[GCompris-devel] Ideas

Wed Mar 16 10:15:12 UTC 2016

Hi,


2016-03-16 6:54 GMT+01:00 Komal Parmaar <parmaark at gmail.com>:

> Some ideas under science section.
> Please give suggestions
>
> 1. Introduction to our solar system. This is an activity dedicated to the
> knowledge of solar system, its constituting planets, moons and the sun. The
> kid is first provided with an arrangement of the system. He has to click on
> individual planets and then a new screen pertaining to that planet is
> displayed which will contain all the basic information regarding the planet
> for the understanding the concept. On mouse hover over the planet, the name
> can be shown.
>
> 2. solar system game. Having understood the concept and arrangement of the
> solar system from the introduction, I wish to create another activity for a
> simple game. In this, some wrong arrangement of some planet is given and
> the kid has to drag the planet to its original ring. As the level
> increases, the number of planets and complexity of arrangement also
> increases.
>
>
For solar system, there is an interesting one provided by Qt (
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qt3drenderer-planets-qml-example.html), maybe it can
be worth to take a look at it, simplify it if needed, ask permission to use
the images and integrate it?

Johnny


> 3. Food chain activity. Different types of levels in the food chain is
> explained and the kid plays the food chain as it goes. Like
> Grass->deer->lion. deer must be clicked so that it goes to eats grass and
> this way the game will continue once the chain is completed.
>
>
>
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> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 11:28 PM, Sagar Chand Agarwal <atomsagar at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 3:44 PM, Komal Parmaar <parmaark at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>> I am Komal Parmaar. (LNMIIT, Jaipur)
>>> Would like to work for GCompris and have some idea for new activities
>>> that i wish to contribute.
>>> 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.
>>>
>> 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 ).
>>> [*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.*]
>>>
>>>
>> That is the new thing but our activities are more centered along
>> educational and it provides fun experience. So this activity is not that to
>> GCompris.
>>
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> That is the code you are working on. There are some issues which  Johnny
>> pointed. So will be glad to see this activity completed.
>> Also you can take on  https://phabricator.kde.org/T1549
>> <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fphabricator.kde.org%2FT1549&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFC8dOiVjqEaKHbThs96YXDct3GUw>
>> if bdoin permits it.
>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>> Attached herewith a sample image for this activity.
>>>
>>>
>> Need some more Explanation. There are many activities sharing the same
>> concept.How it is different from the counting activities which we have.
>> Also some more thoughts on implementation.
>>
>>
>>> I have already started working on the Jumbled_word activity
>>> https://github.com/bdoin/GCompris-qt/pull/123
>>>
>>> Any suggestions?
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> --
>>> ~If the wind will not serve, take to the oars~
>>>
>>> *KOMAL PARMAAR*
>>> Undergraduate - Computer Science Engineering
>>> Associate General Secretary - Science and Technology
>>> Students' Gymkhana
>>> The LNM Institute of Information Technology, Jaipur
>>> 9461864333
>>>
>>>
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>> Regards,
>> Sagar Chand Agarwal
>>
>>
>
>
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>
> *KOMAL PARMAAR*
> Undergraduate - Computer Science Engineering
> Associate General Secretary - Science and Technology
> Students' Gymkhana
> The LNM Institute of Information Technology, Jaipur
> 9461864333
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