[Sugar-devel] Email client

[Grant Bowman]

Thank you Caryl and Caroline for forwarding this (originally) from
olpc-sur (south) mail list.  As the Spanish description of the
original email mentions, developers don't always know how they are
used in the classrooms.  I'm curious from a Sugar development
perspective exactly how they are working with email in their class.
As the teacher says in the video, email is "fundamental."

Are they using a web based email client or something running locally?
The first girl who spoke said it's asynchronous and you don't have to
be connected.  She may be talking about downloading from email,
working locally and then copying and pasting finished work to a
web-based email client but it doesn't sound like it to me.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/xomail is the best summary of email
client writing to date but the code for sweetmail has little
documentation so far and few commits.  I hope Shikhar can speak a bit
more about it's status.

-- Grant Bowman                                   <grantbow at gmail.com>


On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Caroline Meeks <solutiongrove at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How is "Forms" discussed at the end of the second video implemented? Is that
> a Sugar activity or is it using Moodle?
>
> Thanks,
> Caroline
>
>
> PS Awesome videos!
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com>
> Date: 2009/1/29
> Subject: FW: [Sur] videos de Rivera, Uruguay (Excellent!)
> To: OLPC Support Gang <support-gang-bounces at lists.laptop.org>, Developers
> List <devel at lists.laptop.org>
>
>
> Hi...
>
> Someone in Uruguay has posted two videos showing how they are using the XOs
> in the classrooms.  It is difficult to understand the children at times, but
> someone has put in sub-titles in English. So, for us, that is ok (some of
> the Spanish speakers are having trouble with it though).
>
> There are amazing things in here...how the students and teacher keep in
> constant communication, how the teacher keeps track of what the students are
> doing, how and what they are learning from TurtleArt, how they use email,
> how they figured out how to convert and play YouTube videos, and how the
> teacher uses them as part of the curriculum.
>
> The tool they used for the subtitles, Overstream, seems pretty fantastic
> too.  The possibilities of using it for other things seem endless.
>
> This is really good stuff.  Take the time to check it out!
>
> http://www.overstream.net/view.php?oid=i2ueryser0rz
>
> http://www.overstream.net/view.php?oid=i4m7lvmniztl
>
>
> Caryl
>
>> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:03:01 -0200
>> From: geirea at gmail.com
>> To: olpc-sur at lists.laptop.org
>> Subject: [Sur] videos de Rivera, Uruguay
>>
>> Estimados:
>>
>> En el edublog un maestro de Rivera (Jorge Cancela creo que es su
>> nombre, su alias es JUCL) publicó dos videos con una presentación del
>> uso de la XO en clase, hecha en conjunto con algunos alumnos. Me
>> pareció muy bueno y me pareció que debía ser conocido por mucha gente.
>> Sobre todo pienso en quienes trabajan en forma voluntaria para hacer
>> el proyecto una realidad y muchas veces no saben qué es lo que pasa en
>> los lugares donde se realiza el proyecto.
>>
>> Entonces le puse subtítulos en inglés y los publiqué aquí:
>>
>> http://www.overstream.net/view.php?oid=i2ueryser0rz
>>
>> http://www.overstream.net/view.php?oid=i4m7lvmniztl
>>
>> ¿Qué les parece? Algunos tramos no entendía bien lo que decían y quedó
>> como puntos suspensivos, cualquier sugerencia para rellenarlos será
>> bienvenida.
>>
>> Saludos,
>>
>> Gabriel
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