On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/7/14 Kim Quirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> 3 - Encourage schools to completely reflash (cleaninstall) their laptops >> each year. At the end of the school year, you save away kids data (hopefully >> that is done automatically) and you do a cleaninstall of the next year's >> image; retest all the latest versions of Activities that you want to use; >> and provide 'clean' laptops to the kids at the start of the next school >> year. > > I think this would be a real shame, honestly. It completely tosses out > the benefits of the Journal as a structure for ones interactions and > created objects. It means I can't incorporate photos that I took over > the summer, or last year, into a story I wrote (for instance, even a > "what I did this summer" essay that we've all written at least once). > It means I can't go back and look at some math homework I did to > refresh myself on how a particular algorithm works. It means I can't > create a new etoys project from an experiment I made last year but > didn't have time to continue. It means that I lose references to all > the friends/groups I've made. It means that my computer is reset to > factory state and I have to change my personal preferences all over > again.
What if the web interface to the backups in the school server is as good or better than the local journal? Does it change any bit this issue? Regards, Tomeu _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
