You might want to check out what Etoys actually does and is. (Hint: it covers your desiderata beIow pretty well.)
I suggest perusing the document that I made up for the OLPC countries meeting a few weeks ago. Nia Lewis will probably have a copy. Cheers, Alan At 07:50 AM 6/2/2007, Eben Eliason wrote: >Ever since this project began, I've had this idea in my head regarding >what a "slideshow" might mean on the OLPC machine. I'd really like to >see an activity called "Collage" which is something like a modern >descendent of Hypercard. It should take the idea of embedding media >further, of course allowing images, sounds, video and text, but >perhaps also supporting live logo turtles, live editable text boxes >and other interactive forms. Ideally, there would be an interface >which made it pluggable so that any activity could embed its formats >and provide hooks for interacting with it. > >Bringing it all together, it should support a basic logo-like >scripting language. This could allow simple actions like "next page", >but could also be allowed to pull text from the live text boxes via >some identifiers, animate the embedded objects, track some basic mouse >and keyboard events, and interact with hooks provided by the plugins. > >A child could create a single page, or a simple slideshow, but by >taking full advantage of the nature of the scripting which pulls >things together, they can create non-linear books, interactive >animations, science reports with embedded interactive experiments, >games, and more. > >As fun as this would be for kids, I also see this as being a fantastic >format for teachers to create lesson plans in: provide some >instructions with text and images, embed a video about the topic, >script up a little physics simulation that the kids can experiment >with, embed an abiword table widget which automatically records the >results of the experiment, and place some questions with textboxes at >the end so the kids can answer them and then turn in their "lab." >Heck, you could even automatically check the answers when they are >done, or interactively assist them when they answer incorrectly, >nudging them along or referencing the results table again. > >- Eben > > >On 6/2/07, Rebecca Gettys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I think that sideshows CAN be very sueful in the class room, and they > > have actually taught be to pay attention to detail. You need notes to do > > anything really, and they do have their applications with other > > students. Just a thought. > > ~Rebecca > > _______________________________________________ > > Devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > >_______________________________________________ >Sugar mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
