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* When you download an image, it doesn't have a preview. Open it and close it immediately to generate one. [http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1106 Ticket #1106]
 
* When you download an image, it doesn't have a preview. Open it and close it immediately to generate one. [http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1106 Ticket #1106]
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===Saving Work===
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Basically, we need a Save as... functionality, not just a Save that overwrites the previous version and a clumsy Save on Exit where you have to go roundabout to start up again. All of this should be bugged as a Feature Request.
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<pre>On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Caroline Meeks <caroline@solutiongrove.com> wrote:
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> Today we worked with two groups on multiplication. They made squares with
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> each side being a different multiplication problem that had the same answer.
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> http://screencast.com/t/sUbiof2H
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>
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> We also had them reflect in their Journals about what they did.
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> All of this went well.
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>
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> What was horrible was trying to get the right point in the project saved to
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> the Journal and then navigating to the correct place to write.
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> The solution I suggest is when you click the Keep button (Journal Icon) from
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> an activity that the Journal reflection dialog box appears.
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> Here are the problems we had.
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>
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> Hard to get to the Journal, no easy F# short cut.
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> Hard to find the little arrow that gets you to where you can write.
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> Especially since if the Frame is active, which it has to be to get to the
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> Journal, the little bitty arrow you need to click is covered.
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> When students did their assigned task they were eager to go back to
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> exploring with Sugar and wrote over their work without it being saved, or
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> using the same name as the assigned activity.  This was probably the worst
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> outcome because then it was like they hadn't done the assignment, they had
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> nothing to show for their work and we'll want to use it later for a
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> portfolio.
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>
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> clicking the Activity Tab to write down the name is a PITA (this one is
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> fixed in .88 I think).
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>
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> After they reflected they wanted to immediately go back to exploring in TA
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> and we had to stop them, make them change the name again. They were very
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> perplexed by this because they didn't know what to name their new file
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> because they hadn't done anything yet.
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>
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> The word "Description" is not very friendly. I like "What did you do?"
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> Walter wants to expand it even further, I'm not sure about that, its pretty
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> challenging for the students to type so I'm not sure we want more boxes.
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> Confusion between the Keep button and the samples and the snapshot icons.
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> No feedback when you click Keep so there is a tendency to click it
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> repeatedly.
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==Activities==
 
==Activities==
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