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* '''Technical problems when reloading the page''': some lost their hacks even twice. Although we told them not to reload the page, when installing and uninstalling the goggles they pressed a link and then could not go back to what they were doing. A kind of special back button or automatic saving of the code would help with that. | * '''Technical problems when reloading the page''': some lost their hacks even twice. Although we told them not to reload the page, when installing and uninstalling the goggles they pressed a link and then could not go back to what they were doing. A kind of special back button or automatic saving of the code would help with that. | ||
* '''A few lost interest after the first hack''': which on average was fine, but if the activity were longer and with more tasks there could have been more of them (and somehow for future occasions we have to consider what to tell them to do right after that). Even the prize stuff was not enough motivational related to | * '''A few lost interest after the first hack''': which on average was fine, but if the activity were longer and with more tasks there could have been more of them (and somehow for future occasions we have to consider what to tell them to do right after that). Even the prize stuff was not enough motivational related to that, but maybe we didn't play with it enough. | ||
* '''Points of stress with facilitation''': there were two of us for 16 kids, but also another occasional two facilitators from their summer camp. Even then, at some points there were 5 or 6 raising hands at the same time and not enough ability for turning the questions to the whole group (since each team was concentrated on their own page). A role of main facilitator or teacher adding some pauses, commuting from one screen to another with the projector, would have help. | * '''Points of stress with facilitation''': there were two of us for 16 kids, but also another occasional two facilitators from their summer camp. Even then, at some points there were 5 or 6 raising hands at the same time and not enough ability for turning the questions to the whole group (since each team was concentrated on their own page). A role of main facilitator or teacher adding some pauses, commuting from one screen to another with the projector, would have help. | ||
*''' Finishing the session with more knowledge''': about other hackasaurus tools and code notions. On one hand, we didn't have time nor prepared the session for jumping into the htmlpad, which some of the kids would have liked to play with in order to have URLs for sharing their hacks. On the other hand, explaining how HTML and other codes work on the Internet, as well as its basic structure, was also out of scope that day. A couple of nice and fun looking slides for presenting or finishing the session with that may have helped too to make it more complete. | *''' Finishing the session with more knowledge''': about other hackasaurus tools and code notions. On one hand, we didn't have time nor prepared the session for jumping into the htmlpad, which some of the kids would have liked to play with in order to have URLs for sharing their hacks. On the other hand, explaining how HTML and other codes work on the Internet, as well as its basic structure, was also out of scope that day. A couple of nice and fun looking slides for presenting or finishing the session with that may have helped too to make it more complete. | ||