Hi Gerald and Simon
It would be great to debrief in detail on your findings from the
tests. Could we try to meet this Sunday (instead of Saturday), same
time?
Thanks,
Christian
On Mar 2, 2010, at 2:36 PM, Gerald Ardito <gma...@gmail.com> wrote:
Simon,
I conducted the test we discussed with my 5th graders today. There
were six students involved in the focus group.
First of all, they concurred with your results. They loved the
feature of being able to either Start New or Resume right from the
Home View. As did your students, mine remarked that it was way
easier than going to the Journal. They also mentioned that more
often than not they are continuing past work, as opposed to starting
something new, so they found this feature very valuable.
The Naming alert (present in this build) was something they found in
their way. They are used to naming their work right from the
activity, so this seemed like an extra step to them. They are not
used to making notes in the Journal, so this feature didn't add much
for them, although I certainly see how it could be really useful.
I hope this is helpful.
Best,
Gerald
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:05 AM, Simon Schampijer
<si...@schampijer.de> wrote:
Hi,
I did a little survey in the Planetarium pilot last week [1]. The
subject was "Start new" vs "Restart" in the home view. Christian did
provide a test case and I made a Soas version of Sugar that let's you
change the behavior with a button in the Home View [2].
While of course there were interesting observations to make about
starting activities one other user feedback caught my eye, too. There
was a question in the survey: The naming alert.
A little background: When I started the pilot, stopping the activity
was
a hard task for the learners. First you need to find the stop button,
then you had to dismiss the naming alert. I use the wording "dismiss"
because for new learners it does not make much sense, since they don't
understand the concept of the Journal etc yet. What I did was, I
removed
the naming alert which improved temporarily somehow the situation.
Since
I wanted the kids to take notes I introduced an workflow introduced by
the teacher. After each lesson (normally the kids work in one activity
in a lesson), I let them take notes in the Journal entry. This works
quite well and the kids like it a lot to do this. I tell them:
"Describe
in your words what you did today." You can write there as well if you
did like it or not, or if it was hard task. And sometimes I give
them a
few words that should be contained. Like "coordinating system" when i
did a lesson in Etoys on that.
When doing the test the Naming Alert was present in the build. And the
testers said: "Oh, that is nice, so I do not have to search for the
Journal entry to take my notes." I asked them what does it look like
and
they said: "A bit like the Journal."
What I concluded is: For the workflow it is important to have a way to
directly take notes related to that activity you are doing at the
moment. I still think, that it would be better to have that option in
the activity toolbar, like discussed in the Design meetings. And I
will
strike for getting this into 0.90 :) But I think, if the kids use the
Journal and take notes, the naming alert is not such a bad thing for
0.84.
Thanks,
Simon
[1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Deployments/Planetarium
[2] http://shell.sugarlabs.org/~erikos/soas-design-test-DE.iso,
http://shell.sugarlabs.org/~erikos/soas-design-test-EN.iso
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