[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] ASLO Suggestion

[David Farning]

I think the Recommended activities are still those which were uploaded
early just to test the the recommendations worked.

IIRC, for a long time search was more broken than recommendations....
Thus, search got the love.

That being said, modifying and updating recommendations are handled
through a web interface by editors.  If you have the time and interest
recommendations could use some love from you:)

david


On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 9:50 AM, James Simmons<jim.simmons at walgreens.com> wrote:
> The new style sheet for ASLO reminds me that something has bugged me
> about the design of the site from the beginning.  The site does not do a
> good job of showing just how much is available.  When you click on a
> category you see entries for three or four Activities, seemingly picked
> at random, and no indication that these Activities are not the only ones
> available in the category.  Yes, there is a link to show everything in
> the category.  It's not that you can't find anything if you really want
> to.  It's that the site doesn't do a good job of selling what it has.
>
> What I would suggest is to put totals for each category in a prominent
> place on the page.  When you first come into the site and no category is
> selected you should see something like "500 Great Activities
> Available!"  Choose a category like Documents and the line would read
> "10 Activities In This Category."
>
> The other thing that has bugged me is the Recommended Activities.  We
> need to put more thought into what gets recommended.  Currently one of
> the Activities that is recommended is Read.  Now an XO owner or SoaS
> user already has Read, so why recommend it?  Is there some reason I
> should remove the Read I already have and install this one?
>
> Recommended Activities should promote Sugar.  They should meet the
> following criteria:
>
> 1).  Fairly robust.
> 2).  Not included by default with anything.
> 3).  Should do something interesting.  Think of the iPhone commercials
> that show all the apps that are available.  Why not recommend something
> like Food Force or Story Builder?
>
> I also question the category GCompris.  I understand these Activities
> are related to each other, but the relationship would not be meaningful
> to a teacher or a student.
>
> A little salesmanship could go a long way in making this site better.
>
> James Simmons
>
>
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