Re: New member

[Michael A Hamblin <michaelh@utdallas.edu>]

On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Leon Brooks wrote:

> The concept of a classroom situation can be entirely different to the
> kind of one-on-one learning which is supremely effective in a home
> situation. I think it likely to be worthwhile having two groups (two
> lists) one group focussing on individual-use learning applications and
> similar issues, and another focussing on classroom issues, the
> monitoring and management, networking, group interaction (blackboard
> apps, specialised forms of chat etc), standardisation and scaling of
> results, that kind of thing.

Hi kidsgames list... :) I'm cross posting for yall's benefit...

If I remember correctly, and Douglas can speak for himself on this,
the forming of seul-edu was mainly in response to the lack of edutainment
style software for Linux. As seul-edu began developing, the flow has been
more toward the other end--administrative software and lab type software,
amoung various sorted things :) I know my original interest had been in
the lack of real multimedia stuffs but it has changed a bit since then.

Also, at the North Texas Linux User Group meeting the President of Loki
Software spoke, and it was interesting. I suspect that it would be
possible for them to port some edutainment software to Linux if there is
interest from edutainment developers, but remember that Loki is a game
company... Fortunatly the folks at Loki are very committed to the open
source ideals but are hampered by NDI's and the desire of companies to
keep their game sources closed (which I think most people would be
understanding of, although surprisingly he seemed opposed to it...)

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