Thanks, Jacob. It would be good to see other very different designs for the front page as well.
I think it's important to include easy ways to - search for help and info about OLPC/XO/Sugar [with links to Help activity?] - learn about python / smalltalk / C / source / programming in general - search the web [with options for diff. engines] - search the computer [for documents / metadata; with links to journal-search?] TiddlyWiki in my experience is easy to mess up and be unable to restore... are there solutions for this now? SJ On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Jacob Haddon <[email protected]> wrote: > I've set up a moc start page for the Browse activity. It seems that a great > opportunity is missed on the browse from page for helping provide information > to the students about their computer, about resources available to them, and > possible connections to the school server. > > My moc-up can be found here (this is for demonstration, layout and design > aspects can be changed and by that I mean improved) > > http://sixthcrusade.com/start.html > > The layout is pretty simple, using the YUI, i set up a few tabs with > information in each. The first is the standard 'start' page where the student > is going onto the net. Other tabs can be set up for specific subjects based > on the needs of the classroom or OLPC itself. > > For example, a tab just on the XO with links to the GPL, where to get the > code, etc, would help with one of the recent discussions on this list. There > could be links to Python information, tutorials, or even an entire tab on > Python. > > This set up will allow more robust information to get to the student beyond > the simple start page. Also this helps with the not-so-quite intuitive > bookmarks that browse currently offers. > > On a related note, TiddyWiki (http://tiddlywiki.com) now works in the Browse > activity. This too could be set up as the homepage, again with sections > pre-set up for use, but adding the ability for the student to add things to > it, such as a daily journal, or collections of links and such. > > Either the YUI example or the TiddlyWiki could be used, or both in some > combination (YUI as home page with link to the wiki) > > these are just my thoughts/suggestions. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
