[IAEP] [Marketing] ASLO vs. Activities Portal

[Gary C Martin]

On 4 Apr 2009, at 19:18, Caroline Meeks wrote:

> Will books be in the same Sugar Activities Library?  If not, where  
> do kids go to get books to use in Read?

Well I'm hoping that many books become 1st class Activity citizens  
(i.e. regular Activities based on a html/pdf/gnash et al Activity  
wrapper). This gives us the opportunity to make them more interactive/ 
collaborative than a simple static document, and simplify Sugar and  
the Sugar UI; so I hope to be downloading books with perhaps shared  
annotations, animated pictures, some interactive puzzle/game elements,  
and some non-linear story telling from the Library soon :-)

[FWIW: I have a pdf based non-linear maths game/quiz/story on the go,  
plays a little like a point and click graphic adventure].

Of course we'll have static documents as well, I think most of which  
will be found outside of the Sugar Labs project, on random web sites,  
moodle servers, etc, and get down loaded to the Journal for off-line  
reading, or just read directly in Browse while surfing.

Regards,
--Gary

> (+1 to Library rather then Portal)
>
> On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Eben Eliason  
> <eben.eliason at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
> > hmmm I like "Activity Library" too... "Activities Library" even
> > better... but let's think twice before we drop "Sugar" from it.
> >
> > "sugar+activities" is already well-referenced, but I would like to  
> see
> > result Nr.1 be the aslo section page.
> >
> > Our strategy is star marketing on the Activities (this why we always
> > capitalize), and linking them to Sugar mentioning the collaboration
> > and view source benefits. The idea being that Activities are not
> > applets to be run under OSes for grownups, but part of what comes  
> with
> > the platform which itself runs on different systems.
> >
> > Perhaps we can refer to "Sugar Activities Library" outside our site,
> > and "Activities Library" within it? Except for the aslo page which I
>
> Yeah, that's what I was suggesting, simply to keep internal references
> to it concise.
>
> Eben
>
> > do think should be titled "Sugar Activities Library" for the
> > aforementioned SEO reason.
> >
> > Sean
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 4:09 PM, David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org 
> > wrote:
> >> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Gary C Martin  
> <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
> >>> On 4 Apr 2009, at 03:25, Eben Eliason wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com 
> >
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>> To me, Portal is the weak word in Sugar Activities Portal.   
> Portal
> >>>>> doesn't
> >>>>> give the warm, learning, discovery place like the word Library.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> So I would propose Sugar Activities Library.  A place to check  
> out
> >>>>> activities and discovery what is free to learn.
> >>>>
> >>>> +1!
> >>>> Maybe just "Activity Library" (non-plural, and dropping Sugar  
> unless
> >>>> discussing it outside the Sugar context)?
> >>>
> >>> +1 Activity Library sounds good to me :-)
> >>>
> >> That has a great sound to it.
> >>
> >> david
> >>
> >> Although in Wisconsin schools have started calling libraries  
> IMLCs or
> >> Instructional Media Learning Centers:)
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