[OLPC library] Scratch cartoons for physics and health education - New universal language?

[Yoshiki Ohshima]

> My son would love Howtoons unfortunately the graphics are complex.
> They take forever to download? Any ideas? Scratch is much faster.(www.scratch.mit.edu)

  Well, loading a Scratch project onto the Java-based player in a
browser isn't particularly fast.

  But yes, Howtoons are primarily designed for color-printing (try to
"Download Printable PDF" on these pages and print, or subscribe the
"Make" magazine!) and its design and format may not be readily
applicable to the context of OLPC.

  The production value of a howtoon is like 2-3 person*weeks (if I
remember correctly).  So if somebody has a serious funding, one can
make a less colorful version of it.

  But wait! There is something else.  Arvind Gupta and his colleagues
have bunch of tool-making ideas.  One example is like this one:

http://ebooks.du.ac.in/edu-resources/Resources/books/pumps.pdf

and others on the web.

http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/~amit/arvindgupta.html
http://ebooks.du.ac.in/edu-resources/Resources/toys.htm

-- Yoshiki