"schoolsplay" is a new
project based on childsplay
and it will become a program that offers various educational activities and
the "fun and games" activities currently found in childsplay.
Schoolsplay tries to address the design problems in
childsplay by using a more object oriented (OO) design.
This will make schoolsplay more robust and scalable as
well as allow for easier customization by the user.
In addition to the design considerations schoolsplay will also
add extensive data collecting, per user, to the various activities.
The database used to store this data can be any SQL based database
as schoolsplay support all the major databases like SQLite, Postgres,
MySQL, and Oracle.
Because the two kind of activities needed a different GUI it was decided to
split the activities in two packages.
The two packages are named Schoolsplay and Childsplay_sp.
Childsplay_sp:
This is the program which was released in the past as 'schoolsplay' and it
has a number of the childsplay games. This program will eventually get all the games currently found in the 'old' childsplay.
The '_sp' suffix is added to differentiate between this childsplay
version and the old childsplay program.
The package is available for download through the download section.
Cognitionplay:
This is a variant of Childsplay_sp but tailored
to be used in a hospital to treat patients with mental diseases.
The differences is mainly in the selection of activities, looks
and sounds.
The patients would be older or elderly people so the look and feel is
less 'childish' than in Childsplay_sp. The development of this
variant is done in cooperation with a therapist from a Austrian clinic.
The package is available for download through the download section.
Schoolsplay:
This version uses GTK as it's graphical frontend and is developed to run on the
OLPC XO laptop.
It will contain many activities that are suitable to be used in classrooms and
will provide extensive data collecting and a multiuser environment with passwords.
The target is the XO laptop but it will also run on any Python supported platform.
The reason for targeting the XO laptop is that the OLPC project donated a laptop
to develop an educational program like schoolsplay.
More information and XO packages can be found at the OLPC schoolsplay page.
Finally I would like to point out that everything in the schoolsplay
project is licensed under the
See the sourceforge project page for additional
information and contact info.
