[IAEP] Accessing the hard drive of the host machine from a Virtual Box Sugar ?
Does anyone know how to bring files from the host's hard drive (I am on a Mac) into a Sugar running in Virtual Box? Thanks, Caroline -- 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
[IAEP] Paint and Transparent Backgrounds
As I work with Sugar I find that one of the things I want to do frequently is create a drawing and use it elsewhere, Turtle Art, Cartoon Builder, Memorize. Could we set Paint to have a transparent background on images as a default rather then white? That would make it easier to layer different drawings and have them interact. Is that difficult programatically? Can people think of places where having a transparent background will be a problem? -- 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
[IAEP] Browse download workarounds?
I am having a great deal of difficulty getting things to download in Browse 108 in Strawberry. I can't get attachments from gmail, photos from Flickr, or CAST books. I hear things are better in Blueberry and thats cool. Is there any thoughts on workarounds until GPA gets on Blueberry? Today's issue is I'm working on creating a Cartoon Builder of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and there is a wonderful picture of 2 pairs in Flickr that I want to use but I can't figure out how to download the images. http://screencast.com/t/PUoBSbJn09M0 Thanks -- 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
[IAEP] Talk at New Zealand PyCon : Support Appreciated
Hi all, I've been asked by the organisers of the Kiwi PyCon 2009http://nz.pycon.org to give a 45m interactive presentation. There will be about 150 expert python programmers interested people there, including Weta Digitalhttp://www.wetafx.co.nz(have you head of those movies, the Lord of the Rings, King Kong District 9?). At this stage, I'll probably have about 6 XOs there - but can take up to a dozen. I would like your thoughts on what kind of messages, if any, that you would be interested in sending through to the New Zealand python community. There are a number of academic (tertiary level) staff, but there wont be much representation from the education sector. Cheers, timClicks http://timmcnamara.co.nz/ http://twitter.com/timClicks ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Short Survey for Educators
Hi... I had a little time this evening to work on a possible educator's survey. I tried to keep it short and simple so folks would actually answer the questions. If some of you could take a look at this, make comments, and add anything you think should be in there I would appreciate it. Please use a different font so I can easily spot your notes. Eventually, we can put this up as a resource on the wikis. I plan to use it for the first time next month at the CUELA/LAUSD Tech Fair. If anyone else wants to use it sooner that is fine too. We should have a wiki page to tabulate results too, I guess. Thanks, Caryl Short Educational Computer Use Survey 1) Your position: Administrator _ IT Coordinator __ Teacher ___ Librarian _ Counselor Aide ___ Other (specify)__ 2) School Level Elementary (specify grades) ___ Middle School (specify grades) ___ High School (specify grades) Other (specify) _ 3) Does your school have computers for student use? Yes go to # 4 No skip to #8 4) Where are the computers for student use located? (check all that apply) School Library _ Computer Lab Computer Carts Computers in classrooms __ 5) What kind of computers do you have for student use? (Check all that apply) PCs Older Mac G4s or Power Macs ___ Newer Intel Based Macs ___ Laptops (specify kind) __ 6) Where did your school get the computers? (check all that apply) Bought new __ Donated new _ Donated used _ 7) What software is used most by your students? ___ _ _. 8) Does your school have plans to buy new computers in the near future? Yes__ No 9) If you could have free access to any kind of software for your students, what kinds of learning activities would you want to have available for them? __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ Optional (only if you wish) Your name: Email: School Name: ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Short Survey for Educators
Hi Caryl, This looks great. What I'd love to know is what percentage of their students do they think have computers and what percentage they believe have internet at home. Also do they ever assign computer work for homework? On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi... I had a little time this evening to work on a possible educator's survey. I tried to keep it short and simple so folks would actually answer the questions. If some of you could take a look at this, make comments, and add anything you think should be in there I would appreciate it. Please use a different font so I can easily spot your notes. Eventually, we can put this up as a resource on the wikis. I plan to use it for the first time next month at the CUELA/LAUSD Tech Fair. If anyone else wants to use it sooner that is fine too. We should have a wiki page to tabulate results too, I guess. Thanks, Caryl Short Educational Computer Use Survey 1) Your position: Administrator _ IT Coordinator __ Teacher ___ Librarian _ Counselor Aide ___ Other (specify)__ 2) School Level Elementary (specify grades) ___ Middle School (specify grades) ___ High School (specify grades) Other (specify) _ 3) Does your school have computers for student use? Yes go to # 4 No skip to #8 4) Where are the computers for student use located? (check all that apply) School Library _ Computer Lab Computer Carts Computers in classrooms __ 5) What kind of computers do you have for student use? (Check all that apply) PCs Older Mac G4s or Power Macs ___ Newer Intel Based Macs ___ Laptops (specify kind) __ 6) Where did your school get the computers? (check all that apply) Bought new __ Donated new _ Donated used _ 7) What software is used most by your students? ___ _ _. 8) Does your school have plans to buy new computers in the near future? Yes__ No 9) If you could have free access to any kind of software for your students, what kinds of learning activities would you want to have available for them? __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ Optional (only if you wish) Your name: Email: School Name: ___ support-gang mailing list support-g...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang -- 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
Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Short Survey for Educators
Thanks for starting the survey, some thoughts... 1) Your position: how about we add parent or student? Elementary (specify grades) ___ Middle School (specify grades) ___ High School (specify grades) Other (specify) _ Can we use terminology that is not country specific please? We would not know an elementary from a middle school here, likely same issue in other countries. We have preschool, primary, secondary, tertiary. Suggestion: Ages of students: from to __ 5) What kind of computers do you have for student use? (Check all that apply) PCs Older Mac G4s or Power Macs ___ Newer Intel Based Macs ___ Laptops (specify kind) __ Some people might not know what Intel or G4 or Power Mac means, but can remember what is written on the front of the screen. e.g. MacBook or iBook, HP or Dell. Is there away to capture that information if they can't use the categories above? 6) Where did your school get the computers? (check all that apply) Bought new __ Donated new _ Donated used _ What about bought second hand? 7) What software is used most by your students? ___ Do we want examples? Do we want to know operating system? Thought: They might be able to tell us more information from pictures than words 8) Does your school have plans to buy new computers in the near future? Yes__ No don't know is a category for some of the people answering this survey 9) If you could have free access to any kind of software for your students, what kinds of learning activities would you want to have available for them? __ Optional (only if you wish) Your name: Email: School Name: ___ school phone number? school address? how big is your school? student numbers and teacher numbers? Does the school have internet access? what kind? Is there a contact at the school that the surveyed person wants us to contact? That is about all I can think of right now Tabitha ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
