[Sugar-devel] GPA Class Notes July 22 - GS

Edward Cherlin echerlin at gmail.com
Tue Jul 28 19:04:50 EDT 2009


On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Greg Smith<gregsmithpm at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I posted the full notes here:
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Gardner_Pilot_Academy#Class_notes

Thanks.

> Three high level points:
> - Kids have no trouble finding new activities (e.g. Write) and they
> want to have more to use.
> - Its still hard to task switch (we may try teaching them alt - tab
> next week), find thing son the journal and move data from one activity
> to another.

I'm putting tips like that on [[The undiscoverable]].

> That brings up the question of how they can tag the items they want to
> easily find them later. That is, as they look around on Wikipedia or
> elsewhere and find text and images they want to use, how do we collect
> them and show them (and only them) on a clean journal view later.

It's clumsy, but after you save an image file you can go to the
Journal to change the title in the main Journal view, and add a
description and one or more tags in the detail view. Then you can
search in the Journal for a tag, and get a list of titles.

Downloaded images do not show a preview. This is a bug. The workaround
is to open the file and quit the session immediately.

You will want to work out a reasonably efficient workflow. For example,

o Save lots of images.

o Go to the Journal, and open and save each image.

o Now that you can see a preview of each image, go into each preview
and edit the metadata.

I recommend having a separate lesson on images in the Journal before
you undertake a project using downloaded images.

> URLs
> and downloaded images are very hard to find in the Journal. We should
> use the URL name (not sure of the right technical term but I mean the
> short name you see in browsers, e.g. www.google.com appears as Google.

That's Title in HTML, but it's the title of the page. Unfortunately
for your idea, images on Web pages usually don't have titles of their
own.

> That or anything that is more intelligible than what you see by
> default. Will file a bug when I have a chance unless someone beats me
> to it.
>
> I welcome any suggestions on tagging and collecting items. I believe
> its just careful use of tagging and filtering but details on expected
> work flow can save us some time.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Greg S
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