I have to agree with Martin and Yama, here. Speaking for teachers working with students, the extra work to download the extra activities desired for over a hundred flash drives would be daunting at best.
Gerald On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Yamandu Ploskonka <yamap...@gmail.com>wrote: > Totally 120% with Martin here. I am completely unhappy with the > usability of the concept of "download your own activities" for the total > n00b. 20? > Maybe as an option a stripped-down somewhere for power users who really > want to do what is proposed. > > (I seem to recall there was a request for discussing this elsewhere, but > I don't remember and erased the original email, so my apologies) > > Martin Langhoff wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Mel Chua <m...@melchua.com> wrote: > > > >> The short version is that instead of "include all Activites by default," > >> we're thinking of shipping very few (6) Activities by default - the ones > >> that help users get further Activities and help > >> > > > > I read Sebastian's post... and is less drastic than that. He seems to > > say: include only the well tested, known to work, actively maintained > > activities, with an eye towards activitries that serve as a good intro > > to the platform and that demo well. > > > > But you say only 6... Which one is it? > > > > The initial proposal I like; makes a lot of sense and raises the bar. > > IT basically increases the chances of a satisfactory first use. > > > > Six activities not so much -- you need many steps + internet to add > > activities... and it'll be "random activity from ASLO, may well be > > unstable or useless". It significantly _reduces_ chances of > > satisfaction. > > > > All IMHO... > > > > > > m > > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >
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