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Hi,<br>
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Thanks for your proposal, see me answers bellow.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 14/03/2016 11:14, Komal Parmaar a
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<div style="font-size:12.8px"><span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">Hi</span></div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><font
color="#000000">I am Komal Parmaar. (LNMIIT, Jaipur)</font></span></div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px"><span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">Would like to work
for GCompris and have some idea for new activities that i
wish to contribute. </span></div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><font
color="#000000">The first activity - Pack_your_bag
activity. In this the kid will be given an instruction
(say, a time table for the day) and list of things which
he needs to pack. Among all things, the kid should drag
and drop only the required items to his bag according to
the instruction provided. This will develop a self-help
attitude in the kid to pack his school/travel bag on his
own and thus making him independent. </font></span></div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><font
color="#000000">There will be levels : the basic would be
to just pack the basic school bag { water bottle,
lunchbox, notebook and pencil-box } which would later
increase to packing the books according to the time-table
for the class. ( say, an arts class in the time-table
would require a drawing notebook and colors too ).</font></span></div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000">[</font><span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><i>I would like to
introduce a back to school section which will prepare
students for their school-related activities. For example,
Packing the school bag according to the timetable of
classes.</i>]</span></div>
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I am not a big fan of this kind of behavioral activities. I really
prefer us to focus on core subjects like math, science or reading or
other topic that open children to topics like music. I believe it
requires too much efforts to do compare to what it teaches. <br>
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<div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><font
color="#000000">The second activity - Jumbled_words
activity. Jumbled letters (shuffled) of a word will be
given. The kid will have to type the correct spelling of
the word by guessing the correct word from the jumbled
letters. An onclick Hint is provided which the kid can
click to get some visual help. This will help the child to
remember the spellings as well as mental ability to guess
the meaningful word out of shuffled letters.</font></span></div>
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Very interesting, playing with letters and reading.<br>
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<div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000">The third
activity - How_many_blocks activity. An image will be
presented with 4 options to choose from. The kid has to
choose the correct option corresponding to the number of
blocks in the image. Ability -> counting +
differentiating boundaries of similar objects. The
complexity of the image will increase with the levels.</font></div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000">Attached
herewith a sample image for this activity.</font></div>
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It is close to our enumerate activity. In this one the children can
move the blocks to ease the counting and there are several type of
items to play with. What I don't like in your proposal is that the
children cannot interact with the image. It is nothing more than a
quiz and I don't like quizzes.<br>
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Bruno.<br>
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