<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Edward Cherlin <<a href="mailto:echerlin@gmail.com">echerlin@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Add the Bible and Qur'an reader programs?</blockquote><div> Those should at least be on the activity portal. Can you see if you can get in touch with the maintainers? Thanks, Caroline </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div><div></div><div class="h5"> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Caroline Meeks <<a href="mailto:caroline@solutiongrove.com">caroline@solutiongrove.com</a>> wrote: > For the next SoaS Beta I'd like to help users trying out Sugar, especially > educators, have an "ah ha" moment about how Sugar on a Stick can open a huge > world of books for their students. > > The US elementary schools I visit have a computer lab and they have books. > But they certainly don't have the budget to get as many copies of as many > different books as they would like. > > Maybe our new users will know that there are free books on the internet. > Good chance they have never actually tried it themselves. Plus, having a > book on the internet doesn't help their students if they get one hour of > computer time in the lab. > > But having a book on your Sugar Stick and being able to read it in multiple > locations is actually very useful! > > This is one of the many things I want educators to discover as they play > with their Sugar Sticks. > > I know we have wonderful library apps coming down the pike. What I'm > interested in right now is what is the art of the possible for the next Beta > in June? > > Suggestions so far: > > - Include the FLOSS Sugar manual in the SoaS Image > - Add a link to one or more free book sites in the startup page on Browse > - Include a kids book in the SoaS Image. > > Other ideas? > > Thanks, > Caroline > > -- > Caroline Meeks > Solution Grove > Caroline@SolutionGrove.com > > 617-500-3488 - Office > 505-213-3268 - Fax > </div></div>> _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> > -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. <a href="http://earthtreasury.org/worknet" target="_blank">http://earthtreasury.org/worknet</a> (Edward Mokurai Cherlin) </blockquote></div> -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove Caroline@SolutionGrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax