[IAEP] Khan academy content

2011-04-04 Thread Chris Leonard
I haven't really looked into this, but I thought it might be of interest to some on the list. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/04/the-khan-academy-and-educ_n_844390.html http://www.khanacademy.org/ One might imagine these videos being stored on the School Server for local access. According

Re: [IAEP] Khan academy content

2011-04-04 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
In related news you might also be interested to learn that per Miguel Brechner's tweet (http://twitter.com/#!/mbrechner/status/54588790618062848) Uruguay's Plan Ceibal is currently looking for volunteers to translate Khan Academy's videos to Spanish. Cheers, Christoph Am 04.04.2011 21:57, schrieb

Re: [IAEP] eduJam: Call for speakers / Llamado a disertantes

2011-04-04 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Gonzalo, this call raises an interesting question that I hadn't really thought of so far: What language are the sessions of eduJAM! going to be held in? On the one hand some of the international participants might not speak Spanish on the other hand the idea is to really provide a low barrier to

Re: [IAEP] eduJam: Call for speakers / Llamado a disertantes

2011-04-04 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Christoph Derndorfer < e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote: > Gonzalo, > > this call raises an interesting question that I hadn't really thought of > so far: > > What language are the sessions of eduJAM! going to be held in? > > On the one hand some of the internat

Re: [IAEP] eduJam: Call for speakers / Llamado a disertantes

2011-04-04 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Am 04.04.2011 22:38, schrieb Gonzalo Odiard: > > > On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Christoph Derndorfer > mailto:e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at>> > wrote: > > Gonzalo, > > this call raises an interesting question that I hadn't really thought of > so far: > > What language are th

[IAEP] Exploring Sugar-on-Tablets

2011-04-04 Thread C. Scott Ananian
I've posted a four week plan for XO-3 software exploration at http://cananian.livejournal.com/62667.html Briefly: April 4-8: Android April 11-15: Chrome/ChromeOS/NativeClient April 18-22: Get down & dirty with mesh April 25-29: Pulling legacy Sugar codebase into the GTK3/g-o-i/touch-interface futu

[IAEP] First day of Etoys class in Somerville

2011-04-04 Thread Caroline Meeks
Report is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z2wFRkZPOxKpREA6sV1-XVdxjm7bC9jP50KWkdL6d64/edit?authkey=CP7cjcgL&hl=en# We are working in a computer lab in a housing project in Somerville run by the Haitain Coalition of Somerville. We are using etoys to start with to help support collaborati

Re: [IAEP] First day of Etoys class in Somerville

2011-04-04 Thread Steve Thomas
Caroline, Your students asked: Etoys questions include: 1. How do we make a mouth that moves? When you first open Etoys click on the "Gallery of Projects" then in the second row, first item from the left is a "Bouncing Ball Animation" basically it behaves like flip animation (where you draw

Re: [IAEP] First day of Etoys class in Somerville

2011-04-04 Thread Caroline Meeks
Thanks Thomas thats incredibly helpful and I'll try these out tomorrow. On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Steve Thomas wrote: > Caroline, > > Your students asked: > > Etoys questions include: > > >1. How do we make a mouth that moves? > > When you first open Etoys click on the "Gallery of Pr

Re: [IAEP] First day of Etoys class in Somerville

2011-04-04 Thread Steve Thomas
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Steve Thomas wrote: > Caroline, > > Your students asked: > > Etoys questions include: > > >1. How do we make a mouth that moves? > > When you first open Etoys click on the "Gallery of Projects" then in the > second row, first item from the left is a "Bouncing

Re: [IAEP] First day of Etoys class in Somerville

2011-04-04 Thread Steve Thomas
Caroline, You also mentioned that: > Etoys on a stick only works when java is installed on the computer. > Several of the computers did not have java and no one knows the admin > password to install it. > This seems really strange, are you running Etoys inside a browser? Stephen On Mon, Apr 4

Re: [IAEP] First day of Etoys class in Somerville

2011-04-04 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... I have tested Etoys to go, downloaded from the Squeakland site and found it works fine on PC (Windows) and Mac... even the older Power PC Macs. Nothing special installed. Just plug in the stick and open it. Projects totally transferrable between machines. It is a great resource. Caryl

Re: [IAEP] First day of Etoys class in Somerville

2011-04-04 Thread Derek Redfern
My apologies - I replied to this, but was not signed on to all the lists so I think my message got rejected. It's part of a custom system we have set up for ease of use. We want people to be able to just execute a single file for any system, so we wrote a jar file to detect the OS and start the pr

Re: [IAEP] Exploring Sugar-on-Tablets

2011-04-04 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 18:15, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > I've posted a four week plan for XO-3 software exploration at > http://cananian.livejournal.com/62667.html Excellent. Love your work. > Briefly: > April 4-8: Android > April 11-15: Chrome/ChromeOS/NativeClient > April 18-22: Get down & dirt

Re: [IAEP] Exploring Sugar-on-Tablets

2011-04-04 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:59 PM, Edward Cherlin wrote: > When can we look forward to a similar exploration of hardware topics? Hardware stuff is being discussed actively internally for XO-3. Unfortunately, I can't say anything specific about it yet. But I am pretty excited. As always, OLPC hope