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% Journal
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The Journal Activity is an automated diary of everything you do within
Sugar. Sugar Activities use the Journal as a place to save your work.
You can use the Journal as a place to revisit old work, to resume
incomplete work, to organize your completed work, and to reflect upon
your progress as a learner.
The Journal keeps a record of what you do and the things your create
such as photos, drawings, and writings. You can search for items in the
Journal or sort entries by type or date. You can also click an entry to
get a detailed view. You can resume an activity by clicking on the icon
for that entry.
The Journal also supports external storage media such as a USB device or
a SD card. When you plug a USB device into the XO, you can access the
contents of the USB device using the Journal. Click the USB icon to see
the content on an attached USB storage device. You can also copy
information from the Journal onto removeable media—such as a USB
device—as a means of backing it up. If you are connected to a school
server, you can access its backup system.
Accessing the Journal
=====================
To show the Journal, click the Journal icon on the Frame.
On an XO laptop, you can press the magnifying glass key in the top row
of the keyboard to immediately open the Journal and search.
Journal features
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The Journal View contains a menu and a list of journal entries:
- Favorite star: You can mark important entries by clicking on the
star icon for that entry. When you click the star icon, the star is
colored in.
- Entry icon: Each Journal entry has an icon. The color of the icon
shows who created the entry. For example, if you copy a photo from a
friend, the photo's icon has your friend's colors. You can launch
the Activity for the entry by clicking on the icon. A hover menu may
reveal additional options. In particular, "Erase" deletes that entry
from your Journal. Caution: "Erase" deletes any data associated with
the entry shown. For example, if you delete an entry that shows that
you installed an Activity, you delete the Activity as well.
- Entry name: Each entry has a name. You can edit the name by clicking
it. If the Journal view is showing the contents of a removable
storage device, the Linux file name is shown here, with the path and
the file name extension stripped off.
- Search box: Type words in the box to search for entries that match
those words. Entries are displayed when they contain all of the
typed words. Comparison will be against all of: the entry name
field, the description field (see "Journal detail view"), and the
tag field (see "Journal detail view"). Note: A small x button at the
right of the box shows that searching is being applied. To cancel
your search, click on that x.
- Favorites view: Only shows the entries which have been marked as
favorites.
- Type filter: You can select to have the Journal only show certain
types of entries, e.g. only images or only entries associated with a
specific Activity.
- Date filter: Contains option to only show Journal entries modified
within the past day, week, or month.
- Sorting options: You can order Journal entries by their size,
creation date and modification date.
- Documents folder: To exchange files between the Journal and the
underlying file system the \$HOME/DOCUMENTS folderis available in
the Journal. For example: If you have created an image in GIMP under
GNOME and want to open it in the Paint Activity you can place it in
the \$HOME/DOCUMENTS folder and then can access it in the Journal.
- Buddy icons: If other participants joined you in this Activity,
icons in their colors appear here.
- Elapsed time: Displays the time since the most recent change to the
entry.
- Detail view: Click this button to see detailed information about the
entry. See "Journal detail view", below.
Journal Detail view
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The Detail view appears when you click the Detail view button for an
entry. This view lets you examine and annotate the entry.
- Back Icon: You can click anywhere in this line to return to the main
Journal View.
- Resume Button: You can click the Resume button to resume an
Activity. A hover menu may show additional options. For example, you
can resume working with an image using either the Browser or the
Paint Activity.
- Copy button: You can copy a Journal entry to the clipboard (or to a
removable storage device shown on the bottom edge of the Journal
screen) by clicking on the Copy button.
- Duplicate button: You can duplicate a Journal entry by clicking on
the Duplicate button.
- Erase button: You can erase an entry by clicking the Erase button.
Caution: Once you erase an entry, it cannot be restored unless you
have backed up your Journal.
- Entry name: You can change the name of the entry by clicking it and
typing in a new name.
- Elapsed time: Displays the time since the most recent change to the
entry.
- Favorites Icon: This icon indicates whether an entry has been
starred as a favorite which can be done by clicking it.
- Thumbnail image: Each entry has a thumbnail image that is created
automatically. The image show the Activity screen when the last
change to the Journal entry was saved.
- Description field: You can type a description of the entry, which
you can find later using the Search box. Use a description to remind
you of what you did. For example: "Flowers I saw on the hike to the
waterfall". Or you can reflect on your work and process: what I have
done; how I have done it; and how successful these efforts have
been. "This was not easy, but I learned a lot about different types
of flowers in my community by speaking with my family". This is
important because these description can be shown in the reflection
Activity called "Portfolio".
- Tags field: You can enter search tags. Tags are keywords used to
describe a journal entry so that you can find it later using the
Search box. For example, if your project is for school, maybe
science class, and it is a report about local flowers, you could put
"science" and "flowers" as the tags. You can write as many tags as
you wish. You can also use keywords to help you "group" this entry,
for instance by origin or context.
- Participants: Displays the XO icons of each person who participated
in a shared Activity.
When resuming from the Detail View, you can choose among different
Activities.
Using removeable media
======================
When you insert removeable media—such as a USB device or SD card—it
appears as an icon on the bottom edge of the main Journal view.
- Journal: Click the Journal icon to shows the Journal View.
- Documents folder: Click the Documents icon to show the contents of
- USB device: Click the USB icon (or SD icon) to show the
removeable-media file system.
You can drag entries from the Journal onto the Documents folder or
removable media (and vice-versa)
To remove (unmount) the external file system, choose Remove on the hover
menu.
Caution: It may take time for the hover menu to appear. It is easy to
make a mistake and click the icon itself when you intended to click
Unmount.
Caution: If you have a Terminal running you may inadvertently have your
removeable media locked. The safest way to remove media is after
powering off your computer.
Sending Journal Entries via a Network
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The Journal allows you to send entries to other people who are using
Sugar via a network. In order to do this the receiving user has to be
registered as a friend in the Neighborhood View and be online. It does
not matter whether the laptops are connected via the Mesh-network, an
Ad-Hoc network, an access point, or a server.
Note to parents and teachers
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The Journal keeps a record of everything a child does within Sugar:
which Activities they use and what content they create. It also keeps a
record of group Activities, such as participation in a shared Write or
Browse session. The Journal encourages reflection. You can refer to it
to assess a child's progress, much in the spirit of "portfolio"
assessment. In order to further support this reflection, Sugar offers a
Portfolio Activity, an assessment tool that utilizes the journal
content. You can reflect on you work: what I have done; how I have done
it; and how successful these efforts have been. Then you can create a
multimedia presentation to share with your peers, teachers, and parents
who can also reflect in return.
You can also use it as a catalyst for discussion with your child or
student. We encourage the use of the description field within the detail
view of Journal entries as a place to annotate or comment up entries.
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