Re: [IAEP] URGENT action needed

I think Sugar Labs should approve the $US 627.05 travel advance for Samson Goddy. Tabitha On Aug 11, 2017 8:44 AM, "Walter Bender" wrote: > I presume we need a motion and a vote on this. Time is of the essence, so > please respond ASAP. > > Motion: Samson Goddy has

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Don't Miss The Eclipse... on your XO

maybe check your timezone? ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] play dvds

On Mar 6, 2012 6:29 AM, Ken Hargesheimer minifa...@gmail.com wrote: How can the laptop be used to play DVDs? I am sending the document below around the world and I would like to tell people how to use it to play them. Ken Hargesheime Give content on USB not DVD. USBs don't snap so easily or

Re: [IAEP] play dvds

On 6 March 2012 11:09, Ken Hargesheimer minifa...@gmail.com wrote: I am not an expert [two friends are] on computers, etc but I am an expert on using them. In simple language, is there a way to make the XO play DVDs? Ken Hargesheimer The simple answer - The XO does not have a DVD drive

Re: [IAEP] Etoys or Scratch?

On 6 March 2012 16:33, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi All... Thanks to those of you who have answered that question. It is really appreciated. If others have helpful suggestions about the programming aspects of this proposed project, I would welcome them. Cheers! Caryl

Re: [IAEP] Nice tool for learning Python

On 28 January 2012 17:28, Steve Thomas sthom...@gosargon.com wrote: Just found this: http://people.csail.mit.edu/pgbovine/python/ This tool looks like an amazing tool for someone who already understands programming concepts to teach with but it seems a stretch for someone to learn on their own

Re: [IAEP] Promoting Pablo Flores to CEO of Activity Central

and OLPC. Kind regards Tabitha Roder eLearning specialist and olpc volunteer Cell +64 21 482229 tabi...@tabitha.net.nz http://tabitharoder.wordpress.com/ Winner: NZ Open Source Contributor Award 2010 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project

Re: [IAEP] OLPC Australia social networking site for teachers [WAS: Re: Contemplating Your SLOBS Vote]

you can put me on your yammer network, no promises that I can do too much as still learning what is possible with a baby On 22 November 2011 16:45, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: On 22 November 2011 14:34, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: On 19 November 2011

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

I thought it was a woman? On 9 November 2011 08:04, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: 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.

Re: [IAEP] Teaching with computers / Enseniando con Computadoras

On 21 November 2011 09:47, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: I do have a suggestion which is actionable by those on this list: bug fixes are more important than new features. As a tester since mid 2008, I have come across a number of instances where the stable core activities (things like

Re: [IAEP] Communication from teacher - livescribe.

On 18 November 2011 10:35, David Farning dfarn...@activitycentral.comwrote: Attached is a link to a live scribe video which one of their teachers created to help parents understand the techniques the school to teach two digit addition.

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

On 29 August 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

Re: [IAEP] Gmail other Google TOS

On 21 July 2011 15:40, Yamandu Ploskonka yamap...@gmail.com wrote: I am unsure if at any moment we have been encouraging kids to have a google account. Anyway, I just learned that Google appears to take as a serious breach of their TOS if an under-13 uses their services, to the point of

Re: [IAEP] Alternative 'favorites view' as an intro to programming

We tried this at a mini conf with adults. Found lots of typing required and one typo meant it didn't work. It took a long time to do not much. Perhaps we did it wrong; will be good to hear how others suggest to do this activity. Tabitha On 21 July 2011 09:54, Christopher Lindgren

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs: account confirmation

On 1 July 2011 12:08, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: Are you volunteering to be one of the admins? :) -walter Yes. Also to offer help to anyone who is interested in developing any courses on it. Tabitha ___ IAEP -- It's An Education

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs: account confirmation

I think I have admin privileges, so I am happy to help. I don't know much about how Moodle works, so I'll need some guidance. -walter I have used Moodle for 7/8 years and do some work for one of the Moodle partners. I can offer help with this Moodle site. Tabitha

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs: account confirmation

The welcome discussion post was added by David Farning and edited by Walter Bender so you could try talking to them about who is managing the http://schools.sugarlabs.org/ Moodle site. I think this resource is probably under utilised and probably not well publicised.

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Como Hacer Una Actividad Sugar is now published!

On 23 June 2011 03:57, James Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote: Como Hacer Una Actividad Sugar, the Spanish translation of Make Your Own Sugar Activities!, is now published at FLOSS Manuals: http://en.flossmanuals.net/como-hacer-una-actividad-sugar/ This is fantastic news. A big congrats to

Re: [IAEP] Easter Egg In Moon Activity?

On 15 June 2011 05:31, Nicholas Doiron ndoi...@andrew.cmu.edu wrote: If you can't catch this eclipse, see when you can catch the next ones where you live: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=next+lunar+eclipse+at+current+geoIP+location Regards, Nick Thank you Nick! I have shared this

Re: [IAEP] New Finance Request: Airfare to EduJAM for Sebastian Silva

On 22 April 2011 16:41, Sebastian Silva sebast...@somosazucar.org wrote: As per the new http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Finance I'm asking for Sugar Labs to sponsor my airfare to Montevideo Sugar Summit EduJAM http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Uruguay_Summit_2011. For the olpc San Francisco bay

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2011-02-04

Couldn´t save files and many more problems. That sounds a bit like the live-cd type of install? I have had someone contact me before saying they had installed Sugar in Virtual Box on their computer and they said every time they used Sugar they started from scratch, turned out it was the

[IAEP] Fwd: [Sugar-devel] unique activities . . . for Oceania XO's, or other regions.

reposting to oceania and iaep list ... -- Forwarded message -- From: Sean Linton s...@lpnz.org Date: 3 February 2011 22:32 Subject: [Sugar-devel] unique activities . . . for Oceania XO's, or other regions. To: sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org Hi: One of the things I would like

Re: [IAEP] Quick Dumb Question

When Sugar Labs says an Activity works with 0.82-0.88, how does that translate to the OLPC builds like 10.1.3? Perhaps it might be useful to know how to tell what your XO has - for me to check this is what I do: from the activity ring I right click on the X in the middle and choose settings

Re: [IAEP] !! in 10.1.3, setting languages property clears all activities

Hi Tim Reposting to the olpc devel list who might be better positioned to answer your question. Good luck! Tabitha On 29 January 2011 04:36, Timothy Falconer tee...@waveplace.org wrote: Hi folks, I'm done in Haiti, about to prep 120 laptops. Normally we use our handy-dandy prep script.

Re: [IAEP] Help Request

We have a help request from someone in Puerto Rico. He says this is his niece's XO and he wants to know how to get an activation lease. He can't unless there is a school server nearby, and in that case the school can help. What if he gets the developer key?

Re: [IAEP] [MAP] OLPC hosting global mapmaking event (Dec 27-31)

Will there be an online participation option for those that can't travel that far? Can you video stream it? Thanks Tabitha On 8 December 2010 04:17, Holt h...@laptop.org wrote: Beyond Boston's olpcMAP Sprint / Summit itself (previewed below, beautifying the 2-month old http://olpcMAP.net

Re: [IAEP] Group name for our FLOSS Manuals

mean the name of the group is less of an issue as the books/manuals can still be found. I just noticed this email was addressed to three sugarlabs lists and no olpc lists. Kind regards Tabitha Roder eLearning specialist and olpc volunteer Cell +64 21 482229 tabi...@tabitha.net.nz http

[IAEP] Global Education Conference - discussion tomorrow

Elluminate room capacity at 500). Looking forward to seeing you there and thanks in advance for your support. Kind regards Tabitha Roder ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo

Re: [IAEP] (no subject)

of the talks where possible). If not on that wiki page, someone might have a better suggested page. Thanks Tabitha Roder On 15 November 2010 18:30, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi All, Yesterday I did my 2 hour workshop and one hour presentation at the CUELA Tech Fair. I want

Re: [IAEP] chat.sugarlabs.org

http://chat.sugarlabs.org/ This is very easy to remember and tell people about. I like this idea and am glad you set it up. Tabitha ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [IAEP] Suggestions Needed!

luck! Kind regards Tabitha Roder eLearning specialist 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 cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Folks... I'm working on the abstract

[IAEP] Global Education Conference 15-19 November 2010

, thanks Manu for offering support for this session and bringing your experience with grade 6 and 7 in New Delhi Sugar on a Stick deployment. Thanks in advance. Kind regards Tabitha Roder eLearning specialist and olpc volunteer tabi...@tabitha.net.nz Cell +64 21 482229 http

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

I am so happy that my question of considering a deployment teacher on the Sugar oversight board is generating engagement with teachers - whatever happens from here we are already bringing the techies and the teachers closer together just through this discussion. I vote we all learn Spanish and

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

Mibbit is a web chat service that supports inline translation, http://wiki.mibbit.com/index.php/Input_Options#Translation_Menu. The #schoolserver channel, irc://irc.oftc.net#schoolserver, might be a good place to use it. Here is a Mibbit link to it,

Re: [IAEP] How do I nominate Luke Faraone to run for Sugar Labs Oversight Board?

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/2010-2011-candidates It would be really good to see a teacher who is in a Sugar deployment full time on the oversight board or in a role that ensures the oversight board is hearing from teachers in deployments. omg does that make sense? someone on

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

If we support VIrtualBox we should probably also support VMWare, Hyper-V, KVM and Xen. Who's going to do all that testing when we have barely the resources to do a single image. Peter I am a teacher of sorts and have been into loads of education institutes from pre school through to

Re: [IAEP] Software Freedom Day 2010.09.18

!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Kind regards Tabitha Roder eLearning specialist and olpc volunteer tabi...@tabitha.net.nz Cell +64 21 482229 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP

[IAEP] Recommend build for XO-1.0 deployment

We are in Samoa helping out at two small deployments. We are installing a school server and wifi at each school. They are running 8.2.1 on XO-1 hardware (G1G1 donation). We have been running this build on our laptops and it feels like a big step down from the sugar 0.84 and bernies's 0.88 builds

Re: [IAEP] Contents of IAEP Digest, Vol 28, Issue 24

On 19 July 2010 00:26, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote: Though there are a few truly important differences between books and laptops, it would be really worth while to get *your* answers to your questions with regard to having any and all books that one could desire in the same educational

Re: [IAEP] Contents of Sugar Labs 2010 Goals Review

* Encourage new people to join our project We have a welcoming join page ( http://join.sugarlabs.org ). Most members of our community are also nice to newcomers, as long as they are sufficiently technical to understand our jargon. We're definitely intimidating to non-technical people.

Re: [IAEP] Contents of IAEP Digest, Vol 28, Issue 25

Are developers using Sugar as their day-to-day development environment yet? I am an educator and tester of Sugar. I just spent four days in another country using an XO-1.5 as my travel laptop. I went to visit a tertiary institute in Australia to help them with their Moodle, then went to

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] eBooks for Primary Students?

http://en.childrenslibrary.org/ International Childrens Digital Library - Note that you can choose a lot of languages, so have a good look around the website to be sure you have found the books you are looking for. Tabitha On 23 June 2010 09:48, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:

Re: [IAEP] [Design] Multiple instances of same activity (Was: First steps with Sugar)

Has anyone seen good real world cases where allowing multiple instances of the same activity to be run was useful or a vaguely common practice? I use multiple instances all the time. Particularly for comparing things, but also for copying bits out of one and into another. Example 1. write

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

Do we have a time yet for our next deployments meeting? Last message I have is that we said Wednesday 9 June. Tabitha ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

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

This morning I joined in a deployment meeting on IRC. It's aim is to provide feedback, learn about deployment concerns, talk about migration to 0.88 and how to better integrate deployments and upstream work. First up was Anurag talking about Delhi, India, where he is going from June to August to

Re: [IAEP] community team

? How about June 1st or 2nd? On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 4:49 AM, Tabitha Roder tabi...@tabitha.net.nzwrote: I am watching this conversation with deep interest. In my attempts to develop a community of olpc and sugar volunteers in New Zealand I have experienced all sorts of extremes in emotion

Re: [IAEP] community team

I am watching this conversation with deep interest. In my attempts to develop a community of olpc and sugar volunteers in New Zealand I have experienced all sorts of extremes in emotion, energy drain, feelings of success and failure, and I still wouldn't give it up because I believe in what olpc

Re: [IAEP] Looking for Montreal XO/Sugar users

One of the teachers has an affinity for the city, and Canada is part of the 5th grade social studies curriculum. Did you have somewhere else in mind? No where else in mind, just having the reasons helps people decide if they should put their hand up with alternatives - would you like to be

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

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. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Peripherals/Projector I will

[IAEP] NZ Volunteers presenting at LCA2010

any help offered and will make the presentation available to others to use at other events. Thanks Tabitha Roder NZ Volunteers - OLPC and Sugarlabs ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http

Re: [IAEP] contents of IAEP Digest, Vol 20, Issue 8

1. http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/recommended can the downloaders of the activities be asked to recommend an activity? user recommendation list? ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Short Survey for Educators

Thanks for starting the survey, some thoughts... 1) Your position: how about we add parent or student? Elementary (specify grades) ___ Middle School (specify grades) ___ High School (specify grades) Other (specify) _ Can we use terminology that is not

Re: [IAEP] contents of IAEP Digest, Vol 18, Issue 121

I would like to announce the completion of the Sugar Labs Test Election. Does anyone else have feedback on the test election?  Please submit that feedback to this list or to me personally. David Farning SLOBs election 2009-2010 referee Hi David The first time I submitted my vote the next

Re: [IAEP] Contents of IAEP Digest, Vol 18, Issue 99

  5. Re: A Virtual Box solution that works with Sticks (Gary C Martin) Message: 5 From: Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com Subject: Re: [IAEP] A Virtual Box solution that works with Sticks Can anyone think of way to use Virtual Box that would allow students to use the info on their sticks so

Re: [IAEP] Contents of IAEP Digest, Vol 18, Issue 78

Anyway, as a muggle or someone with little information (a.k.a. the public) I actually thought, could say was sure, eve, that Sugarlabs was pushing SOaS as their flagship product, maybe SugarLive was there around somewhere, or course (?!?!) Sugar for the XO, whose status seems so unclear...  

Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 18, Issue 61

Subject: Re: [IAEP] Sugar evaluation and impact With the struggle to to get small quantities of XOs into countries and through customs and getting funding for hardware, Sugar on a Stick is vital. It has helped us get information out and publicise the great work going on in developing countries

Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 18, Issue 61

it take? Thanks, Caroline On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Tabitha Roder tabi...@hrdnz.com wrote: Subject: Re: [IAEP] Sugar evaluation and impact With the struggle to to get small quantities of XOs into countries and through customs and getting funding for hardware, Sugar on a Stick