StopWatch activity

Yoshiki Ohshima yoshiki at vpri.org
Wed Nov 14 14:06:06 EST 2007


  Benjamin,

> 1. Clock is non-interactive.  It doesn't make sense to share it, or
> save it to the journal, so I've disabled those features.

  Human being is good at finding differences, but drawing similarity
out of seemingly different things is more fun if you know it.

> 2. I like small programs that do one thing well.  I'm not sure if this is the
> Constructionist Activity philosophy, exactly, but it seemed like a good idea.
> If a program has two different main screens, that suggests that it does two
> completely separate things.

  Probably the best thing is to provide one of them (or other basic
blocks) and to let the children build one from another by themselves.

  Combining it with the camera makes a lot of sense, BTW.  Kids can
make an interval timer for camera...  (and other things like Pippy.)

-- Yoshiki



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