Martin Langhoff wrote: > The XS is going to grow a "browse-and-download library content" leg > sometime soon. It will be a facility that knows how to unpack and > index the IMS-CP and SCORM metadata (which is all DublinCore stuff), > and it'll be transparent to users how to browse, search and use any > such content placed on the XS. > ... > My plan is to make that XS feature so that it can also automagically > make a bundle for the XO to download -- after all, happiness is a warm > bundle ( http://blog.laptop.org/2009/01/13/happiness-is-a-warm-bundle/ > ) :-)
Sounds great. .xol bundles and the auto-expanding Library home page are great but Sugar-specific, so having your server create an appropriate bundle is worthwhile. I guess if the server just noticed a request from a non-Sugar client, it could return a different mime type and possibly extension, and that would be enough for a non-Sugar client to get an plain ZIP file. I just stumbled across http://sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/InfoSlicer (from its YouTube video!), which turns web pages into .xol bundles, the code is <http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/infoslicer/repos/mainline/blobs/master/Processing/Package_Creator.py> > This also means that XS and XO can leverage the large existing pools > of IMS-CP and SCORM content. "SCORM", that takes me back to working at a company where the learning division kept saying "It's a billion dollar business!" (before exiting that business). Does SCORM let me work through a course offline or online, a) taking a quiz to verify I've learned each "learning object" and b) keeping track of my progress? It seems those functions are what a school would want to tack on to existing web-based curricula. Back in the day I never got a straight answer whether there was an easy way to do this on our web site, even though we were selling the software. Judging from http://www.adlnet.gov/scorm/ , it remains opaque and confusing. > That's my plan at least :-) -- no plan ever survives contact with reality. Good luck with your efforts! http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Roadmap doesn't match this rallying cry. -- =S Page _______________________________________________ Library mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library
