Caroline, As I work more and more with EToys with the kids making interactive books, I agree with you more and more about book creation being important.
Just thought I'd add my 2 cents. Gerald On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Caroline Meeks <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >
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