Re: [sugar] Narrative

2008-10-11 Thread Bryan Berry
On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 17:02 +0200, Bastien wrote: Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BULLETIN BOARD (activity) I agree such a bulletin board would be very useful - not only to build lesson plans, but also for storing what has been done. When discussing with people from « La main à

Re: [sugar] Narrative

2008-10-11 Thread Bryan Berry
sorry for the late replies On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 13:26 -0400, Eben Eliason wrote: Actually, while I may be arguing a point that you might not have been explicitly making, I think there are a few key ways in which we *can* embed a better narrative into Sugar, and I think they will be very

Re: [sugar] Narrative

2008-10-11 Thread Bryan Berry
sorry for the late replies On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 13:26 -0400, Eben Eliason wrote: Actually, while I may be arguing a point that you might not have been explicitly making, I think there are a few key ways in which we *can* embed a better narrative into Sugar, and I think they will be very

Re: [sugar] Narrative.

2008-10-07 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sugar offers an excellent mode for discovery but no excellent way to manipulate narratives. Both discovery and narrative are essential for learning. [1] I am catching up with this. What Bryan writes is correct, but I

Re: [sugar] Narrative

2008-10-07 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Bryan Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Offline moodle needs a lot of work to get working properly and really doesn't receive the attention it deserves. Not yet :-) but attention to Offline Moodle will increase... Offline moodle currently does not work very at all

Re: [sugar] Narrative

2008-10-06 Thread Eben Eliason
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 4:29 AM, Bryan Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 02:25 -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bryan Berry wrote: | There is something I would like to add. Folks from rich countries (like | myself)

Re: [sugar] Narrative

2008-10-05 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bryan Berry wrote: | There is something I would like to add. Folks from rich countries (like | myself) underestimate the importance of narratives b/c we are surrounded | by libraries, online tutorials in our native language, extensive | versions of

Re: [sugar] Narrative

2008-10-05 Thread Bryan Berry
On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 02:25 -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bryan Berry wrote: | There is something I would like to add. Folks from rich countries (like | myself) underestimate the importance of narratives b/c we are surrounded | by

Re: [sugar] Narrative

2008-10-05 Thread Sameer Verma
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 1:29 AM, Bryan Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 02:25 -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bryan Berry wrote: | There is something I would like to add. Folks from rich countries (like | myself)

Re: [sugar] Narrative

2008-10-05 Thread Walter Bender
Each of us seems to have interpreted Michael's note differently, so perhaps some more clarity of definitions is in order. In any case, my focus was on the assertion that there are no excellent way to manipulate narratives within Sugar. Excellence is the standard we should be striving for and I do

[sugar] Narrative.

2008-10-04 Thread Michael Stone
Bryan Berry wholly captured my attention tonight when he said (in summary): Sugar offers an excellent mode for discovery but no excellent way to manipulate narratives. Both discovery and narrative are essential for learning. [1] This statement seems to me both indisputable and