[IAEP] EduJAM day 2.5 Tour of Uruguay

2011-05-02 Thread David Farning
The afternoon and evening sessions of the tour were a great complement to the morning session. Yes, you heard correctly, afternoon _and_ evening sessions:) Pablo has us hopping. Tomorrow morning starts a 600am. The afternoon session was again at public school 286. Rather than observe and interact

[IAEP] Inter-American Development Bank report on one-to-one programs

2011-05-02 Thread Yamandu Ploskonka
Eugenio Severin from the IADB sends a heads up. Remember that the IADB is a major player in terms of making ICT4E available in the Americas, and has already spent several million USD in research, and if my memory fails me not, bore a lot of the expense for the Haiti and Peru deployments. Yama

[IAEP] EduJAM day 2 Tour of Uruguay

2011-05-02 Thread David Farning
This morning we are in a classroom observing (and after a few minutes participating) in a class room session involving turtle art. The first task was to draw a rectangle with two side being 3 cm long and the other two side being less then 3 cm. This involved using as ruler to determine how many tu

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Olidata computers in Uruguay

2011-05-02 Thread David Farning
> -Original Message- > From: sugar-devel-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org [mailto:sugar-devel- > boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org] On Behalf Of Gary Martin > Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 2:13 PM > To: Yamandu Ploskonka > Cc: IAEP SugarLabs; Sugar-dev Devel > Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Olidata co

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Olidata computers in Uruguay

2011-05-02 Thread Art Hunkins
FWIW, this is a method I include in all my (strictly text-based) activities. It both sizes fonts to fit on various-width screens, and allows a user (or deployment) to decrease/increase font size. (It also works with all versions of Sugar for the XO and SoaS, to my knowledge.) def scale_font(se

Re: [IAEP] Olidata computers in Uruguay

2011-05-02 Thread Gary Martin
On 2 May 2011, at 16:47, Yamandu Ploskonka wrote: > the Sur list is following this thread in detail, I just wanted to share a FYI > for developers. > > 30,000 Olidata laptops have been purchased by Ceibal at $130 apiece and > teachers are being "upgraded" to those, trading in their XOs. Thanks

[IAEP] on-d...@on-disk.com as a Commercial Source of USB sticks?

2011-05-02 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
The last one submitted to us was called "Strawberry" from Sep, 2009. Hope this helps, Todd on-d...@on-disk.com On 04/22/2011 01:17 PM, Thomas Gilliard wrote: what versions of Sugar on a Stick do you ship on 4GB USB Media? http://on-disk.com/product_info.php/cPath/28_310/products_id/908#!tab6

[IAEP] Olidata computers in Uruguay

2011-05-02 Thread Yamandu Ploskonka
the Sur list is following this thread in detail, I just wanted to share a FYI for developers. 30,000 Olidata laptops have been purchased by Ceibal at $130 apiece and teachers are being "upgraded" to those, trading in their XOs. One of the most noticeable source for incompatibilities seems to

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] Current funding request status

2011-05-02 Thread Sebastian Silva
El 30/04/11 13:48, Walter Bender escribió: There is a well defined procedure for this and it is in the queue. I did not see a request to expedite the process. Again, I think blocking is not an accurate characterization. I would appreciate to expedite the process. I did not know this was required

[IAEP] EduJAM day 1.5 Tour of Uruguay

2011-05-02 Thread David Farning
In the afternoon, our visit to the school was rained out. Instead we went to a local festival, after which two teachers joined us on the bus. There is a reoccurring theme of, "There is no benefit in complaining about the hurdles, they are part of life. Let's, get the job doing." As this series of

Re: [IAEP] EduJAM day 1 Tour of Uruguay

2011-05-02 Thread nanonano
/>David Farning wrote: >EduJam started with a bang this morning with visit to the Aurora project inTala, Uruguay. / Here's the blog of the "PROYECTO AURORA " in Tala (Uruguay)