[IAEP] [Educators] posting

[Edward Cherlin]

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Benjamin, Thomas
<THOMAS.BENJAMIN at det.nsw.edu.au> wrote:
> Edward,
>
> I presume it is you who has responded?  What I can put up on a Wiki
> would be  discussion about game/virtual world development and plenty of
> sample materials.

Excellent. You should look at our game activities, at
http:wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities.

> Before I did that I would need to see more info about
> the software capabilities of the laptops.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Software.

> I presume they would not be
> able to run Microsoft Office Excel and PowerPoint so I would not be
> describing the tools I've developed for those.

There is a version of XP for the XO. We know almost nothing about it,
so you would have to talk to Microsoft.

We have a Write activity based on AbiWord, and a document reader that
can handle PDFs. We can't work with PowerPoint files at present.

> Rather, I would discuss the more generic versions based on simple
> principles that can be applied to any sort of software. Even there,
> however, I need to know whether the laptop software can play transparent
> animated .gif's, for example.

Our Browse activity, based on XulRunner, can render the common file formats.

> Is there an equivalent of MediaPlayer or
> Quicktime that can play movies

Gnash.

> and what will be the preferred movie
> formats.

Ogg Theora

> Clearly, to distribute via the Web requires compressed formats,
> most of which are proprietary. Open source ones might be beyond my
> capability so someone might have to convert them.

We can arrange that.

> My toolbox is scalable to pretty much any level of technology but I want
> to pitch it at just the right level so people actually use the ideas.

We do most development in Python. Can your toolbox interoperate with
Python? Do you have a defined API that our Python programmers can use?

> Tom Benjamin, PhD
> Senior Researcher
> Sourcing and Evaluation
> Learning Design and Services
> Centre for Learning Innovation
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> 51 Wentworth Road, Strathfield NSW 2135
> Ph: (02) 9715 8129
> Fax: (02) 9715 8162
> www.cli.nsw.edu.au
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> NSW Department of Education and Training
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: educators-bounces at lists.laptop.org
> [mailto:educators-bounces at lists.laptop.org] On Behalf Of Edward Cherlin
> Sent: Monday, 7 July 2008 05:06
> To: Educators and OLPC
> Subject: Re: [Educators] posting
>
> On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Benjamin, Thomas
> <THOMAS.BENJAMIN at det.nsw.edu.au> wrote:
>> My question revolves around the complexity of your sites and the
> amount
>> of automation. It would be easier for someone like me to correspond
>> either by email or a posting forum where I can put up discussion
> papers
>> for others to look at. I find your system difficult.
>
> Discussion papers can go on the Wiki. Do you know how to do that? I
> would be happy to create the Wiki pages you need. We prefer not to
> have attachments on the mailing lists.
>
> If you tell us specifically what you want to be able to do, we can
> either tell you how to do it, and to automate it as much as necessary,
> or suggest other software to use. Would Moodle help? Can you point us
> to a site that works well for you, so that some of us can try it and
> we can all discuss its advantages?
>
>> Tom Benjamin, PhD
>> Senior Researcher
>> Sourcing and Evaluation
>> Learning Design and Services
>> Centre for Learning Innovation
>> -----------------------------------------------------
>> 51 Wentworth Road, Strathfield NSW 2135
>> Ph: (02) 9715 8129
>> Fax: (02) 9715 8162
>> www.cli.nsw.edu.au
>> -----------------------------------------------------
>> NSW Department of Education and Training
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: educators-bounces at lists.laptop.org
>> [mailto:educators-bounces at lists.laptop.org] On Behalf Of Edward
> Cherlin
>> Sent: Friday, 4 July 2008 05:13
>> To: Educators and OLPC
>> Subject: Re: [Educators] posting
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Benjamin, Thomas
>> <THOMAS.BENJAMIN at det.nsw.edu.au> wrote:
>>> I'm interested in making my materials on games and virtual worlds
>> available
>>> to the OLPC movement.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>>> Much of my work is for internal distribution only but enough has now
>> been
>>> released to the public domain to be of use.
>>>
>>> I posted the first entry in an Australia regional group forum toward
>> that
>>> end.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I would be grateful if someone contacted me.
>>
>> OK. What's the question? How can we help you?
>>
>>> Tom Benjamin, PhD
>
>
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