[IAEP] Registration on Sugar Labs Site
Hi... I wanted to register on the Sugar Labs site so that I could download and try Abecedarium. In spite of several tries, I was unable to register. Any suggestions? Caryl ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Registration on Sugar Labs Site
Hi... I wanted to register on the Sugar Labs site so that I could download and try Abecedarium. In spite of several tries, I was unable to register. Any suggestions? Caryl ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Strange, Slightly Unsanitary Solution To Jumpy Curser Problem
Hi All, Some of the XO-1s I am prepping for use in an elementary school in a women't shelter here in LA have jumpy cursers. My personal G1G1 machine shares this problem. I was getting tired of doing the 4-finger salute so I tried something else... I licked my index finger. Voila! The problem was solved! Of course, after a time I had to do it again as my finger dried. So... I am wondering (haven't had time to test it yet), would dipping the finger into another liquid (maybe a slightly saline solution?) work just as well? Would wiping the touch pad with some type of liquid work just as well? Maybe with a sanitizing wipe? Do people with naturally sweaty fingers have fewer problems with a jumpy cursor? Food for thought... any suggestions? Ideas? Caryl ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Strange, Slightly Unsanitary Solution To Jumpy Curser Problem
Caryl, You can also just put a post it over the middle trackpad. Gerald On Apr 26, 2013 4:36 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi All, Some of the XO-1s I am prepping for use in an elementary school in a women't shelter here in LA have jumpy cursers. My personal G1G1 machine shares this problem. I was getting tired of doing the 4-finger salute so I tried something else... I licked my index finger. Voila! The problem was solved! Of course, after a time I had to do it again as my finger dried. So... I am wondering (haven't had time to test it yet), would dipping the finger into another liquid (maybe a slightly saline solution?) work just as well? Would wiping the touch pad with some type of liquid work just as well? Maybe with a sanitizing wipe? Do people with naturally sweaty fingers have fewer problems with a jumpy cursor? Food for thought... any suggestions? Ideas? Caryl ___ support-gang mailing list support-g...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Turtle Art question
One of my students had a question about Turtle Art that I couldn't answer: is it possible to have a sensing event kick off a program instead of a user action? Thanks. Gerald ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Turtle Art question
I don't understand the question.. have events when a sensor changes? From: gerald.ard...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 21:09:25 -0400 To: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Subject: [IAEP] Turtle Art question One of my students had a question about Turtle Art that I couldn't answer:is it possible to have a sensing event kick off a program instead of a user action? Thanks. Gerald ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Who decides to install Sugar?
Hi I'm curious about use of Sugar beyond OLPC. How much is known about how people come to use the platform? If a kid is using Sugar (not on an XO) what are the circumstances? Are they more likely to be on a school machine , a family computer at home, their own bring your own device machine -or what? Did they most likely boot from a stick, run Sugar in a VM, run a terminal session on a shared server, install Sugar on a general purpose Linux machine, or use a dedicated Sugar machine? In a school scenario -who is most likely to have made the decision to install Sugar? Administrators of some school district?, a school?, a teacher?, a volounteer?, a student? Presumably all of the above happen. Presumably these are tough questions to answer (especially so if we are sensitive to user privacy and want to minimise phone home behaviour). How good a handle does the Sugar project have on use beyond olpc?? This is of course an eternal question for free software. Just for the record (why am I asking), I'm a geek with teacher-envy :-) I have been volounteering at a couple of (New Zealand) schools -where (surprise surprise) decisions about learning platforms are more or less being picked out of the air. More charitably we are trying various alternatives. My sense is that we are still just falling back to what we know; microsoft office training is being replaced by apple and google training-big deal. So -I'm curious about how Sugar is finding its way onto computers and in front of kids, beyond OLPC. Any comments, pointers, hunches, or stories would be appreciated. regards Peter ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
