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No matter how well we do in making Sugar and the XO discoverable, there are necessarily some things that even a born lever-puller and button-clicker will not find, or will not understand. This is a list of such issues. We can consider whether some of these can be improved, but we know that there is a limit. So we have to alert teachers to these issues, and assist them to alert the children. | No matter how well we do in making Sugar and the XO discoverable, there are necessarily some things that even a born lever-puller and button-clicker will not find, or will not understand. This is a list of such issues. We can consider whether some of these can be improved, but we know that there is a limit. So we have to alert teachers to these issues, and assist them to alert the children. | ||
| − | Nothing is 100% discoverable or 100% undiscoverable. There are many features of Sugar and the XO that can be discovered, without their use cases being in any way obvious. The question, then, is how to | + | Nothing is 100% discoverable or 100% undiscoverable. There are many features of Sugar and the XO that can be discovered, without their use cases being in any way obvious. The question, then, is how to provide discovery projects where we know that a particular usage is appropriate, and include a hint on the feature in the lesson plan. In other cases, the children understand immediately what a function is for, as soon as they know it exists. In those cases, you generally don't have to show them twice. |
We should probably create a subpage for each of these issues, or point to an existing Wiki page that has the information. | We should probably create a subpage for each of these issues, or point to an existing Wiki page that has the information. | ||
Revision as of 02:20, 12 July 2009
No matter how well we do in making Sugar and the XO discoverable, there are necessarily some things that even a born lever-puller and button-clicker will not find, or will not understand. This is a list of such issues. We can consider whether some of these can be improved, but we know that there is a limit. So we have to alert teachers to these issues, and assist them to alert the children.
Nothing is 100% discoverable or 100% undiscoverable. There are many features of Sugar and the XO that can be discovered, without their use cases being in any way obvious. The question, then, is how to provide discovery projects where we know that a particular usage is appropriate, and include a hint on the feature in the lesson plan. In other cases, the children understand immediately what a function is for, as soon as they know it exists. In those cases, you generally don't have to show them twice.
We should probably create a subpage for each of these issues, or point to an existing Wiki page that has the information.
XO
- Opening
- Position of antennae
- Rotate screen button
- Book reader mode, and page controls
Sugar UI
- Collaboration
- Hover menu unfolding
- Right click
- Use of Keep button
- View source?
- Copy and paste between activities? (No)
- How to quit an activity
- Change keyboard
- Change UI language
- Fonts
Journal
- Search
- Tag
- Resume session
- Install Activities
- Copy to USB stick
Activities
xo-get
- Script
- Activity
Terminal
- The entire command line repertoire
- Linux file system
- Standard IO
- Users and groups
- Permissions
- Regular expressions
- File globbing
Etoys
- It's a programming language.
- It's huge.
- The tutorials are excellent as far as they go, but they stop short.
- Projects? What are projects? How do I do that?
- Code viewer
- Program tiles
- Make tile
Pippy
- You can edit the programs
- You can add your own programs
- You can import libraries
- Python is a large programming language. How do I learn it?
Turtle Art
- Color space
- Programmable tiles
- tamyblock.py
- Portfolio tiles
Write
- When unformatted text is selected the Style menu appears with only one item visible: None. Unless the user notices the little up arrowhead and moves the cursor up to reveal the rest of the menu, Styles remain a mystery.
Calculate
- Graphing
Measure
- Frequency and amplitude settings
Library
- I'm sorry, what is this for? Oh, wait, is this what the Journal was supposed to be? No, it only shows one entry for each activity. I can't list individual sessions or documents. So what is it for?
Browse
Jukebox
- Where is the music?