Simon, This is really interesting. I look forward to whether my kids make the same connections when I test with them next week.
Gerald On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:05 AM, Simon Schampijer <si...@schampijer.de>wrote: > Hi, > > I did a little survey in the Planetarium pilot last week [1]. The > subject was "Start new" vs "Restart" in the home view. Christian did > provide a test case and I made a Soas version of Sugar that let's you > change the behavior with a button in the Home View [2]. > > While of course there were interesting observations to make about > starting activities one other user feedback caught my eye, too. There > was a question in the survey: The naming alert. > > A little background: When I started the pilot, stopping the activity was > a hard task for the learners. First you need to find the stop button, > then you had to dismiss the naming alert. I use the wording "dismiss" > because for new learners it does not make much sense, since they don't > understand the concept of the Journal etc yet. What I did was, I removed > the naming alert which improved temporarily somehow the situation. Since > I wanted the kids to take notes I introduced an workflow introduced by > the teacher. After each lesson (normally the kids work in one activity > in a lesson), I let them take notes in the Journal entry. This works > quite well and the kids like it a lot to do this. I tell them: "Describe > in your words what you did today." You can write there as well if you > did like it or not, or if it was hard task. And sometimes I give them a > few words that should be contained. Like "coordinating system" when i > did a lesson in Etoys on that. > > When doing the test the Naming Alert was present in the build. And the > testers said: "Oh, that is nice, so I do not have to search for the > Journal entry to take my notes." I asked them what does it look like and > they said: "A bit like the Journal." > > What I concluded is: For the workflow it is important to have a way to > directly take notes related to that activity you are doing at the > moment. I still think, that it would be better to have that option in > the activity toolbar, like discussed in the Design meetings. And I will > strike for getting this into 0.90 :) But I think, if the kids use the > Journal and take notes, the naming alert is not such a bad thing for 0.84. > > Thanks, > Simon > > [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Deployments/Planetarium > [2] > http://shell.sugarlabs.org/~erikos/soas-design-test-DE.iso<http://shell.sugarlabs.org/%7Eerikos/soas-design-test-DE.iso> > , > http://shell.sugarlabs.org/~erikos/soas-design-test-EN.iso<http://shell.sugarlabs.org/%7Eerikos/soas-design-test-EN.iso> > > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >
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