<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 5:06 AM, Gary C Martin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gary@garycmartin.com">gary@garycmartin.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><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"><br>
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On 2 Sep 2009, at 16:35, Simon Schampijer wrote:<br>
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On 09/02/2009 01:32 PM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:<br>
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On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Simon Schampijer<<a href="mailto:simon@schampijer.de" target="_blank">simon@schampijer.de</a>>wrote:<br>
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Hi,<br>
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some of you may know, I am doing a Sugar Pilot here in Germany. I try to<br>
keep my blog (listed on the sugarlabs planet as well) about my findings<br>
up to date [1]. For technical findings (how to setup nfs, ldap on Fedora<br>
for example) the plan is to use the wiki. 'Debatable things' I will try<br>
to bring up on the mailing list as well.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Simon<br>
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[1] <a href="http://erikos.sweettimez.de/" target="_blank">http://erikos.sweettimez.de/</a> --- Categories: Sugar, Deployment<br>
and Teaching<br>
[2] <a href="http://planet.sugarlabs.org/" target="_blank">http://planet.sugarlabs.org/</a><br>
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+1 on removing the “naming alert”, this has been bugging me since the day<br>
it's been introduced.<br>
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Adding “rewards” to the Journal is something that David Van Assche and Gary<br>
C Martin discussed quite a bit Paris. Unfortunately nobody had the time to<br>
really follow up on these discussions with some actual code... :-/<br>
Looking forward to the next blog posts about your experiences in the school!<br>
<br>
Christoph<br>
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Let me post here from my blog post why I think it is important:<br>
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As much as I am a friend of highlighting the naming, tagging and<br>
description purposes, I don’t think the alert is a good way to ‘enforce’<br>
this. I think those actions are not first class ones. I am happy when<br>
the kids understood the concept of the Journal a bit, but they will not<br>
start to make better descriptions in the first Sugar days or weeks, with<br>
or without the alert. For now, it is just a confusing dialog that pops<br>
up when you close an activity. And later, once the kids would know about<br>
the importance they would be better served with other tools. For example<br>
an option in the activity toolbar (like we have for the title already).<br>
>From my experience I highly recommend to remove the alert, +1 when for<br>
0.86 already.<br>
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Personally I'm not keen on it either. I pretty well always skip past it myself and have learnt to click Stop and tap return. But, being neither qualified on the pedagogical needs, nor having seen actual learners of out target age, I didn't want to rush forward and +1 Simon's proposal.<br>
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The main goal as I remember was to try and combat the slew of un-named Journal entries, but a good chunk of this was likely due to the Home favourite view always starting new activity instances. Now that it resumes by default, the Journal 'spam' has been cut down quite significantly (for me).<br>
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Perhaps we drop this dialogue and then seriously take another look at improving the names automatically generated for new activity entries?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, that sounds like a very reasonable way to proceed!</div>
<div><br></div><div>One suggestion for write's journal entries for example would be to use the first few words of the document as a suggested entry name (similarly to what Microsoft's Word does).</div><div><br></div>
<div>Christoph</div></div>-- <br>Christoph Derndorfer<br>co-editor, olpcnews<br>url: <a href="http://www.olpcnews.com">www.olpcnews.com</a><br>e-mail: <a href="mailto:christoph@olpcnews.com">christoph@olpcnews.com</a><br>