[IAEP] Squeakfet Brazil Day 1

2009-07-23 Thread rita
Greetings from Porto Alegre, Brasil! As I write this from breakfast, the sun is coming up over the city. I'll soon be joined by the ten of us who have traveled here to represent Squeakland Foundation and our respective Etoys organizations. Most of us flew in yesterday, then met last night for a

Re: [IAEP] The Children's Library On OLPC project

2009-07-23 Thread Jim Simmons
Scotty, I think there is a method where if you have a Journal entry you can tell Sugar to open it with the default Activity for that entry. I haven't tried to do anything like that yet. It is important to copy the book to the Journal though. You can open a book from the stick directly, but it

Re: [IAEP] The Children's Library On OLPC project

2009-07-23 Thread Samuel Klein
Hello, I imagine a final use case in which children do have hundreds of books on their XO, not two or three; they are stored compressed, and uncompressed for reading; and the Journal stores the record of reading a book, but not the uncompressed book itself. When a stick or local library with

[IAEP] GPA Notes 7/23/09

2009-07-23 Thread Anurag Goel
GPA Notes 7/23/09 Who: Walter, Caroline, Jennifer, Anurag 10:45: Set-up computers and projector. Walter worked on Clock program in Turtle Art Walter: Today we are going to use the turtle to play with clocks. (Walter shows the kids the clock program he made in Turtle Art. The kids compare