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> • The word "Description" is not very friendly. I like "What did you<br>
<div>> do?" Walter wants to expand it even further, I'm not sure about<br>
> that, its pretty challenging for the students to type so I'm not<br>
> sure we want more boxes.<br>
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</div>No comment, I don't like this whole dialogue to be honest (it breaks<br>
my working flow and distracts me from whatever I'm trying to achieve),<br>
but I'm not a pedagogic type so don't feel I have a say in this<br>
design. I get the impression most (adults and kids) will just skip<br>
past this dialogue anyway give half a chance. There's been some noises<br>
to remove this dialogue completely, or at least let folks easily<br>
disable it from within Sugar.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>It breaks my workflow too, although a Discard button would make it better. And I like the concept of forcing people to name their work; as a developer, I'm just usually testing something instead of "creating work".</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>We are getting very enthusiastic responses to Sugar as an ePortfolio creation tool. No one likes standardized tests. Portfolios represent a far better alternative for assessing student progress. If we can create a good system for creating and managing them we will have contributed a great deal. We are working with one of the experts in the field, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">Evangeline Harris Stefanakis an author and professor at BU. </span></div>
<div><br></div><div>Believe me, these kids did not want to write anything in that dialog box either! But by doing so they 1. Reflected and thus helped process and keep their learning, 2. Practiced much needed writing skills. 3. Created an item they can put into a longer term reflective portfolio. 4. Helped others see their level of understanding of the material they were working on.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Students spend only 30% of their time in school. Even within a school they see many different adults, teachers, assistant teachers, specialists. After school care and parents and others at home are also very important for student learning. Our vision is that the Journal helps all the adults the student interacts with see what they are working on and where they are in their learning and lets them interact with each other around the students' work.</div>
<div><br></div><div>My current vision is that teachers would tag items with "parent" and the parents would learn how to search the Journal for these tags and to tag items with "teacher" or something similar if they want to send a comment back to the teacher. I'm still pretty hazy on exactly how this should work but that is my general thought.</div>
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<div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Wade</div></div>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Caroline Meeks<br>Solution Grove<br>Caroline@SolutionGrove.com<br><br>617-500-3488 - Office<br>505-213-3268 - Fax<br>