[IAEP] activities

[Aleksey Lim]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 02:11:01PM +0200, Tony Anderson wrote:
> Wade,
>
> I posted the Quiz activity today. The git does not match exactly - I had  
> trouble  with push. I am looking forward to hearing from the team on the  
> next steps in the release process.

You can upload Quiz-1 to ASLO
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Library/Authors
and if its ready for broad audience, nominate it to the public
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Library/Glossary#Nominated_activity
otherwise just complete your activity
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Library/Glossary#Completed_activity
and email to sugar-devel@ to get feedback from users

> In the meantime, I am beginning to  
> work on version 2.
>
> Yours,
>
> Tony
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [Fwd: activities]
> Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:46:27 +0200
> From: Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net>
> To: Wade Brainerd <wadetb at gmail.com>,  Simon Schampijer  
> <simon at schampijer.de>, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org>, iaep  
> <iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org>
>
> Wade,
>
> I have finally posted the ShowNTell activity to ASLO. I hope to post the
> Quiz activity tomorrow. The BotSpeak activity appears to be redundant.
>
> The ShowNTell activity needs a help button to show how the activity
> works. It also needs lots of testing on collaboration. In the meantime,
> I hope to get some feedback.
>
> The Quiz activity in the second version will add the capability to
> create a quiz on the XO and to collaborate. Collaboration should be on
> the same model as ShowNTell (ClassroomPresenter).
>
> I tested both activities on SoaS at LinuxTag. In both cases there are
> coding changes needed. Is there an approved way for an activity to test
> whether it is on the XO (0.82) or SoaS? The currently posted versions
> will only work on 0.82.
>
> Please let me know if there is more that I can do to make a proper release.
>
> Tony
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: activities
> Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 10:42:20 +0545
> From: Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net>
> To: Wade Brainerd <wadetb at gmail.com>
>
> Wade,
>
> I have been working on some activities which are nearly ready to post.
> Each of them is a significant change to an existing activity. The
> question is whether to treat the new versions as a different activity or
>  a later version of the original.
>
> The first is BotSpeak.activity. This activity adds the pyaiml engine so
> that the 'speak' character can do more than echo the input. It's default
> mode is compatible with speak but there is an added tab to select a bot.
>
> It could be released as BotSpeak.activity or as an upgrade to the Speak
> activity. I lean to introducing it as a new activity - BotSpeak.
>
> The second is ClassroomPresenter. I have added the capability to create
> slide decks on the XO and the ability to add voice narration to the
> slides. This activity is an XO version of an ongoing project at
> Washington State. While there does not appear to be any ongoing support
> of the XO, this should probably be introduced as a new activity with
> deserved credit going to the team at Washington State. For a new name, I
> would propose ShowNTell.activity. This gets a little closer to the
> overall goal - which is to allow the student to create and narrate a
> slideshow of their own pictures.
>
> The third is ImageQuiz. I have added the capability to show other types
> of questions (e.g. simple flashcards, spelling test (voice clip prompt,
> text response, ...). It will also have the Leitner feature (questions
> answered correctly will be shown less often). Finally, it adds the
> ability to edit or create quizzes on the XO and collaboration based on
> the ClassroomPresenter model. Support for this activity appears dormant,
> so I think this activity can be released as a version upgrade.
>
> Please let me know what you think about this. Also, do we have someone
> who reviews these activities to ensure that the i's are dotted and t's
> crossed when it comes to licensing? I really have very little
> understandng of these issues.
>
> Tony
>
>
>

-- 
Aleksey