<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>I'm not sure either would be ideal for a real multimedia piece. <br></span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Cheers,</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Alan<br></span></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho@hotmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> IAEP SugarLabs <iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org>; support-gang@laptop.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, March 5, 2012 10:22 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [IAEP] Etoys or Scratch?<br> </font> </div> <br> <div id="yiv1608260824"> <style></style> <div><div dir="ltr"> <div style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica;"><font class="yiv1608260824Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Hi Folks…</font></div> <div style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica;min-height:14.0px;"><font class="yiv1608260824Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div> <div style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica;"><font class="yiv1608260824Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">If you were going to build an educational piece about disaster preparedness for possible <i><u>cross platform</u></i> worldwide distribution would you prefer to do it in Scratch or Etoys and why?</font></div> <div style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica;min-height:14.0px;"><font class="yiv1608260824Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div> <div style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica;"><font class="yiv1608260824Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">The end product would need to be able to have animation, sound, possible narration, interaction and all that sort of thing. The text and sound in the end product would be translated into many target languages. The project might be done by youth with little or no prior programming experience.</font></div> <div style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica;min-height:14.0px;"><font class="yiv1608260824Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div> <div style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica;"><font class="yiv1608260824Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">I am tending toward Scratch because it is easier to get started and I really like the ease and quality of animation and the sound capabilities.</font></div> <div style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica;min-height:14.0px;"><font class="yiv1608260824Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div> <div style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica;"><font class="yiv1608260824Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">What do you all think? And please, no simple "+1"s. I am very interested in the "whys".</font></div> <div style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica;min-height:14.0px;"><font class="yiv1608260824Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div> <div style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica;"><font class="yiv1608260824Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Caryl</font></div><div><br></div> </div></div> </div><br>_______________________________________________<br>IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br><a ymailto="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org" href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a><br><br> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></body></html>