Re: [IAEP] Letter to GPA Parents

2009-08-03 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Bill Kerr wrote: > supply a phone number to call if it is not working? We want them to wait till classes start in Sept. We expect, based on our experiences this summer, that a number of the sticks will become corrupt. Nothing we can do about it over the phone. :(

Re: [IAEP] Letter to GPA Parents

2009-08-02 Thread Bill Kerr
supply a phone number to call if it is not working? won't the families have to go into CMOS (or whatever) to configure booting off the USB stick? I have had students take sticks home (last year) and come back saying they can't get it to work. To enter CMOS requires holding down either Delete or F2

Re: [IAEP] Letter to GPA Parents

2009-08-01 Thread bill cowie
Hi Caroline, Your letter does a good job of conveying your message to the parents. Since I'm new here, I'm wondering how much those parents have heard about Sugar up to this point. Unless you are sure they have been hearing a lot about it, I would include a bit more explanation. I re-arranged y

Re: [IAEP] Letter to GPA Parents

2009-08-01 Thread Anurag Goel
looks pretty good to me. On 7/30/09, Caroline Meeks wrote: > > First draft - Comments? Suggestions? Do you think I put in too much > background information? > > Dear Parent, > > > Your child will take home from camp a USB stick and a CD that they used in > school this summer. Their work this sum

Re: [IAEP] Letter to GPA Parents

2009-07-30 Thread Caroline Meeks
First draft - Comments? Suggestions? Do you think I put in too much background information? Dear Parent, Your child will take home from camp a USB stick and a CD that they used in school this summer. Their work this summer is the first part of a school wide program to use “Sugar on a Stick” at

Re: [IAEP] Letter to GPA Parents

2009-07-30 Thread Walter Bender
This doesn't answer Caroline's question, but I think a workshop led by the kids we worked with the summer to kick off the fall where parents and the whole school community is invited would be a great way to go. -walter On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:05 PM, wrote: >> We found out today that summer sc

Re: [IAEP] Letter to GPA Parents

2009-07-30 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:05 PM, wrote: > > We found out today that summer school ends a week sooner then we thought! > It > > ends next week. > > We want to send the sticks home with the kids. We need to write a letter > to > > the parents explaining what the stick is. Does anyone have any >

Re: [IAEP] Letter to GPA Parents

2009-07-29 Thread forster
> We found out today that summer school ends a week sooner then we thought! It > ends next week. > We want to send the sticks home with the kids. We need to write a letter to > the parents explaining what the stick is. Does anyone have any suggestions > or sample letters? What would be good, but

[IAEP] Letter to GPA Parents

2009-07-29 Thread Caroline Meeks
We found out today that summer school ends a week sooner then we thought! It ends next week. We want to send the sticks home with the kids. We need to write a letter to the parents explaining what the stick is. Does anyone have any suggestions or sample letters? Thanks! Caroline -- Caroline Me