Christian, What time would that be?
Gerald On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 12:34 AM, Christian Marc Schmidt < christianm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Gerald and Simon > > It would be great to debrief in detail on your findings from the tests. > Could we try to meet this Sunday (instead of Saturday), same time? > > Thanks, > > Christian > > On Mar 2, 2010, at 2:36 PM, Gerald Ardito <gma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Simon, > > I conducted the test we discussed with my 5th graders today. There were six > students involved in the focus group. > > First of all, they concurred with your results. They loved the feature of > being able to either Start New or Resume right from the Home View. As did > your students, mine remarked that it was way easier than going to the > Journal. They also mentioned that more often than not they are continuing > past work, as opposed to starting something new, so they found this feature > very valuable. > > The Naming alert (present in this build) was something they found in their > way. They are used to naming their work right from the activity, so this > seemed like an extra step to them. They are not used to making notes in the > Journal, so this feature didn't add much for them, although I certainly see > how it could be really useful. > > I hope this is helpful. > > Best, > Gerald > > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:05 AM, Simon Schampijer < <si...@schampijer.de> > 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> >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Deployments/Planetarium >> [2] <http://shell.sugarlabs.org/%7Eerikos/soas-design-test-DE.iso> >> http://shell.sugarlabs.org/~erikos/soas-design-test-DE.iso<http://shell.sugarlabs.org/%7Eerikos/soas-design-test-DE.iso> >> , >> <http://shell.sugarlabs.org/%7Eerikos/soas-design-test-EN.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>Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org >> <http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel> >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >> > >
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