<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-2" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <blockquote cite="mid:1248871438.5722.77.camel@hitman" type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">ps: I intend to use Karma for interactive curriculum development for reasons Bryan Berry talked about a lot. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Awesome! How can we involve you more? is it time to for us to open a mailing list specific to karma? like <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:sugar-karma@l.s.o">sugar-karma@l.s.o</a> ? u can find christoph, myself, and the ole nepal team on #olenepal or #sugar Mon-Fri 03:00 -- 11:00 GMT (day time hours in Nepal) </pre> </blockquote> The whole point of this project is that this school developed a curriculum that works. The plan is to use the inevitable transition to digital learning materials to push this working curriculum onto other schools. However it is not my project but the research school's project so until they decide that they start this project I cannot do anything education related since I am just a coder. I will talk with the headmaster in August next time so then I will be able to tell you something more concrete. What I see is that in order to win the curriculum battle the following things must be met: 1. It has to be cheaper than paper books so parents will want it. As it seems the XO is already cheaper (200$/4years = 50$/year what is already spent on paper books). 2. It has to be wanted by children. The XO 1.5 (or maybe the ChromeOS or Android based smartbooks, we will see next year) will be able to run flash/youtube/web so it is OK. 3. It has to be wanted by teachers. So it has to ease teaching. Like automatic assessment. 4. It has to be developed on the cheap. Like reusing the skill set of thousands of existing web developers. So it seems to me that it will not be much different than what you are doing in Nepal so we will have the same problems what you had and will need the same tools what you use... </body> </html>