Re: [IAEP] Still Trying... How do I switch the keyboard to another character set?

2010-12-28 Thread Walter Bender
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 2:23 AM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Folks... Still trying! As noted below, I followed Tim's instructions and downloaded the Urdu character set. However, I was not able to access it from Write. I spent some time working on this with a person who

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Youtube Downloads on XO??? How to???

2010-12-28 Thread Sameer Verma
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi All, I am working with a project that wants to download Kahn Academy's math lessons ( http://www.khanacademy.org/  ) and use them offline on the XO-1. Khan, not Kahn. As in

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Youtube Downloads on XO??? How to???

2010-12-28 Thread Sameer Verma
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Anna ascho...@gmail.com wrote: I've actually made flash videos available in a school environment.  As we all know, Adobe Flash does not work well on the XO.  I download requested YouTube videos on my Ubuntu desktop at home and use mencoder to transcode the flv

[IAEP] Great article on Cheating in Computer Science

2010-12-28 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Hi all, I just stumbled across this great article called Cheating in Computer Science (http://ubiquity.acm.org/article.cfm?id=1865908) which - despite its title - isn't really all that much about cheating in CS but rather an interesting reflection about our current education system in general.

Re: [IAEP] Youtube Downloads on XO??? How to???

2010-12-28 Thread Jim Tittsler
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 20:11, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: I am working with a project that wants to download Kahn Academy's math lessons ( http://www.khanacademy.org/  ) and use them offline on the XO-1. [...] Could the videos be stored on USBs? New Zealand's Albany High School