blurb for Parent's page (first draft)

[Caroline Meeks]

Where is the latest version of this text? Is it up on the web anywhere?

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>wrote:

> Parents,
>
> With the Sugar Learning Platform, the age-old question "What did you
> do in school today?" can be retired. Sugar maintains a diary (the
> Journal) of everything your child does: what she makes (nouns), how
> she makes it (verbs), and with whom she was collaborating (proper
> nouns). You can sit down with your child and walk through the Journal
> to review her progress as well as leave comments and note for her
> teacher.
>
> The award-winning Sugar learning platform is a revolutionary new
> approach to technology and learning. With Sugar you child will engage
> in exploring knowledge, expressing herself through writing, drawing,
> video—even programming the computer. She'll also reflect upon her work
> and use Sugar to create a portfolio of her accomplishments.
>
> Sugar comes with the usual collection of activities: a web browser,
> and ebook reader, a multimedia player, a word processor, and lots of
> game. It also comes with a rich collection of music tools, both for
> playing and composing music, and programming tools that are accessible
> to child as young as 6-years old, but interesting enough to keep a
> teenager enaged. A hallmark of Sugar is its simplicity—even
> pre-schoolers can use the Sugar basics—while putting no upper bound on
> the complexity of expression to which you child can reach.
>
> Another hallmark of Sugar is collaboration. Your child can collaborate
> with friends, family, and classmates through a "school server"—playing
> games, chatting, sharing bookmarks, and helping each other with
> homework.
>
> You can try Sugar by downloading it onto a USB key and then using it
> to boot your desktop or laptop computer. (Sugar will not change
> anything on your computer—it uses the USB instead of your harddisk.)
> You can introduce Sugar to your child's school using USB sticks as
> well.
>
> With Sugar, your child will grow confident as a learner. Her unlimited
> potential will be realized.
>
> See... for more details about how to try Sugar.
>
> -walter
> --
> Walter Bender
> Sugar Labs
> http://www.sugarlabs.org
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