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From: Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:25 PM
Subject: Re: 9.1 proposal: Language learning on the XO.
To: Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at
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Mel Chua wrote:
> I'm going to try to reword this as a list of features that would potentially
> be good for the XO to have
Me too. I should make my bias clear: I believe we should put our efforts
into improving our existing datastore/Journal implem
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Mel Chua wrote:
1) Compatibility with existing applications
Feature: Making it possible to convert Linux/X applications into Activity
bundles, retaining all important functionality, without source code
alterations.
Current Sugar: Has a custom API for saving data that's "di
I'm going to try to reword this as a list of features that would potentially
be good for the XO to have, followed with a section on how Sugar currently
addresses the problem, and then potential solutions, including - but not
limited to - "modifying the datastore to provide human-readable file names
Hi,
Here's a (mostly) bugfix release of DebXO. There was a nasty bug
related to JFFS2 and kernel upgrades in 0.2; this release fixes it.
Note that there's a known bug on first boot with the gnome install on
JFFS2. A warning will pop up due to dbus not starting quickly enough.
This can safely be
Hello Chris
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 6:46 PM, Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> * A method -- similar to Scott's recent GtkLabel overlay for allowing
> strings inside Sugar and activities to be translated -- that does a
> dictionary lookup of a word on the screen and over
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm learning Spanish at the moment, and I wish the XO made it easier
> for me. I don't have any knowledge of what the right way to do either
> conventional or constructionist language learning on computers is; if
> an
On 28 Oct 2008, at 23:46, Chris Ball wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm learning Spanish at the moment, and I wish the XO made it easier
> for me. I don't have any knowledge of what the right way to do either
> conventional or constructionist language learning on computers is; if
> anyone has much experience w
I would like to give a try to explaining *why* I think we need to
establish Sugar as an independent upstream project and to discuss a
roadmap on *how* to gradually get there. Given the strong feelings and
the complexity of the issue, I'm willing to give the talk only if we
will be present in person
Hi,
I'm learning Spanish at the moment, and I wish the XO made it easier
for me. I don't have any knowledge of what the right way to do either
conventional or constructionist language learning on computers is; if
anyone has much experience with either, I'd love to hear about it.
I have some obvi
Walter's portfolio presentation should be very interesting. I've
spent a bit of time in Peru talking with him about it.
Briefly, the journal is a mechanism for finding and organizing
content, as well as serving a pedagogic role in allowing review and
reflection.
But what's also needed is a means
If one chooses to regard Activities as the "basic building blocks" of
learning experiences, then it seems natural to wonder how these blocks
can be glued together into larger learning structures. I will present
some thoughts that Cynthia, Barbara, Chris, Brian, and I have had on
this subject. (I am
Update:
With help from Martin, I created a branch (mdl19-sugarytinymce) with the
Sugar Theme for tinyMCE in the EduBlog repository (projects/EduBlog at
dev.laptop.org).
So far, it has really basic options
(Bold/Italic/Underline/Size/Style/Justification/Undo/Redo). On my todo
list is to cleanl
I've long wondered about the ambiguities and puzzles inherent in the
notion of 'activity' rather than 'application'. Therefore, I'd like to
talk about them!
I'll also speak about what I learned from recent experiments that I've
conducted writing activity-like software for helping humans to summari
Chris and I are going to spend a bit over a week in Uruguay immediately
prior to the conference. I expect that we will speak about our
adventures (assuming that we return capable of speaking!).
Michael
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I've worked on a variety of tools or tool-like communication aids, e.g
* gitembed / gitedit
* test-activity
* the Joyride dropbox mechanism
* puritan
* triagebot
* [[Friends in Testing]]
* [[OLPC:Journal]]
* summarize-activity
which I frequently wish were better known. Th
On 28.10.2008, at 11:38, James Simmons wrote:
> What the Journal doesn't do is
> open the one you'd like as a default.
/usr/share/sugar/data/activities.default
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On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 8:01 PM, Martin Langhoff
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
... long email...
And Edward Cherlin points out in a private email that I -- once again!
-- mixed up my constructivism with my constructionism. For the record,
I meant social constructivism.
Thanks Edward, sorry everyone
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 8:25 PM, David Cavallo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hold on. I never told you I did not have knowledge of Moodle. Quite the
> contrary. Please be more careful.
>
> If you asked if I used Moodle in projects I would have told you no. I have a
> lot to say about it and want to
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:40 PM, Juliano Bittencourt
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think both
> don't have what is necessary to support change in education on primary
> schools around the world.
I'm *very* interested in following up on what the current crop of LMSs
are missing, could do differen
David,
Actually, the Journal *does* let you choose whatever Activity you like
to open a document with. For instance, with a Zip file you can open it
with EToys, View Slides, or Read Etexts. What the Journal doesn't do is
open the one you'd like as a default. If you just Resume a Zip file
ch
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Jim Gettys wrote:
> http://live.gnome.org/Evince/SupportedDocumentFormats has evince's
> currently supported formats. I don't know exactly how we have it built.
it's disappointing to see that they miss the obvious/simple text format.
They are focusing on the more complicate
I've updated the 'Adopt a Developer' page at
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XOcamp_2/Fundraising with all the developers
who've made proposals for the XO camp on devel@ or sugar@ and who are
not in the Boston area.
If you're on the To: line of this email, could you check your entry
and add your locatio
Hi All,
We are on for our weekly Future Features planning meeting tomorrow Wed.
10/9 at 1PM US ET.
The public meeting will be held on IRC freenode.net #olpc-meeting channel.
Notes from last week are at:
http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-October/020565.html
The agenda for this week
http://live.gnome.org/Evince/SupportedDocumentFormats has evince's
currently supported formats. I don't know exactly how we have it built.
The basic point is it is already able to support multiple formats as
plug-ins and others may be feasible.
- Jim
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 11:
Greg,
I have never worked on the core Read activity. From what I have seen of
it, I would say that you would have to modify evince so that it could
support more formats, notably plain text files and .cbr files (which are
archive files containing sequentially named images). If it did that the
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 4:34 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> of other "good projects". I'm hoping that similarly-minded people
> will pitch in to make the good ideas reality.
[...]
> towards the conference, because I don't have a budget at OLPC. But I
> can put $1000 of my own m
On 27.10.2008, at 08:29, Faisal Anwar wrote:
> Thanks, I'll check out Etoys further to see how it is done there.
> I've looked through Read already and have already documented a
> similar pattern in the Almanac. I was hoping to document some more
> advanced uses of stream tubes where users c
Hi James and David,
I want to track additions and improvements to the XOs eBook Reader on
our Feature roadmap page.
I created a requirement called Better eBook Reader at:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap#Better_eBook_reader
Can you update that with any additions or work we need to do?
thank you Mitch for your help!
I managed to boot the SD card!
Best regards
Samy
> s.boutayeb at free.fr wrote:
>>
>> When booting the XO (i tested 2 XO's) with build Q2E19 and Q2E20, I have
>> following message:
>>
>> Boot device: /sd/disk:\boot\olpc.fth Arguments:
>> :2: Can't find word to re
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