Re: [IAEP] New FLOSS Manual Reading And Leading With Sugar chapters need review

2010-05-10 Thread Caroline Meeks
Hi James, I have just skimmed so far. Looks great! One of the issues schools have is students who can not read text well, either from a vision problem or a reading problem. A great deal of what is taught is taught through text, especially science and social studies. It is important that

Re: [IAEP] Peru, OLPC and Wikipedia

2010-05-10 Thread Sameer Verma
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Cherry Withers cwith...@ekindling.org wrote: Excellent. Thank you for sharing this. Looking forward for more. On May 9, 2010 10:54 AM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: http://vimeo.com/8709616 -- Chris Ball   c...@laptop.org One Laptop Per Child

Re: [IAEP] Peru, OLPC and Wikipedia

2010-05-10 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
This is indeed a truly amazing video, thanks for sharing! Christoph Am 09.05.2010 19:51, schrieb Chris Ball: http://vimeo.com/8709616 -- Christoph Derndorfer co-editor, www.olpcnews.com e-mail: christ...@olpcnews.com ___ IAEP -- It's An Education

Re: [IAEP] New FLOSS Manual Reading And Leading With Sugar chapters need review

2010-05-10 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:46 AM, James Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote: Caroline, Thanks for your feedback. Only one Activity supports Text To Speech at the moment: my own Read Etexts. You need a Plain Text file to use that, and I will have a chapter on creating those. In fact, I will

Re: [IAEP] Peru, OLPC and Wikipedia

2010-05-10 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hello All... I've been following your comments on this. Am I the only one who finds this charming but at the same time strangely disturbing Caryl Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 22:10:43 +0200 From: e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at To: c...@laptop.org CC: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org;

[IAEP] SoaS Deployment in Delhi, India

2010-05-10 Thread Anurag Goel
Hey all, Some of you might already know but for those who don't, there will be a SoaS deployment in Delhi, India. A team of 3 students from Boston University will be leaving for Delhi in June. The deployment will be about 10 weeks long from June-Aug. We will be working closely with SEETA

Re: [IAEP] Peru, OLPC and Wikipedia

2010-05-10 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, Hello All... I've been following your comments on this. Am I the only one who finds this charming but at the same time strangely disturbing What did you find disturbing about it? - Chris. -- Chris Ball c...@laptop.org One Laptop Per Child

Re: [IAEP] Peru, OLPC and Wikipedia

2010-05-10 Thread Yamandu Ploskonka
Hmmm. Would you elaborate, pleae? I might be missing something important. As to myself, I saw it as a rather well made piece of art, I felt empathy with it, maybe because once I did walk that sort of jungle and met that kind of people. Do you mean it lacked substance? On 05/10/2010 08:59

Re: [IAEP] Peru, OLPC and Wikipedia

2010-05-10 Thread forster
I've been following your comments on this. Am I the only one who finds this charming but at the same time strangely disturbing If you mean the intrusion of the outside world into their idyllic lifestyle - no If you mean the interviewee talking about Darwinian social evolution - yes On

Re: [IAEP] Peru, OLPC and Wikipedia

2010-05-10 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All I sent the video links to a few people. They shared my concerns. Here are some of their comments: First, from a highly respected cultural anthropologist who happens to specialize in the people of the Andes: 1 Have they not heard of the problems of reading a Darwinian evolution onto

Re: [IAEP] Peru, OLPC and Wikipedia

2010-05-10 Thread forster
Caryl A little more research by me the interviewed social Darwinist is Robert Wright, the author of Nonzero http://www.nonzero.org/ The filmmaker is Righteous Pictures http://righteouspictures.com/ Wright seems to believe that there is a higher purpose to biological and social evolution,