[IAEP] Fwd: [Sugar-devel] [Bugs] #448 UNSP: Addons.sl.o doc category should be changed

[Gary C Martin]

Just forwarding the below to IAEP to catch more educator/teacher type  
eyeballs:

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com>
> Date: 28 February 2009 15:54:17 GMT
> To: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org>
> Cc: sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [Bugs] #448 UNSP: Addons.sl.o doc  
> category should be changed
>
> On 28 Feb 2009, at 14:46, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> maybe the activity team can discuss and implement a new set of
>> Categories for activities? I just copied the existing ones at
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/All
>
> Aha, I did wonder where the category list came from. I'm sure the
> activity team would be happy to discuss, but if anyone, I think
> educators/teachers should be providing us input on this concrete list.
> The current categories are:
>
> Search & Discovery
> Documents
> News
> Chat, mail and talk
> Media creation
> Programming
> Maths & Science
> Maps & Geography
> Media players
> Games
> Teacher tools
>
> In the addons site these categories work like tags (un-like the
> original presentation at the wiki), so an Activity can now be tagged
> in multiple categories. To get the ball rolling; this list does seems
> a little on the technical side, built around activity code that
> happened to appear at the time. I'd quite like to see things
> simplified to cover more regular study areas (reading, writing, art,
> maths, science, programming, geography, communication, games, etc).
>
> --Gary
>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tomeu
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 19:00, SugarLabs Bugs
>> <bugtracker-noreply at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>>> #448: Addons.sl.o doc category should be changed
>>> ------------------------------------------
>>> +---------------------------------
>>>   Reporter:  cafl                       |          Owner:  dfarning
>>>       Type:  enhancement                |         Status:  new
>>>   Priority:  Unspecified by Maintainer  |      Milestone:
>>> Unspecified by Release Team
>>>  Component:  activities.sugarlabs.org   |        Version:
>>> Unspecified
>>>   Severity:  Minor                      |       Keywords:
>>> Distribution:  Unspecified                |   Status_field:
>>> Unconfimed
>>> ------------------------------------------
>>> +---------------------------------
>>> "reading & writing"?  "words"?  Needs to encompass word games,
>>> reading, writing...
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ticket URL: <http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/448>
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