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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=blue face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:blue'>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 (<a href="http://tinyurl.com/5ev6xc">http://tinyurl.com/5ev6xc</a>).
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=blue face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:blue'>The software we tried out was Classroom
Presenter for the XO: <a href="http://orderedpixels.com/">http://orderedpixels.com</a>
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 <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=blue face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:blue'>Everything worked so well, I was
prompted to take a few pics and blog about it: <a
href="http://tinyurl.com/cc3a7p">http://tinyurl.com/cc3a7p</a> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=blue face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:blue'>Thanks again – Mark<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Mark Ahlness <<a
href="mailto:mahlness@halcyon.com">mahlness@halcyon.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p><font size=3 color=blue face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:blue'>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…</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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This email is excellent in my opinion! Thank you!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p><font size=3 color=blue face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:blue'>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 </span></font><font
color=blue face=Wingdings><span style='font-family:Wingdings;color:blue'>J</span></font><font
color=blue face=Verdana><span style='font-family:Verdana;color:blue'> 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.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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