[IAEP] R: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry)

[Caroline Meeks]

I also think we should have a wide definition of "Book".  Include things
like the CAST books that are designed for students with varying abilities
and learning styles and the idea of making your own book in eToys as
described in Using the XO in the Classroom by Salas Pico.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sdenka_Salas_-_The_XO_Laptop_in_the_Classroom#.C2.A9_THE_XO_LAPTOP_IN_THE_CLASSROOM

Can we include a sample with the folk tale he uses?

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Yama Ploskonka <yamaplos at gmail.com> wrote:

> sorry to keep the off-topic on topic, :-), but in my experience the
> possibility to access stuff in English is one of the biggest calls for Sugar
> use, especially maybe in non-English places.
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Carlo Falciola <cfalciola at yahoo.it>wrote:
>
>> Sebastian,
>> really  have absolutely no issue regarding  the provider.
>> Once I realized that in that site there weren't non EN titles  you I just
>> made a  quick Google-search for multilingual ebooks sites.
>>
>> My point is limitated to suggesting to evaluate the opportunity to put a
>> little sample in more that one language.
>>
>> ciao carlo
>>
>> --- Mar 17/11/09, Sebastian Dziallas <sebastian at when.com> ha scritto:
>>
>> > Da: Sebastian Dziallas <sebastian at when.com>
>> > Oggetto: Re: R: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry)
>> > A: "Carlo Falciola" <cfalciola at yahoo.it>
>> > Cc: "iaep" <iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org>
>> > Data: Martedì 17 novembre 2009, 16:22
>> > Yes, actually, I was maybe a bit too
>> > quick with this. :)
>> >
>> > This e-mail was supposed to be about discussing good sample
>> > titles, not
>> > about announcing anything with regard to the book provider
>> > we were
>> > using. Anyway, thanks for the link! I'll look into it...
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > --Sebastian
>> >
>> > Carlo Falciola wrote:
>> > > I dont know (yet, Ill check soon) about quality of
>> > ePub version, but (http://manybooks.net/) seems to have
>> > books from  several different languages...
>> > >   Maybe one out of a selection of
>> > languages would make sense...
>> > >
>> > > ciao carlo
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > --- Mar 17/11/09, Sebastian Dziallas<sebastian at when.com>
>> > ha scritto:
>> > >
>> > >> Da: Sebastian Dziallas<sebastian at when.com>
>> > >> Oggetto: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick
>> > (Blueberry)
>> > >> A: "SoaS"<soas at lists.sugarlabs.org>,
>> > "iaep"<iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org>
>> > >> Data: Martedì 17 novembre 2009, 15:36
>> > >> Hi all,
>> > >>
>> > >> as you may know, we're going to ship some selected
>> > e-books
>> > >> in the
>> > >> Journal of the Blueberry release. For providing
>> > >> high-quality e-books
>> > >> instead of simple texts (as well as fo technical
>> > >> simplicity), we're
>> > >> going to use e-books from epubBooks
>> > (www.epubbooks.com)!
>> > >>
>> > >> Right now, I've just included Alice in Wonderland
>> > (which
>> > >> comes with nice
>> > >> images in this edition), but I encourage everybody
>> > to go
>> > >> through the
>> > >> catalog on that website and to point out
>> > favorites.
>> > >>
>> > >> Thanks to Sayamindu for pointing to that site! :)
>> > >>
>> > >> --Sebastian
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