Wellington test team vs Activities - 2008-09-13

[Grant Patterson]

Grant's notes:

Geoquiz-3
- Too easy to mistakenly select the wrong answer when using the left and
right controllers (as suggested by the instructions). This problem is caused
by Geoquiz not distinguishing between the left and right controllers.
- Lesotho, Swaziland and Gambia aren't visible on the Africa map, so when
these questions arise, the user can only guess. Swaziland and Gambia are
blacked out on the map, while Lesotho appears as part of South Africa.
- Completing the quiz (either Africa or South America) causes Geoquiz to
crash!
- The questions are always in the same order until the laptop is rebooted.
- Got a segmentation fault during the normal usage of the activity! Wasn't
reproducable.

Stopwatch-1
- Worked well

Bridge-1
- Seems a little harsh that girders that are deleted are still counted
towards the total cost of the bridge, especially since they can't be moved
once in place.
- Some instructions would be helpful. (e.g. "press space to start train")
- Pressing the 'b', 'j', or 'p' keys crashes the activity!
- Otherwise a great activity.


Grant


2008/9/13 Tabitha Roder <tabitha.mail at gmail.com>

> Tabitha's notes:
> XO Build 8.2-759
>
> Mini vMac-1 - ctrl F for full screen is great! played with excalibur, note
> pad, calculator, puzzle, all good, but it is hard to shut down Mini vMac -
> seems you have to "stop" in the frame?
>
> Bridge-1 good
>
> Stopwatch-1 good
>
> Poll-17 - create own poll good, voted good, lesson plans display as XML not
> so good,  bug logged #8456
>
> Schoolsplay-1 - loads, font size is too big in the frames and in the
> pyramid, cant really play as cant read :-( bug logged #8458
>
> Audacity-1 - fails to launch, got logs, bug logged #8453
>
> XaoS-1 - good
>
> Moon-4 good
>
> Colors-4 - still not able to stop activity, same as v4 - see original bug
> #8335
>
> ProducePuzzle-0 - good
>
> Ok, now onto the big test - GCompris-7, get ready this is long....
>
> GCompris - Various puzzles
> *assemble - good
> *tangram - good
> *build - good
> *superbrain - good
> *hanoi - good
> *sliding blocks - good
> *sudoku - good
> *fifteen game - good
> Gcompris - Mathematic games - geometry
> *freedraw - good
> *redraw - could not find or load the file skins/gartoon/redraw.svg this
> activity is incomplete exit it and report the problem to the authors (
> bruno.coudoin at free.fr)
> *mirror - could not find or load the file skins/gartoon/redraw_symmetry.svg
> this activity is incomplete exit it and report the problem to the authors (
> bruno.coudoin at free.fr)
> Gcompris - Mathematic games - calculations
> *math memory
> **multiply - good
> **add - good
> **subtract - good
> *algebra
> **add and subtract tested, took a while to work out that you have to push
> "check answer" or it thinks you havent entered an answer
> *number munchers
> **multiple - good
> **prime - good
> *math memory
> **bit confusing that questions with the same answer dont match in the
> matching game - e.g. 4 + 4 is not equal to 3 + 5, they are both = 8 only
> *balance the scales - good
> *target - good
> *series of correct operations - good
> Gcompris - Mathematic games - numeration
> *pairs of dice - good
> *count the items - couldn't find or load the file enumerate/food/banana.png
> this activity is incomplete - bruno
> *magician hat - good
> *feed tux the fish - good
> *money - couldnt find money/euro/p5e.png  - bruno
> *helicopter - good
> *draw with numbers - good
> GCompris - amusement
> *tuxpaint - cannot find tux paint install it to use this activity
> *football - good
> *hexagon - good
> *word processor - good, we all like the themes
> *drawing / animation - works for draw not animation - save image exits
> GCompris so cannot make animation
> *chat - sorry couldnt test this today
> GCompris - reading
> *click on letter - good
> *reading practice - good
> *horizontal - words start above the box not in it
> *vertical - words start above the box not in it
> *missing letter - good
> *image name drag and drop - good
> GCompris - discover the computer
> *keyboard
> **numbers with dice - good
> **throw ball to tux - good
> **simple letters - good
> **falling words - good
> *mouse
> **control the hose pipe - good
> **click the mouse - good
> **move the mouse - good
> **click on me - good
> **click and draw - good
> GCompris - strategy games
> *practice chess - "error: the external program gnuchess is mandatory to
> play chess in gcompris first install it and check it is in
> /usr/games/gnome-gnuchess
> *connect 4 - good
> *bar game - good - the prerequisite of a brain is cute
> *oware - good
> GCompris - experiental games
> *parachutist - good
> *canal lock - good
> *water cycle - good
> *electricity - cannot find the gnucap electric simulator you can download
> and install it from <http://geda.seul.org/tools/gnucap/> to be detected it
> must be installed in /usr/bin/gnucap or /usr/local/bin/gnucap you can still
> use this activity to draw schematics without computer simulation
> *pilot a submarine - good
> *sea race - good
> GCompris - discovery games
> *misc
> **drag and drop shapes - good
> **left and right words - good
> **algorithm - good
> **chronos - good
> **learning clock - good
> **region - activity works well but my brain did not (lol)
> **locate countries - good (and easier for us to answer than regions! lol)
> *colors
> **rebuild the mosaic - good
> **colors (ducks) - good
> stopped here, sorry didnt quite get through all the activities
>
> Overall comments on GCompris - there was lots of positive reinforcement for
> learners which was good to hear (literally hear),  impressed by this work.
> Few times the words in the help and instructions and names were on top of
> each other, like it couldnt fit all the writing in the box so would overlap.
> Bit slow to open and close each game but still very cool. Thanks for all the
> effort put in here so far.
>
> Tabitha
>
>
>
> 2008/9/13 Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff at gmail.com>
>
> Transcription of Paul's notes:
>>
>> Horse game
>>  - bottom half of screen is not filled with the same graphic
>> (resolution problem?) and the horse leaves a track over it. No crash
>> but visual nastiness. (tried to get screenshot hack going but failed)
>>
>> Success running these:
>>  - x2o
>>  - Wikipedia Spanish
>>  - MinivMac
>>  - Bridge
>>
>>
>> --
>>  martin.langhoff at gmail.com
>>  martin at laptop.org -- School Server Architect
>>  - ask interesting questions
>>  - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first
>>  - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Tabitha
> (64)21482229
> tabitha.mail at gmail.com
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