<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Bill Kerr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:billkerr@gmail.com">billkerr@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> supply a phone number to call if it is not working?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>We want them to wait till classes start in Sept. We expect, based on our experiences this summer, that a number of the sticks will become corrupt. Nothing we can do about it over the phone. :( I promised the kids they could take the sticks home and I think some of them will have success. </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><br></div><div>won't the families have to go into CMOS (or whatever) to configure booting off the USB stick?</div> </blockquote><div><br></div><div>BIOS. No, if we give them a CD and they put that in first most computers are set to boot from CD. </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div> I have had students take sticks home (last year) and come back saying they can't get it to work. To enter CMOS requires holding down either Delete or F2 key depending on the PC and then figuring out settings. I would see this as the main block point. ie. you could demo to a student at school but it might be different at home.</div> </blockquote><div><br></div><div>Right and we have 2nd and 3rd graders. Bigger challenge then we can attack in one session this week. Big important challenge. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div></div> <div><br></div><div>I would replace "kids" with "students" throughout</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div></div><div><br></div><div>yes, I would have put in less background information - as long as the opportunity is there somehow for those who want more to obtain it</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm hoping to learn more about what the right amount of detail is with experience. The parents have a variety of primary languages and I imagine a variety of literacy levels. The school will translate into spanish for us but some of the parents are not native Spanish speakers either. Perhaps I am worrying about this too much.</div> <div><br></div><div>Thanks for your input. Parent communication will be one of our big challenges this Sept.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Caroline</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div></div> <div><br></div><div>cheers</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Caroline Meeks <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:caroline@solutiongrove.com" target="_blank">caroline@solutiongrove.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> </div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div></div><div class="h5">First draft - Comments? Suggestions? Do you think I put in too much background information?<div> <br><p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica"> <span style="letter-spacing:0.0px">Dear Parent,</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica;min-height:14.0px"><span style="letter-spacing:0.0px"></span><br></p> <p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing:0.0px">Your child will take home from camp a USB stick and a CD that they used in school this summer. Their work this summer is the first part of a school wide program to use “Sugar on a Stick” at the GPA. The GPA will be the first school that uses a USB stick to bring Sugar home.</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica;min-height:14.0px"><span style="letter-spacing:0.0px"></span><br></p> <p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing:0.0px">Sugar is the name of the software and you can learn more at <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline">www.sugarlabs.org</span></a>. Your kids are the first ones to use it on a USB stick but almost a million kids are using it on the “One Laptop per Child” computers in countries like Peru and Uruguay. </span></p> <p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica;min-height:14.0px"><span style="letter-spacing:0.0px"></span><br></p> <p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing:0.0px">If there is a computer at home the students can try to use Sugar. We will teach them how to do it in class. It may not work on your computer yet. The stick may also stop working at some point. That is fine, we are doing a pilot test and we know there are still problems. We will work all next year to make sure it works for all students.</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica;min-height:14.0px"><span style="letter-spacing:0.0px"></span><br></p> <p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing:0.0px">Please have your student bring the stick back to school on the first day of school regardless of whether or not it works.</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica;min-height:14.0px"><span style="letter-spacing:0.0px"></span><br></p> <p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing:0.0px">The kids all had a wonderful time working with Sugar this summer and produced some amazing things! Pictures of their work are up on the web: We may also be creating some videos that will include your children and their work, if you have signed a release form. </span></p> <p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica;min-height:14.0px"><span style="letter-spacing:0.0px"></span><br></p> <p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing:0.0px">If you would like to know more about Sugar and our plans for the Fall or if you’d like to volunteer to help in the fall please email <a href="mailto:caroline@sugarlabs.org" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline">caroline@sugarlabs.org</span></a></span></p> <p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica;min-height:14.0px"><span style="letter-spacing:0.0px"></span><br></p> <p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing:0.0px">Thank you and we look forward to meeting you all in September!</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica;min-height:14.0px"><span style="letter-spacing:0.0px"></span><br></p> <p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing:0.0px">Sincerely</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing:0.0px">Caroline Meeks</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing:0.0px">Sugar Labs</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica;min-height:14.0px"><span style="letter-spacing:0.0px"></span><br></p> <p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica;min-height:14.0px"><span style="letter-spacing:0.0px"></span><br></p> <p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica;min-height:14.0px"><span style="letter-spacing:0.0px"></span><br></p> <p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica;min-height:14.0px"><span style="letter-spacing:0.0px"></span><br></p> <p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing:0.0px">Instructions for booting your computer with Sugar.</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica;min-height:14.0px"><span style="letter-spacing:0.0px"></span><br></p> <p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing:0.0px">Put in the CD</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing:0.0px">Turn off the computer</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing:0.0px">Plug in the USB</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing:0.0px">Turn on the computer</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica;min-height:14.0px"><span style="letter-spacing:0.0px"></span><br></p> <p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing:0.0px">If you have a Mac, hold down the “c” key as it starts up and as you hear the chime.</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica;min-height:14.0px"><span style="letter-spacing:0.0px"></span><br></p> <p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing:0.0px">Please don’t be frustrated if it doesn’t work! We’ll figure out why and fix it this fall.</span></p><div><br>-- <br> Caroline Meeks<br> Solution Grove<br>Caroline@SolutionGrove.com<br><br>617-500-3488 - Office<br>505-213-3268 - Fax<br> </div></div> <br></div></div><div class="im">_______________________________________________<br> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br> <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br> </div> </blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Caroline Meeks<br>Solution Grove<br>Caroline@SolutionGrove.com<br><br>617-500-3488 - Office<br>505-213-3268 - Fax<br> <div><br></div><div><br></div>