Ramp up or tutorial

[quozl]

A study found that the activity is rarely used to construct a working block set, so a ramp up or tutorial may be helpful for situations where no teacher or peer instruction is received.

S. Nogry & P. Varly (2018) Everyday Laptop Use by Children in a Southern
Country: A Mixed-Method Approach, Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 50:1, 18-33,
DOI: 10.1080/15391523.2017.1388200

[walterbender]

There are quite a few ramping docs in the wiki and many many ramping examples already bundled with the activity. Perhaps when we manage to migrate the wiki docs, they will be easier to access? Or perhaps some other approach to ramping is needed? The turtle art equivalent to the guide I wrote for the JavaScript version?

[quozl]

Yes, plenty of Wiki and examples already. The guide looks good. Research of Madagascar shows the ramping examples were not enough, and that embedding a tutorial into the activity may be better. Implode has an embedded tutorial.

[Dimi20cen]

Would adding a link for turtleart's wiki in the READEME be a step in the good direction?

[chimosky]

Would adding a link for turtleart's wiki in the READEME be a step in the good direction?

Not really as the README would most likely only be seen by developers but adding more examples to the samples in the activity is a great way to go.

And including some tutorial like in Implode activity as quozl has pointed out would be great.

[Dimi20cen]

Got it, will work on that, thanks

[GAMinsect]

@walterbender i think i can at least add a sample activity that uses the hollowline block.
Then I'll try and do a tutorial similar to what it is in implode, it will take a bit more time as I'm not familiar with Gtk.
If you have any usefull sources other than the doc, I'll apreciate.

[walterbender]

We have lots of "example" projects and (in the case of Music Blocks) we have lots of lesson plans. No need to invent a new one for hollow lines. Let's find a fun example and build from that.

[GAMinsect]

@walterbender ok will think of something.

Moreover, would you still want me to develop a implode like tutorial, or is this fun example just fine?

[walterbender]

An implode-like tutorial would be nice. I was suggesting we chose a fun example to base it on. Maybe "squiral"?

[GAMinsect]

@walterbender ok will try to do it

[GAMinsect]

A squiral is a square spiral right?

[walterbender]

https://github.com/sugarlabs/turtleart-activity/blob/master/samples/graphics-csquiral.ta

[walterbender]

There are also the "card" examples, which were meant to be used as a tutorial.

[GAMinsect]

Just to let you know, I'm working on it, and it should almost be done, but for this week I won't be able to code, so the contribution will be put on standby