[Yr7-10it] Sugar (OLPC activities)

[Kent Beveridge]

Good on ya Bill!  Now I feel really inferior again. Wish I knew how to do that with software....
Ah, well, will just have go back to being an 'ordinary' genius again I guess.
Kent. (hehehe)
Lookin forward to the next conference already...see some of you folk there...
 
 
Kent Beveridge,
I.T. co-ordinator
St. Brigids Catholic Sec. College
Horsham
email.. kbeveridge at stbc.vic.edu.au
 
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PARTY..PARTEE,..PARTIE,...PARTAY!!
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From: yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Bill Kerr
Sent: Sat 9/13/2008 1:48 PM
To: Year 7 - 10 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: [Yr7-10it] Sugar (OLPC activities)


The one laptop per child (OLPC) or xo software is called Sugar. Sugar is both a new operating system (OS) and a variety of educational activities (applications). Earlier this year there was some turmoil within the OLPC project which led to Walter Bender leaving and setting up Sugar Labs. It is open source educational activities which work in a collaborative framework and are currently being ported to a variety of other platforms.

I've worked out how to run Sugar on Windows computers, by booting off USB keys. This means that the software can be tested and evaluated in the industrialised world even though the xo's are hard to obtain, being earmarked for the developing world.

Students in a year 10 class at my school are currently evaluating Sugar activities. Details can be found here:
http://xo-whs.wikispaces.com/

-- 
Bill Kerr
http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/



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