(crossposting to IAEP) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <s.bouta...@free.fr> Date: Fri, May 8, 2009 at 7:11 AM Subject: [Grassroots-l] [Olpc-france] How to sugarize "Learning Now" / Apprendre maintenant? To: grassro...@lists.laptop.org
Read on the "OLPC France" list: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-france/2009-May/000807.html Hi all: As the creator and developer of the software, I’d like to invite you all to a discussion. We can start it now or simply wait until May 16th. “Learning Now v1” should only be considered – for now - in order to visualize a concept which I feel is needed when bringing computer equipment to young people or adults in need of training (such as alphabetization, literacy, general training courses, high tech courses, etc ). We all want for these computers to be used to bring people together and closer to each other, to learn about other cultures and systems and to establish links and relationships with people from their own community, surroundings and many other communities worldwide. We want these computers to be used to preserve the people’s culture and environments, to archive their knowledge – savoir et savoir faire – and their art. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to load on an XO or on any computer - full of dust somewhere (or not!) - a piece of software that allows to do just that? Educate, offer ways to open up to the world, to archive cultures, and to be able to evaluate the progress of each young one, to modify content when the response is not as positive as desired, to establish a global network where every single unit it connected? Even the best computer fully loaded with all the best software won’t get us very far if we do not find a way to get the young users - via a “central nervous system” - to receive the education needed and to use the machine to create active and positive projects for themselves and their community. We need some piece of software here to get all these pieces linked together to hold their hand and guide them step by step until they can fly on their own. We also need to load the best GNU multimedia software available. I’ve been working on this concept for 4-5 years – kind of my “personal obsession” - and the software that came out of my work – Learning Now v1 “ is offering a possible solution – although still not perfect nor completed. With it, you can: - Use any type of computer (Windows, Linux or Apple). - Create interactive Training Courses and Presentations of all types and for all ages (5 to 90 years old) – with tracking system of progress. - Build Free Internet or Intranet Training Centers. - Distribute courses and presentations on the web or on CDs to reach those who need free education worldwide. - Create Electronic Community Centers (“local” web sites) filled with collections of cultural archives, story books, catalogs and interactive training courses developed and updated with the support of local educators and reflecting your own cultural identity. - Easily adapt existing single or series of training courses to other languages, other cultural environment, respecting local belief and traditions. - Motivate local community groups to join their efforts to preserve [digitize] their own culture, and to offer high tech training courses to young adolescents and adults to learn all the software tools required to feed the archive, personalize existing courses, etc I invite you to think about this and to get together at the SugarCamp for a brainstorm session. The more brains the better! I like to think often that “there are no problems, only solutions”. Team work is a very powerful tool. And when one needs to move a big mountain, it’s easy when moving one stone at a time. Cheers and see you à La Cantine, Fabrice ================================================ http://FreeEducationCenter.com http://EndangeredLanguagesLibrary.org/ ================================================ -----Original Message----- From: s.boutayeb at free.fr [mailto:s.boutayeb at free.fr] Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 7:43 PM To: olpc-france at lists.laptop.org Cc: iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org; fabricemenoyot at gmail.com Subject: How to sugarize "Learning Now" / Apprendre maintenant? Hi all, The SugarCamap event in Paris will enjoy the participation of Fabrice Menoyot, the developer of "Learning Now / Apprendre maintenant"! Let's quote from it's website http://freeeducationcenter.com/ : "Learning Now v1 (Apprendre Maintenant v1)* is a brand new educational tool originally designed for a 15 to 35 years-old public. Today's version can be used for a larger audience. It is a great new (Freeware - open source) software for building interactive and multimedia books, courses, presentations, digital rooms and educational games for all ages. The project initiated in Jamaica in September 2004 with the support of the UNESCO in Kingston." How could we sugarize it's educational suite? The application is developed in Adobe Flashplayer 10. I got it working with the Web browser Epiphany but not with gnash. Do you see any chance to share this educational tool for the XO users? If you manage to particpate to the SugarCamp in Paris, feel free to aks how we could work together toward the sugarization of "Learning Now". Thank you for your comments Samy _______________________________________________ Grassroots mailing list grassro...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep