On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Caroline Meeks <solutiongr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes! In theory
"The difference between theory and practice is that in theory there is no difference, but in practice there is." > there are thousands of free books. In actuality, actually. Not just Project Gutenberg, but Wikibooks, Creative Commons, and others. See, in particular, http://www.librarianchick.com for textbooks on any and every subject. > We need people to be > able to experience that there are books available for Sugar when they try > Sugar. > > I like the idea of hooking the readers to a library. I don't know how much > work that is or who is available to do it now. > > Does anyone know where we are in terms of books on the activities portal? We can easily put together a set of bookmarks. What form should books be in for the School Server? There are supposed to be a Bible and a Qur'an for the XO. I know where the texts are for a dozen other religions, if anybody is interested in providing them. > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Martin Dengler <mar...@martindengler.com> > wrote: >> >> James, >> >> Thanks for your reply... >> >> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 05:07:15PM -0500, James Simmons wrote: >> > [I]f you want to download books from Gutenberg to the XO >> > check out Read Etexts and see what you think. >> >> Thanks - will do. And please know I'm just muttering from the peanut >> gallery - I'll put my code where my mouth is sometime, hopefully, but >> I can't now, sorry. So please feel free to ignore me. >> >> The scenario I was imagining was: >> >> Teacher: Can I get my class to read Shakespeare in Sugar? >> >> Imaginary SL person: Sure, just click on "Read ETexts" and then the >> "Find Books" tag. Type "Shakespeare", and go from there [at which >> point project gutenberg, journal items with a special tag, and other >> sources are queried filtered by "Shakespeare" to show what books are >> available for reading]. Students will need more than the bare texts. At least a dictionary of Elizabethan English, and preferably some of the books that Shakespeare himself read, such as Aristotle's Poetics, Plutarch's Lives, and Holinshed's Chronicles. >> > James Simmons >> >> Martin >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > > > -- > Caroline Meeks > Solution Grove > carol...@solutiongrove.com > > 617-500-3488 - Office > 505-213-3268 - Fax > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. http://earthtreasury.org/worknet (Edward Mokurai Cherlin) _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep