Not just kids. I had to do my own detective work in order to send Walter a set of TA sessions for various lessons.
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 13:08, David Farning <dfarn...@gmail.com> wrote: > The other day during an infrastructure meeting, Walter brought up some > thought on how to enable kids to exchange Turtle Art projects.... > > Alsroot has been thinking about how to do this through a.sl.o since he > became the activities.sugarlabs.org code maintainer. > > The high level view is that someone can easily upload Turtle Art creations > to somewhere and then they, or others, can go to a portal to download other > Turtle Art creations. > > Client side, this would require: > 1. Adding a widget to either the journal or the TA activity to upload the TA > Bundle. > 2. Adding a TA bundle installer to handler TA Bundle downloads. > > Server side, this would require: > 1. A place to accept TA bundle uploads. > 2. A search-able place from which to download TA bundles > > We have some similar systems we can look to as examples. > 1. Scratch -- Scratch has an upload button and users can download scratch > projects from -- http://scratch.mit.edu/galleries/browse/newest > 2. ASLO -- Users upload XO bundles via a web interface and download via a > web interface. > > My initial instinct is to see if ASLO can be adopted to fit this need. > Primarily because we have it, it works, and it is scalable. On the other > hand, if the only tool in one's toolbox is a hammer, everything looks like a > nail. (How is that for over using clichés and buzzword?) > > Considerations: > ASLO rocks:) > ASLO can be adapted to handle various file types. For example: > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:3 > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:2 > > Each file type can have a separate look and feel. > > Is the activity creation and upload process too complicated for young users? > > Moving forward: > Would it be possible to journal or TA widget which: > 1. Walks the student though a upload wizard. > 2. Combines the TA project into a into a bundle with the metadata generated > in the wizard. > 3. Sends the bundle to activites.sl.o/uploads > > Would it be possible to setup/adapt ASLO to: > 1. Handle TA files types. > 2. Accepts TA bundles+metadata uploads and inserts them into the review > queue. > > david > > _______________________________________________ > Systems mailing list > syst...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/systems > > -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://www.earthtreasury.org/ _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep