Re: [IAEP] CurrWiki, documenting deployments (was Re: IAEP Digest, Vol 11, Issue 47)

2009-10-19 Thread David Van Assche
Out of curiosity, did anything come of this... or are we at the same stage as when this email was written in terms of a deployment plan for curriculum content? On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Edward Cherlin wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Bryan Berry wrote: > > Some comments, > > > >

Re: [IAEP] changes in outlook with Sugar (was Re: Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and "Mastering" Educational SW)

2009-10-19 Thread David Van Assche
This is not meant as an outward criticism or anything, but why is their this keen insistence on re-designing the wheel... (Moodle) when it not only excels at what it does, but has been integrated with XS going on years now... Now what would be cool is external python tools/activities/apps that sync

Re: [IAEP] The last Sugar XO

2009-10-19 Thread Claudia Urrea
I do believe that Ceibal presents a great opportunity to do great things. It is a great opportunity... I believe we all want to be given the opportunity to contribute. The best way to get people to appropriate technology is to have them use it in powerful ways. Yes, more documents are needed, but

[IAEP] Sugar Digest 2009-10-19

2009-10-19 Thread Walter Bender
=== Sugar Digest === 1. I had been meaning to mention that already several weeks ago we exceeded one-million downloads from activities.sugarlabs.org. We are now over 1.1 million. 2. Last week, Sayamindu Dasgupta posted a blog [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/2009/10/14/books-sugar-and-ol

Re: [IAEP] Ideas for Sugar

2009-10-19 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Walter Bender wrote: > if you are using the OLPC hardware, you can use vncserver to > replicate your display onto another computer attached to a projector. If the computer attached to the projector is also running Sugar, then this can be done automatically using the Watch Me activity [1]. [1] htt

Re: [IAEP] SoaS meetings?

2009-10-19 Thread Anurag Goel
I would be interested in a SoaS meeting. We will be starting weekly after-school Sugar workshops at GPA on October 30th. Maybe we can try some of your lesson plans then. -Anurag On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Holt wrote: > Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > > There's also material developed in Uruguay, P

Re: [IAEP] Ideas for Sugar

2009-10-19 Thread Walter Bender
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Luke Faraone wrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 16:50, Deborah Boatwright > wrote: >> >> Can you use a projector and a smartboard with the sugar on a stick? > > SMARTBoards, sadly, use proprietary drivers and we cannot legally > redistribute them. You can however in

Re: [IAEP] Ideas for Sugar

2009-10-19 Thread Luke Faraone
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 16:50, Deborah Boatwright < boatwrig...@newmarket.k12.nh.us> wrote: > Can you use a projector and a smartboard with the sugar on a stick? SMARTBoards , sadly, use proprietary drivers and we cannot legally redistribute them. You can however install t

Re: [IAEP] Ideas for Sugar

2009-10-19 Thread Deborah Boatwright
Hello, Can you use a projector and a smartboard with the sugar on a stick? I would like to see the following: A hundreds chart Click able for skip counting Sets for adding, subtracting, multiplication and division to gain number sense cuisiniere rods geoboards Something for understand Fr

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Alpha release - Deducto and Color Deducto activity

2009-10-19 Thread Walter Bender
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Dan Krejsa wrote: > Hi, > > Cool game! It really ought to be called 'Inducto', though. I said the same thing to Jon Orwant, the author of the original version :) -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] A proposal from Trisquel (Was Re: [DP] Announcing the creation of a SoaS Decision Panel)

2009-10-19 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
I have gotten around this problem by physically removing the hard drive from my usb burning pc. then booting from CD and burning to sda. this may not be very easy in some Mac's though.. Gary C Martin wrote: Hi Rubén, Feedback after testing trisquel-sugar_3.0RC_i686 on a recent MacBook

Re: [IAEP] SoaS meetings?

2009-10-19 Thread Holt
Tomeu Vizoso wrote: There's also material developed in Uruguay, Peru and Mexico, anyone knows a page where all this is linked to? Here's a great but highly informal list -- Caryl, I & Gang have yet to organize it: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/ClassActs/Resources PS don't take "Class" too lit

Re: [IAEP] SoaS meetings?

2009-10-19 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
There's also material developed in Uruguay, Peru and Mexico, anyone knows a page where all this is linked to? Regards, Tomeu On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:20, DancesWithCars wrote: > FWIW, the ClassActs Book Sprint started > going in the direction of open lesson plans > in the implementation stori

Re: [IAEP] Alpha release - Deducto and Color Deducto activity

2009-10-19 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 19:47, Manusheel Gupta wrote: > Dear all, > > I am delighted to announce the alpha release of the Deducto and Color > Deducto activities. Congratulations to all involved! Do they have localization setup? Seems like they have been downloaded hundreds of times already, and

Re: [IAEP] SoaS meetings?

2009-10-19 Thread DancesWithCars
FWIW, the ClassActs Book Sprint started going in the direction of open lesson plans in the implementation stories. Some implementers may have already created some intro to XO and lesson plans (Measure with bike to map a village is one outstanding example, done by someone [paid on staff?] at OLPC

Re: [IAEP] SoaS meetings?

2009-10-19 Thread Gerald Ardito
Edward, I would be very interested in working with you on this. I am in New York, if that helps at all in arranging the time. Gerald On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 4:26 AM, Edward Cherlin wrote: > I would like to get together with others at some prearranged time to > work on collaboration in SoaS. I

Re: [IAEP] SoaS meetings?

2009-10-19 Thread Tim McNamara
2009/10/19 Edward Cherlin > I would like to get together with others at some prearranged time to > work on collaboration in SoaS. I have some ideas about lesson plans > that need to be tried out, and I need to see whether it will be > possible to arrange demos for others. If this interests you, w

[IAEP] SoaS meetings?

2009-10-19 Thread Edward Cherlin
I would like to get together with others at some prearranged time to work on collaboration in SoaS. I have some ideas about lesson plans that need to be tried out, and I need to see whether it will be possible to arrange demos for others. If this interests you, we can get together on IRC or on the