Re: [IAEP] evolution or revolution? .....android+sugar+doors => oui?

2012-09-13 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Scott, Well, I can't help with the programming, but I can help with testing! I'll have to get an Android device first, but that isn't a problem! This is a wonderful project as many schools are moving to a "bring your own device" mode for students and using handhelds is the "in" thing though,

[IAEP] Stanford Online Education Course

2012-09-09 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All... I saw a tweet from Christoph Derndorfer that he has signed up for this online class from Stanford. It looks like a perfect place for olpc/sugar labs folks to form a team and look at possible new directions that will work in XO classrooms. So, I signed up too! It would be wonderful if

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: ICT4D: planning

2012-09-05 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... Very interesting. Wish you could do an online component for those of us who can't be in Amsterdam. Caryl Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 23:19:45 +0200 From: c.d.m.gue...@vu.nl To: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org CC: tr...@laptop.org.au; christ...@derndorfer.eu Subject: [IAEP] Fwd: ICT4D: planning Hi Chri

[IAEP] Mac Folks... Success! Thank you all....

2012-08-28 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Again... Success! I have the great Argentine documentary, "Forbidden Education" ready to watch on my trip from Montana to California. My thanks go to all of you for your help and advice, but especially Paolo Benini in Uruguay, Bert Freudenberg in Germany, and James Cameron in Austrailia. I

[IAEP] Meet MOOC, Learn Python, Be Part of a Huge Experiment

2012-08-28 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks… Want to be part of a giant educational experiment? Sign up for the Mechanical MOOC course: A Gentle Introduction to Python. Thousands of students are expected to participate in this free course that starts on October 15. Participants will use a variety of already existing resources

[IAEP] Hi Again Mac Folks... Need your help Playing: The Forbidden Education - New Argentinian movie about Education

2012-08-27 Thread Caryl Bigenho
onprohibida.com/descargar.php?fuente=16&tipo=completa&calidad=480p&formato=mp4 > > and then ctrl-click the green button and choose "Download linked file" that > appears to work fine. (actually Chrome and "Download link as..." works > equally well

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Mac Folks... Need your help downloading: The Forbidden Education - New Argentinian movie about Education

2012-08-27 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks... First, a thank you to all of you who have replied with suggestions for how to do this, but so far I have been unsuccessful in doing the movie download. I have succeeded in downloading the English subtitles, but can't seem to get the actual movie to download in a savable form. I can

Re: [IAEP] Names for new XO-3 (XO-4!)

2012-08-24 Thread Caryl Bigenho
uch, so the frame changes a bit. > > cheers, > > > martin > > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > > OK... crazy idea time... since the new XO-3 will actually be a hybrid of > > laptop and tablet, maybe it should have a new device name to disti

[IAEP] Names for new XO-3

2012-08-24 Thread Caryl Bigenho
OK... crazy idea time... since the new XO-3 will actually be a hybrid of laptop and tablet, maybe it should have a new device name to distinguish it from others that are merely one or the other. Here are a couple of ideas for device names that hit me this morning:LapLetTabTopAnyone else have an

[IAEP] Fwd: Songs for kids!(also: keyboard for TamTam)

2012-08-23 Thread Caryl Bigenho
, at 16:27, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Perfect! Now we can really get going on a TamTam resource page on the OLPC wiki. They will have to be transcribed into QWERTY notation for the XO-1.x family.. But, when the XO-3 and XO-4 come out, there can be a standard keyboard on the screen (right, C.Scott?). W

[IAEP] Mac Folks... Need your help downloading: The Forbidden Education - New Argentinian movie about Education

2012-08-20 Thread Caryl Bigenho
OK... trying to download to watch after our company leaves tomorrow. Using a MacBookPro. Would like to download the SD version with English subtitles and store it on my computer. It is currently streaming with subtitles via YouTube and is also loading from the educaciónprohibida website without

[IAEP] Have you seen the Scratch Curriculum Guide?

2012-08-16 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks, I just discovered this great little Scratch Guide, thanks to Pato Acevedo who shared the Spanish version on the Uruguay mailing list. It is by the folks on the ScratchEdTeam at MIT and has been around for almost a year… I just hadn't known about it. I think it is an exemplary exam

[IAEP] FW: [SCALE 11x] SCALE set for Feb. 22-24, 2013

2012-08-14 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks... Mark your calendars now! > To: cbige...@hotmail.com > Subject: [SCALE 11x] SCALE set for Feb. 22-24, 2013 > Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 23:37:38 -0700 > From: pr...@socallinuxexpo.org > > Ready to turn it up to 11? > > The Southern California Linux Expo announces that the date for SCALE

Re: [IAEP] Google Rise Awards

2012-08-08 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks, I would really like a link to somewhere that we could view the winning proposals and learn from them. Does anyone have this information? Caryl > From: sandra.thax...@verizon.net > To: walter.ben...@gmail.com; e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at > Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 09:59:06 -0400 > CC: ia

Re: [IAEP] Google Rise Awards

2012-08-03 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hello Sascha, Do you have a link to the successful proposals so we may look them over and learn from them? Thanks. Caryl To: walter.ben...@gmail.com; e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 23:23:54 +0200 From: si...@activitycentral.com CC: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; kevin.bro...@ndsu

[IAEP] FW: News from CK-12 Foundation

2012-08-01 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All, Since I know some of you are familiar with the great work by the CK-12 Foundation with their free, online, flexbook texts, I know you will be interested in all the new things they are doing now. If you aren't yet familiar with CK-12, I encourage you to check it out. While directed at ol

[IAEP] (Safe) How Can We Hope To Find the Right Answers If We Don't Know What The Right Questions Are?

2012-07-05 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks, The discussion we have been having about education and teacher training the last few days has really started me thinking about what exactly should education for the 21st century be? After tossing the question around my mind for a while and talking with my husband, also a retired tea

[IAEP] (Safe) Some thoughts RE: The Associated Press on Peru's OLPC project

2012-07-03 Thread Caryl Bigenho
I would love to post this comment somewhere where lots of people will see it, but I'm not sure where the best place would be. Any suggestions? Some Thoughts on the AP Story on Peru's OLPC Project Oscar Becerra's attitude toward teachers is probably one of the biggest things holding back progre

Re: [IAEP] Bill Gates Says Tablets Aren't Much Help In Education

2012-06-27 Thread Caryl Bigenho
> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 07:31:48 -0400 > From: walter.ben...@gmail.com > To: ber...@codewiz.org > CC: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org > Subject: Re: [IAEP] Bill Gates Says Tablets Aren't Much Help In Education > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 3:07 AM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > > Finally I can claim to be

[IAEP] FW: Learn activity

2012-06-19 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Oops... hit the wrong button! I'll finish it below I think there is way to set up an SD card to be used at runtime by pointing to it in the Journal where items appear as if they were actually on the XO. This should also work with an usb drive. I was walked through the procedure by Scott Do

Re: [IAEP] Learn activity

2012-06-19 Thread Caryl Bigenho
I think there may be a way to set up an SD card to be used at runtime by pointing to it in the Journal where items appear as if they were actually on the XO. This should also work with an usb drive. I was walked through the procedure by Scott D > From: b...@freudenbergs.de > Date: Tue, 19 Jun

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-06-10

2012-06-10 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Walter, Sounds like a great trip and a very complete workshop. I have a few questions... 1) Were the teachers to go back and train other teachers at their schools? (the Triple T format... Teachers Training Teachers) 2) Were the teachers' expenses covered? 3) Did the teachers receive a stipend

[IAEP] Quirky TamTam... Possible Problems?

2012-06-02 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks, While prepping for a short presentation about Tam Tam Mini yesterday, I ran into a small problem I haven't noticed before. There seems to be an intermittent static popping sound when keys are pressed. It is difficult to pin down the cause, but it happens across all active keys and a

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [Sur] "New Co" / Nueva Empresa

2012-05-22 Thread Caryl Bigenho
rlabs.org > To: cbige...@hotmail.com > CC: olpc-...@lists.laptop.org; bk...@sfconservancy.org; > t...@sfconservancy.org; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; sl...@lists.sugarlabs.org > Subject: Re: [SLOBS] [Sur] "New Co" / Nueva Empresa > > On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 02:52:15PM -0700, Caryl

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [Sur] "New Co" / Nueva Empresa

2012-05-22 Thread Caryl Bigenho
New Co" / Nueva Empresa > > On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:54:34AM -0700, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > > > > Hi... > > > > At the olpcSF meeting last October some of us met informally and discussed > > the need for exactly what you are suggesting: an organization that wou

Re: [IAEP] [Sur] [SLOBS] "New Co" / Nueva Empresa

2012-05-22 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... At the olpcSF meeting last October some of us met informally and discussed the need for exactly what you are suggesting: an organization that would act as an "umbrella" for groups that wanted to fund small deployments and make other contributions to the OLPC, Sugar, and open source soft

Re: [IAEP] [Sur] Photos Montevideo: 1.edu and eduJAM!!

2012-05-21 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Thanks for posting these, Ruben! Looks like we missed a great conference and a lot of fun. It would be great if someone could tag the photos with names. I recognized some of the people,but would love to know who else I am looking at. If Quidam doesn't allow this, maybe you could post a few on F

Re: [IAEP] a little magic, Jamaica style!

2012-05-19 Thread Caryl Bigenho
What a wonderful project! I'm envious of all you people have accomplished and am looking forward to the call tomorrow to see how I might get involved, from afar for a while, maybe in person later! Caryl > From: sve...@sfsu.edu > Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 09:32:16 -0700 > To: olpc-jama...@lists

[IAEP] XO Self-Test for XO-1.5?

2012-05-15 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks, I was trying to use the "XO self-test" on the 2 Roadshow XO-1.5s that were recently returned (including the one with the ripped key). I followed the instructions on the wiki: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Self_Test it goes for several lines, as far as: "Testing /switches @(a characte

[IAEP] Need XO-1.5 Keyboard Repair Suggestions

2012-05-14 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks, One of the XO-1.5s in my "Roadshow" collection was returned with a ripped key. The person who was responsible has offered to pay for a repair. It was a fairly new machine. I can think of three options: 1) Fix it with silicone tub an tile sealer as described in the article I wrote

[IAEP] FOSTBs! (Free Open Source Text Books) FW: News from CK-12 Foundation

2012-05-01 Thread Caryl Bigenho
¡Hola! Si deseas una traducción, puedes usar Google o preguntame. ¡Abrazos! Carolina Hi Folks! Lots of interesting new news from the CK-12 Foundation. Although the foundation started as a source of FREE, open source "flex-books" (a book that can be customized by the user), written for Calif

[IAEP] "Mi Vida Loca" BBC's Spanish Course... Great Fun!

2012-04-26 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All… Some of you were looking for good resources for learning some Spanish last year. Better late than never… here is a great one I discovered a few days ago: http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/mividaloca/trailer.shtml It is a mystery story set in Spain and the Canary islands. The Sp

[IAEP] FW: Need Sources of Images for FotoToon

2012-04-23 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Guys... Looks like this won't go through with the attached image, so I removed it. Too bad! I can't wait fro a moderator to check it... I meed answers! Thanks, Caryl From: cbige...@hotmail.com To: support-g...@laptop.org; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Subject: Need Sources of Images for FotoToon

[IAEP] Doc Sprint Update for 04/08/12 (for remote participants and anyone else interested!)

2012-04-08 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All, The Doc Sprint has been progressing, both in Boston and remotely, so there are some chapters ready for review. You can find them at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Help_Activity_refresh/TOC Be sure to see the code at the top to know which ones are ready for Review. The images in a coup

[IAEP] Ready to Test: TamTamMini chapter for the Manual Refresh

2012-04-06 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks, I am sending this note out to the whole community since there has been so much interest in learning to use TamTam. This is a modified excerpt from the "Fun With TamTamMini" manual I have almost finished (only a few musical examples in standard score form have to be completed). If y

[IAEP] FW: DocSprint Update

2012-04-04 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi SG'ers olpc-SoCal'ers and IAEP'ers... If you meant to sign up to help remotely with the upcoming DocSprint April 6-10, it is not too late. Here is a copy of the email I sent to those who signed up (and who I have email addresses for). If you would like to be added to the email list for the

[IAEP] Doc Sprint... YOU can be a part of this!

2012-04-02 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi SG'ers and IAEP'ers, As you probably know, folks will be gathering in the Boston area April 6 (Fri)-10 (Tues) for a Doc Sprint where they will make a much needed update to the XO Users Manual. Some of you (Tony Anderson, Cherry Withers, and me to name a few) will be writing from afar.

Re: [IAEP] Forbidden words

2012-03-27 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... Children are under a lot of stress in a testing situation. We also have a bad history of cultural bias on standardized tests here in EEUU. Anything that they can do to make a testing less stressful and less biased seems like a good idea. I see no problem with getting the test makers to cl

[IAEP] FW: Upcoming Webinar: The Art of a Flipped Classroom

2012-03-23 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... For those of you who might like to learn more about "Flipping A Class", this webinar could be of interest. Note they cite the ability of being able to have "students work in small groups or individually at an appropriate pace in a flipped class." This can be very useful combined with the

[IAEP] Any Ideas For This?

2012-03-09 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... Anyone ever used Finale Note Pad (free mini version of Finale)? I need a way to move the bar lines. I have a 12 measure file of "Mary Had A Little Lamb" for my Tam Tam Mini FLOSS manual. Finale has put it on 3 lines of 6 measures, 5 measures and one very large measure that stretches acr

Re: [IAEP] Tam Tam Mini Progress and User Manual Update

2012-03-07 Thread Caryl Bigenho
ate you own Sugar Activity enough? what other things can complemente that one? Claudia On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Walter Bender wrote: On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > Hi All! > > > I'm happy to say I have finally gotten back to work on my "F

[IAEP] Tam Tam Mini Progress and User Manual Update

2012-03-07 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All! I'm happy to say I have finally gotten back to work on my "Fun With Tam Tam Mini" FLOSS manual after a hiatus (a So Cal word from the "industry") brought on by all sorts of holiday and family distractions. There are a number of other, unrelated, things folks have asked me to work on

Re: [IAEP] Etoys or Scratch?

2012-03-05 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Steve, Thanks so much for your thoughtful and very thorough answer. If this project happens, which is still not sure, it sounds like Scratch would be the way to go. Localization would be a lot easier in Etoys, from what you have described, but getting the initial product completed in Engli

Re: [IAEP] Etoys or Scratch?

2012-03-05 Thread Caryl Bigenho
user base. Cheers, Maria Droujkova 919-388-1721 Make math your own, to make your own math On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi Folks… If you were going to build an educational piece about disaster preparedness for possible cross platform worldwide d

[IAEP] Etoys or Scratch?

2012-03-05 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks… If you were going to build an educational piece about disaster preparedness for possible cross platform worldwide distribution would you prefer to do it in Scratch or Etoys and why? The end product would need to be able to have animation, sound, possible narration, interaction and

Re: [IAEP] [Sur] Google Summer of Code (GSOC) important

2012-03-02 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... I just added Tam Tam to the list of suggestions on the Sugar Labs wiki. While I can't help mentor with code, I can help with testing, documentation, and consulting on any musical questions that may arise. CarylP.S. While doing this, I noticed that I need to update my pages on the OLPC

[IAEP] Report from NAIS in Seattle

2012-03-01 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... If you are interested in technology in education (and I assume you all are) you might enjoy this report about the first day of the NAIS conference in Seattle this week. The keynote speaker was Bill Gates. http://bigenhoc.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/opening-session-at-nais-ac-2012-with-bill-ga

Re: [IAEP] All continents covered.

2012-02-16 Thread Caryl Bigenho
I think it's obviously "One Laptop/Penguin Chick" Note the baby penguin in the background! GrannieB > From: cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com > Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:12:23 -0500 > To: sve...@sfsu.edu > CC: olpc-jama...@lists.laptop.org; olpc-o...@lists.laptop.org; > market...@lists.sugarlabs.org;

[IAEP] Video Formats for JukeBox Activity???

2012-02-12 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Tried irc. Lots of people signed in but must be sleeping... no response after 30 min. Need to know what video formats the JukeBox Activity is capable of playing. Thanks,Caryl ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Pr

Re: [IAEP] [squeakland] What makes examples good for novices? and How do we tell if an example is good for novices?

2012-02-02 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... RE the Khan Academy programming video... I have tried some of them in parallel with hands-on, and while they do teach some concepts well, they aren't particularly exciting. Perhaps that is why I stopped working on them. I really believe that the Khan Academy videos, and other video instru

[IAEP] FW: Feb 1 free webinar - Open Online Math Homework

2012-01-30 Thread Caryl Bigenho
If you are interested on open source ebook textbooks, you might find this free webinar interesting. Caryl Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:19:11 -0800 From: matkin...@onefortraining.org Subject: Feb 1 free webinar - Open Online Math Homework To: o...@listserv.cccnext.net The first CCCOER 2012 webina

Re: [IAEP] Nice tool for learning Python

2012-01-29 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All… I took a look at this last night and agree with Tabitha that it is definitely not a stand-alone way to learn Python. I have also looked at, Pippy, and the ebook "Byte of Python" (among others), and the the Khan Academy videos for learning Python. It would be great if some master te

[IAEP] CP Meeting @ 2:30pm EST...Please join us!

2012-01-27 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All… Message requested by Adam…. The CP irc meeting scheduled for 2 pm today will be at 2:30 pm EST (11:30 PST) instead. Go to http://forum.laptop.org/chat , pick an alias and type /join #olpc-meeting at the bottom of the chat page. "See" you all there! Caryl Full instructions here:

[IAEP] SCaLE 10X Recap

2012-01-25 Thread Caryl Bigenho
OSSIE track, one about SoaS by Caryl Bigenho and one about an after school Contributors Program project in LA by Abe Kazemzadeh, and, of course, a great booth in the Expo hall on Saturday and Sunday. With a total of 11 volunteers from the olpcSoCal mailing list, the booth was almost like an

[IAEP] Thanks for the Media links... new request

2012-01-11 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks! Thanks so much for all the great media links so many of you sent. I am now compiling them into a short slideshow for SCalE 10X which I will happily share when finished. I will simply put a title on each slide identifying where the deployment shown is located. Thus, sound will not be

Re: [IAEP] SoaS Breakthrough!

2012-01-10 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Ruben and All, Tom has warned me that the persistent usbs really are persistent and that eventually they fill up and fail! Not good. That would not be a problem with a Live CD as nothing is written to it. Therefore, the extra usb for file storage... journal items, extra Activities and th

[IAEP] SoaS Breakthrough!

2012-01-10 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks, I called Tom Gilliard today during his ski vacation (oops!) to get some help prepping for showing SoaS at SCaLE 10X Jan 20-22. After we talked about several things I told him I had a "wild idea" that I thought the average non-techie teacher could handle. Why not run SoaS from a Live

[IAEP] FLOSS Manual Update and Tam Tam FLOSS Manual

2012-01-05 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks…. Well, I'm just 6 days late with it, but I have completed the Tam Tam Mini section of the XO Users Manual (Rev 2011). This was the section I promised to have ready by New Years. I have also completed most of my "Fun With Tam Tam" FLOSS manual. I still want to add a few things my

[IAEP] NYTimes: Teachers Resist High-Tech Push in Idaho Schools

2012-01-04 Thread Caryl Bigenho
One-to-one is coming to Idaho high schools... maybe... Caryl Teachers in Idaho and elsewhere have been in revolt over policy makers thrusting technology into classrooms and shifting money to unproven teaching methods. http://nyti.ms/y2hb7a Sent from my iPod

[IAEP] More RE: [support-gang] Questions RE Images for FLOSS Manual

2012-01-02 Thread Caryl Bigenho
I forgot to ask... what format do the images need to be in?ThanxCaryl Hi Folks…. I am preparing several images for the TamTam Mini Floss Manual and the TamTam section in the updated users manual. I will be taking screenshots from the XO, editing, cropping, adding text and arrows a

[IAEP] Questions RE Images for FLOSS Manual

2012-01-02 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks…. I am preparing several images for the TamTam Mini Floss Manual and the TamTam section in the updated users manual. I will be taking screenshots from the XO, editing, cropping, adding text and arrows and the like to illustrate different points. When I upload these to the Booki

[IAEP] FLOSS TamTamMini Manual Update

2012-01-02 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... I have moved from the text writing/editing stage to the gathering and inserting images state for the "Fun With Tam Tam Mini" FLOSS manual I am working on. The appendices also need to be done and will also include musical examples on a regular music staff (suggestion from my violinist gra

[IAEP] Better than "New Math," New Physics!

2012-01-01 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All…. Love this little "package" that ran on NRP today. Peer-to-peer, collaboration, scaffolding, and constructionism come to the college physics class. Worth a listen: http://n.pr/sIe7Ir Caryl ___ IAEP -- It

[IAEP] Project/Deployment Videos/Slides Needed

2011-12-31 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks, Next week I will be putting together a small DVD project to run continuously in the OLPC/Sugar Labs booth at SCaLE 10X (Jan 20-22). I plan to try to use the videos from Talat's project, the XO "orchestra" in Paraguay, and robots clips from Uruguay. I would love to include lots more

[IAEP] A Very Successful Contributors Program Project

2011-12-17 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All If you haven't seen this blog and You Tube video from Talat Kahn's and Carol Ruth Silver's OLPC Contributors Program project in Pakistan, you need to check it out! Watch the video (link is on the blog) and then explore some of the creative ways the teachers and students are using the

[IAEP] Update: Persistant SoaS on new Mac Persists!

2011-12-15 Thread Caryl Bigenho
I just tested the f15 SoaS usb Tom Gilliard sent me on my brand new MacBook Pro and it works there too. Still can't connect to the net, but otherwise seems to work as well as it did on my older MacBook. Still haven't tried the PC version on my eeePC. This new OSX "Lion" software will take s

[IAEP] Persistant SoaS on Mac Persists!

2011-12-11 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Tom and All, After puzzling over the instructions for a while, I decided to just put the SoaS for Mac that Tom sent in, and try to boot from it. It works! I am running it on my 3+year old MacBook with the old os10.5.8 (Leopard) in its most up to date version. You are right about it not r

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Easter Egg Time

2011-12-10 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Dec 09, 2011 at 07:56:47PM -0800, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > If you have an XO handy, here is something you might want to see. Open the > > Moon Activity sometime around 6:10 AM PST (14:00 UT) and see what you find. > > If > > you are living west of

[IAEP] Need Help With SoaS! (Including Mac)

2011-11-20 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks... I finally have a couple of days with access to both PCs and my Mac, so now is the time to try SoaS! I need to be able to test it on both the Windows machines and the Mac. After about an hour of reading confusing, conflicting, and convoluted info online, I am now thoroughly j

Re: [IAEP] SugarLabs Candidacy - Supporting Info

2011-11-15 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Nick, These things are all really good and much needed. But these are personal goals. What goals would you try to have Sugar Labs achieve if you are elected? For example something about facilitating the distribution of SoaS via model deployments, exposure at teacher's conferences such as IS

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Sugar Labs Down?

2011-11-11 Thread Caryl Bigenho
500 > From: kevin.m...@verizon.net > To: support-g...@lists.laptop.org > CC: cbige...@hotmail.com; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; > iaep-requ...@lists.sugarlabs.org > Subject: Re: [support-gang] [IAEP] Sugar Labs Down? > > On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 07:53:31AM -0500, Walter Bender wrote

[IAEP] Sugar Labs Down?

2011-11-11 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks, Is the Sugar Labs site down for maintenance? I have been unable to access it at all for the past several hours. Caryl 12:01 AM PST ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.su

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Sharing of Memorize games

2011-11-09 Thread Caryl Bigenho
+1 Great idea! Then folks don't have to keep re-inventing the wheel.Caryl > Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:14:02 +0100 > From: e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at > To: IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > CC: support-g...@lists.laptop.org > Subject: [support-gang] Sharing of Memorize games > > Hi all, > > while pl

[IAEP] Songs Needed for Tam Tam Mini FLOSS Manual

2011-11-08 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks, I'm collecting simple childrens' folk songs from around the world to include in a FLOSS manual about the Tam Tam Mini Activity. Let me know if you have some you can share. Words can be in any language as long as there is an English translation included. If the song has a story too, pl

Re: [IAEP] Gus Andrews: "What Kids These Days Don’t Learn From Technology"

2011-11-08 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Yes, a very interesting read, indeed. This guy obviously forgot that he was supposed to guide the students in their learning. Of course they will try to game the system, if they are normal kids. He needs to accept the responsibility of being in charge. With a little bit of structure the Khan

[IAEP] From South Central LA: Binary, hexadecimal, and colors

2011-11-03 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All... Here is what the small olpc-CP deployment in South Central LA is up to now. Pretty impressive. But then their "teacher", volunteer Abe Kazemzadeh, is a pretty impressive guy! Caryl Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 03:59:22 + To: cbige...@hotmail.com From: donotre...@wordpress.com Subject:

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] MacBook_Persistent_SoaS_v5_and_SoaS_v6_EFI_Boot_USB ( boots directly from USB )

2011-11-02 Thread Caryl Bigenho
wiki > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#Sugar_on_a_Stick-V5-Coconut > > On 11/02/2011 11:01 AM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > > Hi Tom, > > I was hoping this would be a plug-and-play thing like Etoys-to-go is. > > While, with effort, I can get VB to work, it is b

[IAEP] FW: Last Call for 2011 Global Education Conference Proposals!

2011-10-30 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks... Anyone want to present or participate in this online education conference? The CFP is still open. Please forward as appropriate. Caryl Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 06:04:21 + From: m...@classroom20.com To: cbige...@hotmail.com Subject: Last Call for 2011 Global Education Conference Pr

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Need To Know: How to get the latest Help Activity on Macs and PCs???

2011-10-26 Thread Caryl Bigenho
11 21:08:51 -0400 > From: kevin.m...@verizon.net > To: support-g...@lists.laptop.org > CC: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; de...@lists.laptop.org; > walter.ben...@gmail.com; support-g...@laptop.org > Subject: Re: [support-gang] Need To Know: How to get the latest Help Activity > on

Re: [IAEP] Need To Know: How to get the latest Help Activity on Macs and PCs???

2011-10-25 Thread Caryl Bigenho
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > > Hi Walter, > > > > The Help Activity we want to work from is 11.3.0. It is version 13 and was > > updated by Bastien, David Farning, and Brian Jordan. I don't think they did > > anything with the Turtle

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Preparations for Friday's documentation session (was: Help Activity Refresh during summit?)

2011-10-21 Thread Caryl Bigenho
some chapters during the weekend. I will be available to work on Sunday most probably Sandra Thaxter www.smallsolutionsbigideas.org san...@smallsolutionsbigideas.org (617) 320-1098 - Original Message - From: ana.cichero To: Caryl Bigenho Cc: christoph.derndor...@gmail.com ; Communit

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Preparations for Friday's documentation session (was: Help Activity Refresh during summit?)

2011-10-21 Thread Caryl Bigenho
o some chapters during the weekend. I will be available to work on Sunday most probably Sandra Thaxter www.smallsolutionsbigideas.org san...@smallsolutionsbigideas.org (617) 320-1098 - Original Message - From: ana.cichero To: Caryl Bigenho Cc: christoph.derndor...@gmail.com ; Co

[IAEP] Worker Bees Wanted For XO Manual Refresh!

2011-10-09 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hello! Here is a great opportunity for you to get involved in an important OLPC/Sugar Labs project! A new revised version of the XO Users Manual and Help Activity is coming, and we need your help. The XO Users Manual originated with a book sprint in Austin TX in summer 2008 and has had many ad

[IAEP] Another Stale Email and an Invite RE: Oops! RE: [support-gang] Bigger Problem!

2011-10-08 Thread Caryl Bigenho
This email was sent way back on Sept 17. I have no idea why it suddenly reappeared. I am bringing the XO in question to the SF summit where Kevin Gordon will help fix it. Anyone at the SF Summit who wants to watch the process is welcome! We may try to do it Friday evening at the get-toge

[IAEP] Six Week Old Email Mysteriously resurfaces! RE: 12-Year-Old XOs (even 18-yesr-olds)

2011-10-08 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Ignore this one! Don't know where it has been for the past six weeks since it was sent or why it has suddenly resurfaced. The problem has been resolved. Caryl From: cbige...@hotmail.com To: support-g...@lists.laptop.org; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; test...@lists.laptop.org Date: Sun, 28 Aug 201

[IAEP] "Super People?"

2011-10-02 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All... An interesting op-ed piece from today's New York Times parents, teachers, students, etc. should find it fascinating! What do you think? Where does our work with kids fit in? Does it? http://nyti.ms/ni141b Caryl

[IAEP] First TamTamMini Lesson & Resources

2011-09-22 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks, We had our first Tam Tam Mini lesson with the XOs at the new Contributors Program project at Arrowhead School in Pray Montana. I have written it up on our blog and have added a "Resources" section where you can get and use any of the resources I prepared for the lesson. You will fin

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] OLPC SF Community Summit 2011 / Oct 21-23 / Registration Open!

2011-09-20 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Be careful when you register! Everbrite added $80 to my charges even though I did not authorize or ask for it. Also, you only get 15 min to complete your registration so if you are registering more than one person, best to do them separately to have time to enter all details. Caryl Date: Tue

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Problems!

2011-09-15 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Again, I ran the test and found that the culprit is the "2" key, as I suspected. I have no qualms about dis-assembly and messing with the keyboard (done it before... remember my wiki article on Keyboard Field Repairs? < http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Keyboard_field_repairs > ). I left all my ti

Re: [IAEP] Problems!

2011-09-14 Thread Caryl Bigenho
I forgot to mention... before the reflash I was not able to get this machine to go to Open Firmware to reset the time (pressing esc while booting). All the other machines would do this even if their clocks were off. That's why I brought it home to try a reflash. No change. It still won't. Caryl

[IAEP] Problems!

2011-09-14 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks, Having trouble with one of the CP machines that was stored in a closet for about a year and thus had time problems (thought it was 1999) The rtc battery needed charging. Today I charged it all day (turned on) and then reflashed it. Up to this time it had worked fine, except for th

[IAEP] My New CP Project Blog... check it out!

2011-09-14 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks, I have been working with a new OLPC Contributors Program project here in rural Montana and, at last, have a blog about it ready to share with you! http://arrowheadxoexplorers.wordpress.com/ Hope you find it interesting and check back from time to time to see what is happening in thi

Re: [IAEP] [Testing] [support-gang] 12-Year-Old XOs (even 18-yesr-olds)

2011-09-13 Thread Caryl Bigenho
9/13/2011 4:48 AM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi All... Translations for "the rest of us": DHCP: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/D/DHCP.html OFW: http://acronyms.

Re: [IAEP] [Testing] [support-gang] 12-Year-Old XOs (even 18-yesr-olds)

2011-09-13 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All... Translations for "the rest of us": DHCP: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/D/DHCP.html OFW: http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/OFW (pick one out of 12!) NTP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol ESSID: http://www.cryer.co.uk/glossary/e/essid.htm RTC: Real Time Cloc

[IAEP] FW: [Olpc-uruguay] Carita triste

2011-09-09 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks, Can one of our many solutions that were discussed in the past few days about incorrect dates help these folks in Uruguay? I'll translate the note below and if one of you knows the answer, but not how to tell them in Spanish, write it in English and I'll translate it and send it on. N

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Need Wiki Help!

2011-09-09 Thread Caryl Bigenho
> On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 08:59:48PM -0700, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > > I have hunted around for instructions for doing this and have even > > tried copying the format some other pages have used it, but so far > > haven't cracked the code. Can someone give me a link or two t

[IAEP] Need Wiki Help!

2011-09-08 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks, I am working on some Grannie's Guides for the wiki and need to know how to make the little blue boxes with dotted lines around them that have the test written in something that resembles what you will see in Terminal. I think it may be the Courier typeface. I have hunted around for i

Re: [IAEP] Funding team?

2011-09-06 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks, I was reading through the agreement with the Software Freedom Conservancy. It is great that this is in place. It can insure transparency, if the guidelines are followed. As a 501c3 non-profit organization, you have to be very careful to use the right terminology... "Marketing" is

[IAEP] XO Tam Tam Resources

2011-09-03 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks, I spent most of yesterday hunting up Tam Tam Resources for the IT teacher at a rural K8 school here in Montana. They just received 10 XO-1s from a stalled Contributors Program project at MSU. She is very excited about using them, especially Tam Tam, since they lost the funding for

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Fwd: unique activities TamTamMini-60 . . .

2011-09-02 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... Exactly what I was going to suggest. Is there a reason you friend hasn't updated? Check with him first and, if he doesn't mind go for a newer build. Can anyone suggest the best choice for this update? I would say maybe 860 since 874 is very new and still may have a few bugs. Caryl >

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