<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:29 PM, FFM <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ffm@laptop.org">ffm@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Maybe somewhere in the frame (forever, thus able to provide contextual<br></div>
assistance in the future), or as a throbbing icon on the home view (just for<br>
the first launch)?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>All of our initial discussions on help focused around a contextual help system, and I still hope that this is where we'll be taking this in the future. By embedding (?) icons within the secondary palette menus for various devices, objects, activities, and even individual buttons and controls, we can provide a way to launch into the help activity and dive directly to the relevant info for the activity, control, etc. selected. In addition, I'd like to support a community driven help system by which, in addition to the activity/olpc provided help, it's possible for kids to add tips, tricks, images, tutorials, and other info to these sections for later consumption by peers.</div>
<div><br></div><div>This is a noble, but ambitious goal, which is why a simple and static help activity is the present solution, and why it's only integrated into the system at a single point - the activity itself.</div>
<div><br></div><div>- Eben</div><div><br></div></div></div>