Re: [IAEP] Proposed New K-12 Science Framework

2011-07-28 Thread mokurai
On Tue, July 26, 2011 1:21 am, Chris Leonard wrote: On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 1:07 AM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Since it has a total of 270 pages, and I just finished downloading it (chapter by chapter), I can't comment on the contents. But, this should be fuel for some

Re: [IAEP] Proposed New K-12 Science Framework

2011-07-28 Thread mokurai
On Tue, July 26, 2011 9:15 pm, Jameson Quinn wrote: Now I am going to skip over to Chapter 10 where the nitty-gritty stuff seems to be. I'm talking about things like teacher training and student assessment. I hope they addressed the inadequacy of the standardized multiple choice test where

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] ASUS Eee PC X101 @ $199: A worthy non-XO platform for Sugar?

2011-07-28 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
FYI: Directron in the United States now accepts pre-orders for the X101 at a price point of $209: http://www.directron.com/x101eu17bk.html?gsear=1 If anyone goes for it please let me know what you think about it, especially as a platform for education projects. Unfortunately it's still not

Re: [IAEP] Dr. Geo user manual

2011-07-28 Thread Hilaire Fernandes
Hello Paolo, I can't reproduce the problems your reported. I tested on a XO 1 shipped with Sugar 0.84.16. I am cc back to the Sugar list to read for more feedback on similar problems. Check in the /home/olpc/Activities/DrGeoII.activity/drgeo the file PharoDebug.log and send it to me. I packed

[IAEP] New VirtualBox appliance; Trisquel-Gnome-sugar_5.0_Alpha with sugar 0.88.1

2011-07-28 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
New VirtualBox appliance: Trisquel-Gnome-sugar_5.0_Alpha with sugar 0.88.1 http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Emulator_image_files#Trisquel-Gnome-sugar_5.0_Alpha Look at this link for included activities This Virtual Machine: sugar 0.88.1; surf115-xo; updated; cleared of identity; autostart starts in

Re: [IAEP] DrGeo user manual

2011-07-28 Thread Hilaire Fernandes
Le 27/07/2011 14:47, James Simmons a écrit : Hillaire, One solution to create books in many formats other than LaTeX is Booki. You can create PDFs in many different formats for print on demand, PDFs for online reading, EPUBs and MOBIs, plus templated HTML. You can check out Booki at the

Re: [IAEP] DrGeo user manual

2011-07-28 Thread Rita Freudenberg
Am 28.07.2011 um 15:02 schrieb Hilaire Fernandes: Le 27/07/2011 14:47, James Simmons a écrit : Hillaire, One solution to create books in many formats other than LaTeX is Booki. You can create PDFs in many different formats for print on demand, PDFs for online reading, EPUBs and MOBIs,

Re: [IAEP] Dr. Geo user manual

2011-07-28 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 28.07.2011, at 11:50, Hilaire Fernandes wrote: Hello Paolo, I can't reproduce the problems your reported. I tested on a XO 1 shipped with Sugar 0.84.16. I am cc back to the Sugar list to read for more feedback on similar problems. Check in the

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] ASUS Eee PC X101 @ $199: A worthy non-XO platform for Sugar?

2011-07-28 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Asus just posted the specifications page for the X101: http://www.asus.com/Eee/Eee_PC/Eee_PC_X101/#specifications Unfortunately at 28Wh the battery is relatively small so it will be interesting to see what real-time battery life people will report. Christoph Am 28.07.2011 11:17, schrieb

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] ASUS Eee PC X101 @ $199: A worthy non-XO platform for Sugar?

2011-07-28 Thread DancesWithCars
re: porting to other distros, Ubuntu's has had only limited to slight success... On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote: Asus just posted the specifications page for the X101: http://www.asus.com/Eee/Eee_PC/Eee_PC_X101/#specifications

Re: [IAEP] DrGeo user manual

2011-07-28 Thread Hilaire Fernandes
Le 28/07/2011 15:24, Rita Freudenberg a écrit : Hi Hilaire, we are also using it to write the Etoys Reference Manual, where we now (since Dr.Geo is part of Etoys regularly) would need a paragraph in the Objects chapter about it ... :)

Re: [IAEP] Dr. Geo user manual

2011-07-28 Thread Hilaire Fernandes
Le 28/07/2011 17:43, Bert Freudenberg a écrit : An activity should not write in its own bundle directory. On properly secured systems (real XOs, not SoaS), activities cannot write there. Errors should be reported on stderr, files should be written only to the activity's data directory.

Re: [IAEP] Proposed New K-12 Science Framework

2011-07-28 Thread Jameson Quinn
2011/7/28 moku...@earthtreasury.org On Tue, July 26, 2011 1:21 am, Chris Leonard wrote: On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 1:07 AM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Since it has a total of 270 pages, and I just finished downloading it (chapter by chapter), I can't comment on the

Re: [IAEP] [bytesforall_readers] Computing power to every home

2011-07-28 Thread mokurai
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 19:32, Satish Jha satish@gmail.com wrote: Dear Ed, Does OLPC 1.75 cost $150. For 100,000 pieces it currently costs $209. And more for smaller orders as the manufacturer responds to scale and taking smaller orders adds up costs. Hard to say. I have seen several

Re: [IAEP] Dr. Geo user manual

2011-07-28 Thread mokurai
On Thu, July 28, 2011 6:50 am, Hilaire Fernandes wrote: Hello Paolo, [snip] By the way, you did not tell me about my initial post: I am still looking for volunteers to help translating the DrGeo user manual. Into which languages? For Spanish, we (Sugar Labs and FLOSS Manuals) have just the

Re: [IAEP] DrGeo user manual

2011-07-28 Thread mokurai
On Wed, July 27, 2011 5:47 am, Hilaire Fernandes wrote: Hello, I have seen many use cases of DrGeo in Spanish speaking countries, in the South American continent, mainly for teachers training and Sugar based XO laptop. But still the new DrGeo user manual[1] is not yet translated to this