Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Teaching typing and basic math on the XO
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 07:20:05PM -0500, Wade Brainerd wrote: If you have used TuxType, you will know that it's a simplistic typing *practice game* and in no way teaches the user how to type. I thought that's what you're looking for. How do you imagine a typing teaching activity to work? What does the Typing Turtle activity that was mentioned look like? CU Sascha -- http://sascha.silbe.org/ http://www.infra-silbe.de/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Teaching typing and basic math on the XO
I know Mavis has a simplified flash version on their website. On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.org wrote: On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 08:42:21PM -0500, Wade Brainerd wrote: I'm following the format used by programs like MicroType and Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing (what I personally learned on). Both have demo versions for Windows available. Do you know where I could find some screenshots or similar showing the basic concept? I don't really fancy booting Windows and downloading a 380MB (!) demo. Otherwise... We are working towards an alpha in early January.. When it's ready I will announce it on the sugar list. ... I'll just wait for that one. :) CU Sascha -- http://sascha.silbe.org/ http://www.infra-silbe.de/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBSWC7gbpz82VMF3DaAQIthAf9FYjDR/jthfsnaQnZV5pLifKTrQxWGzY8 LQBrGPZQRa2D2+0jnvmiSCqsxKZXIuZArUbJP2pt7RSJ+T2w6UygZkbu81SStMmX AyOtTpKHjQniJzz15rozw23hXVTP1Qo2gncZambMgG123jb2q1D79GUPZL1yczFP sxrvW+13tlQq8PjUwuTnZiD8h3EG9wlQpGXWJuBXtNiqg2g1M7B8fO12dMkeTrBg VLt9Y8jBgMY50ecvg7qpSDK9fn1fF78TPGEljEiPlf7AslDK3p7/4BplfwZKwGDh zhT69cCub/fY01CJ5aUFe5xav9/WJiWD8rLU2pU5PZXI/FJuZLNOeg== =AKsd -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Teaching typing and basic math on the XO
I'm following the format used by programs like MicroType and Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing (what I personally learned on). Both have demo versions for Windows available. TT will be simple compared with these programs, but they are the general template. We are working towards an alpha in early January.. When it's ready I will announce it on the sugar list. Cheers, Wade On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-su...@silbe.org wrote: On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 07:20:05PM -0500, Wade Brainerd wrote: If you have used TuxType, you will know that it's a simplistic typing *practice game* and in no way teaches the user how to type. I thought that's what you're looking for. How do you imagine a typing teaching activity to work? What does the Typing Turtle activity that was mentioned look like? CU Sascha -- http://sascha.silbe.org/ http://www.infra-silbe.de/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBSV6zirpz82VMF3DaAQLpMwgArkQogjN/D+9IUvqvbHlXaduKF6UMaxfg JIfTIbdTccjCxuXzqMv90hrFCXEg1stiXqgaWjZpCX5JN+WjDkSQPYxY2oeQQOZj 0+TiYbsLwWFOUXPlJkfiJpKXVH+cOu0et5ZIqSPd84MyekxtGqCyb0sd/uKCcu09 zr7Ri2ADoQoq1p1XI38m/IqCRyiDtpez9UX8AB2L48tDD15Yhlnh0QMy7EuhYMli ZhtW1Ng33pWV9diYkjawmD8vs+rniFtcXKW/IZG63LOV5UZ66eMEGx6CAKV9TXNp jOjPW9L5oUZLh0/Cb1hFvKYRzzDuLKijdNcvYWfRKw8Bv0MrkhmOAg== =7WVV -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Teaching typing and basic math on the XO (was: Re: How to Make Activity Designers Happy , Parts I and II)
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Wade Brainerd wad...@gmail.com wrote: If you have used TuxType, you will know that it's a simplistic typing *practice game* and in no way teaches the user how to type. That said, there are typing programs out there that could work. I just wanted to make a nice one for Sugar. Learning to type in Indic writing systems, including Devanagari for Nepali, is much easier than learning any Latin-alphabet keyboard. It took me a month to switch from QWERTY to Dvorak, but only two days to be able to type in Sanskrit (though not as fast). The consonants are laid out in a logical order based on the work of the ancient Sanskrit grammarians, with each of labial, dental, retroflex, palatal, and velar consonant families having its own column. Almost all vowels are under the left hand, and consonants under the right hand. Orthography is extremely regular. Some of the rules of English may not apply, such as word division. There is no capitalization. Each of the Indic keyboard layouts is very similar to all of the others. I would like to get hold of Omar Khayyam Moore's Edison Talking Typewriter program and rewrite it in a modern programming language. It ran on an IBM 360 and taught three-year-olds to read and write on a Selectric terminal with very little human intervention required. -Wade On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.org wrote: On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 12:10:09PM -0800, Bryan Berry wrote: The Typing Turtle will be immensely useful and immensely popular in Nepal. A typing tutor is one of the most frequently requested programs by the Nepali kids and teachers alike. Thanks alot to Wade for working on it. Have you tried TuxType/TuxTyping [1] and (a recent version of) TuxMath? There's no XO bundle for them yet, but if they fit your needs, you might try asking Albert Calahan. He seems to have done the TuxPaint [2] bundle [3,5] (all three programs are from the same project - Tux4Kids [4]). [1] http://tuxtype.sourceforge.net/ [2] http://www.tuxpaint.org/ [3] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Tux_Paint [4] http://tux4kids.alioth.debian.org/ [5] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/All CU Sascha -- http://sascha.silbe.org/ http://www.infra-silbe.de/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBSV6pWrpz82VMF3DaAQLL0gf/c8N5HvCAiuM8vNC9TIn5rb5afUtJCb2M pzWMSDDBQYpRQniwi04qgS7exVh0OlYFficKrrZni9dAEVL582zRGzCHVmP7RIda 5PLpA5UOcgQIjGvoyeiBO+yhdx540kmsPU0UWzE7ZQEdAwdJUnlgF5aB/L0pT8H+ /0hdMbR1uHrServp6EPikvmkq95lWTf78YR3cLcKjmBF7gvxHNVv5mtFEb5HvbfG SF5lmxNSFWojx7LrHYYA7EArO7vMDvK25sYTofBTZ32cml3egGH6SqPgRW7MiUGj nRmjfYba2Z9FE9AhQsyUkUZUNyqT6sbcrff2zMbJLW5/LIbfQ5gXfw== =cZiZ -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Sugar-devel mailing list sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
