[IAEP] Letter to GPA Parents

[Bill Kerr]

supply a phone number to call if it is not working?
won't the families have to go into CMOS (or whatever) to configure booting
off the USB stick? I have had students take sticks home (last year) and come
back saying they can't get it to work. To enter CMOS requires holding down
either Delete or F2 key depending on the PC and then figuring out settings.
I would see this as the main block point. ie. you could demo to a student at
school but it might be different at home.

I would replace "kids" with "students" throughout

yes, I would have put in less background information  - as long as the
opportunity is there somehow for those who want more to obtain it

cheers


On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Caroline Meeks <caroline at solutiongrove.com
> wrote:

> First draft - Comments? Suggestions? Do you think I put in too much
> background information?
>
> Dear Parent,
>
>
> Your child will take home from camp a USB stick and a CD that they used in
> school this summer.  Their work this summer is the first part of a school
> wide program to use “Sugar on a Stick” at the GPA.  The GPA will be the
> first school that uses a USB stick to bring Sugar home.
>
>
> Sugar is the name of the software and you can learn more at
> www.sugarlabs.org.  Your kids are the first ones to use it on a USB stick
> but almost a million kids are using it on the “One Laptop per Child”
> computers in countries like Peru and Uruguay.
>
>
> If there is a computer at home the students can try to use Sugar.  We will
> teach them how to do it in class.  It may not work on your computer yet.
> The stick may also stop working at some point. That is fine, we are doing a
> pilot test and we know there are still problems.  We will work all next year
> to make sure it works for all students.
>
>
> Please have your student bring the stick back to school on the first day of
> school regardless of whether or not it works.
>
>
> The kids all had a wonderful time working with Sugar this summer and
> produced some amazing things!  Pictures of their work are up on the web:
> We may also be creating some videos that will include your children and
> their work, if you have signed a release form.
>
>
> If you would like to know more about Sugar and our plans for the Fall or if
> you’d like to volunteer to help in the fall please email
> caroline at sugarlabs.org
>
>
> Thank you and we look forward to meeting you all in September!
>
>
> Sincerely
>
> Caroline Meeks
>
> Sugar Labs
>
>
>
>
>
> Instructions for booting your computer with Sugar.
>
>
> Put in the CD
>
> Turn off the computer
>
> Plug in the USB
>
> Turn on the computer
>
>
> If you have a Mac, hold down the “c” key as it starts up and as you hear
> the chime.
>
>
> Please don’t be frustrated if it doesn’t work! We’ll figure out why and fix
> it this fall.
>
> --
> Caroline Meeks
> Solution Grove
> Caroline at SolutionGrove.com
>
> 617-500-3488 - Office
> 505-213-3268 - Fax
>
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