chess, first against a chess engine in the XO to learn how to play,
then against other students.
Kevin Kirton
There are chess engines in a wide range of sizes and competences. The
gnuchess 6.0 tarball is 561K. It can beat most amateur players handily,
which is quite sufficient for teaching
Would you need a chess engine though? Obviously you would if you
wanted an activity where a player could play against the XO. But a
chess engine would be heavy work for the XO wouldn't it?
Wouldn't a simple on-screen chess board with collaboration enabled be
a good fit for the XOs?
Kevin Kirton
Glad you liked it Carlos,
What you say about her talking from experience rather than theory is
one of the things I liked too.
About subtitles, there are six languages available for her talk from
the TED site, including Spanish, Portuguese, French and a couple of
others.
Kevin Kirton
Australia
projects in any
way you find enjoyable. When I was a teenager I really enjoyed school
and studying (still do), but if you don't, perhaps you could test
drive some of the high school activities in Sugar on a Stick (SoaS)
and write about the things you like or don't like there.
Hope this helps,
Kevin
Thanks for that Caryl. I'm using Gmail and it seems I have to click
Reply to all instead of Reply, which I keep forgetting. But even
now, the IAEP address only comes up as CC. Hmmm
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi All..
I think Kevin meant for
the world tomorrow.
Just a thought.
Kevin Kirton
Australia
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IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
/releases/soas-2-blueberry.iso
then just browse to it in Fedora's Live USB Creator.
By the way, I've noticed lots of new instructions on the SoaS site
since I last visited there, so it seems lots is happening there. I'm
sure it's getting easier all the time.
Kevin Kirton
Australia
in Windows with
soas-2-blueberry to make about a dozen SoaS usb sticks without too
much trouble so far (couldn't work with one stick that had been
formatted on a Mac).
Kevin Kirton
Australia
Tom, or other W 7 victims, Mario Cesar from Ubuntu Bolivia list is
trying to help a friend whose dual-boot
This is a hint that you've probably already got covered, but just in
the off chance that it helps...
I've come across a case where having the SoaS USB stick inserted into
the computer before and while changing the boot order in the
computer's BIOS seemed to affect how the stick is later
