Great to hear Finance has been translated and will be offered! Please let
me know if there are any features that would make it more useful for you
guys.
Note that it's not in any way Tax related, it's simply for planning and
recording personal finances - income and expenses over time.
Cheers,
Wa
Dear Wade,
Thanks for that - I got it co-operating - I found that something had
gone wrong with inkscape.
Indeed there is some relation to the finance activity - we are
focusing on finding the economic info and presenting it (e.g. we have
a listing of common businesses that people start such as a
Hey Mike,
Make sure to restart Sugar between activity changes (Ctrl+Alt+Erase) as the
shell doesn't automatically pick up changes yet.
Also, make sure the .SVG is located in the same folder as the
activity.infofile. You might try copying a .svg from another activity
(say Browse) and
renaming it t
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:25, Mike Dawson wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> The offline spec is indeed something very cool - I had some time back
> done some work with XSL to try to create something that would have a
> similar effect with Apache cocoon - but nothing can (or should) beat a
> w3c standard.
>
>
Hey All,
The offline spec is indeed something very cool - I had some time back
done some work with XSL to try to create something that would have a
similar effect with Apache cocoon - but nothing can (or should) beat a
w3c standard.
What we are trying to do in Afghanistan to see if we can offset
Carlos Nazareno wrote:
> You can go with Processing (http://www.processing.org/) but Java is a
> bit problematic on the XO.
Heh, http://ejohn.org/blog/processingjs/ is the Processing language
running in a . Works on XO, slowly. (I hope XULRunner 1.9.1
with the Tracemonkey JIT shows up in joyr
> the people
> with skills to do it are rare.
The Flash Platform is the easiest way to do all of that. I haven't
seen anything that can tie up interactive media as easy with scalable
complexity like Flash has.
Some early pioneers were John Maeda, Joshua Davis, Yugo Nakamura,
Robert Hodgins, and Z
Sameer Verma wrote:
>> E.g. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/FindTheCountry -- why bother with crappy
>> static PDF atlases when interactive technology like that is available?
>> And you can View > Source it!
>>
> This is one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time!!! This is
> definitely goin
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 2:15 AM, S Page wrote:
> Carlos Nazareno wrote:
>
>> - I'd also like to see more work done on a method to easily bundle
>> Gnash or HTML-based/Browser applications as stand-alone activities, or
>> at least launch the browser with the wrapped activity loaded upon
>> startup.
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Carol Farlow Lerche wrote:
> This exists in http://italc.sourceforge.net/home.php
Coolness! Can someone wikify all these software solutions discussed in
the thread?
We should make a resource list of all these things.
I'd like to, but I'm catching up with a lot o
This exists in http://italc.sourceforge.net/home.php
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Wade Brainerd wrote:
> Something I hope will end up in Sugar someday are more classroom
> management tools.
>
> Maine's Apple-based classroom laptop system gives the teacher the
> ability to remotely watch the
You should have a look a Wims. It seems like it does most of your
requirements:
http://wims.unice.fr/wims/wims.cgi?lang=en&+session=UVA84EAD95.1&;
+module=home
Le lundi 12 janvier 2009 à 11:35 +0800, Carlos Nazareno a écrit :
> > Since when is more equipment then a pencil and a sheet of paper
> >
Carlos Nazareno wrote:
> - I'd also like to see more work done on a method to easily bundle
> Gnash or HTML-based/Browser applications as stand-alone activities, or
> at least launch the browser with the wrapped activity loaded upon
> startup.
See the Help activity in 8.2.0, it instantiates the W
Something I hope will end up in Sugar someday are more classroom
management tools.
Maine's Apple-based classroom laptop system gives the teacher the
ability to remotely watch the screens of all the kids in the room. No
need to stand at the back of the classroom.
Just the knowledge that the teach
On Jan 11, 2009, at 11:06 PM, Jeffrey Kesselman wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:35 PM, Carlos Nazareno
> wrote:
>>> Since when is more equipment then a pencil and a sheet of paper
>>> necessary for a school quiz??
>>
>> When they are not available.
>
> Im confused if the basic necessit
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:35 PM, Carlos Nazareno wrote:
>> Since when is more equipment then a pencil and a sheet of paper
>> necessary for a school quiz??
>
> When they are not available.
Im confused if the basic necessities like paper and a pencil arent
available, what is any responsible g
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:35 PM, Carlos Nazareno wrote:
> I've thought of a good method to do quizzes and eliminate cheating at
> the same time:
Moodle's mod/quiz can do most (all?) of that. And
- kids cheat anyway (check in the moodle.org forums for teachers
discussing the cheats...)
- you
Oh sorry, correction, please scratch "completely eliminate cheating"
as kids are very smart and can always find a way ;P -> in a way, maybe
a form of this that is possitively channeled should be encouraged in
order to nurture lateral thinking? Like MacGyver competitions? Part of
the reason why ther
> Since when is more equipment then a pencil and a sheet of paper
> necessary for a school quiz??
When they are not available.
I've thought of a good method to do quizzes and eliminate cheating at
the same time:
- For tests like multiple choice/true or false
- Browser-based frontend where exam i
>
> > Like instant messaging each other during quizzes?
>
> The easiest way would be to have the teacher stand at the back of the
> class looking for anyone doing so. If network access is not needed
> during the quiz, you could also tell the children to turn on "Extreme
> Power Management" in 8.
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Bryan Berry wrote:
> cjb wrote:
> > I hope you don't mind if I give some blunt/opinionated answers:
> >
> >> How do we protect children from accessing porn or other
> >> questionable content, and how do we prevent malicious persons from
> >> communica
gt; then the green wireless LED lights on the front of the XOs should
> remain visibly off for the duration of the quiz.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> - Chris.
> --
> Chris Ball
>
>
> --
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Sat, 1
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Chris Ball wrote:
> Hi Carlos,
>
> I hope you don't mind if I give some blunt/opinionated answers:
>
> > How do we protect children from accessing porn or other
> > questionable content, and how do we prevent malicious persons from
> > communicating with ki
Hi Carlos,
On 11.01.2009 05:25, Chris Ball wrote:
>> How do we protect children from accessing porn or other
>> questionable content, and how do we prevent malicious persons from
>> communicating with kids, like say, child predators in IRC?
>
> You can't prevent this, if you also want
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Chris Ball wrote:
> > How do we prevent cheating between students?
>
> You can't prevent this.
Exactly. I've been working with online tools for education for ~8
years now, and it's interesting to note - paper+pen technology does
not prevent cheating either.
A
Hi Carlos,
I hope you don't mind if I give some blunt/opinionated answers:
> How do we protect children from accessing porn or other
> questionable content, and how do we prevent malicious persons from
> communicating with kids, like say, child predators in IRC?
You can't prevent this,
Hi guys.
Here's one problem we have.
How do we protect children from accessing porn or other questionable
content, and how do we prevent malicious persons from communicating
with kids, like say, child predators in IRC?
It's been said that people should pass a license exam before being
allowed to
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