Re: [IAEP] Open Source Software Opportunities

Hey Caryl, I noticed you included the Enabling Writers contest with its top prize of $100,000 in your blog post. Just wanted to put out there that Nick Doiron and I have already started working on our entry; there's some proof-of-concept code up on github . W

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: How Does the New Haitian Sûrtab Tablet Measure Up?

We received text messages about it on our Haitian cell phone numbers several times a day when it first came out (Digicel, the group selling it, is Haiti's most popular cell company). It's great to see electronics being manufactured there. The idea that it can be dropped off at the factory for repa

Re: [IAEP] OLPC-SF February meeting

t dire need is help with the programming, but we also welcome input on any and all aspects. Thank you everyone! Sora Edwards-Thro On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 1:49 AM, Aaron Borden wrote: > Hello, > > OLPC San Francisco will be hosting our monthly meeting Saturday, > February 14th, from 10AM

Re: [IAEP] OLPC-SF February meeting

/es-ES/sugar/addon/4565 > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 2:01 AM, Sora Edwards-Thro > wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> We're looking for programming help on student writing software; hope some >> OLPC SF folks can become involved! I'm over on the East Coast, but I ca

[IAEP] Note-taking

Hi all, For our upcoming literacy project in Haiti, we'd like users to have the ability to take notes on books while they're reading them - basic things like highlighting, drawing arrows and such, or leaving text comments. It would be nice if they could then save those notes. I'm guessing many of

Re: [IAEP] Note-taking

Thanks for passing this on! I'm so glad someone was ahead of me on tackling this need. On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 8:40 PM, Tony Anderson wrote: > Oops! I forgot to include the install script: > > tar -xvf zim-0.62.tar.gz > cd zim-0.62 > sudo python setup.py install > cd - > rm -rf zim-0.62 > sugar-

Re: [IAEP] OLPC-SF February meeting

ore content can be easily added. > > Gonzalo > > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 2:44 AM, Sora Edwards-Thro > wrote: > >> Thanks for passing that on, Gonzalo! (note to self: when embarking on a >> project, first go to Sugar Labs and search extremely-relevant terms like

Re: [IAEP] Note-taking

Thanks for the additional input, everyone. James, Gonzalo, Tony, some responses below: On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 4:14 PM, James Simmons wrote: > > The catch is it only works with plain text files. > Yes, my original thought was we could convert PDF to plain-text files and just use the Write activi

Re: [IAEP] Note-taking

It is also available on the web. Here is the chapter on the Pathagar > book server, which might be of interest: > > http://en.flossmanuals.net/e-book-enlightenment/the-pathagar-book-server/ > > James Simmons > > > On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Sora Edwards-Thro > wrote:

Re: [IAEP] OLPC-SF February meeting

>>> Or I can upload and you can translate them online. >>> The process is a little different than with the pottle server used to >>> translate activities, >>> but the idea is the same. >>> I need the localization code you are using to Haitian Creole >

Re: [IAEP] Note-taking

Thanks for the clarification on speech-to-text stuff, Gonzalo. A project for the future would be creating a Haitian Creole text-to-speech engine. We've been relying on the French one, which does not pronounce certain things correctly. On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 9:00 AM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > > > I

Re: [IAEP] OLPC-SF February meeting

version is from 2009 > http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4195 > > > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Sora Edwards-Thro > wrote: > >> Gonzalo, if a French translation exists and it's easy to include both it >> and the English translations when making the te

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

I just got started with all of this in 2013, so my relationship with the project is very different from many others on this list. I'm also not a programmer. So this is just my perspective as a coordinator with schools using XOs in Haiti. I'm going to tackle the below item-by-item; looking forward

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

Thanks for the fact-checking, James. Sorry I didn't correctly attribute credit to you, Gonzalo. On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 3:33 PM, James Cameron wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 03:19:18PM -0500, Sora Edwards-Thro wrote: > > Here's a table Martin Dluhos generated of the start

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 10:13 PM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > Someone remarked that teachers don't like to use Sugar. If not,... why not? > > Ask them! > I hate to say that the user's not always right, but in Haiti at least, some of the teachers are disappointed when they see Sugar because they were e

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > Thanks Sora for sharing. We are working in a questionnaire to get more > information > from the local deployments. If you agree, we can send it to you > to get more information from Haiti deployments. > Somehow missed this message yester

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] interesting article on evaluation

Thanks for sharing, Walter. Evaluation is a key component of my own research on kids using the XO-1 laptops to develop as readers and authors. Here is the data we hope to collect: -reading habits We will monitor which books individual students are downloading from the server. We will also

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] interesting article on evaluation

h what the students wrote and try to draw useful conclusions from it. Out of curiosity: what sort of information becomes relevant when analyzing a Turtle Art project? On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Walter Bender wrote: > On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Sora Edwards-Thro > wrote: > &

Re: [IAEP] Planning for the future

On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 11:53 PM, wrote: > The web sugarizer is a good attempt for quick start with limited > activities. Hope this can change quickly. > Are you thinking the change will be the addition of new activities, or the > 2. Support the idea that Sugar must be optimised to work with RPi

Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 84, Issue 2

On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 9:48 PM, wrote: > Good analysis Tony. I live in the Get1 world that started me to work on > the Give1 world. In fact the Give1 world has changed to Loan1 world. With > that I could try to predict the chance of success before scaling up or > saying No. > > http://www.scribd.

Re: [IAEP] Future Direction

On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 10:58 PM, Tony Anderson wrote: > Adding the Gnome Desktop has been very helpful in selling educators that > the XO is an effective lead-in to their Windows Office oriented secondary > school curriculum. > Yes, principals and other stakeholders are generally extremely skept

Re: [IAEP] Future Direction

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 6:49 PM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > We see that all time, is not surprising at all. > Some (but not all) kids will try until find the way, > and many adults are used to a more structured way of learning, > and are afraid of "break something". > Everyone's capable of thinking

Re: [IAEP] Future Direction

e normal day is > over > Thanks for reminding us about the other kinds of obstacles to implementing these programs. > > On 03/05/2015 08:18 PM, iaep-requ...@lists.sugarlabs.org wrote: > >> Message: 2 >> Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 12:13:46 + (UTC) >> From: Alan

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Numbers

In Haiti, OLPC sent laptops to four towns: Kenscoff, Lascahobas, Thomazeau, and Jacmel. I've visited three of them to try and figure out what happened to the XOs. Here's what I found: https://projectrive.wordpress.com/2014/07/24/kenscoff-special-report/ https://projectrive.wordpress.com/2014/07/11

Re: [IAEP] [UKids] Amzn Fire Sale No More: pricing rises 86% !

Price has gone up to $49.99 for Prime members, as far as I can tell. That's a 43% increase over the Black Friday $34.99 deal, not 86% or double. The Black Friday sale ended, yeah.

Re: [IAEP] [UKids] Amzn Fire Sale No More: pricing rises 86% !

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 9:21 AM, Adam Holt wrote: > > FWIW "$64.99 Amazon Prime without special offers" is Amazon's very own > language, an 86% rise over the price-for-everyone on many recent days. > As far as I understand, that's *always *been the situation. When I bought tablets back in Septembe

Re: [IAEP] [UKids] "Top 50 Educational Apps Are Mostly All Stuck In The Stone Age"

Thanks for passing this on; it's helpful for my research on technology and literacy. The authors of the report itself mention television programming as the gold standard for educational media. But accessing a television program is just a matter of tuning to the right station; you don't have to dow

Re: [IAEP] International Society for Technology in Education 2016 Conference and Expo?

I'll be there presenting research on a literacy project with XOs in Haiti. On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 12:32 AM, Dave Crossland wrote: > > Hi > > Is anyone involved in Sugar Labs going to > https://conference.iste.org/2016/ ? > > Has anyone gone from SL attended previous years? > > ISTE 2016 says it

Re: [IAEP] International Society for Technology in Education 2016 Conference and Expo?

Dave Crossland wrote: > Hi Sora > > I'm curious about your presentation that is coming up in a couple of > weeks - will your slides be available online? :) > > On 31 March 2016 at 12:31, Sora Edwards-Thro wrote: > > I'll be there presenting research on a literacy

Re: [IAEP] International Society for Technology in Education 2016 Conference and Expo?

Right, but it's called "Project Rive" on the planet.laptop.org site. On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 12:23 AM, Dave Crossland wrote: > Hi > > You mean the https://kidswrite.org blog? :) > > On 13 June 2016 at 21:47, Sora Edwards-Thro wrote: > > I'll be prin

Re: [IAEP] FW: Last Day to Save on Kindle Devices, $500 off NordicTrack SpaceSaver Treadmill, $669 Dell Inspiron 17 Core i7 Skylake Laptop

Tablets currently retailing for $35.33 on Amazon; spoiler alert you can only order 1 per Prime account, though. On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Don't know if this is real, but today may be the last day to get the > $39.99 price on the Kindle… for a while. I

Re: [IAEP] Priority languages to translate Sugar

I added Haitian Creole, even though it's already been partly translated, because the quality of the translations is weak and not finished. I know there was some talk in the past about hiring a firm - Educa Vision - to do the translations and contribute a Haitian Creole dictionary app, but I don't k