[etoys-dev] Re: Collaboration for Etoys

[Steve Thomas]

Karl,

This would be great, as I understand what you are trying to do, it involves
screen sharing and object sharing/communicating across computers.

The ability for a teacher/student to see a 'History" of what they have done
and as an alternative/replacement for Event Theater. Something akin to a
background screen capture that can replay what the user did.  See SQ-571 for
more ideas on what I am looking for.

Also, could NetMorph, also be used to have a "repository" of objects/scripts
that can be pulled into a project?  Similar to Scratch's "choose a new
sprite from  file".  Ideally with some kind of information to let teacher's
know if the student's created the object themselves or got it from a
repository or another student. This would help solve the following problems:

   1. Some students aren't confident in their drawing abilities, so having
   pre-drawn objects would help them (ie: lower the floor). They have a great
   idea, but stop because they feel they can't draw the objects or animations.
   2. I create an object and associated variables/scripts to do something
   (stop all playing sounds, create a bar graph, plot a function, capture
   keyboard input and set variables for game control, define a capture user
   input object and scripts, etc) and want to re-use them in other projects.
   But currently I have to re-open the project or projects and drag them into
   the supplies bin each time to "copy" them between projects.


Thanks,

Stephen


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> Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:35:52 +0100
> From: Karl Ramberg <karlramberg at gmail.com>
> Subject: [etoys-dev] Collaboration for Etoys
> To: etoys dev <etoys-dev at squeakland.org>
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> Hi,
> I have been looking at the NetMorph image and its collaboration tool and
> it does what its does quite well.
> I have not been able to load the NetMorph package from SqueakMap into
> the Etoys image,
> there are some conflicts in translation tools I have not figured out yet...
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> But, before going further with NetMorphs I thought it would be good to
> have a idea about what we want the
> collaboration tools to achieve.
> What should/would the collaboration be like, what kind of environment do
> we want to provide.
> I think it would be nice if we could build a BookMorph like/Project/Wiki
> like environment where we have the full Etoys environment and versioning
> per page.
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> What are the use cases for collaboration ?
> - Teacher showing projects to:
>     - one student
>     - group of students
>     - whole class
> - Teacher monitoring / eavesdropping / helping ?
>     - one student
>     - group of students
>     - whole class
> -Students showing others stuff
>     - one student
>     - group of students
>     - whole class
> - Students working on projects together
>     - two students
>     - group of students
>     - whole class
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> Setting up groups and administrate parts of network.
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> Here are links to two collaboration systems:
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> SeeThroughTalk , shared screen development
> http://swikis.ddo.jp/SeeThroughTalk
> NetMorphs where you send morphs to each other
> http://swikis.ddo.jp/NetMorph
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> Karl
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