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 am confident we are in the right direction - Sugar supports the user interaction - the narrative belongs elsewhere. > "Narrative is a basic component of much educational material which > Sugar ought to 'natively' recognize, respond to, and manipulate." No, Sugar is a bit "lower layer" than that. Sugar supports sw that can drive the narrative, and that is the way it should be. You would not want a webbrowser that dictates a path through a website - some websites have navigation optimised for 'random access' and others for sequential access. cheers, > [2]: Bryan is currently encoding narratives in HTML and is attempting to > use Offline Moodle to make this cheaper to support. And that is a reasonable path. Moodle has _some_ support for narratives (and then again, sanely refuses to put too much emphasis in them). Reading the concept of 'narrative' liberally, one possible tack would be to suggest that Sugar could support a degree of hyperlinking inside activities as a means of defining narratives flexibly -- that's the strategy the web has shown to be the winner. cheers, m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar