Bert Freudenberg wrote:
On Sep 28, 2007, at 10:58 , subbukk wrote:
Hi,
When presented with a large onion skin for sketches, I noticed kids tend to treat it like a large sheet of paper and draw whole pictures instead of drawing small objects and assembling them into widgets. The skin distorts the colors of objects already in the world, so kids shuffle it around when using color picker.
Since Etoys is all about encouraging kids to assemble widgets, shouldn't the default size be reduced? I tried various sizes and found 320x300 to be a nice default. It leaves enough of the screen estate visible (for picking colors) while giving enough area to draw small objects.
defaultPaintingExtent ^320 @ 300
Interesting thought, in particular since we still have the full- screen drawing capability for the background (the World's paint halo- handle).
- Bert -
Kids tend to make a drawing of the whole scenario in one sketch and then they want to make the pieces move. To draw the pieces one by one is counter intuitive for beginners and a hurdle that could be avoided. It could be something like a handle with a scissor to cut a sketch up into individual pieces. Karl