[Health] [IAEP] Coloring books on the XO?

[Samuel Klein]

Coloring something certainly helps remember it.  And changing the colors of
shapes/objects in a drawing or scene or skin is one of the simple pleasures
in life.  A simple implementation of coloring would let you pick the colors
of your own sugar skin and icon.

I dreamed the other day about those pattern-coloring books that introduce
you to unusual but beautiful tilings; when I was a kid we used to make
copies of them or trace them on onionskin and color separately, later
comparing the results for elegant patterns.

S.

On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Seth Woodworth <seth at laptop.org> wrote:

> How do you feel about providing coloring books like activities in sugar?
> I've found material from the American Red Cross on Disaster Preparedness in
> around 20 languages[1].  I feel that it would be fairly trivial work to
> create a template for children to color in in another activity (hopefully
> the wonderful painting activity from ICDL).  Is this work worth doing?
>
> Is a coloring book an effective method of distributing information in a
> digital realm?  Is it a constructionist method or how could it be made one?
>
> Seth
>
> [1] http://www.redcross.org/services/disaster/0,1082,0_504_,00.html
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