<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Mel and Peter found a blog I am co-authoring with a graduate student in my department, Chris Lindgren. <div><br></div><div><a href="http://fargoxo.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/sugar-on-a-stick-lingers-initial-response/">http://fargoxo.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/sugar-on-a-stick-lingers-initial-response/</a></div><div><br></div><div>The two of us are trying to help a near-by elementary school explore the value of Sugar. The school is working towards a OLPC ratio, and they just got a shipment of netbooks plus Sugar on a Stick. Initial exploration with the Tech Team has been fun, but we have some questions. <div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(111, 94, 78); font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#101010">1. USB capacity. Madison Elementary used a 4GB USB drive, but after imagining, the stick had less than 500 MBs left for expansion.<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">2. USB reliability. We aren’t optimistic about the sticks lasting for a whole semester, let alone a whole year.<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">3. Neighborhood issues: who are all those people? And how did they manage to start a chat session with our 4th graders?<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">4. Groups: can a teacher easily establish a group at the start of a semester and have it be persistent? Can groups be quickly and easily reconfigured?</font></p><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#101010">5. File sharing: can any of the work done in Sugar be exported? We think the answer for Write is "yes" but we haven't tried it yet. </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#101010"><br></font></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#101010">I don’t know what else to ask developers, but we have lots of questions about curriculum integration, activity application, and would appreciate any kind of suggestion / directions. </font></p><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#101010"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#101010">Kevin </font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><a href="http://fargoxo.wordpress.com">http://fargoxo.wordpress.com</a></span></div></span><div>
<div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="font-size: 12px; ">--</div><div style="font-size: 12px; ">Kevin Brooks</div><div style="font-size: 12px; ">Chair</div><div style="font-size: 12px; ">Department of English</div><div style="font-size: 12px; ">Dept 2320, Box 6050</div><div style="font-size: 12px; ">Morrill 219A</div><div style="font-size: 12px; ">North Dakota State University</div><div style="font-size: 12px; ">Fargo ND 58108-6050</div><div style="font-size: 12px; ">701-231-7147</div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><a href="http://english.ndsu.edu/faculty/kevin_brooks/">http://english.ndsu.edu/faculty/kevin_brooks/</a></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; ">The computer's true function is to program and orchestrate terrestrial and galactic environments and energies in a harmonious way. -- Marshall McLuhan</p></div></div><div><br></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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