Re: New member

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

Hello Michael

On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Michael A Hamblin wrote:

> 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...
> 

Thank you.

> 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 :)

Got to have the infostructure to do the real work.  Tools do seem to be
needed.

> I know my original interest had been in
> the lack of real multimedia stuffs but it has changed a bit since then.
> 

Your interest now being which?

> Also, at the North Texas Linux User Group meeting the President of Loki
> Software spoke, and it was interesting.

Did you get a chance to meet him?  If so, would you like to spearhead an
effort to have Loki port some of the edutainment Win products?

> 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...

They have experience with multimedia and are porting from Microsoft to
Linux this gives them quite an advantage.

> 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...)
> 

That's great to hear!

Sincerely,

Jeff Waddell
jeff@smluc.org