Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] volunteer translators needed

2011-05-12 Thread Chris Leonard
A selection of these materials are available for localization via our Pootle server now, with more to come. http://translate.sugarlabs.org/projects/Waveplace/ cjl On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Timothy Falconer tee...@waveplace.orgwrote: Hi partners and friends, We're looking for a

[IAEP] Photos from EduJAM!

2011-05-12 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Here's my codew'z photostream for the EduJAM! 2011 event: http://codewiz.org/wiki/pictures/conf/EduJAM-2011 Many thanks to the organizers for their quality work, it was a very productive and fun event. -- Bernie Innocenti Sugar Labs Infrastructure Team

[IAEP] OERs and collaboration

2011-05-12 Thread Valerie Taylor
How to generate the best collaborative environment to provide educators with effective access and adaption of resources across a broad spectrum of curriculum areas and age-appropriate activities? Oh, yes - it must allow for casual contributions without the need for labor intensive moderation and

Re: [IAEP] OERs and collaboration

2011-05-12 Thread Walter Bender
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Valerie Taylor vtay...@gmail.com wrote: How to generate the best collaborative environment to provide educators with effective access and adaption of resources across a broad spectrum of curriculum areas and age-appropriate activities? Oh, yes - it must allow

[IAEP] Fwd: Sugar Lab

2011-05-12 Thread Edward Cherlin
Noy Shoung says he has about a hundred Cambodians ready and willing to work on localization and translation projects, for which he will be Administrator/Project Manager/Training Manager/whatever. I am blogging a bit more information, which will appear shortly on Planet Sugar. More news to follow.

[IAEP] Fwd: [learningfromeachother] Qato platform for knowledge sharing; Africa?

2011-05-12 Thread Edward Cherlin
Does anybody here know about Qato? Does anybody know of a Free Software alternative? Math Future has some interest in the Sugar Labs Replacing Textbooks project, but has not grasped the importance of Free Software in all phases of the work. -- Forwarded message -- From:

[IAEP] OLPC in Science-Subjects --- NEED HELP!!!

2011-05-12 Thread Johanna Wener
Hello Everybody! I'm studying at the University of teacher education in graz in austria to become a teacher for primary school. For my final thesis I'm working in a class with olpcs to find out which programmes can be used in the subjects of science. I worked with FotoToon, Labyrinth,

Re: [IAEP] OLPC in Science-Subjects --- NEED HELP!!!

2011-05-12 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
You can save your work in Fototoon as a image to print in another computer. Press the secondary mouse button in the Keep button. What is not working saving screenshots and sending by mail? You cant create the screenshot or you can't send a attachment? Have you tried copying in a pen drive?

Re: [IAEP] OLPC in Science-Subjects --- NEED HELP!!!

2011-05-12 Thread Sascha Silbe
Excerpts from Johanna Wener's message of Thu May 12 21:08:31 +0200 2011: The big problem I have is, that everything that the children do on the olpc could not be used for learning because there is no way to print their works out. I expect others to reply to the educational part of that

Re: [IAEP] OERs and collaboration

2011-05-12 Thread Walter Bender
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Valerie Taylor vtay...@gmail.com wrote: Actually, it was Tony's blog that got me thinking about how to make the wiki entries more additive with templates/forms (rather than wiki-style edit everything). His blog entry would be great as a section or page or link

Re: [IAEP] [FM Discuss] Fwd: Sugar Lab

2011-05-12 Thread Tim McNamara
This is excellent work. Well done. Tim McNamara | @timClicks http://twitter.com/timClicks | timmcnamara.co.nz On 13 May 2011 04:56, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: Noy Shoung says he has about a hundred Cambodians ready and willing to work on localization and translation

Re: [IAEP] OLPC in Science-Subjects --- NEED HELP!!!

2011-05-12 Thread Yamandu Ploskonka
Sascha, I am afraid Johanna is merely being honest to what is a very widespread misconception. Even Walter Bender has challenged me to invent a charcoal-based printer. And that was in response to my assertion, which I am happy to repeat any time it is needed, that the lack of printer support by

Re: [IAEP] OLPC in Science-Subjects --- NEED HELP!!!

2011-05-12 Thread mokurai
Thanks, Sascha. All of this goes into The Undiscoverable, and later into Sugar documentation. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/The_Undiscoverable On Thu, May 12, 2011 4:19 pm, Sascha Silbe wrote: Excerpts from Johanna Wener's message of Thu May 12 21:08:31 +0200 2011: The big problem I have is,

Re: [IAEP] OLPC in Science-Subjects --- NEED HELP!!!

2011-05-12 Thread mokurai
On Thu, May 12, 2011 9:05 pm, Yamandu Ploskonka wrote: Sascha, I am afraid Johanna is merely being honest to what is a very widespread misconception. Even Walter Bender has challenged me to invent a charcoal-based printer. And that was in response to my assertion, which I am happy to repeat

Re: [IAEP] OLPC in Science-Subjects --- NEED HELP!!!

2011-05-12 Thread mokurai
On Thu, May 12, 2011 3:08 pm, Johanna Wener wrote: Hello Everybody! I'm studying at the University of teacher education in graz in austria to become a teacher for primary school. For my final thesis I'm working in a class with olpcs to find out which programmes can be used in the subjects

Re: [IAEP] Free laptops all very well but ..

2011-05-12 Thread mokurai
On Wed, May 11, 2011 7:08 pm, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/free-laptops-all-very-well-but-how-best-to-use-them-in-testing-times-20110511-1eitv.html initiatives that focus primarily on the provision of computers are not successful because the