Hi Mike, how is this going? Is there anything on which people can give feedback? Anything the Sugar community could help with?
Regards, Tomeu 2009/11/11 Mike Dawson <[email protected]>: > Hi All, > > Sometime ago we had the idea to try and create skill trainers using > interactive roleplay on the XO - recently discovered Renpy as a really > excellent tool for doing this. One can make an engaging audio, video > and dialogue experience very quickly using Renpy's scripting language, > and where that's not enough, you can just add python code. There are > a fair few gotcha's to it but I have documented most of this on the > wiki: > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Renpy > > The thing about roleplay which is beautiful is it gives a risk free > way to experiment and learn about key skills in a way that can really > relate back to real life. It's not just an experience of individuals > either; I remember having fun playing Monkey Island and other such > games > > We are thinking to make: > > 1. Children's health guides to day to day issues in life (brushing > teeth, toilet hygiene, etc) > > 2. Soft skill trainers - could help others in the house (parents / > elder siblings as well) - job interview trainer, etc whilst not > loosing focus from the younger children. > > 3. Household Hygiene / Health advisor - a virtual doctor guided tour > through the house to address hygiene problems. Rote learning > unfortunately largely destroys people's capacity to act on information > consumed - people are used to either consumption (memorization) or > interacting with people. We will be doing an experiment to compare > the impact of using an interactive virtual advisor on the XO to radio, > television, paper, and a real person. > > 4. Maybe some kind of pedagogic game - teachers need to have > confidence to try and change how things are working. Perhaps if they > could experiment with different methods in a virtual classroom > environment this would help? > > Other ideas would indeed be welcome :) > > Regards, > > -Mike (OLPC Afghanistan) > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning _______________________________________________ Olpc-open mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open
