Works for me. Talk to you then. Gerald
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Christian Marc Schmidt < christianm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Does 10:30AM EST on Sunday work? > > Christian > > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Gerald Ardito <gma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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> > >> 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 > >> > > > > > > > > -- > anyth...@christianmarcschmidt.com > 917/ 575 0013 > > http://www.christianmarcschmidt.com > http://www.linkedin.com/in/christianmarcschmidt > http://twitter.com/cms_ >
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