[IAEP] activities

[Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero]

Regarding BotSpeak, speak has this feature implemented as the
''robot'' toolbar (before known as sara;)), maybe is better to follow
the development from there ?.


Rafael Ortiz



On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Aleksey Lim<alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>
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