I apologize for misstating Wade's name! On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Carol Farlow Lerche <[email protected]>wrote:
> I think that's an excellent proposal, and it is probably something that was > in the mind of the "develop" activity developer. But I think (as Bryan > mentioned in his conversation) that it isn't necessary to hypothesize doing > this activity building on the XO itself. Many developers work on more > powerful systems than their target platform, just because development IDEs > and other development tools are often heavyweights. This doesn't mean that > the developer can't be working within Sugar, now that Sugar is almost > production-ready as a part of Linux distributions for other hardware. > > With that prolog, there are various open source IDE and app building > platforms that could be the basis for this, including Glade and Eclipse. I > do think that Wayne's suggestion of making it easier to have activities that > use a local web server as part of the architecture (rather than an ad hoc > component that individual activities each have to hack in) is excellent and > would open a lot of new activity opportunities. > > An idea of mine that I would like to work on to expand the scope of > literacy activities is to build an underlying English word/image bank > resource based in part on > "The Sounds of English" <http://call.canil.ca/english/index.html>, a > website that offers rich tools to construct word lists for phonics-based > teaching, which is one big component of English literacy. The idea would be > to make such activities as memory and the gcompris word games draw their > words from this underlying resource, so that a child could progress through > the stages of reading and spelling the words in these categories in a > sensible, teacher driven manner. I don't know how much the phonics emphasis > translates to other languages, but I am sure it is applicable in part, and > even more sure that the idea of an underlying word/image bank is even more > universal. Also many of the deployments seem to want to teach English as a > second language. > > "Free-Reading.net" is a website offering many resources for teaching early > readers It has a complete open-source curriculum "Intervention A" that has > even been formally accepted as a choice for use in Florida public schools. > I think a lot of their teacher-driven activities could translate to Sugar > activities. It might be interesting to try to systematically implement > these as a way to be more relevent to the youngest learners. > > > > > On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 12:15 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 >> > > > > -- > "Don't think for a minute that power concedes. We have to work like our > future depends on it." -- Barack Obama > -- "Don't think for a minute that power concedes. We have to work like our future depends on it." -- Barack Obama
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