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Exporting from the XO for printing and archiving

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once you have the document on the USB thumb drive, you can go anywhere with it, but it would be nice if you could reproduce it easily. I suggest you Take a Tour of AbiWord: if you don't already have it on your adult machine.

I found that the best way to handle documents exported from the XO for printing, archiving, etc. was to download AbiWord

The word processor on the XO (Write) is a version of AbiWord. The documents can be saved and exported to a USB drive from the Journal. On the first try I took a picture with the XO camera and inserted it into Write and saved it as rtf. Then exported to a USB thumb drive, loaded the rtf to AbiWord that was on my HP laptop and had a document the was full available for edit. AbiWord also can save in MSWord format. i loaded that document in another open source product, Open Office, and had a MSWord compatible document that was fully available for edit. Since I am not an owner of MSWord I cannot speak for those compatablility issues, but suffice it to say that the XO Linux presents no problems with the open source products that are free.

One Laptop per Child (OLPC), Getting Started

One Laptop per Child (OLPC), Getting Started

The fun things the Fredricks Kids will be doing over the next few years.

Activities they will be sharing with friends all over the globe.

How exciting is that?

OLPC News: Education is a Basic Need in the Developing World

OLPC News: Education is a Basic Need in the Developing World

OLPC is About Education

And somebody needs to focus on education in order to break the cycle of poverty. That's us. We need more of us, too. It isn't either/or, it's both/and. It would cost billions of dollars to feed every undernourished child as soon as possible, and the money is not forthcoming from governments or private donors. I wish it were.

For more on OLPC on my blog, Please click here

See what One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is all about - Run it in Windows

Here is the home screen Martin and Saela will see on their machines and 2 children in in as yet unknown developing country will be booting up their machines too.


This screen shot was taken from Grampa's HP Pavillion Laptop. For more information about
Emulating the XO/Quick Start/Windows - OLPC Information
download your own copy. It is Linux. It is free. That's how "open source" software
works. It is the sharing community.


Download the emulator and run it in a Windows window by clicking olpc_qemu_full.zip (210 MB)

More information about the OLPC Give One Get One (G1G1) project. Hurry offer ends Dec 31. While your there check how the OLPC is built around the education model not the commercial model.

Holiday Celebration

Just a bit tipsy but so fortunate to have such great friends.

Thanks to John and Cindy

Columns - newsjournalonline.com

Local poets all ready to rumble

Consider: In the current issue of the journal The American Scholar, poet Douglas Goetsch writes about being asked to lead a "drive-by poetry" field trip composed of New Jersey high school students.

The concept "entails loading the students into a van, cruising around and pulling over near targeted pedestrians. One of the students sticks his or her head out the passenger window and serenades -- or accosts -- the startled pedestrian with some passionately recited lines by Walt Whitman or Pablo Neruda. The kid pops back in, rolls up the window and the van takes off in search of the next victim."

OLPC Software and interface

Software and interface:


"GCompris"

OLPC Map

Creatings Solutions Home Page

Creatings Solutions Home Page

Scientific American: The Secret to Raising Smart Kids

Hint: Don't tell your kids that they are. More than three decades of research shows that a focus on effort—not on intelligence or ability—is key to success in school and in life

Scientific American: The Secret to Raising Smart Kids

Our society worships talent, and many people assume that possessing superior intelligence or ability—along with confidence in that ability—is a recipe for success. In fact, however, more than 30 years of scientific investigation suggests that an overemphasis on intellect or talent leaves people vulnerable to failure, fearful of challenges and unwilling to remedy their shortcomings.

The result plays out in children like Jonathan, who coast through the early grades under the dangerous notion that no-effort academic achievement defines them as smart or gifted. Such children hold an implicit belief that intelligence is innate and fixed, making striving to learn seem far less important than being (or looking) smart.

This article has some very thought provoking ideas to consider. Sort of like learning to value the bicycle, it takes lots of time and energy. Read it, NOW!