On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonz...@laptop.org> wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 4:17 AM, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Alas, I will be somewhere over the Atlantic on Monday, but I wanted to >> plant some seeds for the discussion at the Design Team meeting. All of >> my proposed interventions are for the Journal. I've not written up >> formal proposals yet, but will if/when I get some traction. >> >> (1) Activity-specific metadata: (See >> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Datos_diario) The idea is to display >> activity-specific metadata in the expanded view of a Journal entry. >> The Learning Team has been working on categorizing the types of data >> they are interested in capturing. The goal is both to enhance >> self-reflection and teacher feedback and evaluation. The mechanism I >> mocked up in Turtle Art and in the Journal itself is quite simple. A >> metadata dictionary entry is used to specify any metadata fields that >> the activity would like displayed in a text box (in my mockup, this >> box is generated on demand and positioned just below the Tags box). >> Note that most of the data that the teachers are expressing interest >> in capturing are correlated with button presses, so it may be >> worthwhile considering a change to the toolkit as well, but that can >> be a decision made at a later time. > > +1 > >> >> (2) Audio tags: I don't have a mock up for this, but adding a simple >> mechanism for adding audio notes to Journal items has been something I >> have discussed with numerous teachers in the past. Lots of open >> questions here in terms of the UI: should the recording happen in the >> Journal or in Record? should multiple recordings be saved? append or >> overwrite? Any size limit? >> > > Mhh, not only in the UI. Audio notes are not search friendly, > and consume a lot of resources.
This is one reason I think we should put a severe restriction on the size. But there are lots of requests for such functionality. But not as pressing IMHO as the other features I have outlined. > > >> >> (3) Write to Journal any time: I'd like to assign a global keyboard >> shortcut (and claim the unused bulletin board key on the XO) to jump >> directly to the expanded entry for whatever activity is currently >> active. In addition, it would be worth considering a button on the >> activity toolbar (grabbing the space opened up by the removal of the >> Keep button). Rationale: make it easier to get to your "lab notebook" >> to make annotations relevant to your project. >> > > +1 > >> >> (4) Activity-specific folders mounted in the volumes toolbar: A simple >> way to handle the issue of activities that use clipart, sample >> code/projects, etc. We had discussed before the idea of loading these >> objects directly into the Journal, but this is IMHO too difficult to >> manage. By letting an activity specify a directory (or directories) to >> mount on the volumes toolbar would make it possible to use the Sugar >> Chooser to access activity-specific data. We could restrict it to >> subdirectories of the bundle path to maintain some level of security. >> We could also use it to share clipart among activities. >> > > +1 > > Would be good if we can have feedback about UI changes proposed to Journal > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Journal_NewUI > Martin Abente already worked in multiple file operations, a much requested > feature, > and the proposal want do the use of tags more useful. Should we not take all of these ideas and put them into the wiki under feature requests? http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features regards. -walter > > Gonzalo > > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel