Pendulum, etc.

[Phil Firsenbaum]

Sheine,
Yes, I did enjoy the Seder and thanks for inquiring. That message, 
however, was not intended for the list...I was sending it to a 
colleague and somehow it got sent  out to the entire Squeakland list.
Phil


On Tuesday, April 22, 2003, at 09:39 PM, Mankovsky, Sheine wrote:

> Phil, I hope you enjoyed the Seder you attended:)  It occurred to me 
> that
> there may be members of this Squeak community who don't have any 
> context for
> the word "seder".  Two sites that looked promising for those who may be
> interested in some general information are 
> http://www.holidays.net/passover/
> and  http://learn.jtsa.edu/passover/.   I chose these somewhat 
> arbitrarily.
> Another site, www.passover.net offers information in Spanish, Italian 
> and
> French, in addition to English.  It is sponsored by Chabad Lubavitch 
> and is
> Orthodox in its orientation.
>
> Sheine
>
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:	Phil Firsenbaum [SMTP:tacmanphil at mac.com]
>> Sent:	Thursday, April 17, 2003 5:39 PM
>> To:	squeakland at squeakland.org
>> Subject:	Re: Pendulum
>>
>> Interesting...I actually saw this message on the Squeak archive. i
>> didn't receive it on the mailing list, though.
>>
>> Anyhow, even if the pen were down and the pendulum simulated reality i
>> think it would draw lines on top of lines  unless the area under the
>> pen was scrolling. Do you see what I mean?
>> I'm still hoping to get the pendulum to work although maybe that's not
>> as important as the thinking about pendulum that I've been forced to
>> do. I think it would be really powerful to get kids involved. We 
>> should
>> try it out before the year is out...with something that's doable, or
>> maybe not
>> Wouldn't it be nice to have at least a few other teachers involved in
>> this conversation? From PS 87 or from the local PDS? Is there a grant
>> opportunity lurking in here someplace?
>>
>> Off to a Seder now...enjoy!
>> Phil
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, April 16, 2003, at 07:23 PM, Robyn Ulzheimer wrote:
>>
>>> So I've been reading all of the emails. I had this idea about using 
>>> the
>>> pen.  When the pendulum was swinging if the pen was down, it would 
>>> draw
>>> the arc.  However, it wouldn't look like the Robolab one (at least 
>>> not
>>> yet) but could it evenutally? Just a thought as I was sitting in
>>> traffic
>>> on the way home tonite.
>>>
>>>
>>> Robyn
>>>
>