[Grassroots-l] [IAEP] Looking for suggestions

Holt holt at laptop.org
Sat Aug 7 13:36:23 EDT 2010


Brett Neese wrote:
> Thanks for all the good input. I wasn't expecting this much response! 
> Sorry for the delay in response, other duties have kept me away from 
> coEL.
>
> A couple of clarifications:
>
> First, perhaps I was a tad harsh when I said that Sugar was "in no way 
> optimized for the high school learner". I apologize if I sounded a 
> little tough -- in fact, you've got a excellent start, it just needs a 
> little work. But that'll come with time.  I'm working on prototyping 
> some sketches of what an ideal multitouch-enabled, high school version 
> of Sugar would look like and will post more when I get a little 
> further along.
>
> I do realize that there are a few OLPC deployments in the US, but my 
> dream will only work if there are /many /deployments. See, I've 
> thought about this, and part of the whole idea behind coEL is 
> anywhere, anytime learning. I'd personally love to take a class 
> (livestreamed) from another whole district. But in order for that to 
> work, both districts would have to have coEL deployments. 
>
> Also, I will look into the HIG and eBooks in detail later... thanks 
> for the links! Is there anything else I should/can be doing to help?

Hi Brett,
How about joining us Oct 22-24?

Sorry our global community summit site (OLPC SF/Sugar Labs/Realness) is 
not yet live, but drafts will emerge here in coming weeks :)

    
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea/OLPCSF_Community_Summit_2010

>
> Thanks again,
>
> --Brett Neese
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