On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 5:50 AM, David Mason <dama...@redhat.com> wrote: >> Nice start. > > Thanks. > >> I think a first step would be to solicit some feedback from the >> pedagogy team. There are regular weekly meetings... perhaps we can >> schedule you in for a discussion? > > I'm definitely interested, what time (in which time zone) do the meetings > usually take place?
Usually on Wednesdays at 10AM EST. But we haven't established the 2012 schedule yet. > >> From an activity-developer point of view, I am a bit confused by how I >> interact with Glycerin. Do I need to define a close-ended task within >> my activity? Maybe you could take a peek at, for example, >> TurtleConfusion [1], a series of challenges for Turtle Art. Should be >> relatively straight-forward to migrate to your system? > > I think migration would be quite easy. TurtleConfusion is an excellent > candidate for working with Glycogen - to make the challenges available to > Glycogen, they would need to be described in Challenge objects, which include > the bundle id and challenge id as a unique identifier, a description of the > challenge, and the target result (which would be 'True' for this type of > challenge, but can also be numeric). The Challenge objects are registered > with Glycogen when an activity is added, and the activity developer is > responsible for reporting the achieved result whenever it changes. This'll requires some reorganizing of the program. But the bigger challenge will be testing to see if the results are True. I don't do that at the moment except by a visual inspection. I'll have to think about how best to do it. regards. -walter > > I've written a tutorial for how all this is done, I would like to make it > simpler if possible though and write some clearer examples. See > https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=125I6uxMECa_nt6UovBKhUmxSl2BcP7aNPJ9W6zh5ZEo&pli=1 > > I've aimed to make the Challenge interface as open-ended as possible, so that > activity developers can define True/False, numeric or other types to keep > track of progress. Glycogen's UI does not yet allow students to enter custom > values for a challenge, this is a goal though (e.g. a challenge could be to > complete a number of TurtleConfusion tasks, and the student could enter 4, or > 10 or any number that is valid for that challenge). > > > > Cheers, > > David Mason > Software Engineer > L10n Engineering > > Red Hat, Asia-Pacific Pty Ltd > Level 1, 193 North Quay > Brisbane 4000 -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
