<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><pre><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Educational_activity_ideas">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Educational_activity_ideas</a> <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Software_ideas">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Software_ideas</a> Is there more resources we should keep an eye on?</pre></blockquote>educational activity ideas need not be platform-dependent; i can't see any substantive difference between activities available via Sugar and those available via Edubuntu. but, in each case, how is a child to know where to look? how can they know what something is about before they start it up? how can they see the range of things available without having to examine each one by itself? cute names of 500 different apps don't help. the search problem is as real for a child as it is for an adult. that's why it was found that Sugar users click on hundreds of activity buttons every week - but they don't engage in hundreds of activities... they are just poking around in the dark. sure, a human teacher could tell/guide them... so could this, if anyone cares to implement it: <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Design_Team/Proposals">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Design_Team/Proposals</a> david brown, PhD (a long time ago in a far-away place) <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/djhbrown2/home" target="_blank">http://sites.google.com/site/djhbrown2/home</a> <div> </div>