<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 4:17 AM, Walter Bender <<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> Alas, I will be somewhere over the Atlantic on Monday, but I wanted to plant some seeds for the discussion at the Design Team meeting. All of my proposed interventions are for the Journal. I've not written up formal proposals yet, but will if/when I get some traction. (1) Activity-specific metadata: (See <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Datos_diario" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Datos_diario</a>) The idea is to display activity-specific metadata in the expanded view of a Journal entry. The Learning Team has been working on categorizing the types of data they are interested in capturing. The goal is both to enhance self-reflection and teacher feedback and evaluation. The mechanism I mocked up in Turtle Art and in the Journal itself is quite simple. A metadata dictionary entry is used to specify any metadata fields that the activity would like displayed in a text box (in my mockup, this box is generated on demand and positioned just below the Tags box). Note that most of the data that the teachers are expressing interest in capturing are correlated with button presses, so it may be worthwhile considering a change to the toolkit as well, but that can be a decision made at a later time. </blockquote><div> +1 </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> (2) Audio tags: I don't have a mock up for this, but adding a simple mechanism for adding audio notes to Journal items has been something I have discussed with numerous teachers in the past. Lots of open questions here in terms of the UI: should the recording happen in the Journal or in Record? should multiple recordings be saved? append or overwrite? Any size limit? </blockquote><div> Mhh, not only in the UI. Audio notes are not search friendly, and consume a lot of resources. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> (3) Write to Journal any time: I'd like to assign a global keyboard shortcut (and claim the unused bulletin board key on the XO) to jump directly to the expanded entry for whatever activity is currently active. In addition, it would be worth considering a button on the activity toolbar (grabbing the space opened up by the removal of the Keep button). Rationale: make it easier to get to your "lab notebook" to make annotations relevant to your project. </blockquote><div> +1 </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> (4) Activity-specific folders mounted in the volumes toolbar: A simple way to handle the issue of activities that use clipart, sample code/projects, etc. We had discussed before the idea of loading these objects directly into the Journal, but this is IMHO too difficult to manage. By letting an activity specify a directory (or directories) to mount on the volumes toolbar would make it possible to use the Sugar Chooser to access activity-specific data. We could restrict it to subdirectories of the bundle path to maintain some level of security. We could also use it to share clipart among activities. </blockquote><div> +1 Would be good if we can have feedback about UI changes proposed to Journal <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Journal_NewUI">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Journal_NewUI</a> Martin Abente already worked in multiple file operations, a much requested feature, and the proposal want do the use of tags more useful. Gonzalo </div></div>