[Newbies] Making a Morphic Book released, please critique

[Steve Thomas]

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Gary Dunn <garydunnhi at gmail.com> wrote:

> I will consider using Etoys instead. Squeak just feels more like what Alan
> Kay and Seymour Papert had in mind.
>
Etoys came from Alan and his group at VPRI (see:
http://www.squeakland.org/about/people/)

> Screencasts have their place. I just don't like the idea of going outside
> of Squeak to teach someone how to teach using Squeak. We need to bring back
> multimedia.
>
Agreed, multimedia is definitely needed. Event Theater inside Etoys allows
for "screencasting" within Etoys.  The advantage of a YouTube video (or
vimeo et al) is that it helps you reach a wider audience and introduce them
to the ideas.

> Thanks for taking the time to comment. I'll look more at how to make a
> screencast.
>
If you have a Mac (10.6 or higher and iMovie I created a blog post on how to
create a screencast
here<http://mrstevesscience.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-i-create-etoys-minute-videos-for.html>

Cheers,
Stephen

> Gary Dunn
> Open Slate Project
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> On Aug 3, 2011 4:00 PM, "Steve Thomas" <sthomas1 at gosargon.com> wrote:
>
> Gary,
>
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Gary Dunn <garydunnhi at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > One of the goals for thi...
>
> A very good goal.  Have you considered using Etoys as a PowerPoint
> alternative?   If your target is 14-18 year olds, this may be a much easier
> on-ramp for them.  Your ideas and documentation are good a similar version
> for Etoys (perhaps using Event Theater to demonstrate how certain things are
> done would be nice as you can create "screencasts" within Etoys, just be
> sure not to move the mouse too quickly as it can cause problems).
>
>
>
> >
> > If anyone has some time (ha ha) I would appreciate any and all comments,
> starting with spelli...
> One idea is some sample books, perhaps along with screencasts on YouTube or
> embedded within the project using Event Theater to demonstrate how you made
> them.
>
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