Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] [Fwd: [K12OSN] TuxPaint 0.9.16 vs. KidPix a teachers perspective]

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Mark K. Kim skrev:
> On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 12:28:43PM -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote:
>   
>> On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 02:22:28PM -0500, Albert Cahalan wrote:
>>     
>>> Consider changing the background after something has been drawn.
>>> Go from white to black. How????
>>>       
>> Wow, I had never considered that.
>> Of course, I see it from this standpoint: why would you draw fish on
>> a reef, and then suddenly decide you want the skyline behind the fish...?
>>     
>
> Maybe it's a flyfish... =p
>
> I don't know.  Changing background seems reasonable enough thing to do.
> But I think Bill is concerned more about the complexity of the program
> getting too much for kids to handle easily, which I do agree with.
>   
I don't see a big reason to change the starter image. If you look at a 
old vacation images, it might look like changing the background is a big 
thing (mom and dad in front of famous building, mom and dad in front of 
famous bridge, ... ;-)
but when you create a picture, I don't think it is a normal action in 
most cases.

I think a more interesting feature would be to change which stamps are 
available, based on which starter image you choose. Underwater-image: 
fish, submarine, ... Street-picture: cars, people, bicycles, ...  
Space-picture:  ufo, astronaut, space ships, ...  Picture of your local 
school: teachers, pupils, ...

With such a feature, it would be possible to set up projects to work 
with themes, whitout your theme getting drowned among all the other 
stamps. For instance have a picture of your local park, and stamps with 
local flowers with a informative text description connected to them.

Kind regards,
Tore