[IAEP] Music education and textbooks

2011-07-07 Thread Valerie Taylor
The new charter school I'm working with doesn't have $15,000 for the K-8 music textbooks the music teacher requested. Here is a great opportunity for ebooks if they are available. I would appreciate any suggestions, links, resources. Thanks ___ IAEP --

Re: [IAEP] Music education and textbooks

2011-07-07 Thread Chris Leonard
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Valerie Taylor vtay...@gmail.com wrote: The new charter school I'm working with doesn't have $15,000 for the K-8 music textbooks the music teacher requested. Here is a great opportunity for ebooks if they are available. I would appreciate any suggestions,

Re: [IAEP] Music education and textbooks

2011-07-07 Thread Valerie Taylor
Thanks Alan, James and Chris I would like to see Sugar Activities as the solution, but that is a pretty big step for these folks. :o) They have a cart of windows laptops. We are checking to see if they can run Sugar from a bootable CD or USB stick. So it is a possibility. But this raises an

Re: [IAEP] Music education and textbooks

2011-07-07 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Valerie, If you can give me a little bit more info I can probably point you in the direction of some useful resources. How many students are we talking about? How many minutes per week are devoted to music? How is it delivered... i.e. how many days a week will they have music?Is there

[IAEP] Planned network outage for all services

2011-07-07 Thread Bernie Innocenti
We're testing a new BGP router at the colo which hosts all of the FSF Internet infrastructure and most of Sugar Labs. The outage is projected to last only a few minutes, but it's hard to predict how long it will take for the BGP session to resume. -- Bernie Innocenti Sugar Labs Infrastructure

[IAEP] Turn your frequency generator into a super powerful mosquito repeller

2011-07-07 Thread Sean Linton
Has anyone looked into using the free from malaria activity to include a tone generator to use the XO as a mosquito repellent? http://www.quantumbalancing.com/mosquito.htm ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)

[IAEP] St. Vincent and the Grenadines

2011-07-07 Thread mokurai
Does anybody know what this announcement means? Did they merely put the page up before it was ready? http://education.gov.vc/index.php?option=com_contentview=articleid=125Itemid=107 Intorduction [sic] Welcome to the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Initiative of the Ministry of Education, Government

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Turn your frequency generator into a super powerful mosquito repeller

2011-07-07 Thread James Cameron
The speakers don't work very well at the frequency range specified by that article for mosquito repelling; 45 Hz to 67 Hz. The article fails to mention how much sound is needed; e.g. in dBm. It gives a subjective measure only. Other articles on the site mention secrets of ancient geometry and

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Turn your frequency generator into a super powerful mosquito repeller

2011-07-07 Thread Chris Leonard
The article probably also fails to mention that peer-reviewed scientific tests of this concept prove it to be useless. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/290 cjl On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 1:34 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: The speakers don't work very well at the frequency range