In a same "spirit", a friend of mine created jLearn: <a href="http://domosays.net/jlearn/">http://domosays.net/jlearn/</a>.<br><br>"JLearn (JQuery learn) is a simple program that allows you to learn anything (if a quizz has been written of course!).<br>
>From japanese alphabet to maths, passing by world capitals, anything can be learnt.<br>JLearn interface is pretty simple: one box showing you the question, and one box to enter the answer.<br>If you don't know the answer, just press the [space key] and it will be shown.<br>
Quizzes are submitted by the community, you can find some here or even write your own!"<br><br>He won a contest with OLPC France.<br><br>Sebastien<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 9:15 PM, Samuel Klein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="http://meta.sj">meta.sj</a>@<a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Ben,<br>
<br>
This is brilliant! Definitely brightened my day.<br>
I just converted it to an xol bundle which you can try downloading...<br>
<br>
<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image:Yay-Bee-See-2.xol" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image:Yay-Bee-See-2.xol</a><br>
<br>
You should create a page about it (and tell this story!) on our wiki...<br>
<br>
<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Yay-bee-see" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Yay-bee-see</a> (page not created yet :)<br>
<br>
--SJ<br>
<br>
<br>
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Ben Wiley Sittler <<a href="mailto:bsittler@gmail.com">bsittler@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> I have just joined this list and read through the archives, but could<br>
> not find anything similar. I also didn't find mention of anything<br>
> similar on the OLPC Wiki.<br>
><br>
> I recently wrote some software for use by my daughter on her OLPC. It<br>
> runs inside the Browse activity, either locally using a "file:" URI or<br>
> over the network. I don't know whether it will be of interest to<br>
> anyone else, but I have released the software to the public domain and<br>
> packaged it along with scaled-down (1600x1200 or less) copies of some<br>
> public-domain images and some copyrighted-but-free-to-redistribute<br>
> images under GFDL, and various Creative Commons Attribution-Share<br>
> Alike, Attribution, and Share Alike licenses. Individual attribution<br>
> for each image is included in the application source code.<br>
><br>
> overview:<br>
><br>
> I wrote some software using DHTML (JavaScript, HTML and CSS.) It's to<br>
> help learn letters and numbers, and is intended to be used with adult<br>
> supervision and involvement. It is fairly easy to customize it to use<br>
> different images and support different alphabets simply by editing the<br>
> contents of the <style> element in the HTML file.<br>
><br>
> The software is very, very, very simple — it just echoes typed letters<br>
> and numbers in a large, colorful font and shows a somewhat-relevant<br>
> background image for each one. The images are various freely-usable<br>
> ones I found on Wikipedia or in the Wikimedia Commons. View source<br>
> code for full copyright information for the associated images.<br>
><br>
> online version of the "Yay!, Bee, See" application:<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://xent.com/%7Ebsittler/yay-bee-see.html" target="_blank">http://xent.com/~bsittler/yay-bee-see.html</a><br>
><br>
> an archive of the application (ZIP, ~15 MiB) including all images:<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://xent.com/%7Ebsittler/yay-bee-see.zip" target="_blank">http://xent.com/~bsittler/yay-bee-see.zip</a><br>
><br>
> blog post about it:<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://bsittler.livejournal.com/15244.html" target="_blank">http://bsittler.livejournal.com/15244.html</a><br>
><br>
> background:<br>
><br>
> My daughter (who turns two this week) has been enjoying her OLPC from<br>
> last year's G1G1 program much more than I expected she would<br>
> (originally I intended to wait until she was older and literate to<br>
> introduce her to the OLPC, but she seemed to treat it as a favorite<br>
> toy starting around the age of 18 months.) She likes the Record<br>
> activity (she calls it "Waving hand" and uses it like a mirror-image<br>
> mirror,) Skype (not bundled, but she uses it to talk to and see<br>
> far-away family,) and listening to music (<a href="http://theclassicalstation.org" target="_blank">theclassicalstation.org</a>).<br>
> She also likes pressing buttons, rotating the "ears" and screen, and<br>
> opening and closing the laptop. However, she seems somewhat frustrated<br>
> by not being able to do things on it for herself (or as she puts it,<br>
> "do it self!",) so I thought I might write a small program where her<br>
> keypresses give some feedback, and help reinforce her interest in the<br>
> digits and letters of the alphabet (she loves being read to and<br>
> recognizes many letters and digits, but does not seem to understand<br>
> reading yet.)<br>
><br>
> -Ben<br>
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