On Tuesday 02 March 2010 02:28:42 pm Simon Schampijer wrote: > > An interesting possibility is to get old students to create animated > > flashcards/sounds clips to teach a topic (say English) to younger > > students. Traditional flashcards just present a letter as a block. > > Instead, one can use a bug to create letter shapes with its trail so the > > children can also perceive how letters are formed. > > Thanks for that idea. Is there a tutorial for creating flashcards you > know of? No. But if you pose it as a challenge for the students I am sure they will figure out a way.
Letters like C, D, I, J, L, M, N, O, V, W, Z are easy while A, B, E, F, H, K, T, U, Y may stump them for a moment. S is really difficult and may need some help. Know why S is difficult is part of the fun (cf. Digital Typography by Don Knuth, chapter 13). Subbu _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep