Re: [IAEP] [Olpc-open] G1G1 (was Re: [Community-news] OLPC News (2008-09-29))

2008-10-04 Thread Sameer Verma
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yikes. Undersaturated billboard markets... I wonder how such things impact the desire to 'launch' new announcements. On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, I saw a billboard in the

Re: [IAEP] G1G1 (was Re: [Community-news] OLPC News (2008-09-29))

2008-10-04 Thread Edward Cherlin
Update: Some of the computer press has picked up the story. But we could be all over the Mainstream Media, including having Nicholas, Walter, Alan and others on all the talk shows. If they are willing. Are any of you? This is the one time of year when ordering something you can't get is a

Re: [IAEP] [Olpc-open] G1G1 (was Re: [Community-news] OLPC News (2008-09-29))

2008-10-04 Thread Sameer Verma
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Update: Some of the computer press has picked up the story. But we could be all over the Mainstream Media, including having Nicholas, Walter, Alan and others on all the talk shows. If they are willing. Are any of you?

Re: [IAEP] [Olpc-open] G1G1 (was Re: [Community-news] OLPC News (2008-09-29))

2008-10-04 Thread forster
Some good suggestions have been made on the list about getting higher recognition of the OLPC/Sugar in educational circles. Colleague, Roland Gesthuizen, and I were able to display three XO's at ACEC2008 last week http://www.acec2008.info the Australian Council for Computers in Education

[IAEP] Narrative.

2008-10-04 Thread Michael Stone
Bryan Berry wholly captured my attention tonight when he said (in summary): Sugar offers an excellent mode for discovery but no excellent way to manipulate narratives. Both discovery and narrative are essential for learning. [1] This statement seems to me both indisputable and