[IAEP] *Sugar Onboard: After user testing*
Hi, Sam Your experience matches mine with 'homeview' (see http://www.projectbernie.org - class page). I attempted to guide learners in the use of several activities with a slide show featuring a screen shot on each slide. One example is Paint. I quickly found that the slides needed a 'hook', a way to grab attention to keep the learner moving to the next slide (slides move with right/left arrow). I started with a screen shot of the first screen - a blank screen with no image! On Youtube, there are many videos showing a user working through a scenario with an application. I find them difficult because the user moves too fast to follow. Your suggestion of a walk-through on the XO with the user moving and clicking based on 'hints' on the screen seems very workable. However, I could see some learners becoming impatient and wanting to explore on their own. So far, the only thing that has worked is a workshop where I personally walk the teachers through the steps to perform a specific task (e.g. connect to the schoolserver). This usually involves walking through the group with an XO saying 'your screen should look like this'. Tony ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] use of XOs
Hi On 24 April 2016 at 21:44, Tony Andersonwrote: > The strategic need is to establish direct communication with folks at > these deployments to get first-hand information. This direct communication > can put the community in direct contact with the user community and help us > provide more relevant capabilities. > > I think this is going to be a deployment-by-deployment process. > I agree > [deployment ideas] > I added them to the Local Labs Contact page > The webpage is a good start ( > https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Local_Labs/Contacts). However, it is > connected to the local labs program. You may want to find out from Walter > about its current status. The idea died aborning because under our > agreement with the Conservancy, Sugar Labs was not permitted to establish > subsidiary groups. So I think the wiki effort should be independent of that > initiative. The Conservancy position sort of makes sense, but I understood that a "Local Lab" is just what Sugar Labs calls a user community, the same thing that OLPC called a "deployment" (which I think is a poor marketing term, since it has US-imperial/military overtones.) > We also need a format where we can gather significant information - > perhaps a link from this page to a page per deployment. Right; the https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Local_Labs page has a directory like that. > The key in each case is to have a local contact (e.g. email address) where > we can get direct answers to questions as they come up and propose > capabilities which may be of help. Right; that's what I want to tabulate on the Contact page. > The questions we need answered go far beyond whether XOs are used inside a > classroom or elsewhere. For example, if users are allowed to take laptops > away from the institution, what has been the impact on wear and tare. If > users 'own' the laptop; how does the institution replace them for incoming > students. > How has the Uruguay Plan Ceibal impacted learning in later grades - e.g. > in readiness to use computers effectively in secondary school learning. The > list could go on. All good ideas, I put them into https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Local_Labs_Survey_2016 :) -- Cheers Dave ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] use of XOs
Hi, Dave On 04/25/2016 09:17 AM, Dave Crossland wrote: Hi Tony Would you be willing to post this wonderful email to the group thread? :) On 24 April 2016 at 21:11, Tony Anderson> wrote: Hi, Dave I hope you can continue your quest for information on how XOs are used in deployments. (edited) The strategic need is to establish direct communication with folks at these deployments to get first-hand information. This direct communication can put the community in direct contact with the user community and help us provide more relevant capabilities. I think this is going to be a deployment-by-deployment process. I received this in a communication from Anish Mangal: If the issue is about XO's then perhaps contacting Prof. Nagarjuna and Rafikh from TIFR, Bombay might yield something, as they have a deployment in the city and another near it. And this you may remember from Walter: I know nothing about G1G1 Round Two but the laptops from the first round went to many more places than just Mongolia. For example, it was from that program that the first batch of laptops went to Caacupé in Paraguay, a program that continues to be robust today. Caryl Bigenho has supported a deployment at a shelter in Los Angeles where the residents are not allowed access to the internet. I haven't heard much on this recently. The webpage is a good start (https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Local_Labs/Contacts). However, it is connected to the local labs program. You may want to find out from Walter about its current status. The idea died aborning because under our agreement with the Conservancy, Sugar Labs was not permitted to establish subsidiary groups. So I think the wiki effort should be independent of that initiative. We also need a format where we can gather significant information - perhaps a link from this page to a page per deployment. The key in each case is to have a local contact (e.g. email address) where we can get direct answers to questions as they come up and propose capabilities which may be of help. The questions we need answered go far beyond whether XOs are used inside a classroom or elsewhere. For example, if users are allowed to take laptops away from the institution, what has been the impact on wear and tare. If users 'own' the laptop; how does the institution replace them for incoming students. How has the Uruguay Plan Ceibal impacted learning in later grades - e.g. in readiness to use computers effectively in secondary school learning. The list could go on. Tony Tony -- Cheers Dave ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] 2015 SocialHelp Survey?
On 24 April 2016 at 17:59, Sam Parkinsonwrote: > You might be interested in this blog post that I wrote on the subject: > https://www.sam.today/blog/sugar-onboard-user-testing.html > AWESOME! :D Here's the full text, I think everyone should read it :D *Sugar Onboard: After user testing* By Sam P., 25 April 2016 Software is only as good as it is discoverable. When you put Sugar in front of a new user, some will take to it and others will not. However, some of the parts of Sugar are not discoverable, for example, invoking the frame. [A selection of the screenshots displayed] To try to fix this, I designed and coded up Sugar Onboard https://www.sam.today/blog/sugar-onboard-design.html It was implemented in the "onboard" branches of my sugar, sugar-toolkit-gtk3 and sugar-artwork git repos. I then sat down with people and watched as they used it. I tasked by test subjects to open and move between 2 activities running at the same time - something which happens via the frame. I also observed the way that they interacted with the software. I worked with 5 testers ( http://opensource-usability.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/how-many-testers-do-you-need.html) all of whom where school age (Aust years 7-10) and how were very familiar with traditional computers. It didn't help. Not only did my thing not help people find the frame (or anything else), the added popups actually annoyed them. They didn't want to read the text and they didn't find it helpful. Even with pictures, some instructions where confusing for them. Really, it wasted their time. So what would I do in the future? I would force them to read and interact with the frame. My design was too big, it added to much. Too much of the content was irrelevant, so people very quickly learnt to ignore it. I needed to choose 1 thing, and be forceful and evil to teach them it. That should have been forcefully teaching them to activate the frame, and activate palettes. I also had some big takeaways about the palette system. The tooltip part of the palette system is great. Users find it very intuitive how fast the tooltips activate. They also seem to intrinsically know that there should be more there; they move their mouse over tooltips waiting for the secondary popdown. However this is the issue that they had with the palettes, the secondary popdown is too slow. In the time between the primary and secondary popdown, the users had mostly become confused and moved away. Maybe we could unify these popdowns and just always show the full palette? Usability testing was the most fun thing to do. I need to make more friends so that I can do more of it. I learnt so much. You should give it a go too! > the secondary popdown is too slow ... Maybe we could unify these popdowns and just always show the full palette? I agree 100% with this. As I understand it, making such a change has a 3 step process: writing a "design doc" to propose such a change, then consensus that the design is an improvement (although who must make up the consensus, I'm not sure), and then a pull request. Is that right? ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] 2015 SocialHelp Survey?
On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 5:17 AM, Dave Crosslandwrote: Hi Sam! On 23 April 2016 at 00:45, Sam Parkinson wrote: I'm no longer afk. I have collated the results into the attached spreedsheet. Previously, I also wrote up an analysis of the results. It is also attached. Awesome!! I uploaded the files to the wiki and added them to the https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team page For me the Pain Points and Important Features sections were very interesting! Thanks for putting this together!! :D You proposed 3 Major Takeaways: Users do not understand the design patterns in Sugar. This was signalled through two methods. Firstly, users prioritised a tour or explanation as an important feature. Secondly, users expressed confusion with the interface and frame. I agree, a tour would be a great activity. When I purchased a new XO-1 in 2007 and a new XO-4 this year, it came with a little printed leaflet with some basics; and I think there is an assumption that the UI is discoverable by kids if they have unrestricted free time to play and explore it. However I haven't seen any UX-study-style testing of this assumption. You might be interested in this blog post that I wrote on the subject: https://www.sam.today/blog/sugar-onboard-user-testing.html https://turtle.sugarlabs.org has a welcome tour. Can something like that be done with PyGTK3? Developer and deployers have differing opinions compared to students and teachers; eg. reducing Journal clutter is significantly more popular with developers and deployers than with students and educators. That's interesting! I wonder if students/educators work around journal clutter, or if they don't consider it to be cluttered at all. Which deployments can we ask about this? The most important features to the Sugar community are Browse activity, the Journal and Turtle Blocks. These are closely followed by Write activity, Collaboration, the Terminal and the Sugar style design. I see that none of these are in the top 20 on http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/browse/type:1/cat:all?sort=popular I can see how Browse is the most important activity for people who can be online to take the survey... for deployments without effective internet access, I wonder if that is still the case. Cheers Dave ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Is "Most Sugar Users Use XO Laptops" True?
El 24/04/16 a las 08:12, Dave Crossland escribió: > Is anyone in touch with people in Peru Sugar Network data should more or less represent Peru. It strongly suggests usage is primarily in School, during schooltime/. /This is for XO laptops /with Internet/ and /updated with Hexoquinasa (distributed by the Peruvian Ministry of Education since 2012)./ // http://jita.sugarlabs.org/node.sugarlabs.org/ Any other insights are welcome. Thanks, Sebastian ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Is "Most Sugar Users Use XO Laptops" True?
+support-gang (where the Unleash Kids community support volunteer collaborative originated, for many similar reasons as outlined below -- community support was never taken terribly seriously within uppercase OLPC -- to make an obscenely long, painful and sometimes unprintable story very succinct ;-) On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Adam Holtwrote: > On Apr 24, 2016 1:18 AM, wrote: > >> Does anyone disagree with the assertion that "most Sugar use is in a >>> school/classroom setting"? >>> >> >> Hi >> >> The two largest OLPC deployments, Peru and Uruguay account for 50% of XO >> laptops. >> >> Peru, 60% of use was in school [1] >> Uruguay home use > school use [2] >> >> Uruguay was 100% take home, Peru had a mixed take home policy. >> >> It is not clear what happened in the remaining 50% of deployments. >> >> These statistics are 4-6 years old. It is not clear how the usage changes >> as XO's have got older. They are presumably perceived to be less valuable. >> This could relax take home policies, it probably tends to lower school and >> home use. >> >> So I disagree with the assertion that "most Sugar use is in a >> school/classroom setting". I think its too close to call. Home and school >> use are roughly equal. >> > > Huge thanks Tony Forster highlighting those 2 critical data points, > surrounding initial Peru/Uruguay uses in the years after XO acquisition. > > There are more than a few flies in the "One Laptop Per Child" ointment > both those well-known, and more we're learning from every day. I know of > more than a few schools (which do not want to be named, in the name of > self-preservation) where, to oversimplify the numbers: 100 XO laptops > arrived, of which 90 were used for 100 hours each, and the remaining 10 > laptops were used for 1000 hours each -- roughly speaking a common outline > is: > >- 9,000 hours of XO/Sugar use, by 100s of students broadly, back in >the day >- 10,000 hours of XO/Sugar use, by a few elite IT/Sugar/community >gurus, ongoing today, the best of which are giving back to their >communities in powerful ways > > These are arbitrary numbers to illustrate the larger common pattern, and > not to embarrass specific schools which do not want to be named. The lack > of structured project ideas / professional development of teachers / > culturally relevant content/pedagogy needs to be addressed at some other > time, among other fundamental reasons that many XO/Sugar dreams gathered > dust. > > But back to the original question, if (as Tony Forster and I suspect) > most-if-not-much-all Sugar use is happening outside of class time in 2016 > -- starting many years back now: how can we now get a better grip on these > very real, evolving, important extracurricular -> personal patterns? > Moving beyond glory days anecdotalism? Where do we have a moral > responsibility to move beyond our Negroponte founders' days "don't measure > it, just do it" idealism? Where have we unintentionally expanded > male/female rich/poor digital divides, as several OLPC communities > privately ask me to keep quiet about? When Silicon Valley companies now > publish gender/race stats routinely, to expose accidental/unconscious > injustices, how do we too learn to look in our own mirror? > > Half a decade later, we can collect as many anecdotes as we want, let's > jeep at it keeping our blogs fired up before the clock runs out. But > before the clock runs out, we require professional sociologists too, if we > are halfway serious about our Environmental Impact at all, and moving > beyond statistics that can easily made to lie for any fundraiser. Many > people ask me very pointedly -- are we across the OLPC/Sugar legacy a > listening organization, or is there a core tone-deaf MIT dream unwilling to > self-assess, needing a firm kick in the rear-end like even George Bush gave > to Donald Rumsfeld, to finally force an existential assessment of our > purpose? The bare minimum groundtruthing being serious amateurs like > Christoph Derndorfer, Tony Anderson and Morgan Ames etc who chose to put > their life in the village, stepping outside of the Jeep, to spend Many > Weeks Each in a broad diversity of communities -- Rwanda, Uruguay, Peru for > sure -- and many others too thankfully. > > Who today will follow in their footsteps spending weeks and months in > community, in listening mode, challenging their own assumptions, bridging > the various self-serving post/neo-colonial narratives? How do we help our > new generation find heartfelt diaspora families, willing to struggle for > progressive truths/opportunities beyond the happy-happy-joy-joy > founding/fundraising narratives? How do we help the embedded visitor speak > the local/indigenous language enough to get inside heads and then beyond > the founding days' multi-stakeholder mythologies, as new generations of > kids/siblings have come AND gone? What humility does the embedded
Re: [IAEP] Is "Most Sugar Users Use XO Laptops" True?
On Apr 24, 2016 1:18 AM,wrote: > Does anyone disagree with the assertion that "most Sugar use is in a >> school/classroom setting"? >> > > Hi > > The two largest OLPC deployments, Peru and Uruguay account for 50% of XO > laptops. > > Peru, 60% of use was in school [1] > Uruguay home use > school use [2] > > Uruguay was 100% take home, Peru had a mixed take home policy. > > It is not clear what happened in the remaining 50% of deployments. > > These statistics are 4-6 years old. It is not clear how the usage changes > as XO's have got older. They are presumably perceived to be less valuable. > This could relax take home policies, it probably tends to lower school and > home use. > > So I disagree with the assertion that "most Sugar use is in a > school/classroom setting". I think its too close to call. Home and school > use are roughly equal. > Huge thanks Tony Forster highlighting those 2 critical data points, surrounding initial Peru/Uruguay uses in the years after XO acquisition. There are more than a few flies in the "One Laptop Per Child" ointment both those well-known, and more we're learning from every day. I know of more than a few schools (which do not want to be named, in the name of self-preservation) where, to oversimplify the numbers: 100 XO laptops arrived, of which 90 were used for 100 hours each, and the remaining 10 laptops were used for 1000 hours each -- roughly speaking a common outline is: - 9,000 hours of XO/Sugar use, by 100s of students broadly, back in the day - 10,000 hours of XO/Sugar use, by a few elite IT/Sugar/community gurus, ongoing today, the best of which are giving back to their communities in powerful ways These are arbitrary numbers to illustrate the larger common pattern, and not to embarrass specific schools which do not want to be named. The lack of structured project ideas / professional development of teachers / culturally relevant content/pedagogy needs to be addressed at some other time, among other fundamental reasons that many XO/Sugar dreams gathered dust. But back to the original question, if (as Tony Forster and I suspect) most-if-not-much-all Sugar use is happening outside of class time in 2016 -- starting many years back now: how can we now get a better grip on these very real, evolving, important extracurricular -> personal patterns? Moving beyond glory days anecdotalism? Where do we have a moral responsibility to move beyond our Negroponte founders' days "don't measure it, just do it" idealism? Where have we unintentionally expanded male/female rich/poor digital divides, as several OLPC communities privately ask me to keep quiet about? When Silicon Valley companies now publish gender/race stats routinely, to expose accidental/unconscious injustices, how do we too learn to look in our own mirror? Half a decade later, we can collect as many anecdotes as we want, let's jeep at it keeping our blogs fired up before the clock runs out. But before the clock runs out, we require professional sociologists too, if we are halfway serious about our Environmental Impact at all, and moving beyond statistics that can easily made to lie for any fundraiser. Many people ask me very pointedly -- are we across the OLPC/Sugar legacy a listening organization, or is there a core tone-deaf MIT dream unwilling to self-assess, needing a firm kick in the rear-end like even George Bush gave to Donald Rumsfeld, to finally force an existential assessment of our purpose? The bare minimum groundtruthing being serious amateurs like Christoph Derndorfer, Tony Anderson and Morgan Ames etc who chose to put their life in the village, stepping outside of the Jeep, to spend Many Weeks Each in a broad diversity of communities -- Rwanda, Uruguay, Peru for sure -- and many others too thankfully. Who today will follow in their footsteps spending weeks and months in community, in listening mode, challenging their own assumptions, bridging the various self-serving post/neo-colonial narratives? How do we help our new generation find heartfelt diaspora families, willing to struggle for progressive truths/opportunities beyond the happy-happy-joy-joy founding/fundraising narratives? How do we help the embedded visitor speak the local/indigenous language enough to get inside heads and then beyond the founding days' multi-stakeholder mythologies, as new generations of kids/siblings have come AND gone? What humility does the embedded visitor need to bring to scratch below the surface building confidences among several Confederates in the grassroots community, exposing Actual (post)Implementation Challenges -- even if Not All Are Printable? What Wayan Vota's (detached from the founders) will fund the Christoph Derndorfers of our time over the coming decade, getting to the core spiritual truths of what we have and have not accomplished? How do we cultivate dry-by voluntourist visitors ethics to develop loyalty with the community's
Re: [IAEP] Is "Most Sugar Users Use XO Laptops" True?
Hi José! I hope you could join this discussion thread :) I'm curious about your perspective from Uruguay on the following questions :) Are most Sugar users are using XO laptops? Is most Sugar use is in a school/classroom setting, or by the child in their free time at home? Also, I read in https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Jmgarcia that you wrote > For Sugar you should not be limited to a computer model I'm curious if you know of any user communities that are using Sugar on non-XO computers, and if so, what models they were/are using? :) Cheers Dave On 24 April 2016 at 04:18,wrote: > Does anyone disagree with the assertion that "most Sugar use is in a >> school/classroom setting"? >> > > Hi > > The two largest OLPC deployments, Peru and Uruguay account for 50% of XO > laptops. > > Peru, 60% of use was in school [1] > Uruguay home use > school use [2] > > Uruguay was 100% take home, Peru had a mixed take home policy. > > It is not clear what happened in the remaining 50% of deployments. > > These statistics are 4-6 years old. It is not clear how the usage changes > as XO's have got older. They are presumably perceived to be less valuable. > This could relax take home policies, it probably tends to lower school and > home use. > > So I disagree with the assertion that "most Sugar use is in a > school/classroom setting". I think its too close to call. Home and school > use are roughly equal. > > Tony > > > > [1]Frequency: sessions in last week By place % at school > Table 9 Technology and Child Development: Evidence from the One Laptop > per Child Program , IADB Feb 2012 > > [2]"Children reportedly use the XO's about an 1 to 1.5 hours per day at > home...The XO's are not used as much in schools" > http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/uruguay/plan_ceibal_a_better_designed.htm > May 2010 > > > > > > ___ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Cheers Dave ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Is "Most Sugar Users Use XO Laptops" True?
Ask SLOB board member José Miguel García. He is Uruguayian, Caryl Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 24, 2016, at 6:13 AM, Dave Crosslandwrote: > > Hi Tony > > This is great! > >> On 24 April 2016 at 04:18, wrote: >> It is not clear how the usage changes as XO's have got older > > Is anyone in touch with people in Peru and Uruguay who would know what XO > usage is like today? :) > > Cheers > Dave > ___ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Is "Most Sugar Users Use XO Laptops" True?
Hi Tony This is great! On 24 April 2016 at 04:18,wrote: > It is not clear how the usage changes as XO's have got older Is anyone in touch with people in Peru and Uruguay who would know what XO usage is like today? :) Cheers Dave ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Is "Most Sugar Users Use XO Laptops" True?
Does anyone disagree with the assertion that "most Sugar use is in a school/classroom setting"? Hi The two largest OLPC deployments, Peru and Uruguay account for 50% of XO laptops. Peru, 60% of use was in school [1] Uruguay home use > school use [2] Uruguay was 100% take home, Peru had a mixed take home policy. It is not clear what happened in the remaining 50% of deployments. These statistics are 4-6 years old. It is not clear how the usage changes as XO's have got older. They are presumably perceived to be less valuable. This could relax take home policies, it probably tends to lower school and home use. So I disagree with the assertion that "most Sugar use is in a school/classroom setting". I think its too close to call. Home and school use are roughly equal. Tony [1]Frequency: sessions in last week By place % at school Table 9 Technology and Child Development: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program , IADB Feb 2012 [2]"Children reportedly use the XO's about an 1 to 1.5 hours per day at home...The XO's are not used as much in schools" http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/uruguay/plan_ceibal_a_better_designed.htm May 2010 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep