[IAEP] OOO4kids running

Albert Cahalan acahalan at gmail.com
Mon Sep 14 05:20:59 EDT 2009


s.boutayeb at free.fr writes:

> OpenOffice for Kids (OOO4Kids) is available
...
> http://olpc-france.org/wiki/index.php?title=Image:Ooo4kids2.png

On the subject of adapting software for kids...

Good: eliminating or enlarging fiddly things that are hard to control
with the mouse (ESPECIALLY WHEN KIDS MAY HAVE ONLY A TOUCHPAD)

Bad: taking away the grown-up-tool feel (grey 3-D look), making kids
suspect that they have something as worthless as a hollow toy hammer

Good: being really careful to prefer beginner words and simple
sentence structure in the UI


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