On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 10:14:37AM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote:
Start New is not working in the field. I can be standing behind a
child
coaching them on every move of the mouse and I still can't get them to
use
it. The impulse to click on what the icon for what they want to do
is too
I don't know who invented this set of controls, but it seems to me to
be programmers who have forgotten how to be users, and especially
novices. Yes, it works fine for developers to save, compile, test,
commit, open, edit, save, compile, test...but not for office workers
and not for children.
We
Hi Caroline,
On 9 Oct 2009, at 02:42, Caroline Meeks wrote:
Today we worked with two groups on multiplication. They made squares
with each side being a different multiplication problem that had the
same answer.
http://screencast.com/t/sUbiof2H
We also had them reflect in their
hi Gary,
Start New is not working in the field. I can be standing behind a child
coaching them on every move of the mouse and I still can't get them to use
it. The impulse to click on what the icon for what they want to do is too
strong. It takes too long to get to the drop down. The drop down
Today we worked with two groups on multiplication. They made squares with
each side being a different multiplication problem that had the same answer.
http://screencast.com/t/sUbiof2H
http://screencast.com/t/sUbiof2HWe also had them reflect in their Journals
about what they did.
All of this went
Basically, we need a Save as... functionality, not just a Save that
overwrites the previous version and a clumsy Save on Exit where you
have to go roundabout to start up again. All of this goes into [[The
Undiscoverable]], and should be bugged.
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Caroline Meeks
