Re: [IAEP] Ideas

Hi Folks, We have used Cuisenaire rods a lot for all grades. We always take magic markers and draw arrowheads on one end of the rods to give a sense of direction to the magnitudes when used in operations. Vectors are a very powerful way of thinking about numbers and quantity and this is a g

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2010-10-26

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 05:10:30PM -0400, Walter Bender wrote: > ==Sugar Digest== > > 1. Tomeu's departure from the project has set off a lot of > introspection, speculation, 'blunt' emails, and thoughtful responses. > There is no doubt that we will miss Tomeu. He has been not just a > prolific co

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2010-10-26

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 12:32:09PM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 05:10:30PM -0400, Walter Bender wrote: > > ==Sugar Digest== > > > > 1. Tomeu's departure from the project has set off a lot of > > introspection, speculation, 'blunt' emails, and thoughtful responses. > > There

Re: [IAEP] Ideas

Folks, The Physical rods are best, but here is a set of virtual rods with direction arrows with the ability to change the transparency of all the rods on your playfield in Etoys (to see how its done, just get the hale for a particular butti

Re: [IAEP] Ideas

Thanks Steve, Yep, and I would love to do the building blocks for this a whole lot better in the successor to Etoys (which we are starting to work on). Cheers, Alan. From: Steve Thomas To: Alan Kay Cc: Caroline Meeks ; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; Patricia C

[IAEP] Dumb Questions... Input Wanted... Please Discuss!

Hi All... Here are some "dumb questions" for you. In a couple of weeks I will be doing a 2-hr hands-on workshop (at the CUELA Tech Fair) about OLPC, Sugar, and open source software teachers may want to try with their classes using the computers they already have at their schools. I would like

Re: [IAEP] Dumb Questions... Input Wanted... Please Discuss!

Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi All... Here are some "dumb questions" for you. In a couple of weeks I will be doing a 2-hr hands-on workshop (at the CUELA Tech Fair) about OLPC, Sugar, and open source software teachers may want to try with their classes using the computers they already have at the

Re: [IAEP] Dumb Questions... Input Wanted... Please Discuss!

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > How do you make the Etoys-to-go usb from a file on a disk? Does it need > the Live usb Creator? > Just download the Etoys to go zip file from here and unzip it on your USB drive. You can then run from th

Re: [IAEP] Dumb Questions... Input Wanted... Please Discuss!

On 28 October 2010 09:04, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > Hi All... > > > Here are some "dumb questions" for you. In a couple of weeks I will be > doing a 2-hr hands-on workshop (at the CUELA Tech Fair) about OLPC, Sugar, > and open source software teachers may want to try with their classes using > the

Re: [IAEP] Dumb Questions... Input Wanted... Please Discuss!

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Tim McNamara wrote: > On 28 October 2010 09:04, Caryl Bigenho wrote: >> >> Hi All... >> >> Here are some "dumb questions" for you. In a couple of weeks I will be >> doing a 2-hr hands-on workshop (at the CUELA Tech Fair) about OLPC, Sugar, >> and open source softw

Re: [IAEP] Dumb Questions... Input Wanted... Please Discuss!

Hi... Thanks for all the good stuff... please, keep it coming! I just wanted to let you all know that I made the Etoys-to-go stick this morning and have tested it on my MacBook, eeePC, and PowerBook (a older "Power PC"!) and it seems to be working fine on all of them. Now, here is a crazy id

Re: [IAEP] OpenEd Conference / Mozilla Drumbeat Festival

Am 27.10.2010 19:03, schrieb Werner Westermann: > Hello to all. > > Any Sugar advocates attending any of these events? > > http://openedconference.org/2010/ > http://www.drumbeat.org/festival > > Best wishes, > > werner > > Sugar Labs Chile Hi Werner, I was planning on going and was even awa

Re: [IAEP] Dumb Questions... Input Wanted... Please Discuss!

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 16:04, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > Hi All... > > Here are some "dumb questions" for you. In a couple of weeks I will be doing > a 2-hr hands-on workshop (at the CUELA Tech Fair) about OLPC, Sugar, and > open source software teachers may want to try with their classes using the >

Re: [IAEP] Dumb Questions... Input Wanted... Please Discuss!

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > Hi... > > Now, here is a crazy idea/question: If Etoys can be put on a usb as an > application and opened with all of these systems, would it be possible to do > the same with any of the Sugar Activities? > Sugar as an application would be

Re: [IAEP] Dumb Questions... Input Wanted... Please Discuss!

> If Etoys can be put on a usb as an application and opened with all of these > systems, would it be possible to do the same with any of the Sugar > Activities? TurtleArt will run on either Sugar or Gnome. There is also a Java version that runs on windows http://turtleart.org/ (it has less fe

[IAEP] an ardent proposal to bring *LOVE* back into Sugar Labs

(1) In-person meetings in between Bostonian http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board members and Sugar/OLPC Local Lab Boston, quasimonthly. Community is neither a buzzword, nor a fantasy, with Sugar Labs' only 4 active board members now living in Boston today. Community is the 132 volunte

Re: [IAEP] an ardent proposal to bring *LOVE* back into Sugar Labs

+1 for the proposal to extend both the registration dates and filing dates. Caryl P.S. How about some "love" at SCaLE in Feb > Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 01:42:06 -0400 > From: h...@laptop.org > To: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org; > support-g...@laptop.org; olpc_bos...