A few years ago I prepared a compendium of Spanish language classics from
the net for an AP Spanish literature class having many kids who couldn't
afford to pay for all the books. As I recall, there was a university site
in Argentina that had a LOT of these. Not affiliated with Gutenberg. I
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From: Carol Farlow Lerche c...@msbit.com
Subject: Re: [IAEP] The eBook ah ha moment for Sugar on a Stick
To: Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com
Cc: iaep iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org
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Just FYI the Gulf Coast in summer is extremely hot and humid.
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Maria Droujkova droujk...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 5:17 PM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org
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On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com
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On
Kathy, Project Follow Through was comparing a specific direct instruction
curriculum with various other unspecified curricula to teach early primary
grade skills. It was also conducted over 30 years ago. I don't think it
has much to tell us about the way to teach mathematical thinking and
SourceForge.net: synphony ยป home http://synphony.wiki.sourceforge.net/
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 03:01, Seth Woodworth s...@isforinsects.com
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Sorry for posting the screenshot without text (I was reposting a compacted
version of the original screenshot, which our list manager wisely refused to
forward). My original post was:
I have attached a screenshot of calibre. This is a very useful way to look
at books, though I'm sure many
and bundle creation/publishing among them]
SJ
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org
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On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 09:41:01AM -0700, Carol Farlow Lerche wrote:
Sorry for posting the screenshot without text (I was reposting a
compacted
version of the original
Here is fisheye.
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Carol Farlow Lerche c...@msbit.com wrote:
To the extent that Title, Author, etc. are simply labels for two tags
that many ebook items have, and that one could establish others, it is a
good generalization of calibre's useful but fixed view
Jim, children are great collectors. I just think it is wise to try
interfaces with varying numbers of items before concluding that one or
another mode is too complicated. If you'd like to try an interface that
has tunable complexity, you might like to get a copy of the readerware
trial. I can
Calibre makes a sqlite3 database which is the basis for its display. It
seems to have a reasonable schema. (An easy way to examine it is with the
Sqlite Manger, an excellent Firefox add-on if you haven't already discovered
it).
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:54 AM, James Simmons
the Activity could be
entirely self contained.
James Simmons
Carol Farlow Lerche wrote:
Calibre makes a sqlite3 database which is the basis for its display. It
seems to have a reasonable schema. (An easy way to examine it is with the
Sqlite Manger, an excellent Firefox add-on if you haven't
James, Thanks for taking the time to at least examine this.
I took a day off yesterday to run errands and I installed Calibre on a
Fedora 10 box and tried it out. It has an enormous number of dependencies
so it took a couple of hours to get it installed and working.
Yes, it was troublesome
I wonder if you use an ebook reader? An ebook reader, similarly to a music
player, needs a good way to organize and find content ON THE MACHINE to
read. You aren't usually using it to read from the net -- quite the
contrary. Now for a long time I used the browser to search for my books
(which
for the XO and Sugar in general may find
something like Calibre to be overkill.
James Simmons
Carol Farlow Lerche wrote:
I wonder if you use an ebook reader? An ebook reader, similarly to a
music player, needs a good way to organize and find content ON THE MACHINE
to read. You aren't usually
Sayamindu has ported fbreader to the XO, but it is Sugar .82 and is not yet
in SOAS or a.sl.o. It reads epub format among others, which is to be found
on many of the free sites. I made the following XO style library bundle of
the Newbery medal winning children's books by women authors from the
, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
[adding fedora-olpc to cc]
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 23:27, Carol Farlow Lerche c...@msbit.com
wrote:
Caryl, the G4 has a powerpc processor, which executes an entirely
different
binary instruction set from the Intel-based Mac and Intel PC
Caryl, the G4 has a powerpc processor, which executes an entirely different
binary instruction set from the Intel-based Mac and Intel PC architecture
machines. Since SOAS in all its incarnations contains binary executables
prepared for an Intel processor, this won't execute on your G4 Mac. (I'm
Regarding content, the advantage of the local homepage in the XO-1 browser
as shipped from OLPC is that content is there in an understandable way even
if the network doesn't work/isn't available. As compared with finding
content in the journal, it is easier to tell what and why the content might
Remaining question is whether the info here:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Content_bundles
is still correct about media types. I want a bundle containing epub files,
which is outside the types listed, but which Sayamindu's fbreader supports.
Is it ok to have a content bundle with this media type?
To be more specific:
http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/EPUB
mime type is:
application/epub+zip
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Carol Farlow Lerche c...@msbit.com wrote:
Remaining question is whether the info here:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Content_bundles
is still correct about media types
One choice -- Newberry medal winning children's books by women authors:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/_collections/newbery/newbery.html
I have converted these to epub format including the illustrations found at
the website, very compact and accessible via fbreader. How should they be
Welcome to the world of school computers.
My suggestions:
Take a blank formatted SOAS drive with you. Take a (Fedora/Ubuntu) live cd
with you.
When testing, if the first soas boot fails, you should:
Boot windows. See if the windows boot has network access. See if the
cursor/mouse is
Regarding the SoaS2 Assuming Drive Cache write Through -- no boot -- It
was pretty common in older commodity Wintel systems for the drives to not
write through the cache. This was for performance. I think the
assumption was that if the system died in the middle, you were only writing
a
Sean, Wouldn't it be ok to merge Bugs / Git / API / Buildbot into
Develop, and expand them when you get to the Develop page?
Also, the language on the wiki home page makes it sound like communication
is done via the wiki. The Sugar Labs wiki is where the community comes
together to develop and
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3668/electronic-portfolios-a-path-to-the-future-of-learning
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The offered categories are not a taxonomy but rather a set of tags.
Presumably activities would be tagged with multiple of these if
appropriate. Have you ever looked at the amo site to see how the Firefox
add-ons appear there? You can see add-ons under multiple of the
descriptions they provide.
Furthermore, if you can't browse you must guess or use search, which leads
you into a maze of twisty little passages all alike (but not what you want).
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Eben Eliason eben.elia...@gmail.comwrote:
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 1:15 AM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org
Congratulations on the new website. It looks great. The designer did a
wonderful job of listening to feedback, which isn't easy.
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder --
OpenSuSE also uses MediaWiki, but their theme and layout
looks really good:
http://en.opensuse.org/
Busy; tiny unreadable fonts; minimal, dull graphics.
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Slight grammatical problem with one panel on
http://www.christianmarcschmidt.com/projects/sugarlabs/betasite/index.php?template=pagepage=learners
Kamala reads a webpage about sharks and LEARN that shark populations are
declining. -- should be LEARNS.
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 6:54 AM, David
I second Michael's suggestion about a web design that echoes the Sugar
design. Think how useful this would be if carried to school servers. And
as a basis for web-served Sugar-like activities.
I have to agree with the conclusion that the test design is off-putting. It
is certainly not
TuxPaint is very good and a good competitor to KidPix. PLEASE make it work
well on the XO and on SOAS. Anecdote: When I spent a week in a
Kindergarten with my XOs, only one of the machines had TuxPaint. (All the
rest had been upgraded to the build turning Rainbow on, and at the time I
didn't
I think a simple design such as Josh's is ideal to use for all kid facing
pages. The school server could benefit from a similar theme. Personally,
while I think someone talented (as Josh obviously is) could make a related
theme for adults and kids, it is much more important to have a less
Is anyone affiliated with this organization?
http://www.fraunhofer.de/EN/press/pi/2009/02/ResearchNews022009Topic3.jsp
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Why not provide a dependency declaration in the activity file which can be
checked when the activity is installed? It could inform the user that a
particular package or library was needed. I understand that different
distros may package the dependencies differently, but it wouldn't be so bad
if
Frustration -- yup.
However, let's try to come up with a way forward that solves the problem in
the sort-of near term, and the frustration in the very near term.
I too have been trying to run sugar on ubuntu and having frustration. So,
what I think would minimize the frustration is a known
Bryan, as usual, brings up great suggestions that require stepping outside
of our preconceptions.
Regarding Wade's comment, I have just provisioned an XO with Teapot's
Intrepid Ibex as popularized at olpcnews (beautiful package, btw). It
comes with tubewatcher, a script using clive to download a
My husband was 14 when he did the first install of APL OS for an IBM
customer. He had learned APL from his friend, the son of an IBM Research
scientist when he was 12, and on the strength of this, got a summer job with
the APL group.
The idea of hitting a pre-teen with Erlang and J, whereas
Please DON'T introduce more sugarisms like BEET, especially for novices.
How are they supposed to know what to put as a tag, even if the tag makes
sense?
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Here is your diagram svg-ified via a nifty firefox addon (pencil).
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 3:26 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry, didn't checked if the sugar lists where on CC.
Tomeu
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