[sq-education] Re: [etoys-dev] popups in project-info

[Timothy Falconer]

On Sep 1, 2009, at 6:27 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

>
> On 01.09.2009, at 05:13, K. K. Subramaniam wrote:
>
>> On Monday 31 Aug 2009 10:45:40 pm Timothy Falconer wrote:
>>> Think ... 1000 projects and I have twenty minutes to try 5
>>> projects ... I'm a 3rd grade teacher in the united states wondering
>>> how I could include Etoys throughout my school day.
>>>
>>> 500 different ways of saying 3rd grade will all but prevent that
>>> person from finding 5 great projects in 20 minutes.
>> This is a search problem that won't be solved with just tagging.  
>> Projects are
>> not precisely structured records like database records. They are  
>> free form
>> documents.
>>
>> A few weeks back Yoshiki pointed that he found "EToysLauncher  
>> openPanel" slow
>> because he had a few hundred projects in a folder. The method  
>> opened each
>> project file to extract a thumbnail and collect them in a book!
>>
>> What is needed to tackle such problem is an auto-indexer and search  
>> tool, say
>> ProjectIndexMorph, that will index project collections in a folder  
>> (server)
>> and display their thumbnails in a holder or book. It can have a  
>> filter field to
>> narrow down displayed thumbnails and a refresh method to update the  
>> index
>> when projects are updated (this can also be done automatically).
>>
>> Now, teachers can search for projects that have, say "velocity",  
>> somewhere in
>> their text morphs or meta-data. It will take no more than a minute  
>> to search
>> 1000 projects.
>>
>> Subbu
>
>
> In fact I proposed to add this to the project on save before:
>
> http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-145
>
> Makes indexing quite a bit simpler.
>
> - Bert -


If someone does this, I'll add it to the website search.