Journal

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Description & Goals

  For the general public

The Journal activity is an automated diary of everything a child does with his or her laptop. The Journal can be used by children to organize work or revisit a past project, and by teachers and parents to assess a child's progress.

The Journal activity provides an intuitive interface for viewing projects and files saved by the XO user.

The Journal is also used to access external media (USB sticks, etc.); delete files; and access the backup system (for those of you connected to a School Server).

  For Developers

The Journal is also a key component of the Bitfrost security specification. The document Journal and Overlays discusses one possible implementation strategy for the Journal and auto-population while using (particularly legacy) activities.

See the Human Interface Guidelines for theoretical discussion.

Using the Journal

  For the general public

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The main view can be searched or sorted; clicking on an entry takes you to the detail view.

From the detail view, activities can be renamed, resumed, and (eventually, tagged)

Development

  For Developers

RPMs

• none available

Functional Test

Basic

• The Journal comes up running when the XO is powered on.
• The basic functional test is to create an Abiword document and Paint file, exit, then ensure that they show up in the journal.
• From the journal interface you should be able to resume these activities right where you left off.

Secondary

• Journals are properly archived and can be restored from the school server.
• Sharing?