Re: [IAEP] [Grassroots-l] OLPC in Kindergarten

2009-06-14 Thread Walter Bender
I really need to get hover tool tips working... -walter On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 10:08 PM, wrote: > Edward wrote > > "I am working on a version of Turtle Art > that will use icons rather than text labels on the tiles, and I want > to test how much of it the preliterate can grasp, and what we can

Re: [IAEP] [Grassroots-l] OLPC in Kindergarten

2009-06-14 Thread Alan Kay
Hi Folks, Radia Perlman in the 70s when at student at MIT did extensive experiments with preliterate children and the LOGO turtle and built a number of interfaces for them. She also spent some time at Xerox PARC where we duplicated her interfaces and did many similar experiments with chldren 3

Re: [IAEP] [Grassroots-l] OLPC in Kindergarten

2009-06-14 Thread forster
> Radia Perlman in the 70s when at student at MIT did extensive experiments > with preliterate children and the LOGO turtle and built a number of > interfaces for them. She also spent some time at Xerox PARC where we > duplicated her interfaces and did many similar experiments with chldren 3

Re: [IAEP] [Grassroots-l] OLPC in Kindergarten

2009-06-14 Thread Maria Droujkova
Thank you so much for compiling this list. It's most instructive. The topic made me think about language development and its deep connections with cognitive development. A kid adopted at the age of 8-10 can forget his native language, but brain activity in languages learned after the age of seven o

[IAEP] Welcome Sugar local labs

2009-06-14 Thread David Farning
the past couple of weeks has resulted in so great results in Sugar Local Labs. Sugar Labs Colombia - http://co.sugarlabs.org/go/Laboratorios_Az%C3%BAcar_Colombia - has gotten approved as a not-for-profit in Colombia! This is great news for them. It means that they will be able enter local contr

[IAEP] UNICEF seeks Education Director, NY headquarters

2009-06-14 Thread Sean DALY
FYI, if anyone knows anyone Saw the ad in The Economist June 6-12 issue. Note: not listed on http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/index_currentvacancies.html The form to fill out is here: http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/index_apply.html Note: it is in a proprietary closed format. quote "VN-09-0

Re: [IAEP] Welcome Sugar local labs

2009-06-14 Thread Frederick Grose
The Rochester program is using http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Summer_Program and its subpages as a web base for now. --Fred On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 2:12 PM, David Farning wrote: > the past couple of weeks has resulted in so great results in Sugar Local > Labs. > ... Rochester Institute

Re: [IAEP] Welcome Sugar local labs

2009-06-14 Thread David Farning
Should we set up a wik at rit.sugarlabs.org and request a @rit.sugarlabs.org gmail domain? david On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Frederick Grose wrote: > The Rochester program is > using http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Summer_Program and its subpages as > a web base for now. >    --Fred > >

[IAEP] Keyboard problem? Terminal Problem? ???? Problem

2009-06-14 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... I decided to try to install Flash in an XO running 802 so that I might be able to get the Periodic Table of Videos and Live Mocha to work on an XO. I started in terminal mode, and thinking I would be extra safe and remove Gnash first, I followed the instructions (see first example) That

Re: [IAEP] Keyboard problem? Terminal Problem? ???? Problem

2009-06-14 Thread David Farning
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > Hi... > I decided to try to install Flash in an XO running 802 so that I might be > able to get the Periodic Table of Videos and Live Mocha  to work on an XO. > I started in terminal mode, and thinking I would be extra safe and remove > Gnash

[IAEP] Keyboard problem? Terminal Problem? ???? Problem

2009-06-14 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... I decided to try to install Flash in an XO running 802 so that I might be able to get the Periodic Table of Videos and Live Mocha to work on an XO. I started in terminal mode, and thinking I would be extra safe and remove Gnash first, I followed the instructions (see first example) That

[IAEP] Problem Solved! Live Mocha Runs on XO!

2009-06-14 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All, Thanks to the help from David Farning and Ton van Overbeek I found my syntax error and was able to successfully install a very up-to-date version of flash (10.0.22.87) on an XO running Build 802. Live Mocha works beautifully! I even did a live chat with someone in Mexico as a test and

[IAEP] Test Reports

2009-06-14 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All... I'm all tested out. Here are the latest results... no more for a while. I have other things to do and our daughter arrives for a 10 day visit tomorrow Noon from MA. The Periodic Video Table from the U of Nottingham still doesn't work right. It relies on YouTube and still doesn't fun