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

2008-10-14 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

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

2008-10-14 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

Re: [sugar] 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 files on

Re: [sugar] 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: [sugar] 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. This is

Re: [sugar] 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 which

Re: [sugar] 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 buttons

Re: [sugar] 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 popular tags

[sugar] 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

Re: [sugar] 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

Re: [sugar] 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

Re: [sugar] 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