blurb for Parent's page (first draft)

[Sean DALY]

Here...
http://www.christianmarcschmidt.com/projects/sugarlabs/betasite_alt/index.php?template=page&page=parents


On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Caroline Meeks
<caroline at solutiongrove.com> wrote:
> 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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