Re: [IAEP] "Narrative Interfaces" at OLPC

2011-06-18 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All Thanks for recording and posting these. Do any of you remember the Apple ii game for Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?" Must have been circa mid 1980s. All text. Fun problem solving. I got the Babelfish! On a more useful note... the folks in Uruguay have some good things going with

Re: [IAEP] "Narrative Interfaces" at OLPC

2011-06-18 Thread Sean Linton
Enjoyed the Narrative Interfaces dialog, good questions, and valuable discussion. Cheers Sean On 18 June 2011 17:54, Steve Thomas wrote: > Enjoyed the talks and discussion, some good questions/comments: > >- How do you make it easy to author? >- Need to make it as easy as possible to au

[IAEP] ''Narrative Interfaces'' at OLPC

2011-06-18 Thread forster
Hi I did some work on writing a text based dungeon program. The dungeon file is purposefully plain text and can be easily edited by kids in Write. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Tonyforster#Text_dungeon The idea was that kids develop literacy and numeracy skills by creating dungeons and 'che

Re: [IAEP] "Narrative Interfaces" at OLPC

2011-06-18 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
Hi Chris, In the context of another project, Sebastian Silva pointed me too RenPy, a language to do visual novels. http://www.renpy.org/ http://games.renpy.org/ Gonzalo On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 1:23 AM, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Jun 15 2011, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > > I just posted

Re: [IAEP] "Narrative Interfaces" at OLPC

2011-06-17 Thread Steve Thomas
Enjoyed the talks and discussion, some good questions/comments: - How do you make it easy to author? - Need to make it as easy as possible to author content, so you can make your own representations. - Is this a collection of skills someone actually wants to teach a 10 year old? *+

Re: [IAEP] "Narrative Interfaces" at OLPC

2011-06-17 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, On Wed, Jun 15 2011, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > I just posted an announcement for some invited talks we're having at > OLPC's new offices this Friday: > http://cananian.livejournal.com/64747.html > It will all be live-streamed at: > http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cscottnet We're all done wi

[IAEP] "Narrative Interfaces" at OLPC

2011-06-15 Thread C. Scott Ananian
I just posted an announcement for some invited talks we're having at OLPC's new offices this Friday: http://cananian.livejournal.com/64747.html It will all be live-streamed at: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cscottnet --scott --       ( http://cscott.net )

Re: [IAEP] Narrative.

2008-10-10 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 3:02 AM, Bill Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:27 AM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Bill, >> >> Here's a short dialogue between myself, Ben Schwartz, Martin Dengler, >> and Bobby Powers on my interpretation of "narrative" as it mi

Re: [IAEP] Narrative.

2008-10-09 Thread Bill Kerr
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:27 AM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill, > > Here's a short dialogue between myself, Ben Schwartz, Martin Dengler, > and Bobby Powers on my interpretation of "narrative" as it might apply > to a user interface designed for "engaging children in the world o

Re: [IAEP] Narrative.

2008-10-09 Thread Edward Cherlin
I posted a comment on Bryan's call for textbook/narrative creation. http://www.olpcnews.com/content/education/scaling_constructionism_with_dynabooks.html Let's do this, Bryan. Where should we set up the workshop? What tools do we need? Wiki, mailing lists, forums, repository...? I and others have

Re: [IAEP] Narrative.

2008-10-09 Thread Michael Stone
Bill, Here's a short dialogue between myself, Ben Schwartz, Martin Dengler, and Bobby Powers on my interpretation of "narrative" as it might apply to a user interface designed for "engaging children in the world of learning": http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Mstone/Commentaries/Sugar_2 === H

Re: [IAEP] Narrative.

2008-10-08 Thread Bill Kerr
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bryan Berry wholly captured my attention tonight when he said (in > summary): > > "Sugar offers an excellent mode for discovery but no excellent way to > manipulate narratives. Both discovery and narrative are essential

[IAEP] Narrative.

2008-10-04 Thread Michael Stone
Bryan Berry wholly captured my attention tonight when he said (in summary): "Sugar offers an excellent mode for discovery but no excellent way to manipulate narratives. Both discovery and narrative are essential for learning." [1] This statement seems to me both indisputable and damni