<div dir="ltr">I didn't even know you could boot off a USB until joel stanley told me a a couple of months ago. Then I thought it would too expensive for a class set, not realising how much the price had come down ($12 ea for 1G Kingstons, don't buy the cheaper LASERs). At any rate, without help (tony, joel, paul), I couldn't have done it. Full details are on my blog here, this URL is displayed on the home page of the xo wiki<br>
<br><a href="http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2008/07/evaluating-sugar-in-developed-world.html">http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2008/07/evaluating-sugar-in-developed-world.html</a><br><a href="http://xo-whs.wikispaces.com/">http://xo-whs.wikispaces.com/</a><br>
<br>One of my network savvy students has built a jabber server to enable the collaboration - not something I would be confident of being able to do<br><br>This is called collaboration :-)<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Costello, Rob R <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Costello.Rob.R@edumail.vic.gov.au">Costello.Rob.R@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Although I haven't done this, I gather
in essence its just :</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">… download a CD image, and then boot
the CD …..experiment from there (it is all designed for kids)</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Sounds like there are more complex details
to make this work at present – since its sort of beta or alpha …but
in the end, hopefully it will be that easy for us windows users to use the
Sugar software off the OLPC (other alternative is to install onto Linux) ….
so Bill is trialling the windows approaches for us … </span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">I like how his wiki approach has emerged as
a class activity as they work it out together … </span></font></p>
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<a href="mailto:yr7-10it-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">yr7-10it-bounces@edulists.com.au</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:yr7-10it-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">yr7-10it-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>] <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">On Behalf Of </span></b>Kent Beveridge<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, 13 September 2008
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<p><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Good on ya Bill! Now I feel really
inferior again. Wish I knew how to do that with software....</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Ah, well, will just have go back to being an 'ordinary'
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sat 9/13/2008 1:48 PM<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The one laptop per child
(OLPC) or xo software is called Sugar. Sugar is both a new operating system
(OS) and a variety of educational activities (applications). Earlier this year
there was some turmoil within the OLPC project which led to Walter Bender
leaving and setting up Sugar Labs. It is open source educational activities
which work in a collaborative framework and are currently being ported to a
variety of other platforms.<br>
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I've worked out how to run Sugar on Windows computers, by booting off USB keys.
This means that the software can be tested and evaluated in the industrialised
world even though the xo's are hard to obtain, being earmarked for the
developing world.<br>
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Students in a year 10 class at my school are currently evaluating Sugar
activities. Details can be found here:<br>
<a href="http://xo-whs.wikispaces.com/" target="_blank">http://xo-whs.wikispaces.com/</a><br clear="all">
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