To paraphrase a fellow named Alan I heard give a talk a long time ago: "If I can do it in one click, I'll do it If it takes me two click's I might do it If it takes me three or more click's forget about it"
Perhaps radio buttons instead of arrows would be a better interface design.
In regards to the method of ranking/tags et al, not sure what works best, but the goals should be as stated before: 1) Encouraging kids to post their projects 2) Encouraging participation of the community in providing constructive criticism and encouragement 3)
to bring the best educational examples and those illustrative of etoys' strengths to the attention of the community.
One additional idea would be to allow people to have their own "page" like it is done at Scratch (ex: http://scratch.mit.edu/users/sanda427 ) where in one spot you can see all of a person's projects (preferably ordered by date, so one could look and see how they have improved and perhaps what they learned) along with a list of friends (to encourage a sense of community) and Galleries.
Galleries could be useful for example for teachers who post projects or better yet lesson plans they found useful.
Stephen Thomas
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(from forum) http://squeakland.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=11736#11736
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Thanks for your comments and your use of the showcase. Be sure to have a look at the pending showcase tasks:
http://tracker.squeakland.org/showcase
I'll reference existing tickets below.
On Oct 5, 2009, at 11:57 PM, mrsteve wrote:
To paraphrase a fellow named Alan I heard give a talk a long time ago: "If I can do it in one click, I'll do it If it takes me two click's I might do it If it takes me three or more click's forget about it"
Perhaps radio buttons instead of arrows would be a better interface design.
http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-472
In regards to the method of ranking/tags et al, not sure what works best, but the goals should be as stated before:
- Encouraging kids to post their projects
- Encouraging participation of the community in providing
constructive criticism and encouragement 3) Quote: to bring the best educational examples and those illustrative of etoys' strengths to the attention of the community.
These are great goals. We're also hoping to encourage many adults (teachers, etc) to post projects, which speaks to #3.
One additional idea would be to allow people to have their own "page" like it is done at Scratch (ex: http://scratch.mit.edu/users/sanda427 ) where in one spot you can see all of a person's projects (preferably ordered by date, so one could look and see how they have improved and perhaps what they learned) along with a list of friends (to encourage a sense of community) and Galleries.
http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-408 (account page)
http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-417 (friends)
http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-366 (groups, aka galleries)
Galleries could be useful for example for teachers who post projects or better yet lesson plans they found useful.
We appreciate your thoughts, and ask for a little more patience as we add these features. Feel free to add any new requests to the tracker directly.
Take care, Tim
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