#3962 NORM Never A: Objects produced and visible within an activity clutter the Home view

[Zarro Boogs per Child]

#3962: Objects produced and visible within an activity clutter the Home view
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 Reporter:  HoboPrimate       |       Owner:  Eben          
     Type:  enhancement       |      Status:  new           
 Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  Never Assigned
Component:  interface-design  |     Version:                
 Keywords:                    |    Verified:  0             
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 This is just an idea.

 There are activities which create objects of their own and are tied to
 that specific activity instance.
 One such activity, Record, produces videos, photos and audios that are
 placed as new entries in the Journal.

 I wonder if it wouldn't be better to visually place these objects inside
 the activity detailed view in the Journal, and give the kid the option to
 make them 1st class objects (from his perspective). They would still be
 foundable by searching as single objects tied to a specific activity.
 The reason why i suggest this is basically to unclutter the top-level of
 the Journal, and to accomodate simillar behaviours in other or future
 activities.

 For example, this method would integrate well with the sesson and global
 bookmarks that Browse will be able to make.
 Global bookmarks (cached urls?) are imediatelly viewed as being added on
 the Journal list.
 Session bookmarks (uncached urls?) are tied to a specific activity, and
 would be viewed from that activity detailed view. From there, the user
 would be able to "copy" them to the main journal view, upgrading them to
 global bookmarks.

 Memorize activity will contain game-sets which could also follow this
 model. If we go even further, even Etoys project objects could be shown
 inside their detailed view, and be searchable as well ("where is that 'red
 car' Etoys object?".

 What i suggest may not be feasible to do at the moment or near future, but
 I'm sending it out as an idea.
 Also, because the Journal hasn't got its full searching, meta-data and
 tagging features built on yet, I may be missing the full view of how
 finding things on the Journal could work, and have its number of entries
 be increased not really be a problem, since the main interaction will by
 searching.
 Finally, this could make these objects 2nd-class, and not be as re-usable
 as they could, if otherwise be presente themselves imediatelly on the list
 view.

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