Re: [sugar] The XO laptop gets a Windows makeover

2008-10-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was a very poor experiment and the article had a number of items of misinformation. The author of the article did not take advantage of the fact that she had 2 XOs . She did not boot both in Sugar to observe the collaboration capabilities of Sugar and Activities. If she had then

[sugar] The XO laptop gets a Windows makeover

2008-10-26 Thread Carlos mauro
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10074298-56.html?part=rsssubj=newstag=2547-1_3-0-20 Was a experiment (informal) with a girl with 8 years old wich used olpc with Sugar an Windows... :) -- Forwarded message -- From: Carlos mauro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/10/26 Subject: Niños

Re: [sugar] The XO laptop gets a Windows makeover

2008-10-26 Thread Albert Cahalan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It was a very poor experiment and the article had a number of items of misinformation. The author of the article did not take advantage of the fact that she had 2 XOs . She did not boot both in Sugar to observe the collaboration capabilities of Sugar and

Re: [sugar] The XO laptop gets a Windows makeover

2008-10-26 Thread Martin Edmund Sevior
Hi Albert, I think you're totally wrong with respect to windows and collaboration. It has *NOTHING* like sugars collaborative capabilities. What program allows allows two children to start jointly writing a document with two clicks on a mouse? Cheers Martin -Original

Re: [sugar] The XO laptop gets a Windows makeover

2008-10-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Albert, I was not shouting down criticism. I was pointing out the inherent fallacy of the experiment. File sharing is not an active real time collaboration tool by any means. In sugar multiple children can work on the same write document, paint document, etc. at the same time and a copy

Re: [sugar] The XO laptop gets a Windows makeover

2008-10-26 Thread Philippe Clérié
I haven't seen decent educational software for any platform. That includes Sugar and Mac OS. Probably this means that the concept itself is defective. I am sorely tempted to agree with that. We really should rethink the idea of what « educational software » is and what it is supposed to

Re: [sugar] The XO laptop gets a Windows makeover

2008-10-26 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Hi Robert, On 27.10.2008 00:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 26, 2008, at 4:09 PM, Albert Cahalan wrote: Booting both into Windows would allow file sharing. Compared to what Sugar does, file sharing is very reliable. It works with **all** programs, without any developer effort. It's

Re: [sugar] The XO laptop gets a Windows makeover

2008-10-26 Thread Albert Cahalan
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 7:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: File sharing is not an active real time collaboration tool by any means. Right. Active real-time collaboration is nice, and I wish my own editor had it, but I think you're overvaluing it greatly. In sugar multiple

Re: [sugar] The XO laptop gets a Windows makeover

2008-10-26 Thread Erik Garrison
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Robert, On 27.10.2008 00:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 26, 2008, at 4:09 PM, Albert Cahalan wrote: Means of file sharing can be setup fairly easily in Sugar if you want to move raw files around.

Re: [sugar] The XO laptop gets a Windows makeover

2008-10-26 Thread Erik Garrison
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 27.10.2008 00:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 26, 2008, at 4:09 PM, Albert Cahalan wrote: Means of file sharing can be setup fairly easily in Sugar if you want to move raw files around. Currently file