Playful learning is great, but when you get down to it the real way to learn from the bible is to sit down and read it. I don't know how much a person will get from a little bit here and there. You may learn some but the real message is not in a line here or there it is spread out threw a book.
On Jan 22, 2008 12:34 AM, avolunteer DrStovallFoundation < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Developers, > The OLPC greatest innovation is educational not technical. I > previously posted that OLPC had given us several technical > innovations and imitations. India heard OLPC and now thinks > they will build a $10 (that's right ten US dollar) computer in > India. But Rapier and the best Sword implementations are a > looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong llllllllllong > way from being anything near the educational quality worthy of > the OLPC designers. I could and should write another book > about this. But there are many other things which I could and > should do. I'll just say this. The OLPC was designed to > enable "playful learning." Nearly 30 years ago, I made Paul's > Gramcord run on the 1 MhZ floppy disk system that was sold to > Theological schools. It was a far better Bible study program > than any of the Sword interfaces and is still being used in > many of the best theological schools. But it does not do what > the Lord has laid on my heart and it is not "playful learning." > Sword serves a great purpose for mature minds who want to stay > in touch with the Holy Scriptures. I am thrilled to have > Rapier on my N800. It would serve a very few children better > than a book would. But the majority of this world's children > need "playful learning." Please see laptop.org for more > information and also Google for "playful learning." > A Volunteer > > PS Pierre knows how to get on with people. You may want to > reread the following. Especially the part about getting as > many people as possible to either do it your way or their way. > > --- Pierre Amadio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi there. > > > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 11:12:03AM -0500, Zachary M. Oglesby wrote: > > > I have done a little reading on this and would recommend that people > read > > > the following. Also I think a good starting point would be to adapt > the > > > Rapier code and see if we can get it to work with Sugar. In the long > run I > > > think it would be great if we could get this to work in the ebook mode > that > > > the XO has to save battery life, but one step at a time. > > > > I have zero experience in project management, but still, i think the > > first step to take would be to check out what's already existing, just > > in case there's already something cool, or not, and to get in touch with > > all project, or at least most of them, in order to try to have as many > > people as possible in a single project. > > > > A quick search show: > > > > http://xobible.com/ > > plan to use bibletime as a base and to add some mp3 feature on top of > > that. > > Sounds interesting to me, i just don't get why they pick a qt project > > and not a gtk one (if i recall correctly, the olpc is mainly gtk based). > > > > http://olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=1425.msg11011 > > Other people also wanting to make a bible based activity. > > > > http://bibledit.sourceforge.net/ > > Changelog states it runs on olpc. > > > > I'm sure there are others. Anybody know what is the main olpc community > > mailing list/web forum ? It would be a good idea to check there. > > > > Then, i think we should have a clear idea of what is planned. Is it a > > nice bible study tool that would run on an olpc, or is it a nice olpc > > activity that will take advantage of what the olpc offer ? > > > > I think if the first goal is targeted, using an already featurfull > > program is the way to go (and i would think gnome sword is the best > > candidate here as it's gtk based. I do not know if libgnome is available > > on olpc though. Not being able to compile it without libgnome was what > > drove me to start rapier). > > > > If the second goal is targeted, then creating something from scratch in > > python (so the "read the source" feature of the olpc would be possible) > > seems the way to go. I would advise not to start with rapier itself, as > the > > code is really not that good: > > > > - It does not use libglade that should be available in the olpc > > (it is sort of available in maemo, but i choosed not to used it anyway > > because i intended to make something really simple and wanted to wait > > untill gazpacho was ready for hildon stuff before playing with glade > > file). > > > > - Internationalisation is nearly not existing, and it's more easy to get > > that correctly when prepared from the beginning. > > > > - The download/manage module is awfull. (Why is there no python wrapper > > for the InstallMgr class ? :-) ). > > > > If there is a clear description of what is needed, a rewrite of an > > rapier like olpc activity starting from scratch is just a matter of a > couple > > of weeks and would save time later on if started on solid ground. > > > > So, is there anybody who feels like gathering the existing, find the > most > > appropriate place to get in touch with the olpc community and make a > > summary of what he found to us and all similar project ? > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Looking for last minute shopping deals? > Find them fast with Yahoo! 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