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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).


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

The Journal Activity pages have a complete overview of the journal and its use.


Development

Source

RPMs

  • none available

Resources

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?