[gcompris-devel] GCompris suggestion

[jeffery.billing at bigpond.com]

Personally I can see little value in a small baby bashing a keyboard except to maybe reduce the life of the keyboard. 

I think the programs, in g-compris, for teaching students to use the mouse (erasing squares to reveal a picture) is brilliant. If a child is not able to do this then I doubt that exposure to a computer is of much value.

Is it possible to change these pictures (background) and if so how do you do it?

If you can change the pictures then you could put picures of family and pets into the system and this would make it more meaningful for very young children.

It would be much better to use a single switch for input if you really wanted to just let a baby bash and get a response.

Keep up the great work.

Jeff.


---- Bruno Coudoin <bruno.coudoin at free.fr> wrote: 
> Le lundi 02 mars 2009 à 16:46 -0500, C Rhoden a écrit :
> > I love the concept of the GCompris product, and have installed it on
> > my linux box, in hopes that one day my daughter will start using it.
> > But I see a missing target age range.  My daughter doesn't know much
> > about computers, other than they have buttons that she can press.
> > Another product that I have installed on my Windows PC is called
> > BabySmash (http://www.hanselman.com/babysmash/).  The concept is very
> > simple.  The baby simply smashes buttons on the keyboard, and the
> > screen displays letters and shapes, all while making laughing sounds.
> > It simply gets a baby used to using a computer.  Are there any plans
> > to make something like this for the GCompris application?  I would
> > really appreciate the consideration.
> 
> Thanks for your interest in GCompris. As there is nothing personal, I
> copy my response to our developer mailing list [1].
> 
> I don't have a strong opinion on baby oriented activities. I would like
> to know more about this kind of activity. Is this really educational ?
> 
> If there is a consensus and someone develop an activity around this
> concept, I'll be glad to integrate it.
> 
> [1] http://gcompris.net/The-mailing-list
> 
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