<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> ><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mokurai@earthtreasury.org">mokurai@earthtreasury.org</a> wrote: >It is straightforward to share Journal entries between XOs. >..Printing is not necessary. ------------------------------------------------------------ Mr. Mokurai: MAybe you are an exprert in Education, and Xo, or SUgar development, or teaching children , but I think that you don't KNow the reality of the XOs here in Uruguay, or somewhere that the teachers uses XO. "Printing is not necessary" is a very good statement , I agree, but for the real people (not the theoretical children) is only a statement, that is almost impossible to apply now. It is like saying "The peace is better than the war"... is a very good phrase, we all agree, but with that phrase I can not solve the problems of the world. The real world exists, and in the real world the teachers wants to print.. that is a fact, and We can not change it. Maybe in 30 Years the mind of the Teachers will change, but not now. MAybe in 30 Years this statement will be true, but now if you told a TEacher that you can't print is the same as saying "don't use the Xo's. You have a XIX century mind. The XO are made for XXII century minds only"... This is not my opinion, it's simply an observation of the real world that I see that here in Uruguay: there are a lot of teachers that don't Use the XO because of lots of problems that it has (there are also other reasons that are non technical). One of those problems are the "printing problem". ---------------- You said to "share the Journal". Excuse me, Mr. Mokurai: Do you Know that the MEsh doesn't works????? Even if you can share something, The XOs hangs up, or loose the entire journal, and the children don't use the journal for "important things", that's why the teachers wants to print!!!! to have something "hardware" that works, even if the XO hangs, or the "journal" fails. I Invite YOu to come to Uruguay to teach us how to share something in a real classroom with real Children . NOrmally if YOu would share something, YOu have to use 30 minutes of an hour-class only for setting up the connections, and interrupting the class every 10 minutes because a child had a disconnection. -------------- Sorry for my poor English. Paolo Benini Montevideo </body> </html>