Hey guys, here is some thing worth considering for 2009<br><br>Bill Kerr has released a course outline for programming with SVG. We are working on some of the stuff that can be done with the OLPC laptops and you can readily adapt the work from the lesson that he has posted. I have had fun with my classes using Inkscape to generate SVG clipart and had clean forgotten that the SVG standard it included animation. Bill mentions that it can be used to develop a solar system animation. .. coolies when you consider that you can just type this stuff up with notepad! VPython does something similar.<br>
<a href="http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2008/11/svg-course-outline.html">http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2008/11/svg-course-outline.html</a><br><br>Some of the points that Bill mentions are:<br><ul><li>students like working with images</li>
<li>animations are fairly easy to achieve (SMIL or Synchronised Multimedia Integration Language is part of SVG)</li><li>it offers a path into some core web techniques and standards: HTML, CSS, JavaScript and SVG</li><li>It's
mathematical - both simple co-ordinate systems and more complex maths
such as bezier curves. I like the fact that art can be done with maths</li><li>good free software is available, eg. <a href="http://www.inkscape.org/">Inkscape<br></a></li><li>the small size (low bandwidth) and scalability of SVG graphics means they have a big future, eg. in the mobile phone industry</li>
</ul>Check it out. There is some powerful learning going to happen when you take IT students on this journey.<br><br>I like his exercise comparing browsers to explore the implementation of the
well documented SVG standard to discuss open standards and how some things fail when
well intentioned programmers get it wrong (Opera is good, Firefox and
Chrome are OK, IE7 and 8 are duds etc.) .. I notice some great discussion angles that you can walk students through when you consider the wider context of implementing SVG.<br><br>Regards Roland<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
2008/12/2 andrew barry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jagguy999@gmail.com">jagguy999@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>Hi,</div>
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<div>Has anybody thought of using silverlight in their classes instead of Flash?</div>
<div>It uses <a href="http://vb.net" target="_blank">vb.net</a> skills or c# so it is appropriate with classes with programming background. </div>
<div>Silverlight can easily animate objects.</div>
<div>Teachers may have to prepare routines for animation for some students but as an IT teacher you should be able to do this.</div>
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<div>I have found that Silverlight is an exceent way to introduce students to programming as it works with images, can be placed on the internet and develops programming skills.</div>
<div>Games in education was big at the recent conference and i think this is a step along those lines. It can offer more in educational terms than simple point and click alternatives.</div>
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<div>Andrew Townsley</div>
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