At Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:17:15 -0400, Timothy Falconer wrote:
On Aug 8, 2009, at 4:45 PM, kharness@illinois.edu <kharness@illinois.edu
wrote:
Bert, Will the above 18 label carry connotations of the movie ratings: adult content? These ratings may not be in use world wide, I don't know. I think age is adding an unnecessary and complicating bit of information. Kathleen
I really do think "target age" is useful, particularly as we try to convince teachers to use Etoys in the classroom . . . any time we can save them as they look for relevant examples will help increase Etoys usage.
The usefulness of the target age is one thing, but pre-set list of ages is another. If you say, "8 to 12", or "9 to 11", it means different things from a region to another with different school systems. We can't dictate globally there, I think. And some put the target age based on the relevance with the school curriculum, but others put some other criteria. Some want to put the grade number but some want to put the age.
So, having the age part is ok but probably better to be a free-form field.
Just my $0.02.
-- Yoshiki