Re: [Sugar-devel] GPA Class Notes July 22 - GS

2009-07-28 Thread Walter Bender
I think that we could do most of the games with the game logic I can hand off to them in Turtle Art. They won't be doing the back-end programming, but I think they'll learn a lot and they'll have a lot of latitude in creating their games. -walter On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Greg

Re: [Sugar-devel] GPA Class Notes July 22 - GS

2009-07-28 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Gary, Thanks for the comments and follow up! BTW I have not been able to keep up with all the buddy/tagging/toolbar design discussions. You guys are just too productive :-) When designing, if you have a specific question re: GPA or something you want feedback on from kids, copy me or call out

Re: [Sugar-devel] GPA Class Notes July 22 - GS

2009-07-28 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Greg Smithgregsmit...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I posted the full notes here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Gardner_Pilot_Academy#Class_notes Thanks. Three high level points: - Kids have no trouble finding new activities (e.g. Write) and they want to have

Re: [Sugar-devel] GPA Class Notes July 22 - GS

2009-07-28 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 5:44 AM, Greg Smithgregsmit...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Gary, Thanks for the comments and follow up! Addressing two points below from two of your responses: 1 - Name in Journal of file saved from browse I may have mixed two issues. This one is not tagging. The work flow

[Sugar-devel] GPA Class Notes July 22 - GS

2009-07-22 Thread Greg Smith
Hi All, I posted the full notes here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Gardner_Pilot_Academy#Class_notes Three high level points: - Kids have no trouble finding new activities (e.g. Write) and they want to have more to use. - Its still hard to task switch (we may try teaching them alt - tab next

Re: [Sugar-devel] GPA Class Notes July 22 - GS

2009-07-22 Thread Walter Bender
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Greg Smithgregsmit...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I posted the full notes here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Gardner_Pilot_Academy#Class_notes Three high level points: - Kids have no trouble finding new activities (e.g. Write) and they want to have more to

Re: [Sugar-devel] GPA Class Notes July 22 - GS

2009-07-22 Thread Walter Bender
Well, I couldn't help myself: See http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:State-game.png It was pretty easy to code in Turtle Art :) -walter On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Walter Benderwalter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Greg Smithgregsmit...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All,

Re: [Sugar-devel] GPA Class Notes July 22 - GS

2009-07-22 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Greg, On 22 Jul 2009, at 19:58, Greg Smith wrote: That brings up the question of how they can tag the items they want to easily find them later. That is, as they look around on Wikipedia or elsewhere and find text and images they want to use, how do we collect them and show them (and only

Re: [Sugar-devel] GPA Class Notes July 22 - GS

2009-07-22 Thread Gary C Martin
On 22 Jul 2009, at 20:09, Walter Bender wrote: On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Greg Smithgregsmit...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I posted the full notes here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Gardner_Pilot_Academy#Class_notes Three high level points: - Kids have no trouble finding new