Regarding our language tools

[Amarvir Singh]

Interested, please do. :)

Regards,
Amarvir
On 11 Feb 2014 03:23, "Andreas Cord-Landwehr" <cordlandwehr at kde.org> wrote:

>  Hey, thanks for bringing this topic up! I think it is good to start
> thinking about the future of our language learning applications and discuss
> where we want to go. In the currently changing world with (in the near
> future) simple deployments of KDE apps into markets like tablets and
> cellphones, there weill be good opportunities for educational apps that we
> should use.
>
>
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> But as Inge said, there is work ahead ;) What I read in this thread were
> IMO three related but somewhat different topics:
>
> 1. Who are our users and how do they interact with our software
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> 2. Data storage backends for language learning material
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> 3. Creation and distribution of language learning material
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> All of them are quite important, yet, I think for the start we should
> focus on the interaction design and only move on once we have a common
> opinion how this shall be done the future.
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> As I perceived Parley (and KWordQuiz) they are nice applications that
> build on the Leitner box principle, have an awesomely cool core
> infrastructure and great internal design, and are tailored for a users that
> create their vocabulary material by themselves and then train on that
> material. As a plus, they provide sharing/downloading options like
> get-how-new-stuff and different interfaces like for google apis and
> wikipedia. For this user group, they work fine (and I can say this also
> from my own learning experience.)
>
> But this is different when looking at users that try to use these apps
> with other expectations, e.g., as an adult learner who does not follow a
> specific textbook with vocabulary lists.
>
>
>
> To make discussions about the interaction design of software more
> effective, there exists a well known approach called "Personas". (In a
> nutshell: we create artificial persons that describe our user base and all
> further user interaction discussions/feature requirements solely focus on
> their interests)
>
> During our last Edu sprint, we discussed a set of three language learning
> personas [1]. Yet as today, I think out of this set we especially have two
> primary personas, Gan and Camille, for which we should create software.
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> And that is what I would like to propose: Figure out for both, Gan and
> Camille, what they expect from Parley (or a possible future version). How
> would they interact with a vocabulary trainer, what are their ways of using
> it?
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> Having this data, we could effectively look at Parley and see where it is
> already great and where we have to change the way it interacts with the
> users. I am also sure that in this process we will understand how learning
> materials must be distributed to be of use for them.
>
>
>
> If others are interested in this, I could create a wiki page where we
> could work on this together.
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>
>
> Greetings,
>
> Andreas
>
>
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> [1] https://community.kde.org/KDEEdu/Artikulate/Personas
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