Hi again, Richmond, >>> However, the relative program was written over a 15 minute period (mucking around preparing the graphics took ages) as a 'one trick pony' for kids who have little or no contact with computers (in Bulgaria most people cannot afford a computer) so would be quite unable to insert photo of their own relatives (one wonders how they would get the images into the computers - I have each group of kids for 90 minutes twice a week, and the main task is to teach them English - teaching kids how to work with a scanner, graphics prog. and so on is a whole different ballpark). <<<
I can't resist picking this one up. The obvious answer to me is to use mobile phones! I spent a lot of time in Europe, even parts of Eastern Europe, in 1999-2001 ... and even back then, cell phones were all over the place. It seemed adoption was running well ahead of the US. Nowadays even "cheap" phones have cameras. So, here's the idea: - Set up RevCGI on a nice LAMP server (I'll give you a setup if you need it) - Have your kiddies borrow a mobile phone and take pictures of their family - They SMS the pics to your server (email address) - Have RevCGI read the emails, pre-process and sort the pics - Your stack connects to the site, pulls down the pics, crops them, sizes them, and drops them into place - The next time your students visit, have them take your "family tree" quiz with their actual family's photos - Print out a beautiful certificate with the tree and words they've learned that they can show to their family Just think of the excitement they'd feel! Actually the concept could be extended to learning all kinds of vocabulary, eh? I'm sure you'd get a lot of help for such an interesting project from the Rev list... - Bill _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution