Well, I couldn't help myself: See http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:State-game.png
It was pretty easy to code in Turtle Art :) -walter On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Walter Bender<walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Greg Smith<gregsmit...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I posted the full notes here: >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Gardner_Pilot_Academy#Class_notes >> >> Three high level points: >> - Kids have no trouble finding new activities (e.g. Write) and they >> want to have more to use. >> - Its still hard to task switch (we may try teaching them alt - tab >> next week), find thing son the journal and move data from one activity >> to another. > > They did readily pick up on using shortcut keys... I told them about > F1 and F3 and they almost all started using those two keys instead of > going to the Frame. Also, Ctrl-F is not easy to type. > >> - Conozco Uruguay is very effective at helping kids memorize. >> >> Walter has given the kids a challenge to make their own game. They >> came up with 6 examples of games they want to make: >> 1. Guatemala. Departments numbered and corresponding to images on the map. >> 2. Sports team logos in the US. Then find the state or city for each team. >> 3. Presidents. Match pictures of presidents with names. >> 4. Presidents mashup (word used by kid!). Take a jumbled up a list of >> pictures of presidents and put them in order. >> 5. Countries and states in North America. >> 6. "Find me". Start with an animation of a spinning globe. Find north >> america and show that. Find US, find MA, Find Boston, Find Allston, >> Find Gardner Pilot Academy. One kid yelled out then find the desk in >> the office. >> >> We're not completely sure which "authoring environment" to use. Walter >> is taking the lead on that and may use Conozco Uruguay code base or >> something else. See notes for more details. Suggestions and help >> customizing apps appreciated. > > It could be as simple as a tool that lets them associate a question > with a multiple choice answer that corresponds to some label on an > image or map. (e.g., the map can have letters and the questions can > ask for the letter that corresponds to the answer; no need to do any > coordinate system mapping in this case.) > >> >> We have one extra week for the kids to collect images and write down >> ideas before they starting building the interface. >> >> That brings up the question of how they can tag the items they want to >> easily find them later. That is, as they look around on Wikipedia or >> elsewhere and find text and images they want to use, how do we collect >> them and show them (and only them) on a clean journal view late. URLs >> and downloaded images are very hard to find in the Journal. We should >> use the URL name (not sure of the right technical term but I mean the >> short name you see in browsers, e.g. www.google.com appears as Google. >> That or anything that is more intelligible than what you see by >> default. Will file a bug when I have a chance unless someone beats me >> to it. >> >> I welcome any suggestions on tagging and collecting items. I believe >> its just careful use of tagging and filtering but details on expected >> work flow can save us some time. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Greg S >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >> > > -walter > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel