[Yr7-10it] Sugar (OLPC activities)

[Bill Kerr]

I didn't even know you could boot off a USB until joel stanley told me a a
couple of months ago. Then I thought it would too expensive for a class set,
not realising how much the price had come down ($12 ea for 1G Kingstons,
don't buy the cheaper LASERs). At any rate, without help (tony, joel, paul),
I couldn't have done it. Full details are on my blog here, this URL is
displayed on the home page of the xo wiki

http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2008/07/evaluating-sugar-in-developed-world.html
http://xo-whs.wikispaces.com/

One of my network savvy students has built a jabber server to enable the
collaboration - not something I would be confident of being able to do

This is called collaboration :-)


On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Costello, Rob R <
Costello.Rob.R at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:

>  Although I haven't done this, I gather in essence its just :
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> … download a CD image, and then boot the CD …..experiment from there (it is
> all designed for kids)
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> Sounds like there are more complex details to make this work at present –
> since its sort of beta or alpha …but in the end, hopefully it will be that
> easy for us windows users to use the Sugar software off the OLPC (other
> alternative is to install onto Linux) …. so Bill is trialling the windows
> approaches for us …
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> I like how his wiki approach has emerged as a class activity as they work
> it out together …
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> *From:* yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:
> yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au] *On Behalf Of *Kent Beveridge
> *Sent:* Saturday, 13 September 2008 8:45 PM
> *To:* Year 7 - 10 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List
> *Subject:* RE: [Yr7-10it] Sugar (OLPC activities)
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> Good on ya Bill!  Now I feel really inferior again. Wish I knew how to do
> that with software....
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> Ah, well, will just have go back to being an 'ordinary' genius again I
> guess.
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> Kent. (hehehe)
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> Lookin forward to the next conference already...see some of you folk
> there...
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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)
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> 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.
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> Students in a year 10 class at my school are currently evaluating Sugar
> activities. Details can be found here:
> http://xo-whs.wikispaces.com/
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> --
> Bill Kerr
> http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/
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