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[Christian Schmitz]

Thanks you to all. If you need a beta tester i have a kid of 2 1/2 years 
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Best Regards
Christian

On Tuesday 03 March 2020 06:24:23 Johnny Jazeix wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Le lun. 2 mars 2020 à 23:50, Timothée Giet <animtim at gmail.com> a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > Yes, showing just the letter pressed and playing the corresponding sound
> > is something doable.
> > Though we would need to think more about what to do for other keys... or
> > maybe just limit to letter/number keys... ( as for some keys it may be
> > hard to do anything, considering there are always some desktop-based
> > shortcuts that can not be blocked/replaced by the application.. and Esc
> > is used to exit activities... )
> >
> > We will think of what would be the best design.
> > Like I said in my comment: "we could probably do something in that
> > idea...".
> >
> > What we said was not possible is what you suggested first: "When the kid
> > press A, the computer do the sound of Ambulance or show a animal with A
> > letter... That is very different from what you suggest now ;)
> >
> > Anyway, thanks for the suggestion!
> > We will try to add such very-very simple activities for the youngers.
> >
> > Best,
> > Timo.
> >
> > Le 02/03/2020 à 22:59, Christian Schmitz a écrit :
> > > Dear:
> > >       The required resources depend on the way as you design the
> > > activity. Tones and colors have no difficults on internationalization.
> > >       A big letter on screen with the speech of name of letter reuse
> > > all audios already loaded on activity ABCDOF. (maybe will be need add
> > > the audios for ESC, F1 or those keys can play a monotonal melody).
>
> I would need more info to have a better understanding. Is it:
> * The same as "falling letters" but in real easy mode: one letter at a
> time, no timer and some sound if any other key is pressed?
> * Or no keyboard input at all, we "just" display the letters + play
> the corresponding sound?
>
> > > Both are ZERO skill activites and both are possible.
> > >       I have on my hand a simple toy that must have less than 1Mb of
> > > rom, and do that. My dougther learn the letters when under 2 years with
> > > him.(now she have 13).
> > >       Please, apologyze to me for insist, is because i do not found the
> > > problem on internationalization. I will stop here. I write here with
> > > the only hope to help to the project.
>
> No need to apologize, as said before, the aim is to discuss to provide
> the best activities for children, so please continue the discussion
> until we have an agreement on the activities :).
> We have 2 basic constraints on activities:
> * it can't be specific to any language/country (this is why we avoid
> any driving learning as it changes depending on the country for
> example)
> * it has to work in any platform: desktop (so mouse + keyboard),
> tablets/phones (so touchpad + a virtual keyboard)...
>
> As said, the first activity is good like that, just a few tweaks to do
> to be tablet compliant.
>
> Johnny
>
> > > Best Regards.
> > > Christian
> > >
> > > On Monday 02 March 2020 12:34:56 Timothée Giet wrote:
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> As Johnny already answered below:
> > >>
> > >> -the first idea could be good, though it needs to be designed in a way
> > >> that is also usable with touchscreens for android and such.
> > >>
> > >> -the second idea as-is doesn't sound good for us because of
> > >> internationalization issues.
> > >> Think about the combination of all different keyboard layouts + all
> > >> the supported languages...
> > >> It would be very difficult/impossible to match each key to first
> > >> letter of something (or at least not possible without making that
> > >> activity super-heavy, which we would rather avoid).
> > >> Still we could probably do something in that idea but with "universal"
> > >> events.
> > >> (each key would trigger a specific thing, but not directly connected
> > >> to the letter on that key).
> > >>
> > >> Timo.
> > >>
> > >> Le 02/03/2020 à 12:56, Johnny Jazeix a écrit :
> > >>> Hi,
> > >>>
> > >>> this is the good place to ask. Once we have discussed, we can create
> > >>> a task in phabricator
> > >>> (https://phabricator.kde.org/project/view/142/).
> > >>>
> > >>> Le lun. 2 mars 2020 à 12:28, Christian Schmitz <list at schweb.com.ar> a
> > >
> > > écrit :
> > >>>> Hi everyone:
> > >>>>         Sorry for use the mailing list to ask. I want to do a new
> > >>>> activity suggestion, but i
> > >>>> didnt find where post it. Where is the best place to do?
> > >>>>
> > >>>>         I have a 2 years kid, at this point he simple hit the
> > >>>> keyboard and is unable to solve the most basic challenge, even the
> > >>>> motricity didnt allow clean the screen with the mouse because he
> > >>>> press the mouse keys and the block reappear on screen.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>         My proposal is 2 new activities with ZERO challenge:
> > >>>> Activity 1 Mouse:
> > >>>>         7 elements on screen (colors or animals). Every element will
> > >>>> be activated with a mouse action.
> > >>>>         For example if you move the mouse to the right a dog move
> > >>>> the mouth and say DOG or WOW or a simple tone.    A cat for the
> > >>>> left, etc etc. And 3 for the mouse buttons.
> > >>>>         Not point a cursor over the cat or dog because 1 or 2 years
> > >>>> cant do this, simply how is the mouse moving or keys hitting.
> > >>>>         This allow interact with the computer to small kids because
> > >>>> any move or anything get a computer reaction.
> > >>>
> > >>> It needs to work on tablets or phone (where there are no mouse
> > >>> buttons) so it may be reduced to only 5 actions (the four directions
> > >>> + press any button/screen).
> > >>> Except this, the activity could be interesting.
> > >>>
> > >>>> Activity 2 Keyboard:
> > >>>>         When the kid press A, the computer do the sound of Ambulance
> > >>>> or show a animal with A letter or any that you want. The function
> > >>>> keys can do differents musics or sounds.
> > >>>>         At this time the kid hit the keyboard with all hand, so him
> > >>>> can get multiple sound, until start to understand wich sound to
> > >>>> witch key will take a time.
> > >>>
> > >>> This one is complicated due to internationalisation. A translated
> > >>> word may not start with the same letter as the English one.
> > >>>
> > >>> Johnny
> > >>>
> > >>>> Best Regards
> > >>>> Christian
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> --
> > >>>> Be Free, Be Linux


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