Talk:Help Activity refresh/Chapter/TamTam

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Thanks for helping! Caryl

Great stuff Caryl. Just one mistake: it's "Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Si Do" ("Si" instead of "Ti"). Appears both in text and on the keyboard image. Lionel.

Thanks Lionel... as I mention in my text, "Ti" becomes "Si" in many countries. I used "Ti" because of the line in the "Do-Re-Mi" song in "Sound of Music" ... "Ti a drink that goes with jam and bread..." Also, my first users of the material were children in a rural elementary school in Montana. I hope folks will read the text that clarifies this! Maybe I should use italics or something?

Lionel In some countries like India we use "si" maybe a UK standard.
But yes "ti" made popular with the movie.
Don't know where my last paras went. will redo.

Caryl A few questions/comments:

1. Should we refer to this Tam Tam Suit as "Music composition and synthesis". Will help in searches.
2. Should we say which version of Tam Tam Eg currently we are on version 62
   (hopefully works OK with XO1 and XO 1.5)that we have in India.
3. Should we stick to the Tam Tam Suit sequence as in Sugar Labs? Especially since ref your manual we need to have Tam Tam Edit to be able to use any of the others.
4. Does this manual assume that we have some understanding of basic music terminology eg. Scales...not something on fish or something we use to measure/weigh things. :)
   Since these are wiki and print manuals maybe we can give a link to music terms like Scales. Major, Minor, octave, Treble., Bass etc

needs activity icon(s)

It turns out the icons on wiki.laptop.org are mostly named File:Activity-activityname.svg , in this case File:Activity-tamtammini.svg , similarly tamtamedit.svg, tamtamjam, tamtamsynthlab

• File:Activity-tamtammini.svg
• File:Activity-tamtamedit.svg
• File:Activity-tamtamjam.svg
• File:Activity-tamtamsynthlab.svg

These icons on w.l.o are old but like other activities the activity icons haven't changed for years.

Someone could make redirects if the naming ActivityName-icon.svg is really important.

-- skierpage 21:51, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

Starting TamTamMini is great but seems redundant

Starting TamTamMini gives instructions that will be the same for every activity, it seems it belongs in the chapter Launching Activities -- skierpage 23:08, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

Next Step

Caryl. I've done with what's up on the page and will email these suggestions.
A question I have is: Are you continuing with the rest of it like Introduction to the Drum Machine/Using the drum Machine and Chosing a DrumSet and settling the sliders.