Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Education on the XO

2009-01-04 Thread David Van Assche
Hi Albert, You don't need an account, you can just log in as guest, although its certainly advised to get an account so you can see the full functionality of Moodle like its user detail manipulation, etc. Some courses were set to non-guest or needed a key. I've changed them all to be free, so ju

[Sugar-devel] possible additional talks for XOCamp2?

2009-01-04 Thread Bryan Berry
I would like to give the following talks at XOCamp2 if there is space in the schedule for them and others are interested. Please let me know if you would be interested 1. Evolution of a deployment organization. About the challenges of building a deployment team from scratch and lesson learned a

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Education on the XO

2009-01-04 Thread Albert Cahalan
David Van Assche writes: > Actually there are a whole bunch of examples I uploaded > to schools.sugarlabs.org, the problem we have is of how > to categorise them. ie... do we put them via subject, > via class, via country, via language? I can't see anything there. It keeps demanding an account. I

Re: [Sugar-devel] Teaching typing and basic math on the XO (was: Re: [IAEP] How to Make Activity Designers Happy , Parts I and II)

2009-01-04 Thread Wade Brainerd
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 1:49 AM, Edward Cherlin wrote: > I would like to get hold of Omar Khayyam Moore's Edison Talking > Typewriter program and rewrite it in a modern programming language. It > ran on an IBM 360 and taught three-year-olds to read and write on a > Selectric terminal with very lit

Re: [Sugar-devel] anonymous gray activity circles

2009-01-04 Thread Wade Brainerd
Hey Michael, Did you try applying Sayamindu's patch from the previous email (and did you see the associated screenshot)? I'm surprised it hasn't been cleaned up and pushed by the Sugar dev team by now. -Wade On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Michael Stone wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 02:23:

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Flash at Sugar Labs

2009-01-04 Thread Wade Brainerd
I should add one assumption that I'm making, which is that Flash will never be considered the *primary* content authoring solution for Sugar activities. If it were to become so, given the current state as outlined by David's 4 points, there needs to be significant support by Sugar Labs for the Fla

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Flash at Sugar Labs

2009-01-04 Thread Wade Brainerd
Personally, I don't believe that Sugar Labs the organization needs to be concerned with any of these four points. The question is whether the Sugar *software* is flexible enough to adapt to the needs of its users. Who are we to say what they should install, and what tools they should use to make

[Sugar-devel] Flash at Sugar Labs

2009-01-04 Thread David Farning
Bryan Berry started a great thread about activity development a few days ago. In the initial post he proposed using flash as means of developing content. Before taking the thread any farther I though we should stop and look at what flash actually is. The term flash is often interchangeably used

Re: [Sugar-devel] anonymous gray activity circles

2009-01-04 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
> Here's a short code tour for your enjoyment. Thank you very much, Michael. This is very helpful. Would it be possible for you (or someone else) to similarly enumerate the conditions under which 'anonymous gray activity circles' are made to disappear ? I don't have difficulty with gray circ

Re: [Sugar-devel] anonymous gray activity circles

2009-01-04 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 02:23:41PM -0500, Chris Marshall wrote: >Two specific questions come to mind: > >(1) How does Sugar know that a new top level > window has been instantiated? Is there a > hook from the X server or what? Here's a short code tour for your enjoyment. I'll start by tra

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Education on the XO

2009-01-04 Thread David Van Assche
Actually there are a whole bunch of examples I uploaded to schools.sugarlabs.org, the problem we have is of how to categorise them. ie... do we put them via subject, via class, via country, via language? The infrastructure needs to be discussed and then agreed upon. That's the main reason why I di

Re: [Sugar-devel] Teaching typing and basic math on the XO

2009-01-04 Thread Wade Brainerd
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocBgc55sEsI On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Sascha Silbe < sascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.org> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 10:23:57AM -0500, Wade Brainerd wrote: > > I know Mavis has a simplified flash version on their website. >> > Got a URL? Cannot find it,

Re: [Sugar-devel] Teaching typing and basic math on the XO

2009-01-04 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 10:23:57AM -0500, Wade Brainerd wrote: I know Mavis has a simplified flash version on their website. Got a URL? Cannot find it, even after half an hour of searching the web (most hits are online software stores). The screenshots I found suggest at least the included "typ

Re: [Sugar-devel] Teaching typing and basic math on the XO

2009-01-04 Thread Wade Brainerd
I know Mavis has a simplified flash version on their website. On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Sascha Silbe < sascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 08:42:21PM -0500, Wade Brainerd wrote: > > I'm following the format used by programs like MicroType and Mavis Beacon >

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] How to Make Activity Designers Happy , Parts I and II

2009-01-04 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 15:16, Bill Kerr wrote: > On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Bryan Berry wrote: >> >> On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 15:18 -0500, Walter Bender wrote: >> >> > (3) We need lots more Activities. >> >> While there is consensus on this point, there is not consensus on the >> best way to ge

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] How to Make Activity Designers Happy , Parts I and II

2009-01-04 Thread Bill Kerr
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Bryan Berry wrote: > On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 15:18 -0500, Walter Bender wrote: > > > (3) We need lots more Activities. > > While there is consensus on this point, there is not consensus on the > best way to get a lot more Activities. That is, pulling a lot more > dev

Re: [Sugar-devel] Teaching typing and basic math on the XO

2009-01-04 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 08:42:21PM -0500, Wade Brainerd wrote: I'm following the format used by programs like MicroType and Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing (what I personally learned on). Both have demo versions for Windows available. Do you know where I could find some screenshots or similar sho