Where is the latest version of this text? Is it up on the web anywhere? <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Walter Bender <<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">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 <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a> _______________________________________________ Marketing mailing list <a href="mailto:Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org">Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing</a> </blockquote></div> -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove Caroline@SolutionGrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax