Help Activity refresh

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A place to collect ideas, information, and resources for the planned refresh of the Help Activity. Bookmark http://j.mp/xomanual to help!

Schedule

Initial session tentatively scheduled for Friday October 21st, 2011 from 10AM to 4 PM at the Kleider home in Bolinas. Other sessions TBD.

DRAFT: Mon Oct 31, 2011 (Halloween)

FINAL CUT: Thu Nov 24, 2011 (Thanksgiving)

FINAL: Sun Dec 25, 2011 (Christmas)

Current Help Activity Contents

You will notice some sections below with (???) after them. We are still looking for volunteers to work on those sections. If you would like to join with one of the other volunteers who is already working on one of the sections, please add your name and contact the person so you can coordinate your work!

  • Introduction (Introduction, About OLPC, What is Sugar, How to Volunteer) (Christoph Derndorfer & Adam Holt)
  • Getting Started (Getting Started, Opening the XO, Ports, Battery Charging, Starting the XO, Keyboard) (Tony Anderson Mark Batley)
  • Interface (About the User Interface, Home View, Activity View, Neighborhood View, Group View, The Frame, The Journal) (Tony Anderson and Mark Batley)
  • Activities (What is an Activity, Launching Activities, Switching Views, Collaborating, Exiting Activities, Installing Activities, Activity Sampler) (Tony Anderson and Mark Battley)
  • Network (Give Me The Internet, Connecting, Ad-Hoc Networking, Wireless Devices, Networking Hardware, Troubleshooting) (Tony Anderson and Mark Batley))
  • Record Activity (Introduction, Starting Record, Photos, Video, Audio, Starting Media, Things to Try, Wikimedia Commons) (Bill Stelzer)
  • Browse Activity (Introduction, What Is the Web, Starting Browse, Browse Web, Bookmarks, Changing the View, Sharing Links, Country Quiz, Search the Web, Using Wikipedia, Contribute to Wikipedia, Using Email) Cherry Withers
  • Write Activity (Introduction, Starting Write, Collaborating, Peer Editing, The Basics, Group Story Telling, Letter to the Editor, Emailing a Document (Caryl Bigenho)
  • Turtle Art (Introduction, Getting Started, Starter Commands, Pen Colors, Pen Commands, Try Turtle Art, Turtle Art Letters, Repeating Commands, Numbers and Commands, Shapes and Spectrum)
  • Support (How to Reflash, Powering of Your Laptop, Replacing, Backing Up, Getting Support)( ??? )
  • Appendices (Keyboard Shortcuts, Personalizing Sugar, Glossary, Getting Support, Credits) (???)


Revised Manual Contents

This section lists the sections and chapters we are working on. It will be changed from time to time as we revise and add. If you add a section or chapter, be sure you have someone to work on it! Also, please add it and the name of the person (or persons) who will be working on it to the section below called "Suggestions for Additional Chapters."

  • Introduction (To include: Unpacking, Battery, and Support)
  • Get Started (To include: Get Started, Interface, Activities (using), and Network)
  • Activities (To include introductions to assorted Activities including, but not limited to: Record, Browse, Write, Turtle Art, Etoys, Tam Tam, Labyrinth, Scratch, and others... see Activity sampler)
  • Appendices (Keyboard Shortcuts, Personalizing Sugar, Glossary, Getting Support, Credits)

Copy of Current User Manual

A copy of the current User Manual as it appears in the Help Activity can be found at: http://laptop.org/manual ( currently resolves to http://laptop.org/8.2.0/manual/ )

A more up-to-date/Sugarized edition is Version 13, as included in Release 11.3.0 RC3 / Build 882, downloadable right here: http://activities.sugarlabs.org//en-US/sugar/addon/4051

Suggestions for Additional Chapters

  • Localization (Registering, Forking, Translating, Adding and Deleting Chapters, Changing Graphics and Images)
  • Tam Tam (What are the Tam Tam Activities, How to Use Each, Where to find lessons, songs, and other resources) Caryl will welcome help!
  • Gnome (What is Gnome? Switching to Gnome and Back to Sugar, Using Gnome, Gnome Applications, Resources for More About Gnome and Its Applications) (Caryl Bigenho)
  • Etoys (Cherry Withers and Rita Freudenberg)
  • About This Floss Manual (Mark Batley)
  • Add a FAQ at the end of each chapter to deal with miscellaneous issues (Mark Batley)
  • Add pedagogical rationale and 'tips and tricks' to each chapter (Mark Batley)

Resources

List of manuals and chapters:

The above chapters were originally in one larger Manual that is currently the Help Activity. Other early manual versions:


Existing manuals that are incomplete or not added to Help Activity:

Procedures on Porting/Assembling the Manual into Help Activity

Information still needed for this section

How to Participate in the Work of Revising the XO Users Manual

If you plan to participate in the XO Users Manual refresh, either at the mini book sprint on the 21st or remotely before or after that, there are some things you should do ahead of time...

  • Register an account on FLOSS Manuals' "Booki" site:

http://booki.flossmanuals.net

Click REGISTER near the top-left!

Note this is separate from the older FLOSSmanuals.net registration from 2007-2009. (Make a note of the name you choose as your username. While your password is recoverable, the username is not.)

  • Sign Up for The OLPC/Sugar Labs Group on Floss Manuals

After you have signed in, choose "All Groups" from the little menu on the top left of the page, or go to this link:

http://booki.flossmanuals.net/groups/one-laptop-per-childsugar-labs/

A long list of groups will appear. Choose "One Laptop Per Child/Sugar Labs." Then choose "Join This Group." You will know you were successful when you see the number of group members go up by one.

A click on the "Manuals" tab will show a list of all the manuals members of the group are working on. You can click on each one and see what is there. Some are very complete, others are only skeletons. Our manual is currently at the bottom of the list: "XO Users Manual (Rev 2011)." Currently, all of the chapters are "hidden" and waiting to be written, revised, and/or edited. If you click on "Edit" you will be able to see them at the bottom of the page. Please do not do any writing or editing until you have read and understand everything in the Booki Users Manual: http://en.flossmanuals.net/Booki-User-Guide/

The members tab will give you a list of the people who have signed up for the group. If you would like to add a photo and a little blurb about yourself to the your listing, the place to do that is the "My Settings" section (find it listed on the second menu on the top left).

  • Start editing here:

http://booki.flossmanuals.net/xo/_draft/

(Can someone please add this link below to http://booki.flossmanuals.net/groups/one-laptop-per-childsugar-labs/ soon?!)

Screenshots

  • Alt + 1 key combination (on XO keyboards) or PrnScn with attached keyboards
  • post-processing with standard laptops and your tools of choice (Paint.Net (Windows) for me)
  • bring your XOs loaded with the latest 11.3.0 development builds since that's the easiest way to get Sugar 0.94
  • investigate whether using the advanced screenshot hack is a viable alternative

Ideas

  • keep localization in mind (see the corresponding thread from early October on Sugar-Devel, etc.
  • retain the current chapter format in terms of length and general content. Use links to refer to more in depth resources.

People

Please add your name if you're planning to contribute to the Help Activity Refresh.

  • Adam Holt
  • Cherry Withers (Addition of Etoys Chapter -- will work online)
  • Christoph Derndorfer
  • Caryl Bigenho (Will add a Tam Tam Chapter, but may need to complete after the summit)
  • Edward Bigenho (Editing)
  • Tony Anderson
  • Ana Cichero ( spanish translation - images editing - screenshots )
  • Mark Roy Battley

To-Be Done

Tasks

  • Cherry Withers: eToys, Browse
  • Rita Freudenberg: eToys
  • Caryl Bigenho:
  • Mark Battley: Get started, Network, Interface, Speak, Maze, Memorize, Implode, Simplification of language, Pedagogical rationales, Tips and Tricks, FAQ's
  • Sandra Thaxter: Turtle Art AND I'll help Mark on Memorize and Maze...as I have his cell number and can communicate with him
  • Tony Anderson: Get started, Network, Interface
  • Adam Holt: How to volunteer
  • Christoph Derndorfer: Introduction, Acknowledgements, Hardware specifications

Notes

Brainstorming during the Meeting on 21 October 2011

  • decide on audience: basics for all -> teachers, pupils, parents
  • what to include
  • needed: manual not just for Haiti, making it more accessible, how to do that
  • slideshow approach -> make different language audio tracks, also needs different language screenshots
  • add four-finger salute
  • collecting existing documentation: including for example the latest Peruvian manual
  • chat as an example of collaboration
  • Memorize documentation
  • Maze -> include "why to teach this thing"
  • recommended approach
  • basics: learn the interface
  • Speak
  • progression levels
  • ...more specific & comprehensive Activity manuals
  • juggling / hammer on head / metaphors
  • content / how to do it / rationale (3 levels for teachers)
  • stylus feature: how to tell when you can use it, what you can use it for
  • Acknowledgement: depends on XO version, software build -> "about this manual" section (incl. limitations)
  • including FAQs for each section & each chapter (at the end)
  • contact information (depending on country)
  • how-to add something to Flossmanuals
  • presentation, structure, orders, labels -> organization needed
  • add glossary chapter (see Glossary)
  • documentation styleguide: consistency is important (!)
  • importance of simple + clear language
  • potential todo: simply language + presentation
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