Brainstorm and document lesson types that a system like Wikiotics might want to support

[garrison]

Right now, Wikiotics has three lesson types: choice, storybook, and podcast. However, over the years of talking to actual language teachers, we have encountered requests for various other types of lessons. It would be great to compile a list of these along with their desired features, which could be useful both to us (if this project is to continue) and to others working on projects with similar goals.

@wikey, since you spent much more time talking to actual language teachers, would you be up for drafting such a list? (or even responding here with comment(s) to get things started off)

[garrison]

One lesson type that keeps coming to mind for me is sentence diagramming. When Wikiotics was a wiki, I was unexcited about implementing this because I felt it would be difficult to make a GUI editor for sentence diagramming given our limited resources. But now that editing is beyond the scope of the project, this might actually be somewhat low hanging fruit. It does not require dealing with media elements (in its simplest form), and TOML might actually provide a decent way of storing a sentence diagram data structure. I'm sure there would still be a lot of details to figure out, though.

[wikey]

I think we had a reasonable list of basic types (especially if you include the different choice variants between what kind of media is the prompt and what are the choice options). The most common request I got was for the ability to define per-question answer options rather than re-using the correct answers from the other questions in a group. One easy example of this is with sentence completion or spelling where you might want to offer misspellings or completely unrelated words as options.

People also want to be able to talk into a microphone and have the computer tell them if they are saying a word correctly, but I'm sure that's a whole other bag of worms.