On 24 Nov 2008, at 17:21, Ben Wiley Sittler 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.
Seems a great addition for the younger age range :-) I did notice that even on a high specced laptop (1.5Ghz, 2Gb ram, broadband connection) the background image was very slow to display (until it had been cached locally). One suggestion, 1600x1200 seems a bit large (even as a max size). For the XO, 800x600 (max!) would seem to be a fair max image size to save nand space and keep image quality. The XO screen is capable of 1200x900 in black/white, and 800x600 seems a reasonable number for it's colour resolution abilities: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Display --Gary > 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 > > an archive of the application (ZIP, ~15 MiB) including all images: > > http://xent.com/~bsittler/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