Testing summary - Auckland New Zealand, 30 January 2011<br><br>Who: Fabiana, Nevyn, Tabitha<br><br>testing new activities and/or updated activities, we charged the XOs at home and ran them on battery for
the testing session to get power logs, stopped when almost all flat<br>XO-1.0s running 439dx 88.1<br>XO-1.5 running 439dg 88.1<br><br>Tried Insectos - it appears to be a slideshow of creepy crawlies with sound - Nevyn says the program had bugs in it lol<br>
Downloaded and ran very fast on XO-1.5 but taking ages on XO-1.0 to download and start<br>the icon on the activities webpage is different to the icon in the journal - the reason we were worried about it is the icon on the activities webpage is a spider which Fabiana points out is an arachnid<br>
the audio quality of the text to speech is bad - it is hard to understand the computer voice even for our spanish speaker - easier with earphones<br>the button at the bottom right falls off the edge of the screen (salir?)<br>
seems you can feed and water the bugs but found it hard to see what we were supposed to do<br>there is information about the life cycle, habitat and reproduction<br>when salir (exit) it gives the fail to start message on both XO-1.0 and XO-1.5<br>
gross videos of the insects being born ueeww - perhaps kids will like that<br>there is a singing bugs page where you can click on the bugs and hear what the bugs sound like (the bug sounds are recordings) but that page has no exit button so you have to press escape<br>
there is also no exit button on the credits page<br>can see the window frame (a bit unSugar like)<br>Overall this activity is pretty cool<br>* spoke with kevix on irc - he wondered if you could take the insect photos+sounds and use them in TamTam - we wonder if you could use them in everything - Memorize, Write, Paint, Turtleart...<br>
<br>PJ lite & PJ<br>PJ lite is jigsaw puzzles from photos<br>can see the window frame thing - unSugar like<br>we are having cursor issues in PJ lite on the XO-1.0s - there is a bit of delay so you end up letting go of puzzle piece and it lands somewhere else - still have issues using USB mouse<br>
would be cool if you could add more photos (like ones you take yourself) to the PJ and PJ lite activity<br>the PJ lite game has 12 piece puzzles and the PJ game has 40 pieces and lets you choose if the pieces are up the right way or mixed
directions - that makes for good levels for learners and more advanced<br><br>we also having some issues with some info on frames per second appearing
in front of PJ activity and Rectangles activity - right in the middle
of the screen<br>took photo of the writing<br>restarting the activities resolved the writing on the screen issue - happened on both XO-1 and XO-1.5<br><br>Rectangle<br>also in rectangles activity - where there are 2 potential solutions it only accepts one of them<br>
Fabiana likes the rectangle game - as you go up the levels you have to start really thinking<br><br>Castle<br>the cursor is going crazy - still have issues using USB mouse<br>so hard to play <br>we keep getting stuck in the castle as there is often no door open<br>
there are black doors, brown doors, and white doors, initially we think we can only go through white doors, learned that we can go through a black door if carrying a ladder in pack<br>didn't found out how to open brown doors<br>
didn't find out the purpose of many objects<br>did learn to put jewels in the chest, use snorkel gear, and spells to get out of rooms with no doors unlocked, think we discovered purpose of cape<br><br>Attached power logs<br>
<br>Thanks testers<br>Tabitha<br><br>