Dear List, One of the greatest challenges here in deployments has been to create sufficient curriculum *interactive* educational content. Though Scratch and Etoys are great for simulators for many common educational interaction formats (e.g. assemble objects, click in place according to hint in order, memory match, hangman, sorting items etc) using such tools can be quite awkward.
eXe Learning was created as a GUI educational XHTML Editor with support for fill in the blank question formats, multi choice, multi select etc. I have created plugins for Place the objects / label (e.g. assembling parts / labelling a diagram), Click in place according to a hint, sort objects, hangman, memory match, moving object speed answer (e.g. Tuxmath) and sort. The output is generated as HTML / Javascript which can run online or offline. I've also created a plugin for embedding Scratch using the Scratch Java player with an option for the user to download. There are many repositories of open content; however many of them fail to harness the potential of ICT as an interactive medium. Hopefully further lowering the barrier can help to create more. This can make it far easier to turn existing open static content into interactive educational content. Compared to conventional Javascript / Flash / EToys development this dramatically increases the amount of educational interactive content that can be produced by given teams in a given amount of time. It also can help make creation of interactive educational material far easier for educators by templating the kind of interaction they would like to produce and allowing them to just plug in the questions, answers, images, options of the game etc. For many parts of the curriculum the best course of action can be to embed already created Scratch simulators from the Scratch website (e.g. physics sims). With eXe Learning + plugins one can produce a complete interactive package that opens in the browser. I am hoping to develop a roleplay and generic simple simulator creator in the near future. I have also updated the HTML Editor to enable it to create HTML 5 Audio and Video tags for embedding media. Comments/ Feedback most welcome. The plugins are still 'bleeding edge'... Will soon get the sourceforge project properly taken care of so that bugs / QA can be taken care of. For now see http://www.paiwastoon.af/eldep Regards from Afghanistan, -Mike _______________________________________________ Olpc-open mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open
