<div class="gmail_quote">2009/8/10 NoiseEHC <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:NoiseEHC@freemail.hu">NoiseEHC@freemail.hu</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Having said that I certainly believe that such a feature would be overkill at this point, there's a bunch of much higher priority tasks that we need to tackle before and it's important not to lose focus of our main goals.</blockquote>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sorry, I somehow missed your e-mail yesterday...</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Now that is what I agree with 100%. However at least planning for the future cannot be a waste of time (unless it takes more time than can be saved later). So probably the following two things would be enough preparation:</blockquote>
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1. Do not use fancy lesson plans (like pdf or formatting) so creating some some wiki -> karma converter will be possible. Then you will be able to crowd source.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>The current plan is to use simple .html for the teacher's note, lesson plan and help text.</div>
<div><br></div><div>As far as using a Wiki is concerned we're simply not at a stage where we can spend too much time working on these sets of issues. But it's definitely something to keep in mind for the future.</div>
<div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">2. Do not wire questions/examples into the karma lesson. (It is mostly done because of internationalization issues.) It is only relevant for text only or mostly text only lessons because Karma is for programmers and the potential contributors will be teachers and nonprogrammer people cannot modify the code via a wiki I think that is obvious. They also will not be able to draw via a wiki.<br>
I think that you should consider at least the 1. point since it is basically "do not do anything"... :)<br>
</blockquote></div><br>I don't understand the reasoning behind "don't wire questions/examples" into a Karma lesson... Of course a Karma lesson can, will and (IMHO) should come with interactive exercises and/or games!<div>
<br></div><div>Please also understand that within Karma a "lesson" is really a unit of knowledge or content. Some of them will only be that, content being presented in an interesting way, but hopefully people also add interesting exercises and games to these lessons so the children have different means of engaging with the content.</div>
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