I hear good things about AppInventor
http://appinventor.mit.edu
I never learned to create apps because most of my projects are on the web.
Not the best solution for offline / developing world schools, but if you
get started with HTML, you then can develop a PhoneGap app to contain the
content off
I watched this video with some of the OLPC team at the Ministry of
Education, Marshall Islands. As you might imagine, the video was
enlightening but somewhat threatening. A speech saying the education
system is obsolete! Students using computers without anyone deciding what
they should learn!
I
I believe it's OGG / OGV format.
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> Hi Tried irc. Lots of people signed in but must be sleeping... no
> response after 30 min. Need to know what video formats the JukeBox
> Activity is capable of playing.
> Thanks,Caryl
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Salman Khan, founder of Khan Academy, is answering questions on Reddit.
There's info on the site's popularity (4 million users this month),
long-term plans for digital education, and more:
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ntsco/i_am_salman_khan_founder_of_khan_academyama/
Khan Academy is r
Mozilla has chosen winners for the first phase of this year's badge-themed
Digital Media Literacy competition. Background: universities, NASA, the
US Education Department, and others are offering grants to projects which
use online badges to track achievements, independent of traditional
educatio
I want to follow up on requests made for candidates to have plans if
elected to the SugarLabs board. To keep it short, I'll write three lists
with two items each.
1) Outreach to other education programs
- Mozilla Drumbeat. Connect http://hackasaurus.org and Mozilla's growing
education community
The DML Competition on Open Badges for Learning will close in a few days,
but over 100 applications have been submitted already! Get a sneak peek at
the badge programs via this page:
http://dmlcompetition.net/Competition/4/badges-projects.php?group=dmlc-4b
Here are a few that I liked right away:
a modified Measure activity) are my
endeavors to make this possible without losing our engaging
constructionist ideals.
Thank you,
Nicholas Doiron
Ecole Shalom ( http://olpcMAP.net?id=966001 )
Croix-des-Bouquets
Haiti
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IAEP -- It's An Education
Bonjou from Haiti!
We have developed a Geoquiz ( http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Geoquiz ) activity
for the departments of Haiti. The teachers in Croix-des-Bouquets love it!
You can download the activity at
http://maptonomy.appspot.com/Geoquiz-4HT.xo
Cheat sheet: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9
I can't speak for Alan, but I found their examples of unnecessary math to
have a lot of value in succeeding in any of those real-world / science
disciplines. In particular, this quote:
"How often do most adults encounter a situation in which they need to
solve a quadratic equation? Do they need
ReadWriteWeb: Computer Science professor runs a creative writing class ---
lesson plans and open source (Python!) code available
http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/07/teaching-creative-writing-with-programming.php
--
Nick Doiron
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IAEP -- It's A
This link was circulating over the weekend: how do you explain computer
programming to a 15 year old in 30 minutes or less?
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/84866/30-minutes-to-explain-programming-to-a-15-year-old
What I like most about these answers is that they should work even wh
This interview in the Wall Street Journal discusses history education and
a couple of interesting, interactive lessons which could be programmed. We
don't have many history activities in Sugar
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304432304576369421525987128.html?mod=WSJ_hps_sections_opini
If you can't catch this eclipse, see when you can catch the next ones
where you live:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=next+lunar+eclipse+at+current+geoIP+location
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=when+is+the+next+solar+eclipse
And usually you can see when the ISS is next visible where
Plan Ceibal was also interested in using Calibre to access the Pathagar /
OPDS library. Especially for XO-1.5 / GNOME users.
The best way to search and load books in Calibre from our Pathagar server,
at the moment, is to open the news reader feature. There are several
available newspaper feeds l
As mentioned on the laptop.org blog, there are several people discussing
how Khan Academy content and concepts could be integrated into Sugar. I'd
encourage teachers to get involved in this discussion:
http://blog.laptop.org/2011/06/06/khan-academy-videos-and-olpc/
The National Association of Sc
Sorry about that, it's http://mapmeld.com/khan_categories.html
On Mon, June 6, 2011 10:33 am, Adam Holt wrote:
> http://mapmeld.appspot.com/khan_categories seems dead..can you check?
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> Help kids everywhere map their world, at http://olpcMAP.net !
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&g
Paolo,
There are some khan academy videos in the ogg format on archive.org
I put together a list at http://mapmeld.appspot.com/khan_categories.
For newer videos or Spanish translations, this media guide explains how to
download from YOUTUBE channels such as khanacademyespanol or
khanlatinoameric
Hi Tony,
The OPDS format is a catalog of links, so it should be able to support
images, audio, and video. Librivox.org will be coming out with an OPDS
feed of their audiobooks soon. You could also work with OPDS to include
multiple descriptions ( )
and show the best available one for the user.
If XO printing or mobile printing could be set up easily, I think there
would be an activity or install by now. I am waiting for Google Cloud
Print to open up more:
http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/p/cloudprint.html
http://code.google.com/apis/cloudprint/docs/overview.html
Right now you can
Plan Ceibal in Uruguay is using an onscreen keyboard for accessibility. I
believe it is part of the Dextrose version of Sugar. You can go to the
Control Panel on the XO to activate the accessibility controls.
Regards,
Nick Doiron
On Wed, April 20, 2011 11:56 am, Rita Freudenberg wrote:
> Hi,
>
You can download around 1000 of the Khan Academy videos in OGV format
(playable on XO laptops) from Archive.org Here's an English/Spanish
index of relevant categories http://mapmeld.com/khan_categories.html
If you're skeptical or haven't seen his videos, his talk sparked a great
discussion abou
It looks like there are a few sections translated at
http://translate.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/XO_es
The only finished ones are listed on the homepage:
http://translate.flossmanuals.net/
Regards,
Nick Doiron
On Mon, February 21, 2011 3:26 pm, Caryl Bigenho wrote:
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> Hi...
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> I was browsin
This is a tremendously interesting but increasingly technical discussion.
It's difficult to weigh pros and cons of an entire OS in an e-mail
discussion. Would it be possible for people to create pages on the wiki so
we can get a clearer outline of:
* What is each OS? Explain to a teacher using
Microphone jack is the best way to go, especially if you are using eToys.
Where are you getting the sensors from? Are you using an XO laptop?
We had an environmental sensing class in Uganda that used temperature and
light sensors. To give a basic view of what the sensor is doing, I
modified th
Hi Caryl,
Can you check if Flash is working and Gnash (the XO's free alternative to
Flash) is uninstalled?
If Flash is working on the 1.5, you should be able to view YouTube videos.
If you haven't uninstalled Gnash, which can interfere with Flash, it's
described in the same article on the wiki
A year ago, I wrote a one-stop guide for finding open media, playing MP3s,
downloading YouTube videos, and installing Flash on the XO as part of
DigiLiteracy's Nicaragua project. It has links to resources such as free
audiobooks from LibriVox, music and video from WikiMedia, and converters
for You
I do appreciate your response and thoughts on how it would be difficult to
collect data regularly. I am hoping to install an XO-accessible weather
station in Uganda this summer. A device will monitor the sensor and
students can collect and post the data on their own schedule.
A large-scale proje
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