[IAEP] Health nuts

[Beth Santos]

Wise idea. This is just me writing at a mile a minute. But 100% agreed!

Beth

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*Beth Santos*
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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 1:14 PM, David Farning <dfarning at ubuntu.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Beth Santos <beth at waveplace.org> wrote:
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>> Hey all,
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>> Looking for someone who can get me in touch with people who might be
>> interested in developing health-focused Etoys education software- nutrition,
>> sanitation, HIV/AIDS awareness, malaria prevention, anatomy, etc. This is an
>> initiative I want to grow in countries in Africa and could use some content
>> help. Whether it's international health professionals or computer
>> programmers who want to make the actual games, let me know.
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> A rather minor point....
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> As we talk about content to augment teaching specific concepts or tasks ,it
> might be better to use the educator terminology of learning object[1] rather
> than game.  I see rather a lot of push back when talking to teachers about
> 'games', but the parse 'learning object' seems to resonate well:)
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> david
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> 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_object
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>>  Beth
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