I have forwarded this to the RIT team. We will create these reports this afternoon.
david On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 6:07 AM, Tomeu Vizoso<[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 02:28, Caroline Meeks<[email protected]> > wrote: >> Neither wind nor rain nor flaming emails will deter me from telling you >> about what happened with kids and Sugar today in Boston! You however are >> free to use your delete key at any time. >> Today, working with 6th grade students at the Museum of Science Computer >> Clubhouse I learned not to start a Sugar intro session with chat. It was >> hard for us to believe but the kids spent 3 hours really wanting to do >> nothing but use chat to talk to other kids in the same room!! We did get >> them to use other things but >> next time I will end with Chat, not start with it :) >> We used both Chat and Speak. Chat was more robust. >> I suggest that Speak be limited to about 4 participants. It seemed die a lot and if someone typed a lot of garbdy gook it would try to say it all and get behind. What do other people think of this idea? Should I ticket it? > > Think so, we have had some discussion lately about this. > >> I started the lesson by creating a chat, sharing it and showing the students >> how to join from their neighborhood. That worked fairly well. >> However, some of the students wanted to create a private chat. It could be >> done but it was very challenging workflow. The problem is if two kids >> decide they want to chat the natural thing for them to do is both goto Home >> and click on Chat and share that with the neighborhood. This results in two >> chats and much confusion. I don't know how to solve this, as I'm not gifted >> at UI design, but its clearly a problem. Perhaps when you start chat you >> have a UI inside of chat that lets you join other existing chats directly. > > Even if we have the discussion in the mailing list, would be nice to > have a ticket about this as well. > > Thanks! > > Tomeu > >> -- >> 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 >> > > > > -- > «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. > What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David > Farning > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
