I also have had difficulty trying to copy and paste photos from Browse into Write. I even did a restart and reopened the Write Activity. Still no luck. Then I tried

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Announcing the Development Team Lead election

Hi Folks, While Aleksey's idea may seem great in theory, in practice it is problematical. The person who volunteers and is chosen to be the new Development Team Lead needs to be, first of all a team player with proven leadership ability who can, and will, commit their time to following the d

[IAEP] FW: The 2010 Global Education Conference: Call for Preliminary Participation

Hi All, Some of you might be interested in this. Caryl Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 21:13:37 + From: m...@classroom20.com To: cbige...@hotmail.com Subject: The 2010 Global Education Conference: Call for Preliminary Participation Network Email

Re: [IAEP] Peru, OLPC and Wikipedia

Hi All I sent the video links to a few people. They shared my concerns. Here are some of their comments: First, from a highly respected cultural anthropologist who happens to specialize in the people of the Andes: "1 Have they not heard of the problems of reading a Darwinian evolution onto

Re: [IAEP] Peru, OLPC and Wikipedia

Hello All... I've been following your comments on this. Am I the only one who finds this charming but at the same time strangely disturbing Caryl > Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 22:10:43 +0200 > From: e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at > To: c...@laptop.org > CC: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; patr...@coll

Re: [IAEP] Announcing a development sprint in Maine to work on getting Sugar in the Maine based 1 to 1 for netbooks in schools spin.

Wow! This is "good stuff." Thanks for passing this along. I wonder what other FOSS projects there are out there? A central resource place where all could be collected and shared would be nice. I think I will try to run their software on my netbook and see what it has. Wish I could attend th

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] Reformat USB stick, How?

t you know what happens Caryl > Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:14:42 +0200 > From: andrea.mangiato...@gmail.com > To: cbige...@hotmail.com > CC: s...@lists.sugarlabs.org; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; > support-g...@laptop.org > Subject: Re: [SoaS] [IAEP] Reformat USB stick, How?

[IAEP] Reformat USB stick, How?

Hi All, In my experiments trying to create usable SoaS sticks, I have had a few flops. Unfortunately these USB sticks now have a severe "identity crisis." They believe they are actually CDs. You can't write to them. You can't rename them (at least not in a way a mere mortal like me knows ho

[IAEP] InfoTech Report and link to Photos

Hi All, Today was "showtime" for SoaS at the LAUSD InfoTech and Parent Summit at the Los Angeles Convention center. This year's event was sponsored by Target as one of their community involvement projects. Everything was free... even parking and a great lunch! They said there were about 400

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] FLOSS Grannie's Guide

s, etc. I'm sure others will > help as well. > > In any case I would not worry about what is already there. I think > the people who wrote it would agree that it is not suitable for the > audience intended without some revisions. > > James Simmons > > > On Thu

[IAEP] FLOSS Grannie's Guide

Thanks for the link... Most of this was written by other folks and doesn't meet what I would call Grannie's Guide standards... i.e., it needs to be able to be used by folks who haven't a clue what BIOS is and it needs to stay out of complicated instructions. Plug'n Play is the goal. For exam

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] [support-gang] SoaS Creation Saga

ed or published to the front page. This might > be the best place for the kind of information you're talking about. > > James Simmons > > > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > > You are absolutely right, Tom! I wrote that without looking at my no

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] [SoaS] SoaS Creation Saga

ormation you're talking about. > > James Simmons > > > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > > You are absolutely right, Tom! I wrote that without looking at my notes... > > a bad idea when it is past bedtime! > > > > Has anyone

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] SoaS Creation Saga

; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; support-g...@laptop.org Subject: Re: [SoaS] SoaS Creation Saga Correction: 7* Use key on starting up the EeePC for Hard Disk and USB listing menu not Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi... Still no luck making a live SoaS on the eeePC. I guess need to learn a lot

[IAEP] SoaS Creation Saga

Hi... Still no luck making a live SoaS on the eeePC. I guess need to learn a lot more about Windows before I can do it. I have no idea which drive is which (A,B,...F,G...etc) or how to properly eject. a usb. Oh well, I do have 2 working non-persistant copies I can use Saturday, one on the M

Re: [IAEP] Data vs Critical Thinking - Can Sugar give schools both?

In essence, every child deserves an IEP (Individual Educational Plan) which are expensive and time consuming to develop and thus are reserved for an elite group: the special needs children. Every child has special needs. Every child needs an IEP. But where will the funds, personnel, and curric

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] [support-gang] Progress Report on SoaS for InfoTech

> Subject: Re: [SoaS] [support-gang] Progress Report on SoaS for InfoTech > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 05:18:18PM -0700, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > > Bad News: Function keys won't work at all. Can't get "home" if you > > open the Journal. > > If you mean the

[IAEP] Progress Report on SoaS for InfoTech

Hi Folks... Here is a progress report on my attempt to get SoaS ready to demonstrate at InfoTech this coming Saturday. I was hoping to have it ready to "Disseminate" as well, but that part hasn't come together yet. So, for now it is "Demonstrate, yes. Disseminate, no." But that could chan

[IAEP] SoaS on eeePC900... change boot order in BIOS... not working.

HI Friends, I am now struggling with several new SoaS issues. Let's solve them one at a time. If you have an eeePC900 can you tell me how to get it to boot first from a USB stick? It keeps going directly to Windows. I have managed to enter the BIOS utility and on the Boot page ch

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Peru Quest, beyond the quake

Hi All, I Googled "Inca Road Map" and found several maps online. I was surprised to see that it went to many places I have been to, including a small part of the "inca Trail" above Machu Picchu including the famous "Sun Gate". The wildflowers and blue morpho butterflies there were spectacular

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Quake Catcher Network

d use accelerometers in computers, > > but, oh, it turns out you need separate sensors. > > > > I've seen a few very clever Science Fair seismic sensors, but even the > > cheapest ones can run beyond what is practical to consider as individual > > expenses. And don&#

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Quake Catcher Network

olvable problem > > is in separating *overlapping* data, which is the real reason they forbid > > cellphones on planes. > > > > That is why real seismeters are set underground, as far away from human > > activity as possible. > > > > > > On 04/

[IAEP] Quake Catcher Network

Hi... Here is something intriguing I heard about on NPR yesterday. It is a Seismic Monitoring program that can run in the background on computers that have built-in accelerometers (newer Macs) or PCs with an external one with usb connection. The hope is to have a world wide network of comput

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] "SoaS For Dummies?"

rlabs.org; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; support-g...@laptop.org Subject: Re: [SoaS] "SoaS For Dummies?" Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi Bert, Tom, and All, In case you are all wondering why I want to make this so easy, remember that while I am sort of a "closet techie" and coul

[IAEP] "SoaS For Dummies?"

Hi Bert, Tom, and All, In case you are all wondering why I want to make this so easy, remember that while I am sort of a "closet techie" and could learn to do all these fancy work-arounds, I also have many years experience working with and training other educators who are very shy about using

[IAEP] SoaS Almost Passes the "Teacher Test"... but not quite.

Hi George and All, Thanks to George's patience and persistence and all of the hints you sent, I finally got the image-writer-mac program to work and make a SoaS usb stick. We used the method where we dragged the files over from a finder window to the terminal window. I feel sure it is goo

[IAEP] New Questiona RE: SoaS on What Machines?

Hi Again, I think I should have included these questions in my original email: 1) Have you run SoaS? And which version was it? a) from a usb stick without a boot helper cd? b) from a usb stick with a boot helper cd? 2) Have you run it from a Live CD? 3) Have you run it in a Virtual Box? In eac

Re: [IAEP] SoaS on What Machines?

water on that. Any ideas for that? Caryl > Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:41:23 -0700 > From: s...@manybits.net > To: cbige...@hotmail.com > CC: s...@lists.sugarlabs.org; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; > support-g...@laptop.org > Subject: Re: [IAEP] SoaS on What Machines? > > Car

[IAEP] SoaS on What Machines?

Hi All... I have decided that I really should invest in an inexpensive windows laptop or netbook to use in my volunteer work with Sugar Labs and OLPC. I have been looking online and visited one electronics store yesterday (Fry's). Here are my thoughts... I would prefer an ultralight netbo

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] [SoaS] SoaS Good News/Bad News

ical ability? Food for thought. g On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:09 PM, James Cameron wrote: On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 09:55:34AM -0700, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > Thanks for the info. I'm glad I asked. Now that leads to another > question. If I wanted

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] [support-gang] SoaS Good News/Bad News

separated by a semicolon. They could also be > done on separate lines (as two commands). cd ~/Downloads navigates to > your Downloads folder. You could also use ls to see what's inside. > Then the second command does the actual image writing. > > On 8 April 2010 07:33, Caryl Bigenh

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] [support-gang] SoaS Good News/Bad News

Hi James, > You must not open it that way. You should open Terminal, and type > > cd ~/Downloads; python image-writer-mac.py soas-2-blueberry.iso > > Doing it this way should not cause PythonLauncher to be run. Can you > please confirm you were trying to open the file in a Finder window? >

[IAEP] SoaS Good News/Bad News

Hi All... Here, at last, is an SoaS progress report along with some more questions. As you may recall, I am hoping to have a good working version of SoaS to distribute to interested educators at the LAUSD Tech Fair at the LA Convention Center on April 24.

Re: [IAEP] Request for Feedback and Ideas on teaching Algebra

Right On! Make it fun. Don't just learn the processes, understand the concepts first. Caryl > From: subb...@gmail.com > To: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org > Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 15:39:19 +0530 > CC: sthom...@gosargon.com > Subject: Re: [IAEP] Request for Feedback and Ideas on teaching Algebra > > O

Re: [IAEP] Request for Feedback and Ideas on teaching Algebra

Hi Steve, Euclid supposedly told his student Ptolmey, "There is no royal road to Geometry." The same thing is true of Algebra. While students can be taught to do specific steps to solve various algebra problems, they need to have a lot of experience with numbers and basic math concepts to rea

[IAEP] Jaime Escalante

Hello All, I have sad news tonight, Jaime Escalante has lost his battle with cancer. He passed away today. I knew Jaime when we were both working at Garfield High in East Los Angeles, and contacted him a couple of years ago about the possibility of sharing some of his "mathemagic" with OLPC.

[IAEP] Microwaved XO for sale on ebay!

Hi All... OK thought you had seen everything? Check this out... http://bit.ly/bMyGm7 Caryl ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarla

[IAEP] Argentina List

Hi Folks, Some interesting stuff is going on on the Argentina mailing list. If you read Español or can tolerate Google translate, you might want to "listen in." If you don't want to sign up, you can read the Archives. Sign up or read theArchives here: http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/argent

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] SoaS change of direction: heads-up on convos in other lists

Martin is sooo right! A great focus would be in making SoaS very non-techie friendly so that average classroom teachers and parents can use it and share it with children. The number of tech-savvy teachers is pathetically small. The CUE (Computer Using Educators) conference early this month ha

Re: [IAEP] SoaS change of direction: heads-up on convos in other lists

ugarlabs.org; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; > i...@solarsail.media.mit.edu; s...@sugarlabs.org > Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:51:24 -0400 > Subject: Re: [IAEP] SoaS change of direction: heads-up on convos in other > lists > > On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 13:40, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > >

Re: [IAEP] SoaS change of direction: heads-up on convos in other lists

OK. Let's focus a bit here. In the spirit of IAEP, I wonder who this version of SoaS will be for... educators and students or developers? It seems like the discussion is favoring the latter. That would be a big disappointment to those of us who are waiting to have a good stable version to sh

Re: [IAEP] SoaS change of direction: heads-up on convos in other lists

Hi... In July 2009 I installed SoaS on my Mac using a CD made by Scott Dowdle at Bozeman LUG/Montana State University. It currently "lives" in Virtual Box on my computer. I don't have the CD any more. Since then, I have been using it to demo Sugar to several hundred people at meetings and con

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: [Edu-sig] "Computer Science For Kids" Book Announcement

I have not been able to get the download to work. Is there a reason this is happening? Caryl From: gerald.ard...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:28:06 -0400 To: walter.ben...@gmail.com CC: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Subject: Re: [IAEP] Fwd: [Edu-sig] "Computer Science For Kids" Book Ann

[IAEP] Argentina Training DVD

Hi All (again!), Argentina has produced a follow-up DVD for the teachers recently trained in La Rioja. Here is a link to the story: http://www.idukay.edu.ar/dirprimaria/ Caryl P.S. I want one! ___ IAEP -- It

[IAEP] Attend the CUE (Computer Using Educators) Conference in your PJs!

in Online Settings" with Tammy Stephens "Including Technology in your Unit Planning Using Understanding by Design (UbD)" by Alice Mercer “Hey, Just Because It Is Online Doesn’t Mean We Can’t Have Field Trips, Right?” by Todd Conaway "Educational Social Networking for Professi

Re: [IAEP] Girls in Open Source

Oops! I forgot the link: http://www.mercurynews.com/mike-cassidy/ci_14478986 From: cbige...@hotmail.com To: support-g...@laptop.org; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:20:55 -0800 Subject: [IAEP] Girls in Open Source Hi All... Check this out! I found the link on Twitter

[IAEP] Girls in Open Source

Hi All... Check this out! I found the link on Twitter. I missed the girls session as I was involved in the OSSIE track and they were in the WIOS track. Caryl ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a la

Re: [IAEP] Drama / Theater in Sugar?

Hola Pato y Sebastian (e otros), ¿En sus opiniones, cual sería lo más facil usar para esto? ¿eToys o Scratch? Carolina From: patitoacev...@hotmail.com To: sebast...@fuentelibre.org Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:00:50 + CC: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Subject: Re: [IAEP] Drama / Theater in Sugar?

Re: [IAEP] Finally trying Sugar

Hi Marilyn, Where are you in TX? You might be interested in what the New Tech High is doing with Sugar and an OLPC Contributors Program project in Coppell TX (near DFW). Here is a link to their website: http://newtechcoppell.org/New_Tech/Home.html Be sure to check their blog. A copy of their

[IAEP] SCaLE 8X Update

Hi All... Here are a few random musings about the first 2 days of SCaLE 8X. Day One... OSSIE (Open Source Software In Education)... my presentation went well and a lot of folks have commented on how much they enjoyed it. It was definitely "low tech." I had a slide set to talk about followed

[IAEP] SoaS Survey For SCaLE 8X

Hi All You Sugar Fans, Sorry for the short timeline on this, but I just got back from South America and am putting the finishing touches on this project. I will be going to SCaLE 8X this weekend to give a presentation on OLPC and Sugar on Friday, have a booth for both on Saturday and Sunday an

[IAEP] Blueberry & Strawberry Activities Lists?

Hi, I'm working on my presentation for SCaLE 8X this weekend and do not at the moment have access to Blueberry and Strawberry SoaS. Can someone give me links to lists of Activities included in each of these? Thanks, Caryl

[IAEP] Buenos Aires Greetings

Hi Folks, Last night we had a wonderful visit to an elementary school here in Buenos Aires. Gonzalo Odiard, one of our Contributors who has already written 2 great Activities for the XO and is working on a third, picked us up at 6:30 p.m. at our hotel and took us to the school which is just out

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] 2 Major Sugar Issues

ort-g...@lists.laptop.org CC: s...@lists.sugarlabs.org; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; support-g...@laptop.org Subject: Re: [support-gang] 2 Major Sugar Issues On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi... Two rather huge issues: 1) Sugar Labs does not have Spanish translations availab

Re: [IAEP] 2 Major Sugar Issues

s.sugarlabs.org; > support-g...@laptop.org; ibarr...@gmail.com; alec...@gmail.com > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > > These folks are eager to get something going with Sugar in Argentina without > > waiting for a big government project that will buy

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] 2 Major Sugar Issues

Hi... see below... > > Was he trying to burn onto the CD with Blueberry? This shouldn't be > needed, he can just use his favorite disc burning application. > Right... he was using his favorite disk burning app. > > --Sebastian > > > Caryl > > > > =

[IAEP] 2 Major Sugar Issues

Hi... Two rather huge issues: 1) Sugar Labs does not have Spanish translations available on either the SoaS Strawberry or Blueberry web pages. I wanted to print these out to take to the school in Argentina that wants to do a Sugar deployment in the PC lab in one of their elementary schools. T

[IAEP] Very Old SoaS Works on Mac

Well... I tried my very old (in software terms... 9+ months) version of Strawberry that is still installed on my Mac via virtual box (also an old version). It still works. Limited activities but if I don't get the newer versions figured out, at least I will have something to show the folks in

[IAEP] Small SoaS Disaster

Hi All, I was playing in "PC Land" yesterday, trying to get a working SoaS Blueberry. Downloaded the live usb maker from the net. Made the stick. Put it in daughter-in-law's medium-sized hp netbook and tried it. After we finally got it booted (she insisted it wouldn't work, only Windows would

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] Very Urgent! Still need SoaS Help!

> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:08:27 -0500 > Subject: Re: [SoaS] Very Urgent! Still need SoaS Help! > From: walter.ben...@gmail.com > To: cbige...@hotmail.com > CC: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; s...@lists.sugarlabs.org; > support-g...@laptop.org > > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 a

[IAEP] Very Urgent! Still need SoaS Help!

Hi Besides needing to be able to use SoaS at the "Try-It" Lab at SCaLE 8X, I now will also need it next Monday, Jan 25th, to take to an elementary school in Buenos Aires! They have a PC lab that is grossly underused and we are hoping we can get SoaS to work on their machines. All they hav

[IAEP] Need More SoaS Help!

Hi All... OK lots of questions I need answered, preferably before I leave on Tuesday, because I will need to do all these things in about 48 hours after I get home. I still haven't been able to get the new versions of SoaS to run on my Mac. I did run an old version from Virtual Box and it

[IAEP] G1G1 Lives Again... Sort Of....

Hi... I found this on the Bozeman LUG website. Interesting concept. http://www.montanalinux.org/olpc-news-jan2009.html Caryl ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http:

[IAEP] Cheap Air to SCaLE 8X

Hi Folks, A lot of airlines are having sales right now so I checked the fares for Boston to LAX. You could come in to LAX on Virgin America on Thursday (Feb 18) for $109 (one way) and return to Boston on Monday (Feb 22) for another $109. That makes a fare of $218 plus tax. To return on Sun

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] contents of Need Resources for Presentation

Hi... Are you talking about me and SCaLE 8X? I don't think the projector will work with an XO. The XO doesn't have a port for the projector dongle does it? I plan to make my presentation from slides I already have plus a few new ones. I will admit that I am not a purist. When the presentatio

[IAEP] ***SweetXOGrannie's Upcoming Great Southern Adventure

Hi Support Gangers and IAEP friends, Adam suggested I send you all a copy of my itinerary for our trip to South America. I guess this is supposed to be so you can help my "clients" if something comes up while I am gone. I will be taking my Mac and probably an XO. I may also take a Sugar L

Re: [IAEP] [POLL] collab.sugarlabs.org

+1 OK Folks, let's take a look at this idea of "critical mass." There are 2 kinds of critical mass we need to be thinking about here. Developers, as has been said , are a given. But, even more important is the critical mass of users... ie students and educators who are using Sugar in its va

Re: [IAEP] SugarLabs Booth at SCaLE 8X?

Still no one for a Sugar Labs booth at SCaLE yet I can't commit to the second booth until I know there will be someone there from SugarLabs to tend it. 2 is too many for one person to be in charge of! I will try to get Gareth to hold off for a few more days in case we find someone who can

[IAEP] Good Resource From The Peace Corps

Hi... Here is a great educational resource. Any ideas how it can be adapted for Sugar and the XO? http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/publications/voices/index.cfm?THEBIGDEALBOOK=633978476640671545 Caryl ___ IAEP -- It's A

Re: [IAEP] Need Live CD to take to Argentina

Hi Gary, (a fellow Mac person... yea!) I really want to do the Live CD rather than the USB version of SoaS... due to the difference in cost. I can take them 20 CDs for what one usb stick would cost! Can I just do it with a live CD? The usb would be just for storing work and they can get the

Re: [IAEP] Need Live CD to take to Argentina

Hi James and all, Here is the ideal scenario: A person walks into a room full of intel based PCs, pops a live CD in one, boots it up, inserts a usb drive, uses sugar activities, stores their work on the usb drive, ejects the drive, and ejects the CD until the next time they want to use Suga

[IAEP] FW: SugarLabs Booth at SCaLE 8X?

Hi Walter, Mel, Caroline, Sameer, Scott, and everyone else... Here is an offer we can't refuse! There is no way I can do a separate booth for SugarLabs, but had planned to do it in combination with the OLPC booth. However, they are offering us a second free booth for SugarLabs rig

[IAEP] SCaLE 8X

Hi All... Anyone want to join me in the OLPC booth at SCaLE 8X at the Westin LAX Feb 19-21? It may rain, but the weather is usually better than the rest of the country that time of year. Here is a link to the list of exhibitors, so far. More will probably be added. Let me know if you can make

[IAEP] Need Live CD to take to Argentina

H All i... Did this ever get implemented? If so where do I find it? Are there any special instructions I need to make and use the live CD? Can a usb stick be used for file storage? http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.84/Sugar_LiveCD I would like to be able to take several copies with me to give

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