Educational XHTML Editor Educational Game Maker
Dear List, One of the greatest challenges here in deployments has been to create sufficient curriculum *interactive* educational content. Though Scratch and Etoys are great for simulators for many common educational interaction formats (e.g. assemble objects, click in place according to hint in order, memory match, hangman, sorting items etc) using such tools can be quite awkward. eXe Learning was created as a GUI educational XHTML Editor with support for fill in the blank question formats, multi choice, multi select etc. I have created plugins for Place the objects / label (e.g. assembling parts / labelling a diagram), Click in place according to a hint, sort objects, hangman, memory match, moving object speed answer (e.g. Tuxmath) and sort. The output is generated as HTML / Javascript which can run online or offline. I've also created a plugin for embedding Scratch using the Scratch Java player with an option for the user to download. There are many repositories of open content; however many of them fail to harness the potential of ICT as an interactive medium. Hopefully further lowering the barrier can help to create more. This can make it far easier to turn existing open static content into interactive educational content. Compared to conventional Javascript / Flash / EToys development this dramatically increases the amount of educational interactive content that can be produced by given teams in a given amount of time. It also can help make creation of interactive educational material far easier for educators by templating the kind of interaction they would like to produce and allowing them to just plug in the questions, answers, images, options of the game etc. For many parts of the curriculum the best course of action can be to embed already created Scratch simulators from the Scratch website (e.g. physics sims). With eXe Learning + plugins one can produce a complete interactive package that opens in the browser. I am hoping to develop a roleplay and generic simple simulator creator in the near future. I have also updated the HTML Editor to enable it to create HTML 5 Audio and Video tags for embedding media. Comments/ Feedback most welcome. The plugins are still 'bleeding edge'... Will soon get the sourceforge project properly taken care of so that bugs / QA can be taken care of. For now see http://www.paiwastoon.af/eldep Regards from Afghanistan, -Mike ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Announcing Q2E43 firmware for XO-1
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Mitch Bradley wrote: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2e43 is a candidate for a > general-availability firmware release for XO-1. It fixes problems found > during testing of q2e42, which was not intended for general availability > (because we suspected it would have problems due to the long interval > from q2e41 to q2e42). Woohoo! (I had actually said as much in private email earlier ;-) ) Testing it - test /camera has the same (dark-ish) video feedback as q2e41. Under 802 Record.xo shows normal brightness. - test /pci/timer fails 50% of the time on one XO-1 board (of two) -- "The ISA PIT timer is ticking at the wrong rate". Not clear - Unsecured NANDBlasting test passed - with clients running Q2E41 and Q2E43 cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Announcing Q2E43 firmware for XO-1
Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Mitch Bradley wrote: > >> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2e43 is a candidate for a >> general-availability firmware release for XO-1. It fixes problems found >> during testing of q2e42, which was not intended for general availability >> (because we suspected it would have problems due to the long interval >> from q2e41 to q2e42). >> > > Woohoo! (I had actually said as much in private email earlier ;-) ) > > Testing it > > - test /camera has the same (dark-ish) video feedback as q2e41. Under > 802 Record.xo shows normal brightness. > http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10163 > - test /pci/timer fails 50% of the time on one XO-1 board (of two) -- > "The ISA PIT timer is ticking at the wrong rate". Not clear > Possibly related to http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10146 . Try the new firmware to see if that fixes it. > - Unsecured NANDBlasting test passed - with clients running Q2E41 and Q2E43 > > cheers, > > > m > ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
ANNOUNCE: F11 for XO-1 build 180py released
This is a late announcement of the final release of the XO-1 images based on Fedora 11 and Sugar 0.84: http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/olpc/f11-xo1-py/os180py.img http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/olpc/f11-xo1-py/os180py.crc http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/olpc/f11-xo1-py/os180py.img.fs.zip This build is being deployed to 10 schools in Caacupé [1]. Feedback from teachers and teacher trainers has been very positive so far. == Changes relative to the previous release (os140py) == * GSM broadband support: add usb_modeswitch and usb_modeswitch-data, enabling more modem models to work with Fedora 11. (me) * Credit Sugar Labs in boot animation (me) * Add custom Browse home page with links to Paraguay Educa resources (rgs) * Update Turtle Art to pick Spanish translation (walter) * Re-enable olpc-update and the versioned fs (me) * Point software update control panel at http://wiki.paraguayeduca.org * Pull latest OS updates from upstream (fedora) == Bugs fixed == * Race condition with name widget in the activity toolbar http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1948 * Some activities crashing when resuming from the Journal http://patchwork.sugarlabs.org/patch/15/ == Known bugs == * Unable to read FAT filesystems containing invalid file dates http://patchwork.sugarlabs.org/patch/43/ == How to help testing == Feedback from the entire community is very appreciated, although we're not planning any further releases of the Sugar 0.84 series. Bugs affecting upstream components are better filed in their respective trackers: * Sugar and activities: http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ * Fedora 11: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/ * Drivers and OLPC customizations: http://dev.laptop.org/ * Paraguay-specific bugs: http://trac.paraguayeduca.org/ If you're unsure where a bug belongs to, use the Paragauy Educa tracker. Please, always assign these bugs to "Carlos", who will keep our status summary updated. == Using this build outside Paraguay == A few customizations make this image somewhat Paraguay-specific: * Limited language support: to save space, we've included only English and Spanish translations. * Image signed with the Paraguay deployment keys. Laptops from other regions need to be be unlocked in order to accept this image. * The software update control panel icon checks for new activities on our wiki rather than on laptop.org. * The Browse home page contains the Paraguay Educa logo and a few links to our website. We may find the time to release slightly modified images to meet the needs of other OLPC deployments interested in upgrading to Sugar 0.84. More importantly, we're happy to help other deployments produce their own OS images independently of us, thus exploiting Free Software's most important advantage [2]. == How to join development == This development cycle is closed as a new development cycle based on Sugar 0.88 has started already. Public builds will be available soon. Build system source: http://git.paraguayeduca.org/gitweb/users/bernie/olpc-os-builder.git Yum Repository containing our custom RPMs (along with sources): http://repo.paraguayeduca.org/f11-xo1-py/i386/os/ http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/olpc/pyeduca-repo/f11-xo1-py/ IRC: #olpc-paraguay irc.feenode.net (English spoken) [1] The actual production build is os179py. The only difference between os179py and os180py is improved compatibility with GSM modems. [2] Freedom 1: The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to make it do what you wish. -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
