Congratulations ! I have not looked at the latest stuff yet, but it looked impressive a few weeks back :-)
Karl Ties Stuij wrote: > Well, it took us at OLE Nepal a whole lot of sweat and especially > tears, but finally, after half a year of hard work, we finished the > first build that is actually going to be used by actual Nepali kids, > in an actual classroom setting. > > This build, version 10, sports a whopping 47 activities, which is why > it's 105 mb in size. The loading time of individual activities has > also diminished by quite a bit (sometimes loading is 3 to 4 times as > fast), and memory consumption has been greatly reduced. > > And this is just the beginning, because there are a great many much of > activities to be made in the future. > > get it here: http://dev.laptop.org/pub/epaati/Epaati-10.xo > > For you who never heard about Epaati: it's an activity suite (for now) > geared towards grades 2 and 6 (roughly 8 respectively 12 year old > kids) of the Nepali school system coinciding, not coincidentally, > with the classes which are the focus of our pilot projects. The > subjects covered are Maths and English, and we follow the official > Nepali curriculum so our activities can be integrated seamlessly in > regular sessions. > > Which is not to say of course they can not be used by others. > Especially the English activities can be used practically as is by > children with another mother tongue, save for the help text. Also > converting the maths activities should be not a big deal, since not a > lot of Nepali specific text is used, but there are some brambles to be > fished out of the porridge, before we have a smooth mechanism for > translation. > > Anyways, have fun with the new and old activities, > > /Ties > > > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel