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#26 2008-11-27 10:39:29
- MartinWollenweber
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- Registered: 2007-04-10
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Re: Scratch Webpage Improvemets
andresmh wrote:
I am adding it to our bug/feature tracking site. Let me know if you want access to it so you can submit some of these ideas there.
Yes please!
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#27 2008-11-27 15:04:06
Re: Scratch Webpage Improvemets
andresmh wrote:
There is so much material here! I don't know where to start
I really like Paddle2See's idea for galleries of galleries. Who else thinks is important? Who would use them? Should it be a feature that only some "curators" have access to?
I like the idea of adding an overall layer of organization. I think you want the super-galleries to be created and owned by the Scratch team but operated by volunteer curators. Otherwise you might end up with a large collection of out-of-date and trivial super-galleries.
At the same time I think you’d want some way to merchandise the super-galleries to generate and maintain interest in them. Perhaps your curators could be allowed to feature projects on a web page linked off of the home page This would let them provide examples of projects in their various areas and allow more projects to be featured.
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#28 2008-11-27 16:49:29
Re: Scratch Webpage Improvemets
I like the idea of organizing your mystuff page like a super gallery and the idea of the microblog thing that you were talking about. It would allow advertisements about upcoming prjects and maybe about a good forum topic that they want signed. The SuperGallery Mystuff thing would be great for me because it would be nice just to make everything much easier to find.
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#29 2008-11-27 21:49:24
Re: Scratch Webpage Improvemets
It sounds like we have a couple of threads going with respect to how a gallery of galleries might be used.
On one hand, people would use this feature to organize their My Stuff page.
On the other hand, Paddle2see’s original post and andresmh question about having this feature only available to a set of curators is, I think, directed at creating a site-wide resource with examples and other helpful projects. This would help beginners by giving them a resource that they could use to explore and answer their own questions. I believe beginners really would use such a resource even if some would first ask their questions on the forum.
Last month I made my own suggestion on what this might look like. In my version http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?id=10461
I envisioned that the resource pages (which I called albums) would also contain links to useful posts in the forum.
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#30 2008-11-28 04:34:58
- MartinWollenweber
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Re: Scratch Webpage Improvemets
from: http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=79968#p79968 (got in wrong thread)
at http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?id=10461 Digimath wrote:
Digimath wrote:
Of course the forums have a great deal of information but the specific posts are sometimes hard to find and over time become outdated. Individual Scratchers have created many galleries with tutorials and other resources but those galleries become inactive or unmanaged when their owners becomes inactive.
I agree to that. One part of the solution is to mix forum an projects in any form, to strengthen discussion an learning of the Scratch-Community. One simple way to do that is at the "my Stuff"-Page like I described in detail here : http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=78970#p78970
andresmh wrote:
I like Martin's idea of a place to put links on your MyStuff to forum posts (or to anywhere else on the Scratch site for that matter). Who else thinks that's a good idea? Who would use it? I have been talking to ericr about the possibility of having a microblog within Scratch that allows people to tell the world what project they are working on, what they are struggling with, etc... kind of like how Facebook Status started.
I also like the community-driven idea to mix it in a sort of "Gallery of galleries", but this must be first "invented", so it will take longer. With forum entries at the "my stuff"-page we could immediately start to test the concept of mixing projects and forum entries and later transfer it to the new "gallery of galleries".
What do you think?
By the way: At http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=72364#p72364 Andres posted (at 2007-03-05):
andresmh wrote:
We're in the process of recruiting developers for the website (it has only been me for the past few months). I like your idea of centrally/volunteer managed albums. What categories do you think we should have?
@Andres: Did you find any until now? There must be some Scratcher with PHP-knowledge outside that are willing to help!?
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