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Let's make it easy for kids to get that cool factor using Sugar... then Sugar will get traction among the very complacent teachers...  

Let's make it easy for kids to get that cool factor using Sugar... then Sugar will get traction among the very complacent teachers...  

===in the meantime make it easy for the motivated===

===in the meantime make it easy for the motivated===

A [http://wubi-installer.org/ wubi] like dual boot option at startup with a simple downloader tool that pulls the needed Sugar parts onto the harddrive so that those who have old Windows machines can pull a Wubi like Sugar install and walk away while it does its thing... SoaS is a great idea but way too labor intensive for anyone thinking big like 30+ machines. And, as noted before, USB sticks are notoriously temperamental and prone to corruption. I can hear the students now... my USB stick ate my homework... and then the parents start calling... and the administrators get involved... the ideal school computer set up <B>minimizes</b> variables. Go run one for awhile, you'll know what I'm talking about. Noone willingly creates more for themselves unless they see it saves gobs of energy or time elsewhere... SoaS doesn't offer that yet, IMHO.

A [http://wubi-installer.org/ wubi] like dual boot option at startup with a simple downloader tool that pulls the needed Sugar parts onto the harddrive so that those who have old Windows machines can pull a Wubi like Sugar install and walk away while it does its thing... SoaS is a great idea but way too labor intensive for anyone thinking big like 30+ machines. And, as noted on the IRC, USB sticks are notoriously temperamental and prone to corruption.  

 

I can hear the students now... "My USB stick ate my homework!" And then the parents start calling. And the administrators get involved... no teacher wants those kinds of variables in their class and will actively work against such chaos. There's chaos enough in the classroom without malfunctioning technology... right?

 

The ideal school computer set up <b>minimizes</b> variables. Go run one for awhile, talk to a public school administrator... you'll know/hear what I'm talking about. Noone willingly creates more for themselves unless they see it saves gobs of energy or time elsewhere... SoaS doesn't offer that yet, IMHO.

--[[User:Dennis Daniels|Dennis Daniels]] 15:36, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

--[[User:Dennis Daniels|Dennis Daniels]] 15:36, 4 August 2009 (UTC)