Re: [Sugar-devel] [math4] Activity Awards, Activity Alerts

2009-06-08 Thread James Simmons
David, Your suggestion got me thinking about how this kind of reward system could be used with my own Activities, which involve reading. I think I have a notion which might be worth pursuing. The biggest problem with reading on the XO is finding books. The books are out there, but they're

Re: [Sugar-devel] [math4] Activity Awards, Activity Alerts, Frame Alerts

2009-06-06 Thread David Van Assche
Yeah, due to the lack of resources and time, we didn't get to finalise the end vision for such an award based system, but the idea came to me due how successful the collection of these is in computer games. As Gary pointed out to me, there are even games where the sole purpose is to unlock awards

Re: [Sugar-devel] [math4] Activity Awards, Activity Alerts, Frame Alerts

2009-06-06 Thread Sean DALY
I don't know if this is related from a technical standpoint, but I was wondering about the possibility of a mechanism for an Activity to signal to a teacher (or the Neighborhood, or a Friend) when an Activity task is completed. As a way of simplifying identification of students who need more

Re: [Sugar-devel] [math4] Activity Awards, Activity Alerts, Frame Alerts

2009-06-06 Thread David Van Assche
Yeah, somehow people have very clear memories of their today seemingly innocent, but personally quite serious at the time, achievements/awards/stars/buttons, or whatever it was. The journal seems ilke the clear place to store this information, and it should be done in such a way that it can be

Re: [Sugar-devel] [math4] Activity Awards, Activity Alerts, Frame Alerts

2009-06-05 Thread Frederick Grose
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: ... FWIW, David Van Assche raised some interesting Activity ideas at SugarCamp Paris and I'm interested/active in getting us to at lease 'demo' state in the Sugar 0.86 release timeframe. The idea is to focus on an

Re: [Sugar-devel] [math4] Activity Awards, Activity Alerts, Frame Alerts

2009-06-05 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Frederick, On 6 Jun 2009, at 00:30, Frederick Grose wrote: On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: ... FWIW, David Van Assche raised some interesting Activity ideas at SugarCamp Paris and I'm interested/active in getting us to at lease 'demo' state