Re: [IAEP] A Couple of Comments/Questions

2009-11-18 Thread Tim McNamara
2009/11/18 Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de On 18.11.2009, at 07:38, Tim McNamara wrote: I'm a FLOSS manuals contributor. If someone with the know-how adds it to the wiki, I'll port it to the FLOSS Manuals site :) @timClicks Can't do. FLOSS Manuals inexplicably uses GPL for

Re: [IAEP] A Couple of Comments/Questions

2009-11-18 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 18.11.2009, at 10:46, adam hyde wrote: On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 10:42 +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote: @timClicks Can't do. FLOSS Manuals inexplicably uses GPL for everything, which is more restrictive than Creative Commons. creative commons is not very useable. ever looked at the

Re: [IAEP] A Couple of Comments/Questions

2009-11-18 Thread Yama Ploskonka
I am grateful to finally find the link for the Spanish version, a while back when I was looking I couldn't find that. Yet, is Sugarlabs is down? Anyway, that links doesn't look right... Thanks. Help appreciated, I'd like to access this document for use in Bolivia. Yama On Wed, Nov 18, 2009

Re: [IAEP] Book reading demo suggestions

2009-11-18 Thread Jim Simmons
Caroline, Read Etexts has *not* removed the book search function. However, it only appears when you launch from the Activity ring, and NOT when you open a book that is already in the Journal. As for books with pictures, you can't get those with Read Etexts. What you can use is my other book

Re: [IAEP] A Couple of Comments/Questions

2009-11-18 Thread Walter Bender
The PDF of the Spanish version is in the wiki, but the server is temporarily down. -walter On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Yama Ploskonka yamap...@gmail.com wrote: I am grateful to finally find the link for the Spanish version, a while back when I was looking I couldn't find that. Yet, is

Re: [IAEP] R: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry)

2009-11-18 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
2009/11/17 Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com: It's an excellent point; after all, Mingoville http://www.mingoville.com/ based in Denmark I believe claims over 1 million users, 100+ activities for children to practice English. But there's another facet: dominant languages such as English, Spanish,

Re: [IAEP] What is the purpose of Sugar and the XO?

2009-11-18 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
2009/11/14 Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com: Hi All, I am seeing more and more folks who want free XOs to teach children IT skills and computer skills. I think we need to somehow re-emphasize the value of the XO as a learning tool for subject matter related to the school curriculum and

Re: [IAEP] Students turning in work

2009-11-18 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
2009/11/13 Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com: Hello. I am interested in hearing how teachers have been collecting work from students using either the XOs and/or SOAS. I have been playing with the Journal sharing in Strawberry and Moodle as possible vehicles. Hi Gerald, what's your

Re: [IAEP] scratch gone missing

2009-11-18 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
2009/11/9 Bill Kerr billk...@gmail.com: On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:35 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 07.11.2009, at 23:28, Bill Kerr wrote: On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 07.11.2009, at 04:48, Bill Kerr wrote: On

Re: [IAEP] Students turning in work

2009-11-18 Thread Gerald Ardito
Tomeu, Thanks for responding. I haven't heard back from anyone. I will try to reach out to olpc-sur and the OLPC learning team. If you have any ideas, I'm interested. Thanks. Gerald On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: 2009/11/13 Gerald Ardito

[IAEP] OLPC SF Summit

2009-11-18 Thread Sameer Verma
We are looking for someone in the SF bay area to run a session on Sugar and/or Sugar on a Stick at the upcoming OLPC-SF Community Summit (http://tinyurl.com/olpcsf-summit). Anyone interested? Any pointers? cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems

Re: [IAEP] OLPC SF Summit

2009-11-18 Thread Edward Cherlin
I would be happy to. On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:33, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: We are looking for someone in the SF bay area to run a session on Sugar and/or Sugar on a Stick at the upcoming OLPC-SF Community Summit (http://tinyurl.com/olpcsf-summit). Anyone interested? Any pointers?

Re: [IAEP] OLPC SF Summit

2009-11-18 Thread Sameer Verma
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: I would be happy to. Excellent! Can we combine this with your session on python in schools, or should we do these separately? Most tech session are in the PM, so I'll book a slot in the afternoon. Sameer On Wed, Nov

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] R: E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry)

2009-11-18 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: 2009/11/17 Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com: It's an excellent point; after all, Mingoville http://www.mingoville.com/ based in Denmark I believe claims over 1 million users, 100+ activities for children to practice

Re: [IAEP] scratch gone missing

2009-11-18 Thread Tim McNamara
2009/11/19 Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org Btw, if anyone would like to work on improving the Scratch experience for Sugar users (including making its installation easier) I will be happy to provide pointers, help and contact the Scratch maintainers and other people who want to see this

[IAEP] Sri Lanka article re OLPC deployment lists schools

2009-11-18 Thread Sean DALY
http://www.dailynews.lk/2009/11/19/news12.asp ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] OLPC SF Summit

2009-11-18 Thread Sameer Verma
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: I would be happy to. Excellent! Can we combine this with your session on python in schools, or should we do these separately? Most tech session are

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] R: E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry)

2009-11-18 Thread Walter Bender
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Caroline Meeks solutiongr...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: 2009/11/17 Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com: It's an excellent point; after all, Mingoville http://www.mingoville.com/ based in Denmark I

[IAEP] First day of Educatice in Paris

2009-11-18 Thread Sean DALY
Our friends at Sceren very graciously allotted two corner tables for the OLPC France - Sugar Labs area. Five of us were there (I myself couldn't be there most of the day) with XO-1s in abundance. There was a steady stream of educators, a couple of them involved in NGO education projects in Africa.

[IAEP] Creativity dynamics embedded into the Sugar Learning Platform

2009-11-18 Thread Diego Uribe
Hello Community, I am Diego Uribe, creativity innovation consultant and researcher at the International Center for Studies in Creativity, Buffalo, NY. Not too long ago, I approached Walter Bender with the challenge/opportunity of making Sugar a Trojan Horse for delivering specific creativity

Re: [IAEP] R: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry)

2009-11-18 Thread Jim Simmons
Tomeu, Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive already will host any book that is in the public domain. (I think they'll take Creative Commons stuff too). Most of the books are in English because that's the native language of most of the volunteers, but that could change if it needed to. I