On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Caroline Meeks <[email protected]> wrote: > Next week we plan on sending out another press release inviting people to > try the new Beta-1 Sugar on a Stick. > > We all know that your first few minutes with Sugar can be disorienting. > We'd love a 2-3 minute orientation video and wiki page. > > The goal is to give you the tools you need to feel confident exploring > Sugar. We could then do supplemental videos that go into more depth.
I'm planning to do that, but not within a week. I need to test my ideas before sending any of them out. The operative word for me is "explore". That is, I don't want to write a step-by-step guide. I want to invite people into the possibly scary world of trying something you don't understand to see how much of it you can discover. What size chunks should we invite people to try? How do we provide the information they will need if they get stuck without falling into spoilers? What is definitely not discoverable, and how and when should we introduce that? I don't want to say either too much or too little. What I really would like to do is to borrow a usability lab and get some novices to try an XO where we can record everything. I can make some calls next week. Does anybody in Cambridge have access to such facilities. Does the Media Lab have that kind of setup? > Would anyone like to grab this project? I'll get you an outline of a possible approach on Monday. I think. I'm generally on IRC. OLPC-Content seems to be the appropriate channel. I tend to keep programmer's hours, working late into the night. > -- > Caroline Meeks > Solution Grove > [email protected] > > 617-500-3488 - Office > 505-213-3268 - Fax > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. http://earthtreasury.org/worknet (Edward Mokurai Cherlin) _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
