[Sugar-devel] Improving Reading Experience

[Sameer Verma]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:08 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.
>

To make it fun, throw a soundtrack of something instrumental and colorful.
http://ccmixter.org is a good place to look for CC tracks, loops, beats,
etc. I used Audacity to layer up a couple of loops and beats for a looping
soundtrack for the Photo DVD.
http://www.legaltorrents.com/torrents/569-olpc-photo-dvd

Here's something that a group of students in Jamaica did. Notice the
background music. Its simple, but catchy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFmT-B-nibI

cheers,
Sameer

-- 
Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State University
San Francisco CA 94132 USA
http://verma.sfsu.edu/
http://opensource.sfsu.edu/


> 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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