coding challenge idea/mathandscience

[Marielle Lange]

You mean, something like this: <http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/ 
hbase/ligcon.html>

Ron, is your code available?  I would like to have access to the  
stack of a compiled form (I am mac user, as you) to be able to make a  
demo... this is really impressive. How long did it take to write?

Did you also see the new version of the scripter scrapbook <http:// 
www.flexiblelearning.com/ssbk.htm>... hum, will be fee-paying now...  
but what another impressive demo of revolution's potential.


Ho, about the scorm & ims project, I added files with templates for  
the exercises as well as for the scorm/ims/web export. They can be  
found at: <http://revolution.lexicall.org/projects/ims/>

This come from this: <http://exe.cfdl.auckland.ac.nz/>. Following  
discussion on another mailing list (<http://www.academici.com/>, a  
new hub of contacts for academics, with forums and a clever contact  
system, in case viewing is not login protected), I tried that  
application out. It's Python-based and meant to let you edit multiple- 
choice questions and other educational content (very limited set) in  
a gui and export it to ims format. It toke me three hours just to try  
to get it running...(install file 1 be told about dependency x,  
install dependency x, be told about dependency y, etc.) and at the  
end it did not work because one of the file dependency was a problem  
on the mac. I got access to the code though... of which I extracted  
the important part.

I asked them about adding workflow, adding connection to a bank of  
question. They told me it would take them too much time (not enough  
funding).. I bet it doesn't take me more than a week to redo what  
they have done in 6 months, and only better (using the templates I  
uploaded on the web whereas they had all these specifications  
embedded in their application, which means that any change in ims  
specification would require a developer to step in an change the code).

I told them about revolution :-))))). They asked more questions about  
it. We may have new lurkers soon :-).

Marielle




>     Since we're brainstorming (kind of cool, since we're all over  
> the world), how about this?  The student is asked to make a family  
> tree -- a common assignment grades 2-12 in my part of the world.   
> They use an inspiration stack similar to Ron's to create the family  
> tree.  It has nodes for each family member and links that describe  
> the relationships.  When the students are done with the family  
> tree, they create their own Rev stack to tell about the family  
> members.  This stack is linked to the tree nodes so that when  
> Grandpa's node is option clicked (or whatever), it launches a  
> picture, an audio of Grandpa talking about the drought of '57, a  
> field containing the horse feed recipe, and a whatever else the  
> student can come up with.
>     This incorporates Ron's ingenious framework, Judy's criteria  
> for a worthwhile challenge, maybe Marielle's tree structure (as an  
> alternate view of the family tree), and Lisa's Grandpa.  The second  
> part could branch into history, science, media studies, language  
> arts, art history or art production, etc.  Of course, this assumes  
> that students have access to Rev (though they could do the last  
> part in another program) and a teacher who could lead them through  
> a constructivist type project.
>
>         Mark G
>
> On Wednesday, June 1, 2005, at 06:32 AM, lisa wrote:
>
>
>
>> Besides the nice thought of having a computer to bring over while
>> visiting the grandparents and showing Grandpa what I created today
>> (better yet on Grandpa's computer )... that pulls in a little
>> research from his time...and might just get him talking about family
>> history....
>>
>>   (like a formula used in the 1920s
>>   [that I found in an old math book]
>> to mix a horses' feed [wheat, corn, oats and rye] according to
>> whether the horse was sedentary or working that day......
>>
>>
>
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Marielle Lange (PhD),  Psycholinguistics, Lecturer in Psychology and  
Informatics
University of Edinburgh, UK

Homepage:  http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mlange/
Lexicall project: http://lexicall.org
Revolution-education project: http://revolution.lexicall.org