Re: [Sugar-devel] Teaching typing and basic math on the XO (was: Re: [IAEP] How to Make Activity Designers Happy , Parts I and II)
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 1:49 AM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: 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. My PyGTK port of Ben Sittler's Yay Bee See! could be adapted to mimic the ETT. - After the student has pressed some keys and gets used to the feedback of seeing the letter and pictures, show a random picture and disable the keyboard except for the corresponding key, just like ETT. - Add a sound effect for each picture / letter combo, just like the ETT. This is something Ben and I discussed which would not be hard to do. It's mostly a matter of collecting the media. - You could add a constructivist twist by letting the student paste in a new picture and/or sound for each letter, perhaps from Record (see Walter's Typing Turtle suggestion). The collection would be saved to the Journal. Feel like dusting off your Python skills? git://dev.laptop.org/users/wadeb/yay-bee-see -Wade ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] Teaching typing and basic math on the XO (was: Re: [IAEP] How to Make Activity Designers Happy , Parts I and II)
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/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Teaching typing and basic math on the XO (was: Re: [IAEP] How to Make Activity Designers Happy , Parts I and II)
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. -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-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Teaching typing and basic math on the XO (was: Re: [IAEP] 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-devel@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 ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
