On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Chris Leonard <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Walter Bender <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> During the conversation with the learning team, the topic of nutrition >> came up. FZT is working with USAID on a nutrition curriculum. We >> discussed ways to integrate the curriculum into Sugar, by or example, >> using the Turtle Art [1]. I was inspired by our discussion of the Food >> Pyramid, so on the flight back to Boston, I wrote a new activity, [2]. >> What is potentially fun about it is that not only can you explore the >> precompiled database of foods, but you can also load your own foods >> into the database. So, for example, a child could take a photo (using >> Record) or draw a picture (using Paint) of dinner, and then load that >> food into the activity. > > Walter, the Food Pyramid is so 10 minutes ago :-) > > Almost a year ago the USDA guidelines changed to the MyPlate iconography. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyPlate
I should probably change my formula for a balanced meal. (I had been going by the material prepared in .NI based on USAID curricula.) Thanks. -walter > > In any event, the Nutrition activity UI strings will be available for > translation into your favorite language in Pootle as soon as all of > the Honey languages are refreshed from Pootle templates. This is a > process that is taking longer and longer as we keep adding activities. > Sort of a nice problem to have. > > cjl > Sugar Labs Translation Team Coordinator > http://translate.sugarlabs.org -- 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
