On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Caroline Meeks<carol...@solutiongrove.com> wrote: > 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.
The chain of problems in introducing collaboration are described on the page [[The undiscoverable]]. My conclusion is that collaboration has to be taught carefully, step by step, and not all at once. I don't know which are the best activities for doing this. I need to know what others think. More comments and data, please, either on the main page or the talk page. > -- > Caroline Meeks > Solution Grove > carol...@solutiongrove.com > > 617-500-3488 - Office > 505-213-3268 - Fax > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. http://earthtreasury.org/worknet (Edward Mokurai Cherlin) _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep