<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 23, 2007 9:25 AM, Elena Siff Erenberg <<a href="mailto:esiff@att.net">esiff@att.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:18.0px">I have downloaded every page of the Simplified User Guide...doesn't cut it for me... I really need a step by step manual on each activity...</span></font>
</div></blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>A wiki page that describes more of the interface for the activities would be useful.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:18.0px">lots of great applications but if you are not one of those all-knowing "teachers" you keep referring to, some of us will never figure it out. Please ...we are not all quick studies or teachers and need some basic simple steps to be able to use the XO as it is intended to be used!
</span></font></div></blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>The design of the laptop isn't that you should be a teacher, all-knowing in how to use this advanced, technical system. The design of the laptop is for children to explore, and be rewarded for their curiosity with a transparent, clear, consistent system.
</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>To successfully use this laptop, you have to be curious and willing to explore the system (it won't hurt if you click a button you don't know the purpose to. Put your mouse over parts of the system and see how they respond visually.)
</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Since this laptop is quite different, basic assumptions about using a computer (From a Windows or Mac world) don't carry over. Here is a handful of suggestions it would be useful to walk through:
</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>* Use the Neighborhood view to find a wireless network to connect to. Launch the Browse activity and see if you have an Internet connection by visiting a webpage.
</div><div>* While online, visit a webpage and find a nice picture of something. Figure out how to save that image to your journal.</div><div>* Move your mouse to the corner and activate the 'frame'. Open the Write activity from the bottom row of icons. Figure out how to load the image you saved to your journal, into the letter you are writing.
</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>As for other activities? Start poking at them and see what happens. When you run into a specific problem, I encourage you to email <a href="mailto:community-support@lists.laptop.org">
community-support@lists.laptop.org</a> your question. A growing team of volunteers works diligently to answer every single email.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div>-- <br>Michael Burns * Student<br>
Open Source {Education} Lab