[Sugar-devel] Tutorius Demo and Meeting

[Edward Cherlin]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 09:11, Erick Lavoie <erick.lavoie at gmail.com> wrote:
> As discussed before, Tutorius is a project done by 9 students from
> Université de Sherbrooke (Québec, Canada) aiming to integrate interactive
> tutorials inside Sugar to guide Sugar users in learning the platform and its
> activities.  Our goal for december is to be able to cover most of the
> content of the Floss manual.

I have started writing a new manual, tentatively Discovering Discovery
on the XO. It is based on the material in my Wiki page,
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/The_Undiscoverable. The introductory
material and the first few topics exist in draft form. I am currently
sorting obstacles by dependencies. Then I intend to create a sequence
of topics in dependency order exploring each obstacle. The intention
is to cover everything that an average student will need in order to
be able to use all of the Sugar software at grade level.

Then we have to work on the topics appropriate for each school
subject, and propose a few new subjects that are essential for
achieving the Millennium Development Goals, building a functioning
society and economy, and rebuilding the environment.

> We are doing this along 3 axis:
>
> Execution: Add the mechanisms needed to Sugar to support execution of
> tutorials

What do you need besides existing activities and programming
environments, particularly TurtleArt, Pippy, Scratch, and Etoys?

> Creation: Provide tools to create tutorials from within Sugar in a GUI
> environment

Same question.

> Sharing: Provide a platform to share tutorials on the web

Definitely.

> We have shown demos in the past of basic capabilities (in chronological
> order), here, here and at a presentation given last April.
>
> Next Friday, we will hang around on IRC at 13h EST and give a live demo of
> the current state of the project using Yuuguu or something equivalent, with
> an execution engine running in a separate process than the activity, an
> overhauled tutorial creator (still running inside the activity process) and
> maybe a quick overview of the sharing platform based around the addon
> sharing platform from Mozilla.
>
> We would like to exchange ideas with people and discuss technical matters
> with the following goals:
>
> Receive feedback on the work done so far
> Discuss the possible integration of our system with Sugar, the SugarLabs
> sharing platform and the official release cycle
> Anticipate possible evolutions
> Exchange ideas and pointers to similar work and papers to inspire ourselves
> and avoid duplicating research efforts
>
> Our team will disband around mid-december, but I'll keep maintaining the
> project and there might be possibilities for another team of 6-8 people from
> Université de Sherbrooke to push the project further in January for another
> year. It would be really exciting to see a collaboration with SugarLabs
> continue in the future!
>
> For those interested in a more technical view of the inner working of the
> system, see Tutorius Architecture, especially the Component section.
>
> See you on IRC on Friday at 13h EST!
>
> Erick Lavoie
> for Tutorius
>
>
>
>
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