<html> <head> <style></style></head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Hi Folks…</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-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></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-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></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-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></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">What do you all think? And please, no simple "+1"s. I am very interested in the "whys".</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Caryl</font></p><div><br></div> </div></body> </html>