<br>On 18 June 2011 13:46, nathaN P <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rekrapenator@gmail.com">rekrapenator@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<font color="#006600"><font size="4"><font face="comic sans ms,sans-serif">Tabitha - we are fortunate to have some experts living here in the south. I am never sure about who has what skills and am somewhat reticent of asking too much of people - hence list type requests give the option of an easy delete. <br>
</font></font></font></blockquote><div><br>Yes, lists are the better option, more people so more likely to get a response and not rely on one busy person. But I thought I should mention locals in case they are passing by and you want them to look at what you are doing in the classroom.<br>
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Is the Sugar group still meeting in Auckland?<br></font></font></font></blockquote><div><br> We still meet - Saturdays at 11am, Windsor 144 Parnell Rise.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<font color="#006600"><font size="4"><font face="comic sans ms,sans-serif">At the moment Warrington students and Dunlug are putting together 10 computers for a school in PNG and want to be able to provide as many computer variables as possible. <br>
</font></font></font></blockquote><div><br>There are several olpc deployments in PNG. I believe some people have had some training in linux to support them, and I think that a local University might also be involved. But the best people to update us on that is Ian Thomson (olpc Pacific Coordinator) or David Leeming (he does a lot of training and setup for Pacific area and often puts notes and training material on wikieducator) or even Michael Hutak (oceania director) and they can probably put you in touch with people. There is some information on <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Papua_New_Guinea">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Papua_New_Guinea</a><br>
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All machines will run Ubuntu, we hope to have a few Wikipedia DVDs and some Sugar CDs to add to the mix.<br>I have a group of students who are hooked on Sugar - especially the physics programme - an amazing application. Also the Wikipedia DVD has appealed to some of my pupils who have no Internet access at home. <br>
</font></font></font></blockquote><div><br>Tom is a physicist and also really likes the Physics activity. <br><br>We found Schools Wikipedia <a href="http://schools-wikipedia.org/">http://schools-wikipedia.org/</a> useful for putting on a school server -- the students accessed it via the browse activity. The Schools Wikipedia has curriculum appropriate content with images, whereas the wikipedia activity in Sugar has no pictures. If you're distributing machines with big enough harddrives, you could include it locally, or on a server if you're networking the machines in PNG.<br>
<br>If you have a better way to distribute wikipedia on DVD that would be good to know about. The schools wikipedia was prepared in 2008-2009 so it's get on a bit.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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The power of Open Source and Creative Commons!!!<br></font></font></font></blockquote><div class="h5"><br>Yes, powerful indeed.<br>Tabitha<br>
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