Reflections on Australia Classroom use of XO Laptop
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| I've only had limited time with two XOs in
| connected mode so far, but they are so easy to
| hook up via their built-in mesh networking that
| almost every activity can be shared between
| multiple students. This includes co-writing or
| drawing, or even controlling each others
| camera, or using the sonar sound activity to
| measure distance between machines. It really is
| the learning theory of connectivism personified
| in a device.
|
| Even the Sugar OS that they run has an
| interface of brilliant simplicity, with every
| activity running full screen and auto-saving,
| while a 'journal' of every activity they have
| done is accessible with just one button push.
| I'm looking forward to using them outside
| regularly thanks to the special LCD screen they
| have that allows full readability in sunlight.
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http://www.olpcnews.com/use_cases/education/reflections_on_australia_class.html
Recent:
Sugar on a Stick: What it means for e-books and education
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| âOoo4Kidsâ or Open Office for Children brings
| the power of word-processing, spreadsheets,
| and presentation tools to the Sugar learner.
|
| With all of the Activities, Sugar users can
| share their work, locally in a classroom or
| globally, from Bangkok to Bogotà to Berlin.
|
| A new version of Sugar has just been released:
| Sugar on a Stick v2 Blueberry. Available for
| download, Sugar on a Stick can be loaded onto
| any ordinary 1Gb or greater flash drive to
| reboot any PC, netbook or recent Mac directly
| into the child-friendly Sugar environment
| without touching the existing installation.
| Sugar is also available for GNU/Linux
| distributions, runs under virtualization on
| Windows and Apple OS X, and features built-in
| classroom collaboration and automatic backup
| to a Journal.
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http://www.teleread.org/2009/12/07/sugar-on-a-stick-what-it-means-for-e-books-and-education/
Sugar software environment gets sweeter with version 2
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| Sugar Labs has announced the availability of
| Sugar on a Stick version 2, a major update
| of its Linux-based operating system for
| education that was originally developed for
| the One Laptop Per Child project. The new
| version introduces an ebook reader and a
| number of other important features.
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http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2009/12/sugar-software-environment-gets-sweeter-with-version-2.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss
New Sugar on a Stick Brings Much Needed Improvements
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| My first impression was how incredibly easy it
| is to obtain and install on your memory stick.
| Fedora has released a flash installation tool
| that handles downloading and imaging the flash
| drive on Windows systems. (There are
| installation instructions for other operating
| systems as well.) Not only is this tool
| available for use to install Sugar on a Stick,
| but you can also test drive other Fedora Linux
| distributions. The tool also allows you to
| partition off some space to save your documents
| to when in the Linux environment. Keep in mind
| that when you run this utility you will wipe
| anything on the memory stick.
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http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/12/new-sugar-on-a-stick-brings-much-needed-improvements/
Sugar on a Stick adds ebook support
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| Sugar Labs has revised the LiveUSB version of
| its education-focused "Sugar" Linux
| distribution. "Sugar on a Stick v2 Blueberry"
| offers simpler navigation, improved wireless
| networking, streamlined activities updating,
| better Gnash support for Adobe Flash, and
| activities designed for reading electronic
| books (ebooks), says the non-profit
| organization.
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS6214795577.html
Sugar on a Stick v2 - a.k.a. Blueberry - released
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| Sugar Labs, the organisation behind the One
| Laptop Per Child's XO laptop software, has
| released Sugar on a Stick version 2.0 -
| a.k.a. Blueberry. Sugar on a Stick is a
| version of the free open source Sugar
| Learning Platform that can be installed on a
| bootable USB flash drive to run on a
| conventional desktop, notebook or netbook
| computer. Blueberry, the latest release of
| the child-friendly operating system, is based
| on Fedora 12 and includes a number of new
| features.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Sugar-on-a-Stick-v2-a-k-a-Blueberry-released-879332.html
Sugar Labs Nonprofit Announces v2 of Sugar on a Stick with Improved E-Book Readers, Recycles Any USB Stick Into Learning Environment for Children; Partners with Nexcopy, Inc.
http://www.ereleases.com/pr/sugar-labs-nonprofit-announces-v2-sugar-stick-improved-ebook-readers-recycles-usb-stick-learning-environment-children-partners-nexcopy-29194
Fedora devs keeping OLPC sweet with Sugar
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| Developer Sebastian Dzialias (who was also
| in the OLPC session), said that a new
| version of Sugar on a Stick was coming this
| Tuesday - codenamed Blueberry. It's a good
| thing too, the promise of the XO and its
| desktop, deserves better than to end up in
| a landfill.
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http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/12/fedora-devs-keeping-olpc-sweet.html
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