<div dir="ltr">On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <<a href="mailto:mpgritti@gmail.com">mpgritti@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 3:41 AM, Bill Kerr <<a href="mailto:billkerr@gmail.com">billkerr@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Fedora live CD for sugar > > my impression is that it hasn't developed to the point where I should > upgrade for school use, eg. missing activities > > am I reading this correctly? </div>Yeah, I think it will take another couple of weeks to be usable. <div class="Ih2E3d"> > Do need the activities because if lots were missing then kids would think of > it as a downgrade </div>Getting all of the activities working on standard Fedora might take more time. If you have a list of activities the kids care about in particular, we can give them higher priority.</blockquote><div> btw I forgot to mention a third hassle, the mama activities do not fit on our default screen resolution (which is locked down by techs and not trivial - time consuming - to alter) what sometimes happens in practice is that little things like this end up in those activities not being evaluated - in school environment where everyone is very busy all the time by comparison etoys has a convenient way to resize the screen within the program </div></div>these are the activities that have been more popular and / or which I want to push the kids in the direction of looking at more closely I'm not sure which activities enable collaboration and which don't - a list of those would be handy for me X2o: A puzzle solving and critical thinking game similar to the Incredible Machine; make crazy contraptions to get the O back on top of the X vu.lux.olpc.Pacmanpacman: A Pacman clone gcompris: educational games guido van robot: Educational programming language, IDE and lessons; Stable with 18 lessons included simcity: Construct and maintain your own city Terminal – linux command line (explore some linux commands) Story Builder - Graphical story constructor with a variety of characters and backgrounds and simple word-processing capabilities (MaMaMedia) Speak – An animated face that speaks whatever you type Scratch - multimedia visual programming language Slider puzzle- Slider Puzzle to improve on puzzle solving skills (MaMaMedia) Pippy – Python Programming language/environment (run samples by clicking on grey horizontal line) Maze - Maze game Jump - A Marble-Jumping Solitaire Game. Works in Sugar; Created by a Team at Carnegie Mellon University Jigsaw Puzzle - Classic picture-constructing game (MaMaMedia) DrGeo II - Euclidean Geometry Etoys - Learning / visual programming / authoring environment; includes Kedama which can simulate hundreds or thousands of objects FlipSticks - org.worldwideworkshop.olpc.FlipSticks Using keyframes, program a stick figure to twist, turn, tumble and dance (MaMaMedia) Cartoon Builder - Animate a cartoon character by creating a sequence of poses inside a filmstrip (MaMaMedia) Chat - Text chat BlockParty – Tetris-inspired game Browse - Web browser based on Mozilla Firefox (I noticed some interesting new activities on the activities page but haven't evaluated them yet) </div>