Basically, we need a Save as... functionality, not just a Save that overwrites the previous version and a clumsy Save on Exit where you have to go roundabout to start up again. All of this goes into [[The Undiscoverable]], and should be bugged.
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Caroline Meeks <carol...@solutiongrove.com> wrote: > Today we worked with two groups on multiplication. They made squares with > each side being a different multiplication problem that had the same answer. > http://screencast.com/t/sUbiof2H > We also had them reflect in their Journals about what they did. > All of this went well. > What was horrible was trying to get the right point in the project saved to > the Journal and then navigating to the correct place to write. > The solution I suggest is when you click the Keep button (Journal Icon) from > an activity that the Journal reflection dialog box appears. > Here are the problems we had. > > Hard to get to the Journal, no easy F# short cut. > Hard to find the little arrow that gets you to where you can write. > Especially since if the Frame is active, which it has to be to get to the > Journal, the little bitty arrow you need to click is covered. > When students did their assigned task they were eager to go back to > exploring with Sugar and wrote over their work without it being saved, or > using the same name as the assigned activity. This was probably the worst > outcome because then it was like they hadn't done the assignment, they had > nothing to show for their work and we'll want to use it later for a > portfolio. > clicking the Activity Tab to write down the name is a PITA (this one is > fixed in .88 I think). > After they reflected they wanted to immediately go back to exploring in TA > and we had to stop them, make them change the name again. They were very > perplexed by this because they didn't know what to name their new file > because they hadn't done anything yet. > The word "Description" is not very friendly. I like "What did you do?" > Walter wants to expand it even further, I'm not sure about that, its pretty > challenging for the students to type so I'm not sure we want more boxes. > Confusion between the Keep button and the samples and the snapshot icons. > No feedback when you click Keep so there is a tendency to click it > repeatedly. > > I usually try to stick with reporting my observations and not giving > specific usability advice but this time I really have an opinion. I think it > would be much much more useful to have the Keep button popup the Journal > Dialog box. That would let me reflect and also rename if I want to. > What are the downsides of this? > Thanks, > Caroline > -- > 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 > -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://earthtreasury.org/ _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep