[IAEP] tony forster recent blogs

2009-12-15 Thread Bill Kerr
tony has a very interesting blog about critical literacy as well as quite a few other recent great turtle art projects http://tonyforster.blogspot.com/2009/12/computer-programming-and-acquisition-of.html http://tonyforster.blogspot.com/ ___ IAEP -- It's

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Future of Zero Sugar

2009-12-15 Thread Gary C Martin
On 15 Dec 2009, at 13:36, Aleksey Lim wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:52:56AM -0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 04:07, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:16:02AM +0545, Bryan Berry wrote: I strongly agree w/ tomeu on this. Making Sugar

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Future of Zero Sugar

2009-12-15 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 06:07 +, Aleksey Lim wrote: * as a 3rd party developer, I don't see such teachers requests listed somewhere on wiki, that let me see what can I do and peek most interesting/suitable-for-my-skils/etc task There's enough going around that you could work on which

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Future of Zero Sugar

2009-12-15 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 15.12.2009, at 15:09, Daniel Drake wrote: I believe there are still various well-known 0.86 regressions (over 0.84). For example, Record not working. These regressions are going to be a huge headache to anyone who tries to upgrade, perhaps you could squash a few of those. Speaking of

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Future of Zero Sugar

2009-12-15 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:19, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 15.12.2009, at 15:09, Daniel Drake wrote: I believe there are still various well-known 0.86 regressions (over 0.84). For example, Record not working. These regressions are going to be a huge headache to anyone who

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Future of Zero Sugar

2009-12-15 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 02:01:18PM +, Gary C Martin wrote: On 15 Dec 2009, at 13:36, Aleksey Lim wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:52:56AM -0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 04:07, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: * implementing Zero Sugar initiative, in my

[IAEP] Fwd: [WikiEducator] Free HS Science Texts: Physics, Chemistry, Math Gr. 10-12

2009-12-15 Thread Edward Cherlin
FYI. Clearly an idea whose time has come. -- Forwarded message -- From: Randy Fisher wikira...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 05:55 Subject: [WikiEducator] Free HS Science Texts: Physics, Chemistry, Math Gr. 10-12 To: WikiEducator wikieduca...@googlegroups.com, WikiEducator

[IAEP] Zero Sugar

2009-12-15 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks, I asked this before, but I guess my question was missed. For us slightly less techie...what is Zero Sugar? It sounds like we are all going on a diet! ;-D Caryl P.S. This is a serious question and while you are at it, what is a blob?

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] Sharing work between XOs/SOAS devices

2009-12-15 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 15:36, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: Sugar 0.86 has sharing built into the Journal. But that doesn't help you (yet) on your XO machines :( Paraguay is coming to the rescue :) http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2009-December/026947.html Regards,

[IAEP] updating local labs page

2009-12-15 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi, I think that some proposed and maybe actual local labs are missing from this page: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Local_Labs#Proposals Could each local lab check it's there? Thanks, Tomeu -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is

Re: [IAEP] Sharing work between XOs/SOAS devices

2009-12-15 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:30:22PM -0500, Gerald Ardito wrote: Hello all. As our 5th graders are doing more and more work with their XOs, their being able to turn in and share their work products (as opposed to collaborating with others) is becoming more and more important. My temporary

Re: [IAEP] Sharing work between XOs/SOAS devices

2009-12-15 Thread Gerald Ardito
Aleksey, I think option 1 is good. It keeps the favorites metaphor from elsewhere and allows for the sharing of multiple things at the same time. Thanks. Gerald On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:30:22PM -0500, Gerald Ardito

Re: [IAEP] Deadline to vote for the ISTE 2010 keynote is tomorrow, December 15th!

2009-12-15 Thread Kevin Cole
Note the site also has a Keynote Topics section: http://iste2010.uservoice.com/pages/30480-closed-forum-iste-2010-conference-keynote-topic-suggestions Although it says Closed it appears one can still vote for topics. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education

Re: [IAEP] Sharing work between XOs/SOAS devices

2009-12-15 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 02:31:00PM -0500, Gerald Ardito wrote: Aleksey, I think option 1 is good. It keeps the favorites metaphor from elsewhere and allows for the sharing of multiple things at the same time. yeah, I also like 1st case, in fact I tried to implement it in Library-1 but at the

[IAEP] Cheap laptop of the day: Cherrypal Africa

2009-12-15 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
http://www.cherrypal.com/openstore/product_info.php?products_id=5osCsid=5e0681c68d095b9a275cbef2f77e6e2c $99. 400 MHz ARM. Slower than an XO-1, but with more (flash) disk. Claims to have already working linux support. Appears to be available for sale already. If you buy one to test, let us

[IAEP] Sugar Digest 2009-12-15

2009-12-15 Thread Walter Bender
=== Sugar Digest === 1. Last Friday a team from Babson College presented a project report on their strategy for Sugar deployments in US schools. Natalia Grigoras, Wei Lin, and Anna Ivashko participated in a semester-long study of Sugar as part of a Management Consulting Field Experience course.

Re: [IAEP] Sharing work between XOs/SOAS devices

2009-12-15 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 15.12.2009, at 18:30, Gerald Ardito wrote: Hello all. As our 5th graders are doing more and more work with their XOs, their being able to turn in and share their work products (as opposed to collaborating with others) is becoming more and more important. My temporary solution is

Re: [IAEP] Sharing work between XOs/SOAS devices

2009-12-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote: As our 5th graders are doing more and more work with their XOs, their being able to turn in and share their work products (as opposed to collaborating with others) is becoming more and more important. This is very

Re: [IAEP] updating local labs page

2009-12-15 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
Hi Sean. On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: We need to recommend a process for how a local labs is founded too. Starting point is putting people from a country or region in touch with each other, then I guess editing a wiki page together so we can find