I would totally buy any book Christofer was involved in. If it needed English translation you could count me in too.
MYOSA treats Activity development like cell phone programming; you write programs FOR the phone, not ON it. It would be good to have a book on programming that you could do entirely within Sugar, like Turtle Art, Pippy, etc. James Simmons On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Caryl Bigenho <cbige...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi... > > While James has done a very nice job with his "Make Your Own Sugar > Activities," I think we could still use something even easier for absolute > beginners, perhaps building on the Conozco Activities as a base. Maybe we > could enlist the assistance of someone like Christofer to help get it > started? Several others have built Conozco Activities and we could > encourage even more among the youth in our many deployments. Then another > book or manual or chapter... "Beyond Conozco" or something like that. > > My little "Fun With Tam Tam Mini" book is designed to be more than a > simple "how to" manual. It is full of a lot of basic musical knowledge and > suggestions for all kinds of new things for the user to try or teachers to > use to build lessons. The basics look like they will need to run about > 10-12 pages, including a lot of screenshots, graphics, and examples. This > is without the musical notation for the examples. They would only take 1-2 > more pages as there is only one scale and one song in this part. If it has > to be shorter for the users manual update, I could leave out the > instructions for the Drum Machine, but I would rather not. > > Caryl > > ------------------------------ > Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 16:46:26 -0500 > Subject: Re: [IAEP] Tam Tam Mini Progress and User Manual Update > From: callaur...@gmail.com > To: walter.ben...@gmail.com > CC: cbige...@hotmail.com; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; > support-g...@laptop.org > > > In my experience, most OLPC programs have created a manual > like that.. either because they build one, or because they modify > and existing one. > > I would love to see more documentation and materials that promove > development in Sugar... how to modify, how to create one from scratch, > how collaborate with the community, etc. I may be wrong.. but is the > Create you own Sugar Activity enough? what other things can > complemente that one? > > Claudia > > On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com>wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Caryl Bigenho <cbige...@hotmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi All! > > > > > > I'm happy to say I have finally gotten back to work on my "Fun With Tam > Tam > > Mini" FLOSS manual after a hiatus (a So Cal word from the "industry") > > brought on by all sorts of holiday and family distractions. There are a > > number of other, unrelated, things folks have asked me to work on now, > but I > > figure if I don't get this done first, it will never get done. So… > > > > > > I am currently working on learning to use the free Finale Notepad > software > > to generate simple samples of all the musical examples in the manual, put > > into standard musical notation. This was suggested by my middle- > schooler, > > violinist, granddaughter when she reviewed the draft, way back in > November. > > > > > > > > I remember how those musicians among you who tried Tam Tam in my > > mini-workshop at the SF summit found it confusing because you were used > to > > reading notes. I also found this with some second and third graders I > > worked with in Montana who have had some music lessons. So… it will be > > there for those who need it in a special Appendix. So far, I have done a > > one octave C Major scale... woo-hoo! > > > > > > I still will need to do some screen shots, but that should be fairly > easy. > > > > > > ***(Important) As soon as I finish the manual I will take excerpts and > put > > them into the new FLOSS manual update as a Tam Tam Mini chapter. I am > hoping > > someone will decide on the guidelines for these Activity chapters. There > > should be a limit on the maximum number of pages for any single Activity > so > > we don't end up with any one being extremely long. We should ask folks > to > > include enough information for users to successfully begin to use the > > Activity and then refer them to more information elsewhere (wiki, FLOSS > > manual, web site, etc). > > I think we can have individual manuals for each activity along with a > short 1-2 pages in a collective manual for Sugar activities as a > whole. > > -walter > > > > > > I'll let you know when "Fun With Tam Tam Mini" is finished and ready for > a > > final review. I know there are several of you interested in using this > in > > some of your deployments so… just a little more time and it should be > ready! > > > > > > Grannie B (MA MusicEd) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > > > _______________________________________________ > support-gang mailing list > support-g...@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang > >
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