Re: [IAEP] 90% fluency Re: Granny Cloud

2010-11-03 Thread Caryl Bigenho
OK, so along with watching DWTS and the election results, I read through The Camel has Two Humps. If this isn't a spoof it is a travesty! I laughed and laughed! Having done a Master's Thesis and read my daughters PhD dissertation, I can see that this a a wonderfully funny parody of what a

Re: [IAEP] 90% fluency Re: Granny Cloud

2010-11-03 Thread Alan Kay
Here are two other processes to consider that are more scalable. I grew up in a little town of Hadley Massachusetts, which only had about 120 children in the high school but had always had a full band, orchestra and chorus. They accomplished this by getting every child to be highly fluent in

Re: [IAEP] 90% fluency Re: Granny Cloud

2010-11-03 Thread Yamandu Ploskonka
That's mean, Caryl! :-) Now I will have to read the thing - I had merely stayed with Kay's answer If there is something I find irresistible is spoof of scientific papers, I am a big fan of the Journal Of Ireproducible Results (though find the igNobel prizes are not same quality). I have

Re: [IAEP] 90% fluency Re: Granny Cloud

2010-11-03 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Yamandu Ploskonka yamap...@gmail.com wrote: If there is something I find irresistible is spoof of scientific papers, I am a big fan of the Journal Of Ireproducible Results (though find the [...] Alas, I have been unable to find an actual copy of the original

[IAEP] blog posts photos from Haiti

2010-11-03 Thread Timothy Falconer
Hi everyone, I'm down in Haiti with Adam Holt, visiting schools and organizations for OLPC laptop pilots. You can follow my daily blog posts here (with photos): http://waveplace.org/news/blog It's been quite a wonderful trip so far, with much more to come. Take care, Tim -- Timothy Falconer

Re: [IAEP] 90% fluency Re: Granny Cloud

2010-11-03 Thread K. K. Subramaniam
On Wednesday 03 Nov 2010 3:43:35 am Yamandu Ploskonka wrote: hmm, sure..., sorry What does it mean? 90% of the children get 100%? Is there a sliding scale / bell curve? what is fluency, anyway? fluency in what? I can share my experience in helping out Sikshana (www.sikshana.org).

Re: [IAEP] Link for Maple Syrup?

2010-11-03 Thread Caroline Meeks
http://itd-usr.blogspot.com/ Ian uploaded a new image yesterday which can be used as a demo. There is still some significant technical changes that he is working on so we are not asking for systematic testing help on this iso. If you do have comment we are certainly interested. Thanks!

Re: [IAEP] Link for Maple Syrup?

2010-11-03 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Caroline, The big problem is Virtual Box. Luke talked me through (via Skype) the installation of the older version of Maple Syrup so I could get it to work on my MacBook. I tried to write up the process after we finished, but couldn't remember all the steps. I wanted to put it into