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Hi again<br>
<br>
I forget to say something to your question related with the
educational technology.<br>
<br>
Firstly, I found the following statements on the webpage "What is
Sugar?" in the section "About the Sugar Learning Platform" of Sugar
([1]) that says:<br>
" It is easy to approach and yet it doesn't put an upper bound on
personal expression; one can peel away layers and go deeper and
deeper, with no restrictions." and<br>
"[...] in whatever realm the learner is exploring [...] they are
able to drill deeper; they are not going to hit a wall, since they
can, at every level, engage in debugging both their personal
expression and the very tools that they use for that expression."<br>
<br>
Hence, Sugar+ZUI supports the learning even with the related UI
paradigm that reflects the general computer desktop metaphor as well
as the 3rd characteristical attribute of Sugar.<br>
<br>
Secondly, if the U.S. government supports this ZUI based Prezi
software as part of a billion U.S. Dollar donation even if it does
not comply with ADA and 508 actually, then there must be a very
strong reason to include a ZUI based application in a framework of
educational software. Sadly to say, I do not know the true reason
actually, but my instinct gives me a very clear hint. For sure, I do
know that these might not be convicting arguments.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Christian<br>
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[1] Sugar, What is Sugar?, About the Sugar Learning Plattform
wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/What_is_Sugar<br>
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Hi Sam<br>
<br>
Basically, I find this ZUI concept as attractive as the
multi-touchscreen and the mind mapping approach.<br>
<br>
Also, the foundational hierachical structure of Sugar with the
views you mentioned fits perfectly with a ZUI.<br>
The problem I have seen is that the screen gets more and more
crowded with icons when Sugar is used and collaborations are made.
Also, specific applications like the Journal suffer from this
problem respectively allow to present only a small list of
documents and activities at once. In this relation, I refer to
some screenshots that I have seen on the Sugar Labs website. A
solution to this problem is a ZUI functionality.<br>
Even better, due to the simple GUI metaphor of Sugar deliberately
designed for children, Sugar+ZUI should already run smoothly when
a user zooms in an out with actual hardware.<br>
<br>
The actual plan is to try to implement a prototyp of Sugar+ZUI,
though until now it is just a concept and a plan, and I wanted to
ask the other developers at first, if they are interested and if
it is worth to go in this direction at all.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Christian<br>
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<p dir="ltr">Totally forgot to reply all xD</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 1, 2014 9:10 PM, "Sam Parkinson"
<<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:sam.parkinson3@gmail.com">sam.parkinson3@gmail.com</a>>
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<p dir="ltr">Hi,</p>
<p dir="ltr">In sugar we currently have 'the views'. I think
the vid on our site shows that.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The whole zui thing does look cool, but besides
prezi I cannot see any clear use cases in edu tech. What
do you have in mind?</p>
<p dir="ltr">Sam</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 1, 2014 9:04 PM, "Christian
Stroetmann" <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:stroetmann@ontolab.com" target="_blank">stroetmann@ontolab.com</a>>
wrote:<br type="attribution">
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.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Aloha<br>
<br>
Since many years now I am looking at Sugar and the
underlying basic software technologies. Besides this, I
am also interested in the specific field of Graphical
User Interfaces (GUI).<br>
<br>
In this relation, I would like to present a concept that
is an extension of the general GUI approach of the Sugar
learning software with a Zooming User Interface (ZUI;
[1]).<br>
<br>
One inspiring moment was that recently the U.S.American
government together with companiens like Adobe, Prezi,
Microsoft and Apple announced to make software
donationsto schools (related reports can be find in the
web easily).<br>
One specific software is Prezi ([2]) that is developed
in Adobe Flash and Adobe AIR, and built on top of Django
(Python web framework). Surprisingly, Prezi is not
compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
and Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act ([3] and
[4])but used in education (see again [2]).<br>
<br>
I looked around and found the software Eagle Mode ([5];
for a first impression see the videos on its website
diretly).<br>
<br>
Said this, I simply counted 1+1, Sugar+ZUI and
Sugar+Eagle.<br>
<br>
Such an UI approach has advantages and disadvantages
that are discussed shortly on the website of Eagle Mode
(see [6]). The point with the hardware requirements
seems not to be relevant, because for example the
hardware of the latest featurephones and featuretablets
(simple smartphones and tablet computers) should be
useable with a ZUI and are available for around 30 U.S.
Dollar already.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Have fun<br>
Christian Stroetmann<br>
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[1] Wikipedia, ZUI <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_user_interface"
target="_blank">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_user_interface</a><br>
[2] Wikipedia, Prezi <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prezi"
target="_blank">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prezi</a><br>
[3] Wikipedia, Rehabilitation Act of <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://1973en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Rehabilitation_Act"
target="_blank">1973en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Rehabilitation_Act</a><br>
[4] Wikipedia, Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_508_of_the_Rehabilitation_Act"
target="_blank">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_508_of_the_Rehabilitation_Act</a><br>
[5] Eagle Mode <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://eaglemode.sourceforge.net"
target="_blank">eaglemode.sourceforge.net</a><br>
[6] Eagle Mode, Project Philosoophy <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://eaglemode.sourceforge.net/philosophy.html"
target="_blank">eaglemode.sourceforge.net/philosophy.html</a><br>
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