Re: New member

[Jeffery Douglas Waddell <jeff@smluc.org>]

On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Leon Brooks wrote:

> Doug Loss wrote (to the kidsgames@smluc.org list):
> > [SEUL edu list has] been around since November of last
> > year, and is currently working toward getting Linux
> > more used in the classroom.
> 
> 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.

Yes the concept can, that does not mean that our software can't handle
both situations.

> 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.
> 

I guess I just see things differently than most people.  To me all group
activities are individual activities because they involve the individual
and all individual activities have the potential to be group activities.
There is nothing wrong with two lists, I'll just have to stay on both
lists.  My PRIMARY focus is on INDIVIDUAL educational games that can scale
into GROUP educational games.

> The seul-edu projects list seems to be heavily oriented this way
> already, and towards later/higher education; if kidsgames focuses on
> individual-use applications and a younger audience, they should
> complement each other well.

kidsgames will definately have to start with the younger audiences in
order to build skill sets from the bottom up....(and because my immediate
needs are for that skill level)  Perhaps the SEUL can
build from the top of the skill sets down. hmmmmmm.

Thanks I'm sure we will work these things out as we go.

Sincerely,


Jeff Waddell
jeff@smluc.org