Walter, I like the idea of writing to the Journal at any time. That should be useful. The big problem I have with the expanded entry is that there isn't anything in the design of the Journal UI to suggest that it is there. I have to wonder how many students actually know about it and how many use it.
I've been beating this dead horse for awhile, so one more time can't hurt: make the part of the Journal UI that deals with thumb drives and SD cards NOT look like Journal entries. Make these look like what they are: hierarchical file systems. I try to address both issues in the UI of my Sugar Commander Activity, and Aleksey's Library Activity had some nice features to make the expanded entries more visible, including a thumbs view. Sugar Commander was largely inspired by an Activity called Leer Pendrive created by someone from Plan Ceibal. All it did was let you select a file using the GTK file browser and copy it to the clipboard, from where it could be copied to the Journal. James Simmons > (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. > >
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