Henry, That's a fantastic idea
I love EToys and Scratch. What I love about both tools is that it is fairly easy for someone to "discover" how your Scratch toy works and modify it. It is much harder to do that w/ regular code. Henry, I would love to use your scratch activities in Nepal. I know that John Maloney is working on porting scratch to the XO but I don't know the status. Once he does, it would be fantastic if you could package each of your scratchlets as individual xo activities. It is very easy to localize the images in a scratch activity. I don't know how easy it would be to use pootle in conjunction w/ Scratch -- Bryan W. Berry External Relations Manager OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:38:17 -0700 From: "Brown, Henry, DoIT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [OLPC library] Scratch cartoons for physics and health education - New universal language? To: "Edward Cherlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Take a look at scratch.mit.edu it is for kids to create and share cartoons. Many of the pictures can be taken from the web. I cannibalized a German cartoon about bees and flowers targeted to 1st graders to build RNAi, Fusion, and Power Grid cartoons. I am not an artist. Just a Dad with kids who want to cannibalize the Scratch cartoons and learn science in the process. What we need is cartoons for developing nations kids. They need a graphic approach to concepts. In Jamaica, WI as a Peace Crops volunteer I helped build water treatment plants, methane digestors, etc. But the biggest problem was HIV/AIDS. I did my thesis on mapping genomes (Human and HIV) at Los Alamos. My room mates were all physicists. How to discuss the disease with young children? Through RNA the messaging system for biology. http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/GeneMachine/51835 But Physics is my son's passion. Where to find basic physics cartoons that motivate kids? Make them? He wanted fusion reactors? So I made them:http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/GeneMachine/34906 <http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/GeneMachine/34906> Cartoons are the universal language. Look at Saturday morning (Pokeman, Simpsons, etc.) The kids of today are open to manipulating objects on the web (Runescape, etc). So lets give them an interactive learning env. Lets make learning cartoons for kids. OLPC could run Scratch, Alice, etc. We just need armies of adults to build the cartoons. Kids will clone the good ones. Henry Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] cell 795-3680 office 505 827-2509 _______________________________________________ Library mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library
