[IAEP] Texas Tech University work with XO/Sugar

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 22:56, Sean DALY<sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wow I can't wait to see that (can't on this machine)
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> I'm interested in transcoding this to Ogg Theora, do you think we
> could ask him for a higher-quality source version I could transcode?
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> is it CC, could we put it up on the Dailymotion site?

Yeah, would be nice to have it there.

Thanks,

Tomeu

> Texas is Dell Foundation country. Hmmm...
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> Sean
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> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 9:52 PM, John Tierney<jtis4stx at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello All,
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>> Just wanted to pass along this email and video to everyone to show
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>> others like ourselves our hard at work trying to highlight and increase
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>> the effectiveness of Sugar and the XO.
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>> Video is about 35min in length-well done and inspires like minded work
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>> to be done.
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>> Best,
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>> John Tierney
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>>>Subject: TTU's work with XO
>>>Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 10:47:08 -0400
>>>From: tcsalvo at purdue.edu
>>>To: rich.rice at ttu.edu; jtis4stx at hotmail.com
>>
>>>Dear John,
>>
>>
>>
>>>I’ve mentioned to you that Rich Rice at Texas Tech University has been
>>> using XO laptops for outreach >with k-12 students, and recently, he and his
>>> graduate students completed a project with the Science >Spectrum in Lubbock,
>>> TX.  Science Spectrum is the local science museum.  As you can see from the
>>> >following movie, they developed some innovative activities and documented
>>> their work with children who >stopped by the Science Spectrum.  They’ve had
>>> quite a bit of success using the drawing and >chat .software, among others.
>>
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>> http://media.English.TTU.edu/faculty/rice/5365/iplay.wmv
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>>>Rich is also a member of the Computers and Writing community and is
>>> interested in exploring other >ways that C&W can do outreach with k-12
>>> schools using the XO and the Sugar platform.  I’ve copied him >on this
>>> message, so we can continue to talk about options for immediate and
>>> long-term projects like >working with the National Writing Project.
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>>
>>>Tammy
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>> --
>>>Tammy S. Conard-Salvo
>>>Associate Director, Writing Lab
>>>Purdue University
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