FYI
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From: Michael Belcher i...@computerbasedmath.org
Date: Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:44
Subject: The Computer-Based Math Education Summit
To: echer...@gmail.com
Thank you for supporting computerbasedmath.org. I wanted to let
you know about the first
We started a private discussion, and decided to share it.
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From: Steve Thomas sthom...@gosargon.com
Date: Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 16:11
Subject: Re: Fractions - OER Project - Day ~4
To: Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com
Cc: Valerie Taylor vtay...@gmail.com
Turtle Art would be great for this, especially my version with icons
instead of words on the blocks. Unfortunately, I am not in a position
to do a presentation.
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:27, Yoshiki Ohshima yosh...@vpri.org wrote:
At Fri, 10 Jun 2011 09:27:03 -0700,
Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 14:47, karl ramberg karlramb...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 12:37 AM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a page at Sugar Labs called The Undiscoverable, which mentions
Etoys but does not give many details. I would like help filling it in.
http
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 18:31, Kenneth Wyrick k...@caltek.net wrote:
great to hear about waveplace activities and plans.
i'm in the process of joining the ranks of the olpc movement, here in SoCal
Welcome.
October 2010 I finally created http://teknowledgy.org which is a box
colocated here in
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 18:47, ana.cichero ana.cich...@gmail.com wrote:
#you can find at the bottom an english copy of this email
Below you will see an English translation of this message.
Hola,
El material que se produce para olpc está la mayoría en inglés y la mayoría
de los usuarios hablan
I could assist, but I can't take on another whole project, even part time.
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:47, Bernie Innocenti ber...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
[cc += iaep]
On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 11:43 -0400, Edward Cherlin wrote:
Is there a way for a reader to filter the feed, to get just entries
FYI. Anybody who would like to port Sugar to a $25 computer (requiring
only monitor, mouse, and keyboard) should contact Eben, and let us
know too.
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From: Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com
Date: Sat, May 21, 2011 at 22:10
Subject: Re: [Sur] linux system por
FYI.
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From: ॥ स्वक्ष ॥ v...@svaksha.com
Date: Sat, May 21, 2011 at 01:45
Subject: [Womeninfreesoftware] [x-post] Fwd: pseudo-summer of code (paid)
To: Discussion re: increasing women's participation in free software
womeninfreesoftw...@gnu.org,
I am copying my reply to the It's An Education Project and OLPC-SUR
mailing lists of Sugar Labs. I recommend that your staff and members
take a look at the archives of these lists, and consider whether to
join them.
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 12:44, Evan Markiewicz
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 23:02, Bernie Innocenti ber...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
Dogi noticed that the contacts for joining Sugar Labs appear to be
obsolete:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Getting_Involved
We have:
* Educator - carol...@sugarlabs.org
* Content Writer - no contact
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 10:01, Caroline Meeks
carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote:
Hi Tim and Beth,
We are training a group of volunteers from the Haitian Coalition in Etoys
tomorrow. We have some practice at teaching Etoys at this point.
How/what would you like me to teach them about
.
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From: Noy Shoung noysho...@gmail.com
Date: Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:35
Subject: Sugar Lab
To: ខ្មែរជុំឡា khmerjoomla.org khmerjoo...@googlegroups.com,
khme...@googlegroups.com, khmerfoss khmerf...@googlegroups.com
Cc: Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com
Dear
Does anybody here know about Qato? Does anybody know of a Free
Software alternative? Math Future has some interest in the Sugar Labs
Replacing Textbooks project, but has not grasped the importance of
Free Software in all phases of the work.
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From:
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 23:07, jbalc...@laptopstolesotho.org wrote:
Edward, Thanks for your input.
A pleasure.
My replies follow
__
Edward: I would also suggest that you use the Free Software/Open Source
approach of publishing all of your materials and letting the
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 16:59, samy boutayeb s.bouta...@free.fr wrote:
L'expérience Sugar Labs préfigure-t-elle une révolution éducative du
XXIe siècle ?
http://www.framablog.org/index.php/post/2011/04/13/sugar-labs-education-walter-bender
Oui, assurément. Les ordinateurs coûtent maintenant
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 16:40, Erick Lavoie erick.lav...@gmail.com wrote:
Following the work we have done on Tutorius in the last year, I would
suggest having an interactive introduction tutorial to Sugar that would
be presented to the user on the first login screen and in the option menu.
The
Got away from me. Weird keyboard effects.
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 20:05, Yamandu Ploskonka yamap...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey Walter, sound familiar?
Erick, I've been pushing for this for several years already. It is IMHO a
*BIG* need, and I congratulate you for having advanced much further that
2011/4/12 Carlos Rabassa car...@mac.com:
English translation follows Spanish original
Gonzalo, Hernán, Ana,
estoy parcialmente de acuerdo con cada uno de ustedes a pesar de que sus
opiniones parecen contradictorias.
Nos guste o no, el lenguaje de los programadores, desarrolladores y muchas
.
Nenny used to cook for our fellow real estate brokers to thank them for
visiting our broker open houses.
That´s how some of her recipes ended up in internet.
Carlos Rabassa
Volunteer
Plan Ceibal Support Network
Montevideo, Uruguay
On Apr 9, 2011, at 1:44 AM, Edward Cherlin wrote:
On Fri
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 19:09, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi Carlos,
I have used SoaS on the Mac with some success, but only as it came. I have
never added any other Activities... but would like to learn how to do it. If
you aren't in a huge hurry, I will bring my Mac when I
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 15:24, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com wrote:
Laura Vargas wrote:
Dear Friends,
The sugar translation marathon was called Miski Pachamama [sweet earth]
2010. We are currently looking forward for a second and third versions,
where we would love to translate sugar
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 17:36, Carlos Rabassa car...@mac.com wrote:
S050 - Informática para Tontos
https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1FVJC2Ij4Vsub_3RJBu9HIhf6qRqdQVbq1WZrvebm7-c
E050 - Computer Science for Dummies
I have set up a fundraiser, http://www.crowdrise.com/Replacetextbooks/
to raise $10,000 for a server and other expenses at Sugar Labs to
create collaborative, interactive, digital textbook replacements for
up to a billion children at a time. That's a million pennies, or a
thousandth of a cent per
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 18:15, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote:
I've posted a four week plan for XO-3 software exploration at
http://cananian.livejournal.com/62667.html
Excellent. Love your work.
Briefly:
April 4-8: Android
April 11-15: Chrome/ChromeOS/NativeClient
April 18-22: Get
I find this to be a worthy request for help with a research project on
Free Software communities. I took the survey myself, and will pass the
request on to other groups that I
work with, but will try to keep others from turning it into a spam
flood. My apologies if you get this more than once.
at
http://booki.treehouse.su/
and take a look around. As soon as we get the license menu set up, we
will be able to start experimenting with creating materials.
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From: Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com
Date: Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 14:40
Subject: New booki
in the argument. Of course,
there is a lot of other material, such as Plan CEIBAL's publications.
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:58, Christoph Derndorfer
e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote:
Am 20.03.2011 20:13, schrieb Edward Cherlin:
Not an OLPC project, but there is a lot of Linux in the schools
Not an OLPC project, but there is a lot of Linux in the schools in
Extremadura. You could talk to the local government about using Sugar
on their laptops.
http://news.squeak.org/2006/11/17/squeak-in-extremadura/
Have you asked on the OLPC-SUR list?
There seems to have been a very modest OLPC
FLOSS Manuals has just gone live with its new booki software for
creating and translating Free Software manuals. I have written for
them on several projects. Booki is available to anybody, and I propose
to create a project in cooperation with Sugar Labs to take advantage
of this. Walter Bender
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:54, Tiago Sousa ttiagoso...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello my name is Tiago Sousa and i am Portuguese.
Bem-vindo (Most of my Portuguese comes out of old Bossa Nova songs
such as Manha de Carneval.)
We can use you in localization and translation, too.
I have started to write about the economics of OER development in the
UNESCO WSIS forum.
http://www.wsis-community.org/pg/groups/14358/open-educational-resources-oer/
We look forward to our 1,000th member (hopefully late March) and
5,000 members by the end of the year. We’re also setting our
Abel Caine [sic] of UNESCO is inviting people to join the discussions
at http://www.wsis-community.org/ on OER for global education.
Enrollment is not open, but requires an individual invitation. You can
e-mail me and I will pass your information on to him, or you can send
your request directly to
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 11:48, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi All...
OLPC_MeXicO just tweeted this link to an interesting article about OLPC and
children and computers that appeared in yesterday's Financial Times. You
will need to do a free registration to read the article.
FYI.
-- Forwarded message --
From: Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com
Date: Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 22:00
Subject: [WikiEducator] Open Content Licensing for Educators - -Enrolment key
To: WikiEducator wikieduca...@googlegroups.com, Open License
Guidelines Group
I am having to become active as Localization Administrator for Kreyòl
Ayisyen again. I am told that the work is stalled through lack of
people and a dispute between the localizers and somebody who wants
their work validated by linguistics experts who know neither IT nor
elementary education.
The
If it's Ubuntu, ask them whether it's Edubuntu, and whether they use
Sugar at all.
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:41, Christoph Derndorfer
e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote:
Am 02.03.2011 06:34, schrieb John Watlington:
On Mar 1, 2011, at 7:41 AM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
Am 01.03.2011
FYI. Maybe we should see if UNESCO would fund some OER projects.
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From: Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com
Date: Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 17:54
Subject: [OERU] Free course on Open Content Licensing for Educators
To: oer-univers...@googlegroups.com
Hi
FYI. This looks like a tremendous resource for language teachers.
Assign fairly advanced students of English to seek out Web pages of
importance to their language community, and have the English classes
translate them to local languages. Solicit help from the diasporas
around the world.
For
I'm looking for a volunteer developer.
The developer of the PlayGo activity for Sugar has apparently
abandoned the project, and has not responded to my e-mail asking about
it. This is a shame, because the American Go Association is very
excited about helping with it, and is making a push into
2011/2/21 Carlos Rabassa car...@mac.com:
Hola todos!
Hace algunos meses, tratando de buscar usos de las XO para sugerir a todos
los usuarios escribí, sin mayor repercusión, sobre enseñar a nuestros
niños y al resto de la población a usar sus computadoras conectadas a
internet para
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 22:01, Martin Langhoff
martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote:
Forget about kids in those places (they'll get broadband-quality
internet... eventually) and yeah, we can do it all with JS and your
favourite language on the server side.
I look back at when OLPC started, and
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 12:11, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi All...
Has anyone tried an Intel Play QX3 Digital Computer Mocroscope like this
one on an XO?
Does anybody know how Mary Lou Jepsen fitted plastic lenses to an XO
and used it as a microscope? Aha! here it is.
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 14:11, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi Chunka,
I've been challenged on this point more than once, and have challenged back
to come up with one invention that was done after 1980 that matches up to
the top 10 done before 1980.
Second the motion. The Internet
I am all for eroding some aspects of traditional cultures. I have had
a conversation with a Maasai chief about the possibility of using XOs
in his campaign against female genital mutilation. The report on
Ethiopia talked about replacing the pure rote teaching style, where
asking questions was an
FLOSS Manuals is ever ready to take on such projects, whenever we get
enough writers, editors, artists, and so on who can get together. We
are ramping up for Spanish translations in booki, scheduled to start
next month.
http://booki.flossmanuals.net/
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 11:50, Carlos Rabassa
FYI. I'm spreading this news around to see whether we can organize some
projects to take advantage of this opportunity.
-- Forwarded message --
From: Creative Commons developm...@creativecommons.org
Date: Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 13:03
Subject: CC News: $2 billion fund available for
]On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 01:04, Tabitha Roder tabi...@tabitha.net.nz wrote:
We have a help request from someone in Puerto Rico. He says this is his
niece's XO and he wants to know how to get an activation lease.
He can't unless there is a school server nearby, and in that case the
school
http://ole.org/2011/01/28/a-strategy-for-increasing-access-to-open-courseware-in-developing-nations/
I plan to contact them next week about what several other projects are
doing, and see whether we can get together on this.
--
Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin
Silent
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 19:38, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi...
We have a help request from someone in Puerto Rico. He says this is his
niece's XO and he wants to know how to get an activation lease.
He can't unless there is a school server nearby, and in that case the
school
FYI
-- Forwarded message --
From: Maria Droujkova droujk...@gmail.com
Date: Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 17:15
Subject: [Math 2.0] 2 billion in grants just announced (community colleges)
To: mathfut...@googlegroups.com
Today Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis and Secretary of Education
I have suggested creating a walled garden Web site for all OLPC
children. We can discuss whether teachers should be allowed in, but
definitely no parents. ^_^ They should have their own place to discuss
whatever concerns them. Education, poverty, government corruption,
international e-commerce...
English-only so far? Any further plans?
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 15:43, James Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote:
I just discovered this a minute ago and thought it would be of
interest. The Internet Archive lets you read a book online. They
have polished up their online book reader code to the
Thank you. Exactly what I need for my project.
http://booki.flossmanuals.net/discovering-discovery/
This also ties into Seligman's research on learned helplessness.
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 13:29, Christoph Derndorfer
e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote:
Hi all,
I just stumbled across this
Don Cohen, the Mathman, has a program that begins with teaching 7-year-olds
calculus in depth, starting with the ideas rather than the symbols and
manipulations. He and I are discussing turning his materials into Sugar
activities.
Would anybody be interested in helping with development, QA, field
Wish I were there. Say Bon chans to everyone for me. Actually
Ou dwe fè pwòp chans ou yo.
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 16:37, Timothy Falconer tee...@waveplace.org wrote:
Hi everyone,
Waveplace is headed back to Haiti to start 5 new XO pilots.
Follow my daily blogging for the next month here:
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 14:04, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
H Gary and alli,
I am using 852. Changed to Urdu in settings. Trying to use Write. Writing
across the top is in Urdu, but I am unable to enter Urdu text. It does not
appear in the list of fonts. All I get are the
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 02:23, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi Folks...
Still trying! As noted below, I followed Tim's instructions and downloaded
the Urdu character set. However, I was not able to access it from Write.
Do you mean that it did not show up in the font menu, or
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 01:42, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi...
If one had a simple overlay with the Urdu keyboard symbols on it, what would
be the exact procedure for switching the keys to Urdu? I tried in My
Settings- Keyboard- Urdu - Urdu Pakistan, but the result was a lot
What he said. I hate false dichotomies. They abound in discussions of
education and in the politics of education, indeed in any situation
where the more extreme the position, the more likely it is to be
heard.
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 18:04, Ian Thomson i...@spc.int wrote:
Personally, I think the
Worth consideration as the basis for a Free course. I have long
maintained that we should teach statistics through sports such as
soccer/football, cricket, and baseball, where well over a century of
record-keeping exists. Those not interested in sports could use chess
or go, with much longer
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 20:43, Julie Lein j2u...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Sugar Community,
We are MBA candidates at MIT working with Sugar Labs to help generate
awareness for the organization as an independent, open-source educational
innovator for children. To do this, we would love your input!
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 16:04, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi All...
Here are some dumb questions for you. In a couple of weeks I will be doing
a 2-hr hands-on workshop (at the CUELA Tech Fair) about OLPC, Sugar, and
open source software teachers may want to try with their
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 13:02, roberto robert...@gmail.com wrote:
hello,
do you know who is spreading sugar throughout Africa, at the moment (if any) ?
I know what is on the deployments page.
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployments#Deployment_data
Rwanda
Nigeria
Ethiopia
Ghana
South Africa
and
^_^
Removing the parts we agree on, there remain these Frequently Asked
Questions. Of which one of the most frequent is, Is it OK if I ask a
dumb question? The traditional answer is, Of course! The only dumb
question is the one you didn't ask. I like that, because dumb
actually means unable to
graders were directly ready to engage with
programming and had a easier/faster time picking that up with Scratch.
This is very much a hypothesis, not proven and not based on much data but
it would be interesting to explore further.
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com
It is true that you can do all of these things in EToys, if you know
where to start. It is also true that the start screen of EToys could
be improved by providing a path to each of them, and to other
education modules, and Etoys could be improved with a few more
introductory modules.
Since
, Sep 25, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
It is true that you can do all of these things in EToys, if you know
where to start. It is also true that the start screen of EToys could
be improved by providing a path to each of them, and to other
education modules, and Etoys
Walter Bender has also created a Turtle Art/Python path using
programmable blocks. I did a presentation on it once showing some
simple functions for graphing, and adding math functions from Python
to Turtle Art. You start by assigning a single function call to a
block, then an expression, then a
I intend to apply for creating digital textbook replacements. Anyone
else interested?
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/22912
U.S. Department of Education includes OER in notice of proposed
priorities for grant programs
Timothy Vollmer, August 5th, 2010
Today the U.S. Department of
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 13:19, Frederick Grose fgr...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
I intend to apply for creating digital textbook replacements. Anyone
else interested?
How about affiliating with Sugar Labs as a Sugar Labs project
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 15:04, C. Scott Ananian csc...@cscott.net wrote:
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote:
El Mon, 12-07-2010 a las 22:13 -0400, C. Scott Ananian escribió:
In the past, we've been criticized for insufficient transparency. Does
anyone
An excellent summary of necessary areas of research. Now the question
is, what has been done? What do we know? What will we know soon, when
results of current studies get published? I started a Wiki page on
published academic papers, which has since been merged into
Try http://www.librarianchick.com/ .
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 17:48, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi
Can some of you send me some links to sites with free ebooks/digital
textbooks suitable for use in primary schools... English is ok. Need to be
culturally unbiased if possible.
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:26, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi All...
Here is a crazy idea for you all to laugh at, think about, or act on:
Sugar Apps!
Excellent, where practical. For example, on any device supporting
Linux, whether authorized by the manufacturer or not. ^_^
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:42, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote:
==Sugar Digest==
One of the nice things as you walk through the museum is that on
almost every wall is a quote about play. They have a nice collection
of quotes on line as well (See
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 21:34, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote:
Hi Dinko
A Pippy example of reading data from the microphone input would be good. See
Measure and Turtle Art experimental fork for code.
It would be good if the samples you create could also be used in the Turtle
Blocks
FYI
http://www.eetcconference.org/call-for-proposals/
-- Forwarded message --
From: Maria Droujkova droujk...@gmail.com
Date: Fri, May 14, 2010 at 06:54
Subject: [Math 2.0] Fwd: [ie-directory-forum:68] The Early Education
and Technology for Children
To:
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 17:07, William Schaub wsch...@steubentech.com wrote:
I was encouraged by some people at the RIT OLPC user's group to make a
post on this mailing list about a project of mine that is in the proof
of concept stage at the moment but needs a bit of polish.
Have you looked
I submitted a question about one-to-one computing and free digital learning
materials.
-- Forwarded message --
From: Natalie Foster, BarackObama.com i...@barackobama.com
Date: Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 17:06
Subject: Special live webcast with Arne Duncan
To: Edward Cherlin echer
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 08:31, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 7:15 PM, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote:
“you cannot edit projects on the phone. The authoring UI would have to
be completely redesigned. For serious work it's just too small, you at least
need
Does anybody here know about this Lemote computer from Quanta, and its
version of Debian? Venezuela is ordering lots of them. Is anybody
working on getting Sugar on it?
-- Forwarded message --
From: Luis Galindo llwwwl...@gmail.com
Date: 2010/4/1
Subject: Re: [Sur] Presidente
of the calculus. Since then,
Abraham Robinson and John Horton Conway have demonstrated how actual
infinitesimals can be incorporated into arithmetic and calculus.
Cheers,
Alan
From: Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com
To: Yamandu Ploskonka yamap...@gmail.com
Cc: iaep
If the kids could really measure accurately,
which can be done with a high quality pendulum,
they would find that the
acceleration is not actually constant, but differs by about one part in a
million from 14 feet above the ground and at the ground level (due the more
accurate inverse square
into account,
resulting in apparent decreases in centripetal forces. If we wanted to
be really finicky, we could take relativity into account also. ^_^
On 03/27/2010 10:03 PM, Edward Cherlin wrote:
If the kids could really measure accurately,
which can be done with a high quality pendulum
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 12:32, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote:
Hi Martin,
On 20 Mar 2010, at 15:54, Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Mel Chua m...@melchua.com wrote:
The short version is that instead of include all Activites by default,
we're thinking of
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/0/0e/Gravity.odt
Alan Kay's gravity lesson for ten-year-olds in Turtle Art and Record.
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 10:50, Caroline Meeks
carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote:
We are planning for April vacation week and working with the public library
a few blocks from
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:47, Caroline Meeks
carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote:
I gave a brief overview of RTI here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI95fgBnJWI
Having a process engineering background I found the concept of measuring,
changing things, and tracking the response to those changes
Eluminate does not run on 64-bit Ubuntu Linux, nor on many other
distributions, because the Java module to support it is not available.
We need something supported in Free Software, such as .ogg files.
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:22, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi All,
The CUE
Not just kids. I had to do my own detective work in order to send
Walter a set of TA sessions for various lessons.
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 13:08, David Farning dfarn...@gmail.com wrote:
The other day during an infrastructure meeting, Walter brought up some
thought on how to enable kids to
, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com
wrote:
Anybody know about this? I wonder whether he would be willing to let
us adapt his materials to laptops.
Good idea! What ideas do you have about how we would adopt it?
We could start by asking him if he would make them CC license. I'm
traveling
Thanks, Sebastian. Perhaps we can package Sugar on a Stick for USB in
various Linux distributions. The normal package installation process
can run a configuration script, which presumably could prompt the user
to insert a USB stick, warn about potential data loss, and verify the
size and format of
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:42, K. K. Subramaniam subb...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tuesday 23 February 2010 09:13:59 pm Edward Cherlin wrote:
We also know that simply asking the question and making careful observations
also gives astonishing results, as, for example, in the careers of Maria
Montessori
How is it that a vandal could rename my User page to an obscenity? Has
an admin account been compromised?
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Date: Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 17:15
Subject: Sugar Labs page User talk:Mokurai has been created by Anal bleaching
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:18, James Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote:
Caroline,
The book I'm writing at Floss Manuals has a chapter on adding Text to
Speech to Activities. It isn't difficult at all.
We had a college student who was interested in doing something to make
TTS a built in
I had an excellent meeting with an Asst. Superintendent of Bartholomew
County schools in Indiana. They plan to give every student a computer
that will cost less than printed textbooks. We will discuss contracts
to write the replacements for textbooks, funding sources for those
contracts, and
Can we get these into the Sugar content library for Haiti? Would
anybody like to ask them? These are not just for the current
emergency.
http://www.savethechildren.org/newsroom/2010/songs-health-advice.html?WT.mc_id=sn_combined
Save the Children Provides Songs with Lifesaving Health and
FYI. Important for rural deployments.
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From: Fouad Bajwa fouadba...@gmail.com
Date: Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 15:14
Subject: [bytesforall_readers] A 50-Watt Cellular Network
To: pakgrid pakg...@yahoogroups.com, bytesforall_read...@yahoogroups.com
A special
We need to get some grants. I would go if I could get funded and give
them plenty to think about. The US Dept. of Education has $44 billion
to hand out for education innovation. Can anybody help me apply, not
just for my benefit, but to pay you guys and hire more?
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 05:25,
Anybody interested?
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From: Patricia Schlicht pschli...@col.org
Date: Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 17:32
Subject: [WikiEducator] 240 Modules (regular school subjects K9-12)
need conversion into Wiki format - Help needed
To: wikieduca...@googlegroups.com,
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