<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 5:06 AM, Gary C Martin <<a href="mailto:gary@garycmartin.com">gary@garycmartin.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> Hi Simon,<div><div></div><div class="h5"> On 2 Sep 2009, at 16:35, Simon Schampijer wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> On 09/02/2009 01:32 PM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Simon Schampijer<<a href="mailto:simon@schampijer.de" target="_blank">simon@schampijer.de</a>>wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Hi, some of you may know, I am doing a Sugar Pilot here in Germany. I try to keep my blog (listed on the sugarlabs planet as well) about my findings up to date [1]. For technical findings (how to setup nfs, ldap on Fedora for example) the plan is to use the wiki. 'Debatable things' I will try to bring up on the mailing list as well. Regards, Simon [1] <a href="http://erikos.sweettimez.de/" target="_blank">http://erikos.sweettimez.de/</a> --- Categories: Sugar, Deployment and Teaching [2] <a href="http://planet.sugarlabs.org/" target="_blank">http://planet.sugarlabs.org/</a> </blockquote> +1 on removing the “naming alert”, this has been bugging me since the day it's been introduced. Adding “rewards” to the Journal is something that David Van Assche and Gary C Martin discussed quite a bit Paris. Unfortunately nobody had the time to really follow up on these discussions with some actual code... :-/ Looking forward to the next blog posts about your experiences in the school! Christoph </blockquote> Let me post here from my blog post why I think it is important: As much as I am a friend of highlighting the naming, tagging and description purposes, I don’t think the alert is a good way to ‘enforce’ this. I think those actions are not first class ones. I am happy when the kids understood the concept of the Journal a bit, but they will not start to make better descriptions in the first Sugar days or weeks, with or without the alert. For now, it is just a confusing dialog that pops up when you close an activity. And later, once the kids would know about the importance they would be better served with other tools. For example an option in the activity toolbar (like we have for the title already).