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===Project Ideas===
===Project Ideas===
* Fix Ejabber
* Fix Ejabber
*** Status: Ejabber is running and working. XO's can communicate
** Status: Ejabber is running and working. XO's can communicate
*** To use Ejabber point XO server to schoolserver.rit.edu  
*** To use Ejabber point XO server to schoolserver.rit.edu  
* Configure Moodle to our needs
* Configure Moodle to our needs
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** Status: currently under development
** Status: currently under development
**Additionally, they can "check out" books and bring them home on their laptops to read at home, or while not connected to the XS.
**Additionally, they can "check out" books and bring them home on their laptops to read at home, or while not connected to the XS.
** Status: currently under development
*** Status: currently under development
**This may prove to be more economical than the proposal of distributing text via SDcards as it would allow for a wider range of content per available Gigabyte. One 40 gig hard disk library would hold 10 times as much content as ten, 4-GB SDcards replicated with identical content.
**This may prove to be more economical than the proposal of distributing text via SDcards as it would allow for a wider range of content per available Gigabyte. One 40 gig hard disk library would hold 10 times as much content as ten, 4-GB SDcards replicated with identical content.
** Status: currently under development
*** Status: currently under development
** Run said books through Pootle, so children have access to books not in their native tongue.
** Run said books through Pootle, so children have access to books not in their native tongue.
** Status: currently under development
*** Status: currently under development
** Essentially, a backend to the read activity.
** Essentially, a backend to the read activity.
** Status: currently under development
*** Status: currently under development
*In class quizzing. Teachers ask questions, students respond using their XO, quiz results stored on XS. (Think the [http://www.iclicker.com/dnn/ I>clicker]) I believe similar concepts were proposed by [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Acj3840 Alex Jones]
*In class quizzing. Teachers ask questions, students respond using their XO, quiz results stored on XS. (Think the [http://www.iclicker.com/dnn/ I>clicker]) I believe similar concepts were proposed by [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Acj3840 Alex Jones]
** Status: not started
*** Status: not started
**Possibility of parsing of information, possible graphical heuristics.
**Possibility of parsing of information, possible graphical heuristics.
** Status: not started
*** Status: not started


===Reading Library===
===Reading Library===