On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Caryl Bigenho <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All! > > > I'm happy to say I have finally gotten back to work on my "Fun With Tam Tam > Mini" FLOSS manual after a hiatus (a So Cal word from the "industry") > brought on by all sorts of holiday and family distractions. There are a > number of other, unrelated, things folks have asked me to work on now, but I > figure if I don't get this done first, it will never get done. So… > > > I am currently working on learning to use the free Finale Notepad software > to generate simple samples of all the musical examples in the manual, put > into standard musical notation. This was suggested by my middle- schooler, > violinist, granddaughter when she reviewed the draft, way back in November. > > > > I remember how those musicians among you who tried Tam Tam in my > mini-workshop at the SF summit found it confusing because you were used to > reading notes. I also found this with some second and third graders I > worked with in Montana who have had some music lessons. So… it will be > there for those who need it in a special Appendix. So far, I have done a > one octave C Major scale... woo-hoo! > > > I still will need to do some screen shots, but that should be fairly easy. > > > ***(Important) As soon as I finish the manual I will take excerpts and put > them into the new FLOSS manual update as a Tam Tam Mini chapter. I am hoping > someone will decide on the guidelines for these Activity chapters. There > should be a limit on the maximum number of pages for any single Activity so > we don't end up with any one being extremely long. We should ask folks to > include enough information for users to successfully begin to use the > Activity and then refer them to more information elsewhere (wiki, FLOSS > manual, web site, etc).
I think we can have individual manuals for each activity along with a short 1-2 pages in a collective manual for Sugar activities as a whole. -walter > > > I'll let you know when "Fun With Tam Tam Mini" is finished and ready for a > final review. I know there are several of you interested in using this in > some of your deployments so… just a little more time and it should be ready! > > > Grannie B (MA MusicEd) > > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
