[IAEP] Powerful ideas in the classroom

[Bryan Berry]

awesome, thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: Kim Rose <kim.rose at vpri.org>
To: Alan Kay <alan.nemo at yahoo.com>
Cc: Bryan Berry <bryan at olenepal.org>,
its.an.education.project at tema.lo-res.org
Subject: Re: [IAEP] Powerful ideas in the classroom
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 20:17:03 -0700

Yes -- as far as translations go BJ Conn (and I)  has given  
permission for the book to be freely translated into any language and  
given away free of charge.  Please go ahead and translate away --  
we'd love to point to a Nepalese version from our website, etc.


  Kim


On Jul 7, 2008, at 7:38 PM, Alan Kay wrote:

> I'm not sure what you mean. This book has been freely used as a  
> base for translations into Japanese, Spanish,.Portuguese, etc. It  
> can certainly be freely translated into Nepalese.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alan
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Bryan Berry <bryan at olenepal.org>
> To: its.an.education.project at tema.lo-res.org
> Cc: kim.rose at vpri.org
> Sent: Monday, July 7, 2008 6:05:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [IAEP] Powerful ideas in the classroom
>
> >A complete PDF of the "Powerful Ideas in the Classroom" book can be
> >downloaded here:
> >http://www.squeakland.org/tmp/PowerfulIdeas-20041018.zip
>
> I have looked at this book before and been quite impressed w/ it.
>
> I am concerned that it is not open-source. It would be quite useful  
> for
> us in Nepal to translate individual portions and put them into
> individual lesson plans tied to the national curriculum. The current
> licensing scheme discourages this.
>
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Bryan W. Berry
Systems Engineer
OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org