On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 03:01, Seth Woodworth s...@isforinsects.com wrote:
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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
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote:
Fair enough. I agree that *most* people on the list agree that there
is not just one right way. And to use a metaphor that has been
oft-spoken in the US news of late, Sugar Labs has to have a big
tent.
Sugar itself
Costello, Rob R writes:
most teachers that i know want to know that any 'innovation'
'addresses the curriculum'
...
but this won't overturn the inertia in traditional curriculum content
To a teacher, is curriculum the raw state/national standard or is it
instead the content of the particular
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
Now that India says it will buy 250,000 XOs, we need to involve
education NGOs and others there.
I haven't seen/read more details than available at
http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/india/to_satish_jha_of_olpc_india.html
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Bill Kerr billk...@gmail.com wrote:
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
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Hello everyone!
/(apologies for more-or-less plagiarizing my fourthgrademaths mailing
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My name is Basil Mohamed Gohar, and I'm an avid Fedora free-software
user. I am also very interested in free-as-in-freedom educational
Hi Maria,
Are you in touch with the 4th grade math project out of RIT?
Thanks!
Caroline
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Maria Droujkova droujk...@gmail.comwrote:
My company has developed some software prototypes for early algebra
that could work for 4-6 year olds. I would be interested in
I think that is a great point, Maria. The homeschool community, especially
in the US (that I know of), are great at field testing things. They are a
resource that should not be overlooked as they are able to make use of new
innovation quicker and are unable to afford to be as picky. They tend
You could set up '4th grade math for Massachusetts' as a list of things to
master. It's quite similar to setting up a Makefile with a target that
exists purely to have a list of prerequisites.
Albert - that is exactly what I was referring to. A set of curriculum to
get you started but a good
Bill, there is a difference between direct instruction and Direct
Instruction. The latter (big D big I) is usually based on SRA's products
and outlined in the Direct Instruction Rubric. Direct instruction (little d
little i) is usually a general set of guidelines teachers use to directly
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 5:03 AM, Albert Cahalan acaha...@gmail.com wrote:
To benefit from a given lesson, one must master any prerequisites.
The good news is that as time goes on, people (slowly) develop ways to
help kids acquire prerequisites within learning new topics. For
example, you can
SourceForge.net: synphony » home http://synphony.wiki.sourceforge.net/
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 03:01, Seth Woodworth s...@isforinsects.com
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From: Neal Scogin
Aleksey,
I read your Library document and the one linked to it on Unified
Objects. This sounds like quite an ambitious project. I would agree
with Tomeu that some kind of UI mockup would be a good idea. I've been
programming for a living for over 30 years and reading your description
I
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 10:14:06AM -0500, James Simmons wrote:
Aleksey,
I read your Library document and the one linked to it on Unified
Objects. This sounds like quite an ambitious project. I would agree
with Tomeu that some kind of UI mockup would be a good idea. I've been
Good afternoon everyone.
Charles Profitt has me thinking a lot about he New York State
Association for Computers and Technologies in Education Trade show in
Rochester NY, November 22-24, 2009. As Chas explains, if technology
isn't pitched at NYSCATE, it won't even be on the radar for districts
cross-posting to Marketing
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From: Karlie Robinson karlie_robin...@webpath.net
Date: Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:38 PM
Subject: [IAEP] NYSCATE - Nov 2009 in Rochester NY
To: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org
Good afternoon everyone.
Charles Profitt has me thinking a lot
Sorry for posting the screenshot without text (I was reposting a compacted
version of the original screenshot, which our list manager wisely refused to
forward). My original post was:
I have attached a screenshot of calibre. This is a very useful way to look
at books, though I'm sure many
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 09:41:01AM -0700, Carol Farlow Lerche wrote:
Sorry for posting the screenshot without text (I was reposting a compacted
version of the original screenshot, which our list manager wisely refused to
forward). My original post was:
I have attached a screenshot of
Hi Karlie,
Walter and I are doing a talk at a similar show MassCUE (computer using
educators) Oct 28-29th. I think we are just signed up for a 1 hour talk.
We will be doing 9 hours over 3 days of professional development using an
existing computer lab and SoaS in August in Worchester, MA.
If
We have a meeting tentatively scheduled for the afternoon of May 18.
When we firm things up, I'll post a note at
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Math4Team/Meetings
At that point we'll have final projects from the RIT students and I
should have more info on what's been made and/or what point
The screenshots help the discussion a great deal.
Thinking in terms of how you sort and change views is useful, since
there are a few very different use cases that could all rely on what
Aleksey is describing [local calibre, active filesharing, global
persistent file hosting and bundle
Here is a screenshot from Goodreads.com of the beginning of my
Economics collection. I have to go around the house and find the rest,
put them on a physical shelf together (I recently added three new
bookcases), and add them to my list. People occasionally ask me where
to get a particular book, or
All,
The last few emails on the Library Activity suggest that people are
looking at Library as a way of organizing their various Journal content
just as much if not more than as a way to share said content.
As far as organizing content goes, I like what Calibre does better than
the tree view
To the extent that Title, Author, etc. are simply labels for two tags
that many ebook items have, and that one could establish others, it is a
good generalization of calibre's useful but fixed view. A lot of programs
(including the dreaded Windows) allow selection of which columns to display,
Here is fisheye.
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Carol Farlow Lerche c...@msbit.com wrote:
To the extent that Title, Author, etc. are simply labels for two tags
that many ebook items have, and that one could establish others, it is a
good generalization of calibre's useful but fixed view. A
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 02:33:30PM -0500, James Simmons wrote:
All,
The last few emails on the Library Activity suggest that people are
looking at Library as a way of organizing their various Journal content
just as much if not more than as a way to share said content.
As far as
On 05.05.2009, at 20:00, Caroline Meeks wrote:
On the mac's they seemed to boot fine from the CD+USB but there was
some sort of problem with the screen. I've attached a pic, has
anyone else seen it?
Looks a lot like what I reported for the Mac mini:
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 12:46:56PM -0700, Carol Farlow Lerche wrote:
To the extent that Title, Author, etc. are simply labels for two tags
that many ebook items have, and that one could establish others, it is a
good generalization of calibre's useful but fixed view.
a great idea!..
Instead of
Aleksey,
It isn't clear to me what a cloud of tags is. Is there a familiar
application that does something like this?
I understand that users can tag things to suit themselves, but still I'd
want to impose some kind of structure on the views. When I started
visiting libraries they had card
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 04:12:39PM -0500, James Simmons wrote:
Aleksey,
It isn't clear to me what a cloud of tags is. Is there a familiar
application that does something like this?
Perhaps he means http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_cloud
James Simmons
Martin
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Jim, children are great collectors. I just think it is wise to try
interfaces with varying numbers of items before concluding that one or
another mode is too complicated. If you'd like to try an interface that
has tunable complexity, you might like to get a copy of the readerware
trial. I can
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 04:12:39PM -0500, James Simmons wrote:
Aleksey,
It isn't clear to me what a cloud of tags is. Is there a familiar
application that does something like this?
thanks to Martin,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_cloud
I understand that users can tag things to suit
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote:
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 02:33:30PM -0500, James Simmons wrote:
All,
The last few emails on the Library Activity suggest that people are
looking at Library as a way of organizing their various Journal content
just as
The Volunteer Infrastructure Group (/gang) Meeting is today (May
5th) at 4pm (EST)
The Volunteer Infrastructure Group is a team of Volunteer Sysadmins
who help maintain services and systems around OLPC and the
OLPC/SugarLabs community. The weekly VIG meeting is an excellent
chance to get
Hi Chris,
Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
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
occupy while we're there?
Here
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:12 PM, James Simmons jim.simm...@walgreens.com wrote:
Aleksey,
... In the
Calibre screenshot we had File Size, Publisher, Date, Series, and I
could easily do without any of them.
Whereas I would use each of them frequently.
o File Size is particularly useful for
Carol,
I meant no insult to children. I just thought they could benefit from a
basic structure which they could then add to. Not everyone is good at
designing hierarchies. It's something you have to learn. My own mother
has not really mastered the idea of hierarchical file systems. (Dad
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:38, Karlie Robinson
karlie_robin...@webpath.netwrote:
Good afternoon everyone.
Charles Profitt has me thinking a lot about he New York State
Association for Computers and Technologies in Education Trade show in
Rochester NY, November 22-24, 2009. As Chas explains,
Kevin Cole wrote:
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:38, Karlie Robinson
karlie_robin...@webpath.net mailto:karlie_robin...@webpath.net wrote:
So would anyone like to come to Rochester with your XOs and help
lead a
3 or 6 hour hands on session? If so, what should we present for 3
French document written by teachers in Gabon: #LINK
http://collabo.fse.ulaval.ca/olpc/index.php?2009/02/13/13-redaction-d-un-guide-pedagogique-du-xo-par-une-communaute-d-apprenants
I ran google translate on the blog article this looks great. But when I try
the pdf it says too big to translate.
Hi all,
following David Farning's advice, we want to keep the SugarCamp as
informal as possible. Yet we want to have some tangible output, on
top of the obvious (and noble) task of building the Sugar community.
So we have been brainstorming a bit and here are 17 challenges that
we may want to
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 01:45:29AM +0200, Bastien wrote:
- Update several XOs from another XO
You mean
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Multicast_NAND_FLASH_Update#NANDblasting_an_Unsigned_NAND_Image_File
?
- Run Sugar on a Nokia N800
N810 ok?
Hey Gaurav,
The diagram is great! This is what I had originally envisioned for
our getting started page on the [www|wiki].sugarlabs.org.
The best part about the diagram is how it communicates how all of the
different pieces fit together to make the ecosystem work. Yet,
individuals can drill
Martin Dengler mar...@martindengler.com writes:
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 01:45:29AM +0200, Bastien wrote:
- Update several XOs from another XO
You mean
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Multicast_NAND_FLASH_Update#NANDblasting_an_Unsigned_NAND_Image_File
?
Well, yes, maybe (Samy?)
Which reminds
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Bastien bastiengue...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi all,
following David Farning's advice, we want to keep the SugarCamp as
informal as possible. Yet we want to have some tangible output, on
top of the obvious (and noble) task of building the Sugar community.
So
Does it have good public transportation to the site? If so, this
sounds great for the smaller days around the official OLPC France
event.
BTW, were you at wintercamp in Amsterdam? /temp/lab/ sounds familiar
but I can figure out why:)
David
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Nico n...@openwrt.org
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 4:55 PM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
Hey Gaurav,
The diagram is great! This is what I had originally envisioned for
our getting started page on the [www|wiki].sugarlabs.org.
The best part about the diagram is how it communicates how all of the
Hi everyone,
Thanks Sameer for forwarding the conversation to me, I was not on the IAEP
and Marketing lists so far, just joined.
It would be great if you could work with Fred, Christian, Eben, Gary
and the rest of the wiki/web guy to create this into an interactive
'map' for the project.
It may have been me, I got it from Samy at OLPC France and have linked
to it several times
Let's talk with them next week about how to translate this!
I speak French fluently (I'm half French) but I've hesitated to take
that on, very full plate
thanks
Sean
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