We're having some invited talks this Friday at One Laptop per Child's offices on "Narrative Interfaces". Full talk description here: http://cananian.livejournal.com/64747.html
I've been working on building a small modular "growable" direct system along the lines of several others discussed on this list (see http://cananian.livejournal.com/tag/turtlescript ) -- but the focus of these talks is going to be somewhat different: assume that we've built such a nice transparent system. How do we write the code walkthrough? How do we guide learners through the edifice we've built? How ought we show off corners of the architecture which they might not stumble into on their own? Put another way: the Dynabook (and/or the Primer in Neal Stephenson's "The Diamond Age") isn't *just* architecture. There's some content, too -- how ought we to write that? Chalkboard's translation of Abelson and diSessa's Turtle Geometry book (http://tinlizzie.org/chalkboard/#TurtleGeometryHome) is a step toward this goal. Interactive Fiction works such as "Inform School" (http://www.sparkynet.com/spag/i.html#informsch) are steps toward the same goal from a different direction. The talks will be live-streamed and also available for download after the event. I hope the audience here finds the topic of interest. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net ) _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
