Just forwarding the below to IAEP to catch more educator/teacher type eyeballs:
Begin forwarded message: > From: Gary C Martin <[email protected]> > Date: 28 February 2009 15:54:17 GMT > To: Tomeu Vizoso <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [Bugs] #448 UNSP: Addons.sl.o doc > category should be changed > > On 28 Feb 2009, at 14:46, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> maybe the activity team can discuss and implement a new set of >> Categories for activities? I just copied the existing ones at >> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/All > > Aha, I did wonder where the category list came from. I'm sure the > activity team would be happy to discuss, but if anyone, I think > educators/teachers should be providing us input on this concrete list. > The current categories are: > > Search & Discovery > Documents > News > Chat, mail and talk > Media creation > Programming > Maths & Science > Maps & Geography > Media players > Games > Teacher tools > > In the addons site these categories work like tags (un-like the > original presentation at the wiki), so an Activity can now be tagged > in multiple categories. To get the ball rolling; this list does seems > a little on the technical side, built around activity code that > happened to appear at the time. I'd quite like to see things > simplified to cover more regular study areas (reading, writing, art, > maths, science, programming, geography, communication, games, etc). > > --Gary > >> Regards, >> >> Tomeu >> >> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 19:00, SugarLabs Bugs >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> #448: Addons.sl.o doc category should be changed >>> ------------------------------------------ >>> +--------------------------------- >>> Reporter: cafl | Owner: dfarning >>> Type: enhancement | Status: new >>> Priority: Unspecified by Maintainer | Milestone: >>> Unspecified by Release Team >>> Component: activities.sugarlabs.org | Version: >>> Unspecified >>> Severity: Minor | Keywords: >>> Distribution: Unspecified | Status_field: >>> Unconfimed >>> ------------------------------------------ >>> +--------------------------------- >>> "reading & writing"? "words"? Needs to encompass word games, >>> reading, writing... >>> >>> -- >>> Ticket URL: <http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/448> >>> Sugar Labs <http://sugarlabs.org/> >>> Sugar Labs bug tracking system >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Bugs mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/bugs >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
