Hi Jim, How low is the floor on this? Could a first or second grader do it? Can they print it out and create a book?
I think book creation should be a big part of our eBook message, and nice write ups on a number of different ways for students to do this with Sugar might be a great supplement to our Blueberry press releases. Thanks! Caroline On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Jim Simmons <[email protected]> wrote: > Caroline, > > I'm unable to watch the YouTube video but if I was a teacher that > wanted to have children create their own books I might recommend using > View Slides to collect and organize image files created in other > tools. For instance, children could get images from the Internet > using Browse, create images using Record or one of the Paint programs, > then use View Slides to import them into a slide show and arrange them > into sequence by renaming them. > > Once you have images in sequence like that you could use View Slides > to read them like a book, copy them to a thumb drive and read them on > a non-Sugar computer using a program like Comix, or unzip them and use > a command in Image Magick to create a PDF out of them. Once you have > a PDF like that you could convert it to DJVU with another free > utility. > > View Slides is consistently more popular than any of my other > Activities and since there is very little legal content in .cbz format > (and illegal content in .cbz format isn't that easy to find either) > I've always wondered what people were doing with it. This might be > part of an answer. > > James Simmons > > > Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:47:25 -0500 > > From: Caroline Meeks <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] R: E-Books for Sugar on a Stick > > (Blueberry) > > > > Going along the same lines but in a different direction then > Tomeu....This > > teacher asked for a simple book creation tool for kids. > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TRcKP1MJQs > > > > Might not be hard to create a Turtle Art Template that prints in a way > that > > lets you fold the printed page to create a book. > -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove [email protected] 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax
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