[IAEP] [SoaS] R: E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry)

[Caroline Meeks]

Hi Jim,

How low is the floor on this? Could a first or second grader do it?  Can
they print it out and create a book?

I think book creation should be a big part of our eBook message, and nice
write ups on a number of different ways for students to do this with Sugar
might be a great supplement to our Blueberry press releases.

Thanks!
Caroline

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Jim Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:

> Caroline,
>
> I'm unable to watch the YouTube video but if I was a teacher that
> wanted to have children create their own books I might recommend using
> View Slides to collect and organize image files created in other
> tools.  For instance, children could get images from the Internet
> using Browse, create images using Record or one of the Paint programs,
> then use View Slides to import them into a slide show and arrange them
> into sequence by renaming them.
>
> Once you have images in sequence like that you could use View Slides
> to read them like a book, copy them to a thumb drive and read them on
> a non-Sugar computer using a program like Comix, or unzip them and use
> a command in Image Magick to create a PDF out of them.  Once you have
> a PDF like that you could convert it to DJVU with another free
> utility.
>
> View Slides is consistently more popular than any of my other
> Activities and since there is very little legal content in .cbz format
> (and illegal content in .cbz format isn't that easy to find either)
> I've always wondered what people were doing with it.  This might be
> part of an answer.
>
> James Simmons
>
> > Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:47:25 -0500
> > From: Caroline Meeks <solutiongrove at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [IAEP] [SoaS]  R: E-Books for Sugar on a Stick
> >        (Blueberry)
> >
> > Going along the same lines but in a different direction then
> Tomeu....This
> > teacher asked for a simple book creation tool for kids.
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TRcKP1MJQs
> >
> > Might not be hard to create a Turtle Art Template that prints in a way
> that
> > lets you fold the printed page to create a book.
>



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