On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 2:25 AM, Albert Cahalan <<a href="mailto:acahalan@gmail.com" target="_blank">acahalan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>Bernie Innocenti writes:<br>
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> <a href="http://www.one2onemate.com/" target="_blank">http://www.one2onemate.com/</a><br>
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</div>This is optimized for teacher thinking. They win. :-(<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Yuck. Surely you are joking... I find it hard to be inspired by any aspect of that machine.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
The GUI and apps are superior, at least from the viewpoint of<br>
a school system. You get an Excel-compatible spreadsheet,<br>
a Word-compatible word processor, Tux Paint, Flash player, and a<br>
desktop that hasn't been inspired to the point of unusability.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>While it is true they have a spreadsheet and crude typing tutor, both GUI and apps seem pretty awful. And I don't know what to say about the demo photos with paper imitations of the display, and children using the 'display' under a tree. The whole strikes me as hard to fix, whether or not it is dropkickable.<br>
<br>SJ<br></div></div>