[Sugar-devel] [FIELDBACK] Naming Alert

[Gerald Ardito]

Simon,

This is really interesting.
I look forward to whether my kids make the same connections when I test with
them next week.

Gerald

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:05 AM, Simon Schampijer <simon at 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/%7Eerikos/soas-design-test-DE.iso>
> ,
> http://shell.sugarlabs.org/~erikos/soas-design-test-EN.iso<http://shell.sugarlabs.org/%7Eerikos/soas-design-test-EN.iso>
>
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