On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 23:58, Maria Droujkova droujk...@gmail.com wrote:
It's a very neat thing. From my point of view, its pedagogical value
would very much increase if you could save and share your diagrams. So
that one student could build something and give it to others to
improve, etc. Or
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 1:47 AM, Andrés Ambrois andresambr...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sunday 03 May 2009 06:29:26 pm Albert Cahalan wrote:
Vamsi Krishna Davuluri writes:
The priority is on sending the docs to cups-pdf for conversion and then
talking to Moodle for teacher review. It is a good idea
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Albert Cahalan acaha...@gmail.com wrote:
That sounds like a printer that students aren't allowed to use.
Correct! But may be used seldom, as a special case, prize, etc. And
teachers _are_ allowed to print -- while there's a good chance, the
computers there are
From where I'm standing it looks as though we should have 3 full days
to get things done, with Friday - May 15 - being the arrival day for
many people and therefore more aimed at socializing and whatnot.
Saturday, 16th:
To me this day should really be about the OLPC France event, listening
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 13:01, Christoph Derndorfer
e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote:
From where I'm standing it looks as though we should have 3 full days
to get things done, with Friday - May 15 - being the arrival day for
many people and therefore more aimed at socializing and whatnot.
Hi Caroline,
Caroline Meeks solutiongr...@gmail.com writes:
With regards to logistics I was wondering where we'll have the meetings,
I assume the location that OLPC France is providing is only available on
Saturday? Are there any hacker-spaces, apartments, whatever that we can
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote:
[snip]
Diego introduced me to Grace Hopper's formula for creativity that I
had not previously encountered: The probability of creativity is a
function of knowledge, innovation, and experience, modulated by
attitude.
Caroline,
Normally the System BIOS recognizes the devices installed on your
system. The BIOS is a kind of software that runs before your operating
system runs. Your operating system often will work with the BIOS rather
than working with hardware directly. In any case, this boot disk is
i think Kathy is really on to something here ..taps some things i've been
turning over and thinking of sending to the list
my day job is now working for company that designs educational maths software
i don't have time to do anything much here - for sugar - but i will offer these
observations
Edward,
I'm a little puzzled by this statement:
Presumably we can create a library of pretagged documents for our
students.
I would guess you're referring to some variation of the Unified Bundles
idea, and these bundles would have tags in them. Fine with me, but who
is creating this
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Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 10:36:02 +0200
From: Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org
Subject: Re: [IAEP] Logic simulator
To: Maria Droujkova droujk...@gmail.com
Cc: iaep
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 17:42, Costello, Rob R
costello.ro...@edumail.vic.gov.au wrote:
at the risk of dragging practical developers into a theoretical discussion,
i would suggest sugar needs to more clearly nail down its educational
position... and then some structures like lesson templates ..
On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 04:44:33AM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
Sending the docs to cups-pdf for conversion and then talking to Moodle
for teacher review can be done via /usr/bin/lpr,
But that would sidestep the Journal and prevent review of the actual
output (i.e. what it looks like on paper,
Now that India says it will buy 250,000 XOs, we need to involve
education NGOs and others there.
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From: Frederick FN Noronha fredericknoro...@gmail.com
Date: Mon, May 4, 2009 at 9:16 AM
Subject: [bytesforall_readers] Science education... and useful
Is there a Sugar Fedora spin that I can download? I am sure I saw a torrent
but can't seem to find it again. If not, then what would be the easiest way
of getting Sugar running on a variety of old machines (no booting off USB,
just CDs)?
Ashar
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At Sun, 3 May 2009 22:09:57 +0100,
Gary C Martin wrote:
Noticed this Flash based logic simulator:
http://joshblog.net/projects/logic-gate-simulator/Logicly.html
Would be quite a simple sandbox activity to make (python, gtk+,
ciaro); but before I burn time (well add to my future
Some links to promote exploration:
http://www.squeakland.org/download/ - brower plugins are available to run
Etoys
(Seems to be limited to x86 or i386 for the Linux - Debian download.)
With the plugin installed, this link will load the Computer Logic Game
project:
On 04.05.2009, at 19:46, Frederick Grose wrote:
Some links to promote exploration:
http://www.squeakland.org/download/ - brower plugins are
available to run Etoys
(Seems to be limited to x86 or i386 for the Linux - Debian download.)
On the website, yes. Debian has a 64 bit version,
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 7:46 AM, James Simmons jim.simm...@walgreens.com wrote:
Edward,
I'm a little puzzled by this statement:
Presumably we can create a library of pretagged documents for our
students.
I would guess you're referring to some variation of the Unified Bundles
idea, and
Aleksey,
I, too would be interested in what this will look like. From your
description it sounds like a way of grouping things (including texts) in
such a way that you can share them with others without actually having
them open, as long as the Library activity itself is open. I would
Calibre makes a sqlite3 database which is the basis for its display. It
seems to have a reasonable schema. (An easy way to examine it is with the
Sqlite Manger, an excellent Firefox add-on if you haven't already discovered
it).
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:54 AM, James Simmons
Carol,
I would not use sqllite 3. The metadata for several hundred books could
easily fit in memory. It would basically be a good sized spreadsheet.
Python has a pickling feature which can save a bunch of objects in
memory in a single file that can be easily reloaded into memory. I
could
You would need to reinvent ACID updates if you shared the catalog.
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 12:34 PM, James Simmons jim.simm...@walgreens.comwrote:
Carol,
I would not use sqllite 3. The metadata for several hundred books could
easily fit in memory. It would basically be a good sized
Carol,
I see sharing the catalog as a read-only thing. I don't know what
Aleksey has in mind for Library. Even if that wasn't true, a database
is not necessary. There is a framework called Prevayler that handles
in-memory databases in such a way that you can lose power without losing
On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 10:20:20PM +0500, Ashar Iqbal wrote:
Is there a Sugar Fedora spin that I can download?
You should have a look at Sugar on a Stick:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick
Ashar
Martin
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in part this is a discussion about what works in the educational marketplace
and what is cutting edge and pushes education forward, the latter will
usually be a minority and difficult or nearly impossible to implement
position
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable man
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From: Neal Scogin neal.sco...@sbcglobal.net
Date: Mon, May 4, 2009 at 3:36 PM
Subject: [support-gang] Language Learning Courseware
To: Laptop Support support-g...@laptop.org
I am developing courseware (a complete methodology) that utilizes Sugar
(primarily
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Bill Kerr billk...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com
wrote:
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I encourage you to join two threads on the Education List this week:
Eben Eliason wrote:
Something we have talked about in the past is a way for individuals to
share content they've created with others, and an obvious means of
accomplishing this task is to provide functionality of a View Alice's
Journal nature, by which Bob could view Alice's shared content.
WebDAV is very nice at a first look, but its implementations are so
radically different, that using it across OSes is often hopeless (from
my limited experience).
2009/5/5 Benjamin M. Schwartz bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu:
Eben Eliason wrote:
Something we have talked about in the past is a way for
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Lucian Branescu wrote:
WebDAV is very nice at a first look, but its implementations are so
radically different, that using it across OSes is often hopeless (from
my limited experience).
- From what I've read, Windows's built-in WebDAV support
On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 12:40:33PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 15:51, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote:
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:39:52PM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote:
Yes! In theory there are thousands of free books. We need people to be
able to experience
On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 01:54:30PM -0500, James Simmons wrote:
Aleksey,
I, too would be interested in what this will look like. From your
description it sounds like a way of grouping things (including texts) in
such a way that you can share them with others without actually having
In case of Library activity I'm going to follow simple rules:
* use local datastore API to search/filter objects
* use remote datastore API(in some way) to search/filter objects from
remote users(sources)
* use telepathy tubes for notifying users about changes
* sync shared objects while
The other thing I should have said about rob's post but didn't was that I
pretty much agree with all of it as a description of the reality we face,
ie. my experiences of being an innovative teacher are similar enough to what
rob describes as to make it pointless to quibble about the differences
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