Neither wind nor rain nor flaming emails will deter me from telling you about what happened with kids and Sugar today in Boston! You however are free to use your delete key at any time. Today, working with 6th grade students at the Museum of Science Computer Clubhouse I learned not to start a Sugar intro session with chat. It was hard for us to believe but the kids spent 3 hours really wanting to do nothing but use chat to talk to other kids in the same room!! We did get them to use other things but next time I will end with Chat, not start with it :)
We used both Chat and Speak. Chat was more robust. I suggest that Speak be limited to about 4 participants. It seemed die a lot and if someone typed a lot of garbdy gook it would try to say it all and get behind. What do other people think of this idea? Should I ticket it? I started the lesson by creating a chat, sharing it and showing the students how to join from their neighborhood. That worked fairly well. However, some of the students wanted to create a private chat. It could be done but it was very challenging workflow. The problem is if two kids decide they want to chat the natural thing for them to do is both goto Home and click on Chat and share that with the neighborhood. This results in two chats and much confusion. I don't know how to solve this, as I'm not gifted at UI design, but its clearly a problem. Perhaps when you start chat you have a UI inside of chat that lets you join other existing chats directly. -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax
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