[sugar] Some feedback from your responses to: notes from the field - Mongolia

2008-10-14 Thread elana langer
Thanks for all these suggestions. This is helpful. In many cases the local team here came up with similar solutions to cope with the existing tech problems. (like saving to a USB etc.) Reuben and Tyler have been great at suggesting 'fixes' to those problems. What I am trying to offer the

Re: [sugar] journal is hard (was Re: notes from the field - Mongolia)

2008-10-14 Thread elana langer
PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 7:18 PM, elana langer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: basically when teachers and students try to find their work (write, record, etoys) in the journal it is hard for them to locate it - especially if it is more than a few days old. What I would love to read

Re: [sugar] sugar and the digital age (was Re: notes from the field - Mongolia)

2008-10-09 Thread elana langer
pretty intuitively) it would help bridge the gap to traditional expectations. el. On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 5:16 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Elana, On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 9:48 PM, elana langer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: d) Although I think building a tagging tool around kids

Re: [sugar] saving files (was Re: notes from the field - Mongolia)

2008-10-09 Thread elana langer
, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 5:20 PM, elana langer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) Can't save files - this should probably be the first item on my list. It drives teachers and students crazy. They make something in an application, take some pictures or write

Re: [sugar] journal is hard (was Re: notes from the field - Mongolia)

2008-10-09 Thread elana langer
at 5:07 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 5:20 PM, elana langer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3) Basically - The journal is really hard for people/ kids to use over a longer period of time. Kids and teachers can't find things that they did unless it was done

Re: [sugar] Slowness (was Re: notes from the field - Mongolia)

2008-10-09 Thread elana langer
to this list. Let me try to start the process of translating your experience to actionable items. On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 5:20 PM, elana langer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Computers are slow - So I was in a Ger in the west part of Mongolia and I thought I would show the computer to the family