[Sugar-devel] Improving Reading Experience

[Jim Simmons]

Caroline and Bastien,

What might work to show how many books are available is to do a search
on the word "boy" and another on the word "girl", then maybe "oz" and
"jules verne".  Any one of these should return lots of titles.  You
might also try "lincoln" or "washington" to show a bunch of non
fiction titles.

For the actual reading I recommend "Abroad" or "Jack and the Giants".

There is a tag cloud for the Children's collection which is kind of neat:

http://www.archive.org/browse.php?field=/metadata/subject&collection=iacl&view=cloud

The Children's Library:

http://www.archive.org/details/iacl

James Simmons


On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 7:08 AM, Caroline
Meeks<caroline at solutiongrove.com> wrote:
> Sounds like you guys are on the right track.
>
> What I want is a movie that is fun, short and upbeat and makes people see we
> have tons and tons of books for kids.
>
> I'm not an expert on childrens lit, go for books that look like fun or you
> have heard of. Don't seek out controversy, but don't sweat Wizard of Oz and
> such. Areas that want to exercise that level of censorship are unlikely to
> be early adopters of Sugar.  If you really want opinions, you can ask on
> IAEP.
>
> Thanks!
> Caroline
>
> On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Bastien <bastienguerry at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Caroline,
>>
>> Caroline Meeks <solutiongrove at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > Can we get one with childrens books demoed?
>>
>> Sure!  Can you send me a link to such a book in Gutenberg?
>>
>> > I think also skip the downloading
>> > from the activities portal, that is a separate video. Once you know how
>> > to do
>> > that it will be boring to have to watch it for every activity.
>>
>> Right.  I will make another video demoing a child book and skipping the
>> download step when Jim releases the version with annotation etc.
>>
>> > Also it seemed to cut off just when it was going to get exciting!!!!
>> > Were you
>> > going to join the shared activity?
>>
>> That would make even more sense when we'll be able to share annotations
>> on the book.
>>
>> > Dave C is a volunteer with video skills. Maybe you guys could work
>> > together to
>> > create a video with some music and such?
>>
>> I'd be glad, sure!
>>
>> Thanks for the feedback,
>>
>> --
>>  Bastien
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