Re: [Edu-sig] More OLPC chatter

2007-07-02 Thread kirby urner
If I were lucky enough to be in a TuxLab or some other Linux-based workshop, as a student with time to explore, I might check: http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/node/128 of some 14+ weeks ago (by now). You'll find a link to Pie Menus, kind of like iPod wheels in that you think in terms of

Re: [Edu-sig] More OLPC chatter

2007-07-01 Thread kirby urner
On 6/30/07, Ivan Krstić [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 29, 2007, at 6:29 PM, kirby urner wrote: One way around this shortcoming of Sugar's is to suggest that once kids are mature enough to eyeball the kind of convoluted source code Yes, and we tend to think that's not the right way.

Re: [Edu-sig] More OLPC chatter (PataPata; EditContinue)

2007-07-01 Thread Paul D. Fernhout
First, to emphasize a key idea below, everyone here should see for a six minute video walkthrough example: A nice demo of Smalltalk development in the debugger by David Buck. http://motionobj.com/article/demo-of-smalltalk-visualworks http://www.simberon.com/smalltalkdemo.avi That's what OLPC

Re: [Edu-sig] More OLPC chatter (PataPata; EditContinue)

2007-07-01 Thread kirby urner
On 7/1/07, Paul D. Fernhout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, to emphasize a key idea below, everyone here should see for a six minute video walkthrough example; Thanks Paul. Given the ballyhoo around a fall release date for the XOs (not sure what means release date), it's obviously too late to

Re: [Edu-sig] More OLPC chatter

2007-06-30 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Jun 29, 2007, at 6:29 PM, kirby urner wrote: One way around this shortcoming of Sugar's is to suggest that once kids are mature enough to eyeball the kind of convoluted source code Yes, and we tend to think that's not the right way. Adults need to focus on stable developer environments

[Edu-sig] More OLPC chatter

2007-06-29 Thread kirby urner
Here's a floating email fragment Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:54:09 -0400 From: Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OLPC software: our first release and beyond. To: OLPC Devel [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] One important feature where we have made little progress is the View Source key.