[Educators] posting

Benjamin, Thomas THOMAS.BENJAMIN at det.nsw.edu.au
Mon Jul 7 20:08:48 EDT 2008


Edward,

I presume it is you who has responded?  What I can put up on a Wiki
would be  discussion about game/virtual world development and plenty of
sample materials. Before I did that I would need to see more info about
the software capabilities of the laptops. I presume they would not be
able to run Microsoft Office Excel and PowerPoint so I would not be
describing the tools I've developed for those. 

Rather, I would discuss the more generic versions based on simple
principles that can be applied to any sort of software. Even there,
however, I need to know whether the laptop software can play transparent
animated .gif's, for example. Is there an equivalent of MediaPlayer or
Quicktime that can play movies and what will be the preferred movie
formats. Clearly, to distribute via the Web requires compressed formats,
most of which are proprietary. Open source ones might be beyond my
capability so someone might have to convert them.

My toolbox is scalable to pretty much any level of technology but I want
to pitch it at just the right level so people actually use the ideas.


Tom Benjamin, PhD
Senior Researcher
Sourcing and Evaluation
Learning Design and Services
Centre for Learning Innovation
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51 Wentworth Road, Strathfield NSW 2135
Ph: (02) 9715 8129
Fax: (02) 9715 8162
www.cli.nsw.edu.au
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NSW Department of Education and Training
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: educators-bounces at lists.laptop.org
[mailto:educators-bounces at lists.laptop.org] On Behalf Of Edward Cherlin
Sent: Monday, 7 July 2008 05:06
To: Educators and OLPC
Subject: Re: [Educators] posting

On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Benjamin, Thomas
<THOMAS.BENJAMIN at det.nsw.edu.au> wrote:
> My question revolves around the complexity of your sites and the
amount
> of automation. It would be easier for someone like me to correspond
> either by email or a posting forum where I can put up discussion
papers
> for others to look at. I find your system difficult.

Discussion papers can go on the Wiki. Do you know how to do that? I
would be happy to create the Wiki pages you need. We prefer not to
have attachments on the mailing lists.

If you tell us specifically what you want to be able to do, we can
either tell you how to do it, and to automate it as much as necessary,
or suggest other software to use. Would Moodle help? Can you point us
to a site that works well for you, so that some of us can try it and
we can all discuss its advantages?

> Tom Benjamin, PhD
> Senior Researcher
> Sourcing and Evaluation
> Learning Design and Services
> Centre for Learning Innovation
> -----------------------------------------------------
> 51 Wentworth Road, Strathfield NSW 2135
> Ph: (02) 9715 8129
> Fax: (02) 9715 8162
> www.cli.nsw.edu.au
> -----------------------------------------------------
> NSW Department of Education and Training
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: educators-bounces at lists.laptop.org
> [mailto:educators-bounces at lists.laptop.org] On Behalf Of Edward
Cherlin
> Sent: Friday, 4 July 2008 05:13
> To: Educators and OLPC
> Subject: Re: [Educators] posting
>
> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Benjamin, Thomas
> <THOMAS.BENJAMIN at det.nsw.edu.au> wrote:
>> I'm interested in making my materials on games and virtual worlds
> available
>> to the OLPC movement.
>
> Thank you.
>
>> Much of my work is for internal distribution only but enough has now
> been
>> released to the public domain to be of use.
>>
>> I posted the first entry in an Australia regional group forum toward
> that
>> end.
>>
>>
>>
>> I would be grateful if someone contacted me.
>
> OK. What's the question? How can we help you?
>
>> Tom Benjamin, PhD


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