[IAEP] SoaS change of direction: heads-up on convos in other lists

[Gerald Ardito]

I have to agree with Martin and Yama, here.
Speaking for teachers working with students, the extra work to download the
extra activities desired for over a hundred flash drives would be daunting
at best.

Gerald

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Yamandu Ploskonka <yamaplos at gmail.com>wrote:

> Totally 120% with Martin here.  I am completely unhappy with the
> usability of the concept of "download your own activities" for the total
> n00b.  20?
> Maybe as an option a stripped-down somewhere for power users who really
> want to do what is proposed.
>
> (I seem to recall there was a request for discussing this elsewhere, but
> I don't remember and erased the original email, so my apologies)
>
> Martin Langhoff wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Mel Chua <mel at melchua.com> wrote:
> >
> >> The short version is that instead of "include all Activites by default,"
> >> we're thinking of shipping very few (6) Activities by default - the ones
> >> that help users get further Activities and help
> >>
> >
> > I read Sebastian's post... and is less drastic than that. He seems to
> > say: include only the well tested, known to work, actively maintained
> > activities, with an eye towards activitries that serve as a good intro
> > to the platform and that demo well.
> >
> > But you say only 6... Which one is it?
> >
> > The initial proposal I like; makes a lot of sense and raises the bar.
> > IT basically increases the chances of a satisfactory first use.
> >
> > Six activities not so much -- you need many steps + internet to add
> > activities... and it'll be "random activity from ASLO, may well be
> > unstable or useless". It significantly _reduces_ chances of
> > satisfaction.
> >
> > All IMHO...
> >
> >
> > m
> >
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