<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 10:58 PM, Tony Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tony_anderson@usa.net" target="_blank">tony_anderson@usa.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">Adding the Gnome Desktop has been very helpful in selling educators
that the XO is an effective lead-in to their Windows Office oriented
secondary school curriculum. <br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, principals and other stakeholders are generally extremely skeptical about the XOs until you show them that it's a "real computer." Later on you sell them on the idea that technology's more than Powerpoint and Facebook, but having the Gnome desktop ensures that they'll take an interest in the first place. </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">If we abandon etoys to maintain compatibility with
Fedora, what has the end-user gained?</div>Would a GSOC effort be better devoted to moving from Scratch 1 to Scratch 2 than rewriting imageviewer?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>We've had incredible difficulty using etoys in classrooms in Haiti, despite my personal fondness for it. The learning curve is just too high. Scratch is also very new, but since its menu structure is different / more visible, both teachers and students have more success with it. There's still a lot of work to be done on creating / adapting training materials to illustrate the possibilities for kids looking at it for the first time. But the other nice thing about Scratch is it's used in many computer science classes here in the U.S. Nick Doiron and I gave a talk at a middle school about the importance of Haitian Creole books, and some Haitian-American students there made us Scratch animations featuring their language. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><br><br>
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<div>On 03/03/2015 08:41 PM, Gonzalo Odiard
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begs the question, what has changed between Sugar 0.82 and 0.104<br>
>that significantly improves the value of the XO in primary
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>education in the Give 1 world?<br>
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<div>Ouch. Really? We worked for 5 years for nothing?</div>
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