<div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"> </div>I had a few ideas for Sugar activities in mind that I wanted to share. These activities could be split into tasks that could be used for GCI that is coming up. I wanted to share these ideas and get some insights, suggestions (maybe certain flaws) etc.<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"> </div>Activity 1 - Teach Me How To Draw (Similar Activities: GCompris Redraw 13) <ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline" dir="ltr">The idea I had in mind for this was that a user gives an image of a doodle as the input (Or we can store a bunch of these doodles which could be used). A doodle is essentially a pencil outline drawing. I have attached an example (82.svg). The only constraint is that these should be svg images so we can access the curves. (If this can be extended to any image format in general that would also be great). We then ask them to draw a replica of the image.</li><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline" dir="ltr">The screen would be split into 2 halves. The left half is where the user draws and the right half is where we show the drawing in a stepwise manner.</li><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline" dir="ltr">We parse the svg image and draw each curve one after another on the right half of the screen. (Generally, we would want to draw curves that are touching each other first and then move on to other distant curves, starting from any one of the available curves).</li><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline" dir="ltr">This would enable us to draw curves based on the time. We would essentially get a list of (x,y,t,s) points which is what we use to draw the sketch starting from t=0 till t=T. At different intervals, we stop and ask the user to copy this drawing to their half of the screen. Based on that once we feel that they have drawn a decent amount then we proceed further and draw the next curve on the guide part (right half) of the screen.</li><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline" dir="ltr">We then compute the errors based on the original image and the one that the user is drawing and guide them as needed. (Basic chamfer matching could be used to get the error between these two images)</li></ul><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"> </div>This activity would encourage and help people learn to draw better. We could also then point out what each of those objects are so kids who use Sugar can also learn about associations between object names and their shapes via drawing. This could also then be extended to coloring these doodles and so on.<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"> </div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"> </div>Activity 2 - Create a zoo activity (Similar Activities: BioDiv 6, Safari Activity, Food Chain) <ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Initially, there would be small pictures of animals, reptiles etc placed all around the screen.</li><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">There would be an image of the entire zoo (or multiple images for the different classes) as the background. The user would be able to scroll horizontally across the entire zoo by using their mouse. We will define sections of the zoo as a place for let's say Birds, Water animals, Reptiles, Mammals etc. Based on this the user has to classify these different pictures into their corresponding places.</li><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">We can also let the user know what the name of the certain animal/bird/reptile etc is so they get to learn about this as well.</li></ul><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"> </div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"> </div>Activity 3 - Synonym Antonym activity<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline" dir="ltr">There will be 2 locations on the left and right of the screen where we need to drop words. The left one is for synonyms and the right one is for antonyms.</li><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline" dir="ltr">Every 60 seconds or so the main word will change and the player would be given multiple synonyms and antonyms of the main word which keep dropping down at the center of the screen. The player would then be required to pick these words up and drop them in the correct bins (left or right).</li><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline" dir="ltr">As the user gives correct answers the speed of words dropping increases and vice versa. After the time is up the main word changes and the process repeats.</li></ul><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"> </div>Generally, kids are always taught about synonyms and antonyms when they learn. It's a great way to let people know what words mean through words that they already know or the opposites that they know. Having an activity specifically for this would be of great use.<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"> </div>I did take a look at the existing Sugar activities to check if anything similar to these already exist, but didn’t find any. In case there exists Sugar activities that are similar/same as any of the ones I am proposing above, please do let me know and drop a link to the activity.<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"> </div>Thanks,Vishal</div>