[IAEP] Hi from Caroline of Sugar Labs

[Mark Ahlness]

Thanks for your thoughtful responses Caroline. It is good to more clearly
understand where things stand, especially with Sugar and the XO. I started
thinking more about how I can use SoaS in my PC/XO classroom this year, and
my mind drifted back to the field test we did in my classroom last spring
(http://tinyurl.com/5ev6xc).  

 

The software we tried out was Classroom Presenter for the XO:
http://orderedpixels.com <http://orderedpixels.com/>   It's listed on the
OLPC wiki under "All Activities". I just tried out the program, with an XO
as the teacher, and my ThinkPad running Soas beta as a student, connected
via jabber.sugarlabs.org  

 

Everything worked so well, I was prompted to take a few pics and blog about
it: http://tinyurl.com/cc3a7p  

 

Thanks again - Mark

 

 

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Mark Ahlness <mahlness at halcyon.com> wrote:

Caroline, thanks once again for getting back to me. I definitely have
thoughts and feedback to offer, but I've not said anything on the list
because I'm worried about 1) sounding like an uninformed idiot, or 2)
sounding like a know it all and offending everybody - both real
possibilities! I'll float a couple thoughts by you.


This email is excellent in my opinion!   Thank you!

 

Where is the XO in this process? My hope would be for a SoaS that could be
used on an XO and a PC, and yes, even a MAC :-)  My experience has indicated
that once a stick has booted on an XO or PC, it will not boot on the other
platform. I understand part of the technical hurdles, but has this just been
given up on, or it is a priority at all? I know there was a falling out with
sugar and olpc, and I'm really hoping they do not both lose as a result.
from where I sit, it does not look good.





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