Re: [IAEP] [Fwd: 0.84 goals]

2008-08-15 Thread forster
Hi I note that, following the link, Trac #6128 says: “There has been much discussion about how to achieve grouping in the journal, and whether to move towards a hierarchical structure, like directories and subdirectories on a normal file system. In the current design, tags are intended to be

Re: [IAEP] wolfram's mathematica

2008-09-30 Thread forster
wolfram's mathematica page says: Mathematica has been ported to the OLPC $100 laptop Mathmatica has a licence fee, GeoGebra http://www.geogebra.org/ is free, (GNU General Public License), and would be even more interesting to see on Sugar/XO Tony

Re: [IAEP] [Olpc-open] G1G1 (was Re: [Community-news] OLPC News (2008-09-29))

2008-10-04 Thread forster
a lab session. Maybe there could be a conference set that could be shipped round the world as required? Tony Forster ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] Waveplace awards

2008-10-24 Thread forster
The awards for the Waveplace Carribean pilot are live at http://www.waveplace.com/news/awards/ in 15 minutes (if I can read my timezones correctly) ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [IAEP] http://www.nln.ac.uk/ - national learning network

2008-11-02 Thread forster
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 8:33 PM, David Van Assche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a uniquely interesting site with content for the entire British curriculum that has been put into a format importable in all VLEs, with a concentration on Moodle. Thanks David for this link. Lots of good

Re: [IAEP] Working math graphs/plots

2008-12-10 Thread forster
Sounds interesting. Sugar/OLPC really needs a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets are powerful learning tools which enable the manipulation and visualisation of data. Why isn't the spreadsheet for Open Office included? Is it because its footprint is too big or because its not sugarised? In addition to

Re: [IAEP] USB based access in Australia

2008-12-11 Thread forster
hi Donna and other Aussies, Do you know the folks at Cybersource? http://www.cyber.com.au/press/government_laptop_best_value_solution.html hi Donna and other Aussies, Do you know the folks at Cybersource? http://www.cyber.com.au/press/government_laptop_best_value_solution.html Con has

Re: [IAEP] Ncomputing

2008-12-12 Thread forster
We had a similar thin client system in the computer lab of an education conference recently. At least 2 of the sessions could not run as planned because the workstations did not have the functionality of a normal PC. In my case I needed 32M of video memory. The same criticism though could be

Re: [IAEP] [Sur] Turtle Art Portfolio v-7

2009-02-10 Thread forster
Edward With these arithmetic tiles and square root, I can do all of Euclidean synthetic plane geometry and all of plane analytic geometry up to You will still rapidly run into limitations with TA. The canvas effectively limits the number of tiles you can have in your program, scroll

Re: [IAEP] View source in TA (was Re: Sugar Digest 2009-02-03)

2009-03-14 Thread forster
Edward Thanks. The code seems to contain many Magic Numbers, as in 'sqrt': (('num',True,0,20),('num',False,42,20)), Are they documented anywhere? A little documentation on these magic numbers which specify docking coordinates at http://sugarlabs.org/go/Modifying_Activities#tasetup.py

Re: [IAEP] 2 design proposals: home view, discoverable shortcuts

2009-03-22 Thread forster
I view resume by default as a kind of ugly hack to paper over another problem ... Resume by default discourages users from creating new documents until such time as we can handle the volume of documents they create. Sugar should be low entry, wide walls and high ceiling That is, while

Re: [IAEP] 2 design proposals: home view, discoverable shortcuts

2009-03-22 Thread forster
thanks for the comments Tagging is good, but best for information which is impractical to structure. I doubt that there is consensus here on this question. Does anybody know of any relevant empirical data? I don't have anything empirical, I hope someone does. I suspect you can run that

[IAEP] Netbook trial

2009-03-24 Thread forster
A trial of 10,000 take home netbooks at netbooktrial.wikispaces.com They come with Vista and a selection of proprietary and open source software. Some interesting material for classroom activities and evaluation details ___ IAEP -- It's An Education

Re: [IAEP] status on Sugar Guide for 0.84

2009-03-26 Thread forster
1. Walter or someone with python knowledge, could you review the Modifying Sugar chapter at http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Sugar/8_4/ModifyingSugar? Sorry a bit late with this suggestion. Also I am just about to be travelling and can't help implement. Modifying Activities

[IAEP] OT: Networking challenges in developing countries

2009-04-25 Thread forster
Another approach to third world networks is HF radio http://www.peoplefirst.net.sb/general/PFnet.htm People First Network is a rural networking project that promotes rural development and peace building by enabling affordable and sustainable rural connectivity and facilitating information

Re: [IAEP] Logic simulator

2009-05-03 Thread forster
Noticed this Flash based logic simulator: http://joshblog.net/projects/logic-gate-simulator/Logicly.html Would be quite a simple sandbox activity to make (python, gtk+, ciaro); but before I burn time (well add to my future todos list), do teachers on this list think it is more

Re: [IAEP] [PATCH] add clock frame device

2009-05-08 Thread forster
The below patch adds a clock device to the frame: Thanks Martin, I have wanted a clock for a long time. Can we please have an idiots guide for installation? eg remove the leading + symbols save it as *.py do what with it? ___ IAEP -- It's An Education

Re: [IAEP] Wanted: Videos of Sugar and XOs in action

2009-05-11 Thread forster
Hi all, for a presentation here in Vienna that's coming up at the end of the week Tano (in CC) and myself are looking for videos (in English or with English subtitles) of Sugar and XO in action. you may find something at www.waveplace.com or search youtube for waveplace Tony

[IAEP] journal criticism (was Re: Re: Re: [RELEASE] TurtleArt-51)

2009-05-28 Thread forster
[sorry, I am not on sugar-devel list] Hi Tomeu Two points expanded: altering the filenames and extensions of email attachments Could you please expand on this use case? Using webmail, you save a mail attachment to the journal, the filename is not preserved. Using webmail you retransmit

Re: [IAEP] journal criticism (was Re: Re: Re: [RELEASE] TurtleArt-51)

2009-05-29 Thread forster
this mail got lost in the ether for 2 days, its old stuff and has been discussed long ago: [sorry, I am not on sugar-devel list] Hi Tomeu Two points expanded: altering the filenames and extensions of email attachments Could you please expand on this use case? Using webmail,

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2009-06-01

2009-06-01 Thread forster
Walter wrote In Sugar, we bundle an IRC Activity that defaults to #sugar. * Is there more we can do to encourage participation? IRC can be a bit daunting for the beginner, both the technical aspects and the etiquette. I have added a link to each team meeting page Help:

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2009-06-01

2009-06-02 Thread forster
Your links is daunting to the beginner, too. How do I get there? oops, sorry, internal sugarlabs wiki link http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Contacts#IRC.2C_Internet_Relay_Chat ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)

Re: [IAEP] [Grassroots-l] OLPC in Kindergarten

2009-06-14 Thread forster
Radia Perlman in the 70s when at student at MIT did extensive experiments with preliterate children and the LOGO turtle and built a number of interfaces for them. She also spent some time at Xerox PARC where we duplicated her interfaces and did many similar experiments with chldren 3

Re: [IAEP] Open Office on XO?

2009-06-19 Thread forster
Hi... Has anyone out there in Sugarland been able to run Open Office on an XO? I have someone doing a project that sounds like he may need a spreadsheet program and a presentation program for. I used to think that the lack of a spreadsheet was a serious deficiency but now think that

Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and ''Mastering'' Educational SW

2009-06-29 Thread forster
I share Alan and Edward's concern that we are selling kids short, if physics education is all about just getting the 'right' answers but want to break down the question posed by Greg into some sub-questions: 1)Despite the limitations of education which focuses on getting the 'right' answers,

Re: [IAEP] Alternative icon design for Get Internet Archive Books, please comment

2009-06-30 Thread forster
Jim I like the icon of the browser on the open book To me it says: get a book from the internet Unlike the other suggestions, it can be interpreted without any prior knowledge, because it builds on the Browse and book reader icons which have their meaning defined within Sugar by these

Re: [IAEP] Physics

2009-06-30 Thread forster
I like Physics, thanks for drawing my attention to it. A simple guide to hacking Physics using Activities that normally come with a XO (Browse, Pippy Terminal) at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Modifying_Activities#Modifying_Physics Currently all objects have the same material settings:

Re: [IAEP] 7th-grade biology

2009-07-01 Thread forster
Bert Here's the pseudocode: Information about object: controller Sprite: no sprite Solid: false Visible: true Depth: 0 Persistent: false Parent: no parent Mask: same as sprite Create Event: set Alarm 0 to 7 set variable foodnumber to 0 set variable bugnumber to 0 execute code: show_info() set

Re: [IAEP] GPA Report

2009-07-01 Thread forster
We are hoping that the kids can create a US version of the Uruguay geography/facts game. Any ideas on how to make that easy to do? The vision is they will learn things in class then make them into questions to put into the game. We will meet with the third grade on Thursday afternoons. See

Re: [IAEP] SoaS notes: Gardner (GPA)

2009-07-07 Thread forster
Thanks Caroline/Mel/Walter for documenting this They are useful observations It may help to give some background: year level socio-economics in school/lunchtime/holiday program? prior experience (including Logo etc) Should you introduce standard terminology and what about concepts which they

Re: [IAEP] GPA Notes from visit on Wed July 8

2009-07-22 Thread forster
On idle thought #1: Give me a few icons to use as examples. Then I'll try to find time to just point to it and ask the kids: what do you think that does. The truth is that I'm not sure how they figured out that the computer can talk! I'm guessing its from the Speak icon but that's really an

Re: [IAEP] SoaS feedback (Physics)

2009-07-28 Thread forster
Bill I have been putting together a guide on reprogramming the Physics Activity http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Modifying_Activities#Modifying_Physics because: I like Physics, its good learning The Python/Sugar 'wrapper' code is not too difficult to program So another option is to modify the code

Re: [IAEP] sounds in Speak

2009-07-28 Thread forster
I'd imagine that the sound of the letter would vary depending on language, right? There is a dictionary for each language (eg. en_dict for English) which is compiled from a rules file and a list file, you can find a description of the syntax for these files in the dictionary documentation

Re: [IAEP] Letter to GPA Parents

2009-07-29 Thread forster
We found out today that summer school ends a week sooner then we thought! It ends next week. We want to send the sticks home with the kids. We need to write a letter to the parents explaining what the stick is. Does anyone have any suggestions or sample letters? What would be good, but

Re: [IAEP] Resend: Activities for SoaS?

2009-08-04 Thread forster
do any of the Activities requiring peripherals work with SoaS? For example, what works with Measure? Can you use the temperature probe? Does the oscilloscope work? My recollection is that the audio input for data logging doesnt work on non XO hardware but I could be wrong. Walter will

[IAEP] Anyone using the Map activity?

2009-08-07 Thread forster
I tried Map on a XO The map viewer and search worked OK. I didnt try to insert any material from the Journal. It starts zoomed in on Boston and I had to do a lot of pressing zoom out before I could do any useful navigation. I did not see a zoom slider tool. It is missing a lot of features of

Re: [IAEP] Anyone using the Map activity?

2009-08-09 Thread forster
Hi Nick Map V3 reports as V2 in the home list view Its still effectively twice as slow as google maps to go to a new location, would be better if it started zoomed out Does not display map/satellite/hybrid/terrain till you zoom (i think you pointed that out) sometimes measure takes its first

Re: [IAEP] Physics - Lesson plans ideas?

2009-08-16 Thread forster
Alan You ask whether Bill's Physics Activity suggestions have anything to do with real science. You rightly point out that the Physics Activity is an imperfect simulation of the real world and just as mysterious. Certainly playing with the Physics Activity is not the best way to discover how

[IAEP] activities.sugarlabs.org - xo

2009-08-25 Thread forster
For some reason Browse on my XO is having difficulty getting anything from activities.sugarlabs.org but my PC with Firefox is OK. Its just activities.sugarlabs.org and its subdirectories http://www.sugarlabs.org/ is ok http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/ is ok can anyone confirm that there is a

Re: [IAEP] activities.sugarlabs.org - xo

2009-08-25 Thread forster
Thanks Aleksey (for the benefit of others we discussed this offlist last night my time) Aleksey was able to access the site OK but it has been offline on my XO for 48 hours, there was a period last night of about an hour when it was offline on my PC too. It appears to be a routing issue between

Re: [IAEP] deployment team meeting?

2009-08-30 Thread forster
Its worth looking at http://www.edulists.com.au/ to see what help teachers ask for (see archived messages) and what they share (click on a branch) You will see that its mainly the ICT areas where there are contributions. Some thoughts: Its really only the ICT teachers that network, probably

Re: [IAEP] installation problem

2009-09-08 Thread forster
I have tried to create on a 2GB stick and it fails: not enough space Have tried the max allowed a bit over 1.5G, 1.5G and 1.4G the iso is 379 MB Tony On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Tomeu Vizosoto...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 16:19, robertorobert...@gmail.com wrote: hello

Re: [IAEP] Electricity and magentism

2009-09-09 Thread forster
At GPA we will be working with the 4th grade. Their fall science topic is Electricity and magentism. We have the GCompris activity: GCompris Electric 11 Any other suggestions? http://tonyforster.blogspot.com/2009/03/xo-electricity-and-magnetism.html This works on the XO but may not work on

Re: [IAEP] installation problem

2009-09-09 Thread forster
Dave After reserving 1GB, windows reports 1.87G total, 1.36G used, 0.526G free The log below shows attempts ranging from 1.539GB to 1.05GB In all cases it fails near the 99% point, on closer reading it was only 1.539GB that reported insufficient space. My recollection is that the on screen

Re: [IAEP] turtle art clean request

2009-09-13 Thread forster
If you are redoing clean, I have found an inconsistency in TA63 clean clears the print display but the eraser icon does not Good point. I'll look into adding the new block (probably not until after feature freeze, alas). ___ IAEP -- It's An

Re: [IAEP] Another article that could probably use some measured response.

2009-09-14 Thread forster
This article quotes the study of Romanian students which found that computers lowered learning outcomes I believe this study is flawed and its conclusions suspect http://tonyforster.blogspot.com/2008/06/home-pcs-lower-education-results.html Tony This may have already come up in the 680

Re: [IAEP] Sugar evaluation and impact

2009-09-16 Thread forster
see http://wiki.laptop.org/images/f/fb/Literature_Review_040309.pdf ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] Trans.: [info-fsf Digest] Turtles all the way down to the source code

2009-09-16 Thread forster
Software Freedom Day, Melbourne, Sat 19th September http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/melb Squeak - Tansel Ersavas 12:30 ScratchTurtleArt - Tony Forster 1:00 Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:24:56 -0400 From: Deborah Nicholson members...@fsf.org Subject: [FSF] Turtles all the way down to the source

Re: [IAEP] Sugar evaluation and impact

2009-09-16 Thread forster
Gerald I for one am interested. Can you make your research public? If so why not upload to olpc or sugarlabs wiki? Tony This literature review is fantastic. I am a middle school science teacher in Northern Westchester County, NY, and am also a doctoral student at Pace University. My

Re: [IAEP] inquiry on constructionism advantages

2009-09-28 Thread forster
I have received an inquiry on implementing constructionism from a high official in the Bolivian government. Since my opinion may be biased :-), I request you help us with clear, simple and please objective answers (no vapor-stuff), if at all possible Yamandu The short answer is probably

Re: [IAEP] R: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry)

2009-11-17 Thread forster
Hi Another consideration is the reading age of the books. This tip I found useful: You can use the grammar checker of MS Word to find the Flesch-Kincaid reading age of a text by just pasting a few paragraphs of the text into Word. Tony I made a (very) little survey: - the Alice in wonderland

Re: [IAEP] Sharing EToys projects

2009-12-06 Thread forster
There is a description of Mime at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar.mime#Who_decides_the_default_activity_for_opening_files_of_different_mime_types.3F and more at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Journal_entry_bundles You can specify the Mime if using copy-to-journal from the command line eg

[IAEP] [Sugar-devel] sounds in Speak

2009-12-14 Thread forster
Speak has editable dictionaries which control the sound, for each language there is a rules and list file It should be possible to edit them to make the sounds of individual letters, its certainly possible to do the opposite, sound the name of the letters in abbreviations eg. OLPC

Re: [IAEP] LOGO advocacy

2010-02-01 Thread forster
Bernie I have added Logo material at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Presentations#Presentations_on_Logo_Like_Languages Tony [cc iaep] Dear Walter, the education technology lead at Paraguay Educa, Pacita, is looking for some good papers about the benefits of LOGO and similar

Re: [IAEP] Webinar tonight, February 17th: Math game design framework

2010-02-18 Thread forster
Maria has posted a recording of the webinar at http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/Math+Games+Framework Tony This is a part of the Math 2.0 Interest Group series of weekly open webinars. We will discuss a few game design books, see what game mechanics correspond to math ideas, and look at

[IAEP] [etoys-dev] TED - Alan Kay - Example(8:44)

2010-02-19 Thread forster
Pythagoras video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTuAq5OeWhY could be done in Turtle Art or Etoys ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] JTLA Special Edition: ''Educational Outcomes and Research from 1:1 Computing Setting''

2010-02-20 Thread forster
thanks to an article on eschoolnews.com (http://www.eschoolnews.com/2010/02/16/11-programs-only-as-good-as-their-teachers/) I stumbled across a special edition of the Journal of Technology, Learning and Assessment (JTLA) which focuses on Educational Outcomes and Research from 1:1

Re: [IAEP] [etoys-dev] TED - Alan Kay - Example(8:44)

2010-02-21 Thread forster
Here is an SVG of the simplest proof of the Pythagorean theorem I know, by dissection of a large square into five pieces that fit together into two smaller squares side by side. Thanks Edward Not an easy task to do in Game Maker because you would need to generate the triangles in both the

Re: [IAEP] JTLA Special Edition: ''Educational Outcomes and Research from 1:1 Computing Setting''

2010-02-22 Thread forster
Thanks Tony I had missed that when I skimmed it. There is lots of evidence, including common sense, for the importance of increased learning time. Sugar on a Stick people, this is important to us too, we need sticks that work outside the school. :) Caroline just found another study:

Re: [IAEP] [etoys-dev] TED - Alan Kay - Example(8:44)

2010-02-23 Thread forster
Which brings us back to the point that symbolism is not the same as algebra. Maria Droujkova Maria, Can you please expand that point Lemke would, I think, argue that mathematics is a set of symbols for communicating with and thinking with http://www.schools.ash.org.au/litweb/page500.html

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Turtle Art on Activities.sugarlabs.org

2010-02-25 Thread forster
What about multimedia objects in a ta project? I'm not even sure how to transfer a project between two computers with associated multimedia . Manually copy all relevant journal entries? Are entrynames preserved? Tony ___ IAEP -- It's An Education

Re: [IAEP] guidance for developing activity

2010-03-01 Thread forster
I am developing an activity for XO laptop. Through which child can learn about the various mode of transpiration. Can any body suggest me which software I can use to develop the activity. Maybe Etoys or Turtle Art? Both are powerful programming languages, they also allow students to look

Re: [IAEP] [FIELDBACK] Etoys

2010-03-02 Thread forster
You know, of course, that under the View toolbar in Turtle Art, the coordinates of the Turtle are displayed. :) Any feedback re TA-83 would be very welcome. -walter Wow - This is great work! This was something I was missing in class sometimes, as I have already told you ;D This

Re: [IAEP] Response to Intervention - Is this being used outside the US?

2010-03-11 Thread forster
Caroline Thanks for bring this to my attention, you have done a good video presentation of it. Testing (and tailoring instruction as a response) is coming back into fashion in Australia. Australia seems to lag the US in this. The US has had the No Child Left Behind for a while now, which has

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Children want Sugar 0.84, for the wrong reason

2010-03-13 Thread forster
I have been unable to install Bernie's OS67 or Steven Parrish's os12, Bernie and I have been discussing this off list. If anybody has the same problem please let us know. Detailed instructions on the installation process are at

Re: [IAEP] ANNOUNCE: New F11 XO-1build 115 Paraguay

2010-03-28 Thread forster
Bernie Build 115 looks good thanks. I was able to run TurtleArt under both Sugar and Gnome. That was fun. Touchpad seems jumpier but that may just be coincidence. Only problem is that the XO will not boot unless a USB is plugged in with a devkey. This is probably why I was unable to use your

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: Helping kids develop mobile applications?

2010-03-30 Thread forster
This was posted to mobile-devel-l...@gnome.org by Stormy. I figure, while not directly gnome mobile sugar uses alot of the gnome mobile stack. Someone from San Francisco might be interested or able to do a combined sugar and gnome-mobile event. Its certainly worth considering making Sugar

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: Helping kids develop mobile applications?

2010-03-31 Thread forster
“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 a screen size like the XO has“ Thanks Bert Cherry What would a good learning app for a phone look like? It need not be a visual block

[IAEP] OECD releases a new report ..

2010-04-20 Thread forster
Fwd: OECD releases a new report on technology use and educational performance in PISA Dear all, The OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation, in cooperation with the OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry and with the support of the Norwegian Ministry of

Re: [IAEP] SoaS Creation Saga

2010-04-22 Thread forster
you probably have all this but: A: a floppy B: the second floppy C: the hard drive D: etc additional drives in the time order windows discovered them To eject, click on the remove hardware icon at the bottom right left click is less confusing than right click you get a list of removable drives,

Re: [IAEP] OLPC, Sugar and Sugar on a Stick in Global Issues curriculum?

2010-05-06 Thread forster
Looks like it might be part of the Oxford Reading Tree http://fds.oup.com/www0.oup.com/ort/2/intro.html Tony

Re: [IAEP] Peru, OLPC and Wikipedia

2010-05-10 Thread forster
I've been following your comments on this. Am I the only one who finds this charming but at the same time strangely disturbing If you mean the intrusion of the outside world into their idyllic lifestyle - no If you mean the interviewee talking about Darwinian social evolution - yes On

Re: [IAEP] Peru, OLPC and Wikipedia

2010-05-10 Thread forster
Caryl A little more research by me the interviewed social Darwinist is Robert Wright, the author of Nonzero http://www.nonzero.org/ The filmmaker is Righteous Pictures http://righteouspictures.com/ Wright seems to believe that there is a higher purpose to biological and social evolution,

Re: [IAEP] Pippy improvements (Python examples)

2010-05-15 Thread forster
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 programmable Python block Tony Hello everyone, I'm Dinko and I'll

Re: [IAEP] Need Help With A Small XO-1 Problem

2010-05-19 Thread forster
Quoting Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com: Caryl Open the Log activity and see if you are generating any error messages You will find a lot of warnings already in the logs but you may see some new error messages, particularly in the log for write after you paste Tony Hi Folks... A

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Scratch-20100321

2010-05-22 Thread forster
my recollection it is except for the name scratch and the cat. that is, you can create a fork if you dont call it scratch and you dont use the cat graphic tony Is Scratch free software now? I believe it didn't used to be. The license page in ASLO is empty:

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Scratch-20100321

2010-05-22 Thread forster
Also about Scratch variations..I came across panther http://scratch.wikia.com/wiki/Panther Thanks Rafael for finding Panther. Looking at the dates its only just been released. Its a strong endorsement of Sugar's educational philosophy, open source, low entry, high ceiling (or Turtles all

Re: [IAEP] community team

2010-05-24 Thread forster
Yes, please, all meetings listed in UTC. There are now proposals for Deployment and Community meetings. What are the scope of the two meetings? Is there overlap? Are both going ahead? Attending meetings is a big commitment from Australia/NZ, they are typically 4am local time, we understand

Re: [IAEP] Books and educational achievement

2010-05-25 Thread forster
This study seems to make a powerful argument in favor of ramping up the quantity of e-book content on school servers. Books in the home as important as parents� education level http://www.unr.edu/nevadanews/templates/details.aspx?articleid=5450zoneid=8 Thank Chris Even more interesting

[IAEP] video of Australian laptop deployment

2010-05-25 Thread forster
Video of Australian OLPC deployment at http://7pmproject.com.au/video.htm Select full episodes on RHS, Tuesday 25 May, Missing children's day; One Laptop Per Child Video starts after advertisement, after missing children's day, a little over halfway through the video

Re: [IAEP] deployment meeting and how we can support through testing

2010-06-08 Thread forster
Quoting Raul Gutierrez Segales r...@rieder.net.py: Yes, thanks all and specially Raul and Tabitha. When is the next meeting? How about next Wed (Jun 9th)? What time? ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)

Re: [IAEP] deployment meeting and how we can support through testing

2010-06-08 Thread forster
East coast Australia is UTC +10, (NZ I think is +12) For me, avoid UTC 14 to UTC UTC 19 Tony On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 10:32, Tabitha Roder tabi...@tabitha.net.nz wrote: Do we have a time yet for our next deployments meeting? Last message I have is that we said Wednesday 9 June. What time

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] OLPC rules out Windows for XO-3

2010-06-08 Thread forster
Ian Do you think that the solution is to create a new and more narrow list which meets the needs of deployers and teachers or to narrow the scope of IAEP and moderate it to keep it within scope? My understanding if IAEP is thats its a catch all, if you only follow one list, its the one to

Re: [IAEP] eBooks for Primary Students?

2010-06-22 Thread forster
http://www.seaton-olpc-ug.org/?q=node/227 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. I need these for for folks doing Contributors Program

Re: [IAEP] Feedback request for my Python tutorial

2010-07-08 Thread forster
Hi I ran the introduction as Python code with Pippy this was probably not what you intended yet but it looks good I added run() to the end of the file it gave errors for .lowercase() so i deleted them Lines of text break in the middle of words it is good how you respond if students type

Re: [IAEP] Feedback request for my Python tutorial

2010-07-10 Thread forster
maybe print zero decimal places if they have followed your instructions but print a float (maybe with an explanation) if it evaluates to not a whole number Hi Tony, thanks for the suggestions. I've been thinking about some of those things myself already. I have only one comment: On

Re: [IAEP] Recommend build for XO-1.0 deployment

2010-08-01 Thread forster
I have been using OS258py It is unsigned and requires that the XO's be unlocked but that's not too hard to do for a small deployment Later py builds are even better but I havent tried them The main advantage is having Gnome. If you get stuck trying to do something in Sugar, you drop briefly

Re: [IAEP] kids hacking sugar?

2010-08-10 Thread forster
Soren I hope a non-Sugar anecdote is OK. I had a year 6 (aprox. 11year old) student in my class programming in a TurtleArt/Etoys/Scratch like drag and drop programming language with top end extensibility through a scripting language. He found a strategy game with quite complex coding in the

Re: [IAEP] Sugata Mitra: The child-driven Education

2010-09-08 Thread forster
What a depressing talk... Did anyone see any learning happening? -walter Walter I presume you refer to the student achievements being at the lower end of Bloom's Taxonomy: internet search and data retrieval with little evidence of having thought about the information on the way? In one

Re: [IAEP] Dextrose Install Snags

2010-09-12 Thread forster
While I am asking, is there a reason why the files for the XO-1 for 852 are .img and fs.zip while those for Dextrose are .img and .crc? Think its the difference between signed and unsigned builds, to use the crc one you need to be unlocked. Thats if I have it right.

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Child in charge of FOSS or Sugar

2010-09-20 Thread forster
*Tony* - *Having a FOSS culture means that lots of smaller design decisions are made which empower the learner* Soren I find it a bit strange being asked to explain FOSS culture. I run Windows on my computer and see myself as a little bit of an outsider. It is, I guess, difficult to define

[IAEP] Etoys, es fácil o es difícil? Etoys , is it difficult or easy?

2010-09-25 Thread forster
Hola El problema de pizza se ha discutido en este hilo, que tiene exactamente 920 pesos y pizzas costo 160 y 120, ¿cuántos puede comprar? Turtle Art pueden resolver problemas complejos, sólo por diversión, aquí es una solución The pizza problem has been discussed in this thread, you have

Re: [IAEP] Etoys, is it difficult or easy?

2010-09-28 Thread forster
Interesting More on visual and text programming languages http://www98.griffith.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/10072/24250/1/52212_1.pdf Tony Quoting K. K. Subramaniam kksubbu...@gmail.com: On Tuesday 28 Sep 2010 2:59:57 am Dr. Gerald Ardito wrote: The 5th graders took pretty well to Etoys. It is

Re: [IAEP] First evaluation results from OLPC Peru

2010-10-01 Thread forster
As to be expected - based on my own experiences while I was in Peru as well as talking to a lot of people who've worked there in the past - these first results aren't particularly great. Thanks Christoph Is there an English language version, Google Translate is a bit of a mess. Some of the

Re: [IAEP] Ask! Please! (Re: how to ask a question)

2010-10-08 Thread forster
Quoting Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com: I have a partial draft of a textbook on the subject at http://www.booki.cc/discovering-discovery/ It encourages XO owners to explore on their own and find out what questions they have before we give them answers. I like the idea. It encourages users

Re: [IAEP] Suggestions Needed!

2010-10-08 Thread forster
Hi You might get some ideas from http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Walter#Libre_Planet_talk or http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Tonyforster#Software_Freedom_Day_Melbourne_2010 Tony ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)

Re: [IAEP] Getting to BIOS (was Boot SoaS on Windows machines? Help!)

2010-11-11 Thread forster
Here's a Start, just add yours to the list: Getting to BIOS eeePC 701 F2 eeePC 900 Esc Dell Inspiron F12 Award Bios Del LanParty bios ctrl alt esc Instructions are usually displayed on the screen but you have to be a fast reader Advice from a 17 year old: just press

Re: [IAEP] XO-1.75 microphone socket

2010-11-16 Thread forster
Scott Thanks for your comments. As this is now more a discussion on education, I have copied to IAEP. Background for the IAEP list: Suggested experiments for using TurtleArt with external sensors are at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/TurtleArt/Using_Turtle_Art_Sensors The

Re: [IAEP] [Olpc-uruguay] Iconitos de red

2010-11-19 Thread forster
Carlos, translating: The book is Mindstorms, Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas Mindstorms Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas http://www.amazon.com/Mindstorms-Children-Computers-Powerful-Ideas/dp/0465046746

Re: [IAEP] newtechh...@coppell and Etoys info needed

2010-11-20 Thread forster
Caryl I am interested in hearing more of your project, what would the math games look like? What is the skill level of the programmers? How was Scratch inadequate for their needs? Two alternatives to consider are Turtle Art and Pippy/Pygame. Turtle Art, like Scratch is very 'low entry', its

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