Re: journal is hard (was Re: notes from the field - Mongolia)

2008-10-12 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 1:40 PM, elana langer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > file artifacts in the journal--the process went something like > this-insert a flash drive to the xo that has a lot of files on it from > windows computer, they show up in journal, remove flash drive, erase > many of the fil

Re: journal is hard (was Re: notes from the field - Mongolia)

2008-10-12 Thread elana langer
Here are some notes from Cris Anderson, one of my interns this summer who is fluent in Mongolian. Because of his language and technical skills he heard a lot of these issues first hand. >From Cris: Tech problems I have noticed: file artifacts in the journal--the process went something like this-

Re: journal is hard (was Re: notes from the field - Mongolia)

2008-10-10 Thread Eben Eliason
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 1:05 PM, NoiseEHC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> We can do a little better than that, actually, by making it all one >> prompt. It can have a name field, already filled out with the best >> darn attempt at a name we can manage, a tag field (and perhaps even a >> list of po

Re: journal is hard (was Re: notes from the field - Mongolia)

2008-10-10 Thread NoiseEHC
> We can do a little better than that, actually, by making it all one > prompt. It can have a name field, already filled out with the best > darn attempt at a name we can manage, a tag field (and perhaps even a > list of popular tags as well, to apply to it with a click or a > drag/drop), and but

Re: journal is hard (was Re: notes from the field - Mongolia)

2008-10-10 Thread John Gilmore
> > This could be made much easier if Sugar apps prompted the user for > > tags when shutting down an application. > > Yes, I think we need to assume this model. I don't think this is > going to break the basic paradigm of Sugar, since this prompt need > only happen for *new* activities. Anything

Re: journal is hard (was Re: notes from the field - Mongolia)

2008-10-10 Thread Eben Eliason
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Garrett Goebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Elana Langer wrote from Mongolia: >> basically when teachers and students try to find their work (write, >> record, etoys) in the journal it is hard for them to locate it - >> especially if it is more than a few days old.

Re: journal is hard (was Re: notes from the field - Mongolia)

2008-10-10 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 7:18 PM, elana langer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > basically when teachers and students try to find their work (write, > record, etoys) in the journal it is hard for them to locate it - > especially if it is more than a few days old. What I would love to read from you is an

Re: journal is hard (was Re: notes from the field - Mongolia)

2008-10-10 Thread Garrett Goebel
Elana Langer wrote from Mongolia: > basically when teachers and students try to find their work (write, > record, etoys) in the journal it is hard for them to locate it - > especially if it is more than a few days old. This is why everyone is > desperate to save their projects on USB keys. This c

Re: journal is hard (was Re: notes from the field - Mongolia)

2008-10-09 Thread Gary C Martin
On 9 Oct 2008, at 19:57, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: > Elana Langer wrote from Mongolia: >> basically when teachers and students try to find their work (write, >> record, etoys) in the journal it is hard for them to locate it - >> especially if it is more than a few days old. This is why everyone is >

Re: journal is hard (was Re: notes from the field - Mongolia)

2008-10-09 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Elana Langer wrote from Mongolia: > basically when teachers and students try to find their work (write, > record, etoys) in the journal it is hard for them to locate it - > especially if it is more than a few days old. This is why everyone is > desperate to save their projects on USB keys. My per

Re: journal is hard (was Re: notes from the field - Mongolia)

2008-10-09 Thread elana langer
basically when teachers and students try to find their work (write, record, etoys) in the journal it is hard for them to locate it - especially if it is more than a few days old. This is why everyone is desperate to save their projects on USB keys. Also it seems that everything doesn't always go t

journal is hard (was Re: notes from the field - Mongolia)

2008-10-09 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi, On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 5:20 PM, elana langer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 3) Basically - The journal is really hard for people/ kids to use over > a longer period of time. Kids and teachers can't find things that they > did unless it was done within the last 30 minutes. Could you please ela