Whoa. I am humbled. Greg, your notes give me a new standard to reach for. > Send me your questions. What do you want to know about the SW and how > its used by kids?
I'm intrigued by the process of how the kids learn how to save and retrieve files, and what they think of that interaction flow. (This may be biased by prior Windows experience, though.) I loved your documentation of the workflows. I wonder if it might be worth doing some paper prototyping with the kids at the end of the summer, walking through some of the workflows you're noticing now, to see if they come up with interesting design tweaks. > This is our chance to test assumptions and get direct feedback with > minimal cultural dissonance. I'll make observations and/or ask > questions of the kids, if you can identify a UI element or task that > you want input on. My main question: How rapidly can a teacher with no Sugar experience review the work of a student (by looking at his/her Journal)? What tools do they use to record this feedback, if any (and how could we make it easier for them, maybe with Moodle on the XS)? I'm curious about the reactions of the classroom teachers, too. Two idle thoughts of much less importance: You noted that some kids saw the Speak icon and immediately said they could make the computer talk (without even running the program) - I wonder whether other icons pass the same test. What can they guess about the meaning/functionality of each icon? (I'm betting, for instance, that nobody will figure out the IRC Activity...) Second idle thought: I'm not sure if this is already part of the game plan with an XS coming in, but I would love to be able to see example of the work the kids are doing (can they post them on Moodle in such a way that we can see and comment on them? Perhaps with names removed? would this cause privacy issues?) - even some of the early TurtleArt experiments on Tuesday produced nifty spirograph-looking things, and it sounds like Paint and Memorize stuff was just as impressive (and probably easier to comment on, in the case of Paint). --Mel _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep