Learning Center
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Latest Development Updates
OCTOBER 30, 2007 (CARLOS)
- Bumped version to 2.
- Removed runtime dependency to Creative Center. The code for development still lives there, because it is shared across activities, but the deployed bundle no longer depends on having Creative Center installed.
- New icon as designed by Rich.
OCTOBER 26, 2007 (CARLOS)
Reduced the size of the outer border.
OCTOBER 23, 2007 (CARLOS)
New user interface implemented. Be sure to update the Creative Center for this to work for you.
OCTOBER 17, 2007 (CARLOS)
Made activity visible in the Home activity bar.
SEPTEMBER 17, 2007 (CARLOS)
Included the texts changed by Shannon.
AUGUST 23, 2007 (CARLOS)
Renamed activity from "Teacher Center" to "Learning Center" and made it use the shared code in the Activity Center.
JULY 18, 2007 - Third draft (CARLOS)
I have added some of the thumbs provided by Terrence to the Activities tab, and after some tweaking I managed to get a good quality/size ratio using 240 pixels for width, keeping the aspect ratio and setting the resolution to 200 dpi. This gives a width of about 1.2in and is small enough to be a thumb but has enough detail to be understood.
But there is a big issue with images in Abiword, and that's disk space. Images are embedded in a binary format that does not have the compression of jpeg (or any at all, I'm not sure) and a single 24K jpeg adds 100K+ to the document. I'm using 5 thumbs on this bundle and they sum up with the document text to about 600K, which when you think about having multiple translations each with it's set of images embedded, is not likely to work for us.
For now I leave you this version for testing, but we will have to set up a task to investigate the alternatives we have.
JULY 17, 2007 - Second draft (CARLOS)
- Same as before, with updated Activities tab and font changes consistent in every tab.
JUNE 20, 2007 - First draft (SHANNON)
- Carlos set up a basic tabbed framework to display the Teacher Center content, as proof of concept.
- Can be accessed via MaMaMedia Activity Center
Description & Goals
Summary
LEARNING CENTER is a place for XO users to get ideas and information about using the MaMaMedia activities as learning tools. It is for the use of teachers and students. It includes an overview of our educational philosophy and design principles, a glossary, a summary of activities and lesson plans, as well as links to our Educators Wiki.
Goals
- Provide a place for teachers and students, that offers an engaging overview of the MaMaMedia Learning Activities, downloadable lesson plans, a glossary and other resources to help them start figuring out meaningful ways to incorporate the XO into their learning plans.
- Make a design that can grow and transform and expand in the future.
- Make a design that can potentially and easily be re-designed and/or layered by us or various OLPC communities around the world.
Collaboration
We are still thinking (hard) of a way to make this main MaMaMedia Center Page mesh-friendly... Send your ideas to us!
Visual Design
Details and mock ups to come
Media
| Document | Description |
|---|---|
| LearningCenter-4.xo history | Learning Center bundle, updated January 14, 2008. |
| LearningCenter-2.xo history | Learning Center bundle, updated October 30, 2007. |
| LearningCenter-1.xo history | Learning Center bundle, updated October 26, 2007. |
| LearningCenter-1.xo history | Learning Center bundle, updated October 23, 2007. |
| LearningCenter-1.xo history | Learning Center bundle, updated October 17, 2007. |
| LearningCenter-1.xo history | Learning Center bundle, updated September 17, 2007. |
| LearningCenter-1.xo history | Learning Center bundle, from August 23, 2007. Renamed from Teacher Center. |
| TeacherCenter-0.xo history | Teacher Center bundle, third draft from July 18, 2007 |
| TeacherCenter-0.xo history | Teacher Center bundle, second draft from July 17, 2007 |
| Teacher_Center-0.xo history | Teacher Center bundle, initial release from June 20, 2007 |
Screenshots
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Development
Feature Requests
Implementation Discussion
Version History
Source
RPMs
none available
Resources
Content examples
Lesson Plans
Downloadable Exploring XO Lessons Plans (in English)
