On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 13:16, Erik Blankinship <[email protected]> wrote: > Perhaps I am stating the obvious, but the suggestions are very suggestive of > Candyland. > http://bp1.blogger.com/_GBSubG7_qbw/Rj_u39QVD7I/AAAAAAAAAGQ/YAZ3WRMdYbU/s1600-h/Candyland-1949.JPG > > http://www.mipo37.com/CandyLand.jpg
The molasses swamp reminded me that we should do some more performance work after the feature freeze. Regards, Tomeu > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Bert Freudenberg <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> I guess Bryan thinks of it as a play on "Mathland" (in Papert's sense, >> not the curriculum of the same name). The name of squeakland.org was >> inspired by the same idea: >> >> "What would happen if children who can't do math grew up in Mathland, >> a place that is to math what France is to French?" --S.P. >> >> Also see >> >> http://www.kusasa.org/background/mathland/mathland.html >> >> - Bert - >> >> On 12.01.2009, at 06:36, Wade Brainerd wrote: >> >> > I personally prefer 'Sugar' over 'Sugarland'. The latter seems a bit >> > like another world, where I think people want to be educated to >> > succeed in the real one. >> > >> > SugarLand might appeal more to children. But then we would also want >> > to make the UI less focused and more like a video game, which I don't >> > necessarily agree with. >> > >> > Best, >> > Wade >> > >> > On 1/11/09, Bryan Berry <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> my apologies ;) >> >> >> >> What do you guys think? >> >> >> >> Playground : Where kids learn and play >> >> >> >> or >> >> >> >> SugarLand: where kids learn and play >> >> >> >> or >> >> >> >> Sugar: Where kids learn and play >> >> >> >> w/ transpositions of learn and play >> >> >> >> On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 19:05 +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> >>> Btw, we are having this discussion in the development list, thus >> >>> only >> >>> including geeks :p >> >>> >> >>> [adding iaep and marketing to cc] >> >>> >> >>> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 17:54, imm <[email protected]> >> >>> wrote: >> >>>> >> >>>> On 11 Jan 2009, at 15:43, Bryan Berry wrote: >> >>>> >> >>>>> "Sugar: A Place to Play and Learn" >> >>>>> >> >>>>> I have trouble saying this 3x quickly due to the repetition of the >> >>>>> "Pla" >> >>>>> sound. It may sound trivial but it does affect our ability to >> >>>>> repeat it >> >>>>> often and consistently >> >>>> >> >>>> Yes - me too, that's why I thought the "Learn and Play" form flowed >> >>>> better... I liked the sounds of that first form, but the concept of >> >>>> the second form. >> >>>> -- >> >>>> imm >> >>>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
