Well, it took us at OLE Nepal a whole lot of sweat and especially tears, but finally, after half a year of hard work, we finished the first build that is actually going to be used by actual Nepali kids, in an actual classroom setting.
This build, version 10, sports a whopping 47 activities, which is why it's 105 mb in size. The loading time of individual activities has also diminished by quite a bit (sometimes loading is 3 to 4 times as fast), and memory consumption has been greatly reduced. And this is just the beginning, because there are a great many much of activities to be made in the future. get it here: http://dev.laptop.org/pub/epaati/Epaati-10.xo For you who never heard about Epaati: it's an activity suite (for now) geared towards grades 2 and 6 (roughly 8 respectively 12 year old kids) of the Nepali school system coinciding, not coincidentally, with the classes which are the focus of our pilot projects. The subjects covered are Maths and English, and we follow the official Nepali curriculum so our activities can be integrated seamlessly in regular sessions. Which is not to say of course they can not be used by others. Especially the English activities can be used practically as is by children with another mother tongue, save for the help text. Also converting the maths activities should be not a big deal, since not a lot of Nepali specific text is used, but there are some brambles to be fished out of the porridge, before we have a smooth mechanism for translation. Anyways, have fun with the new and old activities, /Ties _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel