Hi Walter & All, I do understand your point about most Sugar apps leaning towards open-ended construction. With respect to that, I have successfully incorporated a few Sugarizer apps by simply establishing some threshold at which credits are awarded ... including Gears, Clocks, ABCDerium and my own open-ended app/contribution ColorMyWorld. So I think it can be made relatively simple, but even that is not my purpose for writing to you.
I'm trying to achieve two specific things 1) create an effective parenting / teaching tool, and 2) create incentive to stimulate new free edu-software development. If Sugar/Sugarizer contributors (past, present & future) can make a few bucks for their work, as well as another channel to publicize their work, then it should only serve to stimulate new innovation and development. I'm not competition, but I drool over your community, who are the "most-likely-to-participate-in-free-edu-software-development" people in the world, since they already are. I'm trying to make it a more viable pastime without stepping on any toes. Regards, -Charles Review published today 3/16/18 <https://ricmerrifield.com/2018/03/16/great-idea-make-your-kids-earn-their-internet-time-netdispenser/> NetDispenser Project Website <http://netdispenser.github.io> On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 12:47 PM, Walter Bender <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 2:44 PM C. Cossé <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Dear Folks, >> >> Here >> <https://collaborate.teachersguild.org/challenge/digital-citizenship/ideate/credit-meter-assisted-learning> >> is a more complete description of the grass-roots project which I proposed >> to sugar-labs a couple months ago. I believe that it can stimulate >> development of free education software and provide "job opportunities" and >> incentive for young and old programmers, alike. Perhaps "busking >> opportunities" would be a more appropriate term :) >> > > Charles, > > Many, if not most Sugar activities are not focused on completion of > specific tasks, rather that are oriented around open-ended construction. > That said, I am sure one could layer tasks on top of many activities, e.g., > Turtle Confusion overlaid on top of Turtle Blocks. As far as how we'd > integrate these into the system you are building, I don't have any idea. > > regards. > > -walter > >> >> -Charles >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > <http://www.sugarlabs.org> >
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