Re: [Sugar-devel] Activity to improve collaboration in the classroom
Thanks James, I will look at this activity too. Gonzalo On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 6:21 PM, James Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote: Gonzalo, This sounds a bit like the Library Activity that Aleksey Lim worked on: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4089 The sharing part was supposed to be something like you would create a list of Journal entries that you wished to share (something like a bookshelf), and these entries would be available for download by anyone you had shared the list with. This functionality was supposed to be part of version 2 which never got written. James Simmons On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.orgwrote: A few times, we found simple operations are not so simple for teachers in Sugar, one case is share one file with all the kids in a class, request a task to do and later get all the work done by the kids. I am working in one activity to try to solve this issue, I want share a prototype, and a few ideas around this issue. JournalShare [1] allow select a number of items in the Journal and after collaboration is established, download the files. Pending is the implementation of transference of files in the opposed direction. Right now, display only the favorite items in the journal, like Portfolio, but probably will allow select individual items or use tags to search. I used webkit to display the UI and a simple server to provide the data in JSON format. javascript in the client creates the UI. Using HTML and CSS allow fast and easy formating. Right now, the format is ugly, but will be improved later. I think we can improve this to allow adding comments or other social features, like walter proposed webservices plugins do. Other reason to use a web interface and not do the client with gtk, is allow easy migration to other future environments or allow run this in the schoolserver to access the backedup journal items. The most important thing right now is implement the transference from the client to the server, and test if can scale to have a entire class working together. Download a file is implemented with the downloadmanager from Browse, but for any reason does not show the alert when the download start but at the end, (probably gtk is blocking the thread or similar), is something to solve. I stolen code from other activities, like Portfolio, Read and the original JournalShare from Agustin. To all the developers, thanks :) Comments, ideas, bugs or patches are welcomed. Gonzalo [1] http://dev.laptop.org/~gonzalo/activities/JournalShare-1.xo ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] Activity to improve collaboration in the classroom
A few times, we found simple operations are not so simple for teachers in Sugar, one case is share one file with all the kids in a class, request a task to do and later get all the work done by the kids. I am working in one activity to try to solve this issue, I want share a prototype, and a few ideas around this issue. JournalShare [1] allow select a number of items in the Journal and after collaboration is established, download the files. Pending is the implementation of transference of files in the opposed direction. Right now, display only the favorite items in the journal, like Portfolio, but probably will allow select individual items or use tags to search. I used webkit to display the UI and a simple server to provide the data in JSON format. javascript in the client creates the UI. Using HTML and CSS allow fast and easy formating. Right now, the format is ugly, but will be improved later. I think we can improve this to allow adding comments or other social features, like walter proposed webservices plugins do. Other reason to use a web interface and not do the client with gtk, is allow easy migration to other future environments or allow run this in the schoolserver to access the backedup journal items. The most important thing right now is implement the transference from the client to the server, and test if can scale to have a entire class working together. Download a file is implemented with the downloadmanager from Browse, but for any reason does not show the alert when the download start but at the end, (probably gtk is blocking the thread or similar), is something to solve. I stolen code from other activities, like Portfolio, Read and the original JournalShare from Agustin. To all the developers, thanks :) Comments, ideas, bugs or patches are welcomed. Gonzalo [1] http://dev.laptop.org/~gonzalo/activities/JournalShare-1.xo ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Activity to improve collaboration in the classroom
Gonzalo, This sounds a bit like the Library Activity that Aleksey Lim worked on: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4089 The sharing part was supposed to be something like you would create a list of Journal entries that you wished to share (something like a bookshelf), and these entries would be available for download by anyone you had shared the list with. This functionality was supposed to be part of version 2 which never got written. James Simmons On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: A few times, we found simple operations are not so simple for teachers in Sugar, one case is share one file with all the kids in a class, request a task to do and later get all the work done by the kids. I am working in one activity to try to solve this issue, I want share a prototype, and a few ideas around this issue. JournalShare [1] allow select a number of items in the Journal and after collaboration is established, download the files. Pending is the implementation of transference of files in the opposed direction. Right now, display only the favorite items in the journal, like Portfolio, but probably will allow select individual items or use tags to search. I used webkit to display the UI and a simple server to provide the data in JSON format. javascript in the client creates the UI. Using HTML and CSS allow fast and easy formating. Right now, the format is ugly, but will be improved later. I think we can improve this to allow adding comments or other social features, like walter proposed webservices plugins do. Other reason to use a web interface and not do the client with gtk, is allow easy migration to other future environments or allow run this in the schoolserver to access the backedup journal items. The most important thing right now is implement the transference from the client to the server, and test if can scale to have a entire class working together. Download a file is implemented with the downloadmanager from Browse, but for any reason does not show the alert when the download start but at the end, (probably gtk is blocking the thread or similar), is something to solve. I stolen code from other activities, like Portfolio, Read and the original JournalShare from Agustin. To all the developers, thanks :) Comments, ideas, bugs or patches are welcomed. Gonzalo [1] http://dev.laptop.org/~gonzalo/activities/JournalShare-1.xo ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
