Mel and Peter found a blog I am co-authoring with a graduate student in my department, Chris Lindgren.
http://fargoxo.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/sugar-on-a-stick-lingers-initial-response/ The two of us are trying to help a near-by elementary school explore the value of Sugar. The school is working towards a OLPC ratio, and they just got a shipment of netbooks plus Sugar on a Stick. Initial exploration with the Tech Team has been fun, but we have some questions. 1. USB capacity. Madison Elementary used a 4GB USB drive, but after imagining, the stick had less than 500 MBs left for expansion. 2. USB reliability. We aren’t optimistic about the sticks lasting for a whole semester, let alone a whole year. 3. Neighborhood issues: who are all those people? And how did they manage to start a chat session with our 4th graders? 4. Groups: can a teacher easily establish a group at the start of a semester and have it be persistent? Can groups be quickly and easily reconfigured? 5. File sharing: can any of the work done in Sugar be exported? We think the answer for Write is "yes" but we haven't tried it yet. I don’t know what else to ask developers, but we have lots of questions about curriculum integration, activity application, and would appreciate any kind of suggestion / directions. Kevin http://fargoxo.wordpress.com -- Kevin Brooks Chair Department of English Dept 2320, Box 6050 Morrill 219A North Dakota State University Fargo ND 58108-6050 701-231-7147 http://english.ndsu.edu/faculty/kevin_brooks/ The computer's true function is to program and orchestrate terrestrial and galactic environments and energies in a harmonious way. -- Marshall McLuhan
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