In a same "spirit", a friend of mine created jLearn: http://domosays.net/jlearn/.
"JLearn (JQuery learn) is a simple program that allows you to learn anything (if a quizz has been written of course!). >From japanese alphabet to maths, passing by world capitals, anything can be learnt. JLearn interface is pretty simple: one box showing you the question, and one box to enter the answer. If you don't know the answer, just press the [space key] and it will be shown. Quizzes are submitted by the community, you can find some here or even write your own!" He won a contest with OLPC France. Sebastien On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 9:15 PM, Samuel Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ben, > > This is brilliant! Definitely brightened my day. > I just converted it to an xol bundle which you can try downloading... > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image:Yay-Bee-See-2.xol > > You should create a page about it (and tell this story!) on our wiki... > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Yay-bee-see (page not created yet :) > > --SJ > > > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Ben Wiley Sittler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have just joined this list and read through the archives, but could > > not find anything similar. I also didn't find mention of anything > > similar on the OLPC Wiki. > > > > I recently wrote some software for use by my daughter on her OLPC. It > > runs inside the Browse activity, either locally using a "file:" URI or > > over the network. I don't know whether it will be of interest to > > anyone else, but I have released the software to the public domain and > > packaged it along with scaled-down (1600x1200 or less) copies of some > > public-domain images and some copyrighted-but-free-to-redistribute > > images under GFDL, and various Creative Commons Attribution-Share > > Alike, Attribution, and Share Alike licenses. Individual attribution > > for each image is included in the application source code. > > > > overview: > > > > I wrote some software using DHTML (JavaScript, HTML and CSS.) It's to > > help learn letters and numbers, and is intended to be used with adult > > supervision and involvement. It is fairly easy to customize it to use > > different images and support different alphabets simply by editing the > > contents of the <style> element in the HTML file. > > > > The software is very, very, very simple — it just echoes typed letters > > and numbers in a large, colorful font and shows a somewhat-relevant > > background image for each one. The images are various freely-usable > > ones I found on Wikipedia or in the Wikimedia Commons. View source > > code for full copyright information for the associated images. > > > > online version of the "Yay!, Bee, See" application: > > > > http://xent.com/~bsittler/yay-bee-see.html<http://xent.com/%7Ebsittler/yay-bee-see.html> > > > > an archive of the application (ZIP, ~15 MiB) including all images: > > > > http://xent.com/~bsittler/yay-bee-see.zip<http://xent.com/%7Ebsittler/yay-bee-see.zip> > > > > blog post about it: > > > > http://bsittler.livejournal.com/15244.html > > > > background: > > > > My daughter (who turns two this week) has been enjoying her OLPC from > > last year's G1G1 program much more than I expected she would > > (originally I intended to wait until she was older and literate to > > introduce her to the OLPC, but she seemed to treat it as a favorite > > toy starting around the age of 18 months.) She likes the Record > > activity (she calls it "Waving hand" and uses it like a mirror-image > > mirror,) Skype (not bundled, but she uses it to talk to and see > > far-away family,) and listening to music (theclassicalstation.org). > > She also likes pressing buttons, rotating the "ears" and screen, and > > opening and closing the laptop. However, she seems somewhat frustrated > > by not being able to do things on it for herself (or as she puts it, > > "do it self!",) so I thought I might write a small program where her > > keypresses give some feedback, and help reinforce her interest in the > > digits and letters of the alphabet (she loves being read to and > > recognizes many letters and digits, but does not seem to understand > > reading yet.) > > > > -Ben > > _______________________________________________ > > Devel mailing list > > Devel@lists.laptop.org > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >
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