Building a website for kids seems like a great idea to me. An online extension of the Sugar interface could foster interaction between Sugarized schools in a country and even beyond borders. The commitment of choosing a username is not major for an existing Sugar user. And, it could provide curious grownups with a (partial) idea of the Sugar experience.
However, the static site about to go live is targeted at prospective Sugar deployers (educators, parents), not prescriptive Sugar users (children) - although there will undoubtedly be kids visiting. To reach these adults, obscure marketing won't be the best approach in my view - but clearly communicating the Sugar difference will. Which is not to say that the site needs a cookie-cutter approach, I like the book-like presentation which lends itself to being printed out and passed around. Sean On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 2:09 AM, Samuel Klein <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Carol Farlow Lerche <[email protected]> wrote: >> I second Michael's suggestion about a web design that echoes the Sugar >> design. Think how useful this would be if carried to school servers. And >> as a basis for web-served Sugar-like activities. > > This would be delightful. > * No text on the main page > * Single-keypress return to the main page > * Personalizable main page navigation : determining which sections of > the site are linked from your main page > * A neighborhood view showing who else is browsing the site at the moment > * Pop-up user preferences, including your username and colors > > SJ > _______________________________________________ > 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
