Hey David, Correction: Flash can absolutely do collaboration. Check out online games like Corpse Craft for examples. A SWF-based collaborative Sugar activity would require some support from Sugar itself to direct communications to the right places.
That said, I totally agree that a Python framework for creating educational activities would be wonderful. Sugar already provides an activity framework (sugar.activity.* modules) but it does not offer any specifically educational components. It's possible that this could be expanded with more education-specific classes and helpers. What kinds of features would you see being useful in such a framework? You mentioned Etoys, but I haven't programmed in Etoys before so I'm curious as to the specifics. Best, -Wade On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 3:15 PM, David Van Assche <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > So today a couple of us education enthusiasts were contemplating > the recent discussions concerning an easier activity creation method, > which might involve ajax or Flash. The problem with Flash, apart from > its proprietary nature, is the fact that it doesn't really do > collaboration, one of the corner stones of sugar. It came to my mind > that to make things easier for content creators, a structured method > for creating activities is what is really needed. Something like a > framework, as is available for many languages (think django or python) > but with a very specific aim, building educational apps that include > collaboration. I can foresee something like that making many more > educators interested in coding educational apps. The framework > wouldn't have to be very complicated at all, it could just be a higher > set of commands (something like etoys, but simpler) that are > specifically focused to making the sugar activity ui, help with > collaboration, and then have a specific set of available instructions. > I've never been involved in the creation of a framework, so maybe what > I'm saying isn't realistic, but its an idea.... > > kind Regards, > David Van Assche > www.nubae.com > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
