Re: [Sugar-devel] Usage scenarios for Sugar?
Sean, I'm blowing my own horn here, but I just finished a new version of Read Etexts that might be worth a look. The new version has a Books tab that lets you search the Project Gutenberg offline catalog and download titles to the Journal. Gutenberg has lots of Juvenile books as well as well known books by European authors in their original languages. I posted it on ASLO yesterday, with new screenshots. In addition to the catalog search, if you run it on SoaS you can use the Speech tab to read the book aloud with word highlighting. Many different voices are available, so for instance you could use a French voice for the works of Dumas and Verne. The books are plain text, no pictures, but if I say so myself Read Etexts has become impressive in a way it never has been before. For books with pictures you could suggest a visit to the Internet Archive website to get books in PDF format that Read could use. There are some remarkable PDFs of scanned in book pages there. James Simmons Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 20:03:40 +0200 From: Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com Subject: [Sugar-devel] Usage scenarios for Sugar? To: Sugar Labs Marketing market...@lists.sugarlabs.org, iaep i...@lists.sugarlabs.org, Sugar Devel sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org Message-ID: 378b2b050905221103p1f5dbb29s935bc0b0c8543...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi everyone, we have been contacted by a monthly tech publication in Europe willing to devote several pages to Sugar in their summer issue! More specifically, advising parents how to download run SoaS and do educational stuff with their kids during the summer holidays. Off the top of my head I suggested a scenario where Memorize is customized with family photos, a Turtle Art lesson, ... Suggestions please! thanks Sean ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Usage scenarios for Sugar?
Where is the source? I dont see anything since march in git.sugarlabs.org David (nubae) On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 6:32 PM, James Simmons jim.simm...@walgreens.comwrote: Sean, I'm blowing my own horn here, but I just finished a new version of Read Etexts that might be worth a look. The new version has a Books tab that lets you search the Project Gutenberg offline catalog and download titles to the Journal. Gutenberg has lots of Juvenile books as well as well known books by European authors in their original languages. I posted it on ASLO yesterday, with new screenshots. In addition to the catalog search, if you run it on SoaS you can use the Speech tab to read the book aloud with word highlighting. Many different voices are available, so for instance you could use a French voice for the works of Dumas and Verne. The books are plain text, no pictures, but if I say so myself Read Etexts has become impressive in a way it never has been before. For books with pictures you could suggest a visit to the Internet Archive website to get books in PDF format that Read could use. There are some remarkable PDFs of scanned in book pages there. James Simmons Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 20:03:40 +0200 From: Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com Subject: [Sugar-devel] Usage scenarios for Sugar? To: Sugar Labs Marketing market...@lists.sugarlabs.org, iaep i...@lists.sugarlabs.org, Sugar Devel sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org Message-ID: 378b2b050905221103p1f5dbb29s935bc0b0c8543...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi everyone, we have been contacted by a monthly tech publication in Europe willing to devote several pages to Sugar in their summer issue! More specifically, advising parents how to download run SoaS and do educational stuff with their kids during the summer holidays. Off the top of my head I suggested a scenario where Memorize is customized with family photos, a Turtle Art lesson, ... Suggestions please! thanks Sean ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Usage scenarios for Sugar?
Many thanks for that James, great suggestion Sean On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 6:32 PM, James Simmons jim.simm...@walgreens.com wrote: Sean, I'm blowing my own horn here, but I just finished a new version of Read Etexts that might be worth a look. The new version has a Books tab that lets you search the Project Gutenberg offline catalog and download titles to the Journal. Gutenberg has lots of Juvenile books as well as well known books by European authors in their original languages. I posted it on ASLO yesterday, with new screenshots. In addition to the catalog search, if you run it on SoaS you can use the Speech tab to read the book aloud with word highlighting. Many different voices are available, so for instance you could use a French voice for the works of Dumas and Verne. The books are plain text, no pictures, but if I say so myself Read Etexts has become impressive in a way it never has been before. For books with pictures you could suggest a visit to the Internet Archive website to get books in PDF format that Read could use. There are some remarkable PDFs of scanned in book pages there. James Simmons Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 20:03:40 +0200 From: Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com Subject: [Sugar-devel] Usage scenarios for Sugar? To: Sugar Labs Marketing market...@lists.sugarlabs.org, iaep i...@lists.sugarlabs.org, Sugar Devel sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org Message-ID: 378b2b050905221103p1f5dbb29s935bc0b0c8543...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi everyone, we have been contacted by a monthly tech publication in Europe willing to devote several pages to Sugar in their summer issue! More specifically, advising parents how to download run SoaS and do educational stuff with their kids during the summer holidays. Off the top of my head I suggested a scenario where Memorize is customized with family photos, a Turtle Art lesson, ... Suggestions please! thanks Sean ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Usage scenarios for Sugar?
Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com writes: Hi everyone, we have been contacted by a monthly tech publication in Europe willing to devote several pages to Sugar in their summer issue! More specifically, advising parents how to download run SoaS and do educational stuff with their kids during the summer holidays. Off the top of my head I suggested a scenario where Memorize is customized with family photos, a Turtle Art lesson, ... The haitian team has been working a lot with Memorize. You can find some lesson plans here: http://olpchaiti.org/w/start?do=index (french) A very general but powerful activity we also experimented: let the kids create a newspaper from scratch. The topic was: Haitian public transportation. The children went in the streets with the XO, made interviewed of people, took pictures of cars, buses, etc, wrote about ideas they had etc. Activities involved: Write and Record. I was not present when they did this, but I can redirect you to someone who can give more details, just let me know. -- Bastien ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
