[Squeakland] Tutorials not working quite right

Kim Rose kim.rose at viewpointsresearch.org
Tue Sep 30 08:50:19 PDT 2003


Hi, Sheine -
Well, this is interesting "information"....neither Microsoft nor the 
Foundation are providing any support to Viewpoints or "Squeak" at 
this time.  Many of the Squeakland community have thought it might be 
interesting to propose for funding to the MS Foundation -- and now 
with the recent news of their support to NY schools.  However, at 
this point, what you've heard is rumor OR it may be that they are 
supporting a school and that school is using Squeak but if this is 
the case, I am personally unaware.
best,
Kim


At 11:25 AM -0400 9/29/03, Mankovsky, Sheine wrote:
>Hi.  I met yesterday with one of the TDSB trustees (not running again) who
>works for Microsoft.  Her name is Elizebeth Moyer and she is manager for
>something related to money to schools for innovation (I think). She said she
>thought that Microsoft was supporting Squeak in the U.S. We've never talked
>about that and I haven't noticed anything, except that Microsoft/Foundation
>might be supporting laptops in schools.
>
>I was thinking of pursuing re the Squeak trial at the TDSB.  However, I
>wanted to consult with you first re Microsoft involvement.
>
>Sheine
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kim Rose
>To: Greg Brunet; squeakland at squeakland.org
>Cc: Rose, Kim
>Sent: 20/08/2003 12:24 PM
>Subject: Re: [Squeakland] Tutorials not working quite right
>
>Hi, Greg -
>Sorry to learn about your hassles....
>As far as known problems with IE6 on Win XP I leave that to our
>expert, Mike, to address....and will ask him to respond to you.
>As far as your trouble with the Paint tutorial -- that Tutorial was
>written at a time when the Etoy interface was a bit different and
>that 'onion skin' only covered the painting *area* leaving the
>remainder of the world/screen uncovered.  We are updating/improving
>that tutorial RIGHT NOW and plan to have a better version there for
>use very shortly.
>When you finish a tutorial, the best thing is to "return to the
>browser" and then use your browser's back button to navigate within
>the Squeakland site to either do another tutorial or play, explore
>other areas.
>Thanks for your willingness, and patience as we grow and improve!
>cheers,
>Kim
>
>
>At 1:16 PM -0500 8/19/03, Greg Brunet wrote:
>>I recently found the Squeakland site and thought it would be neat to
>let
>>my kids try it out.  Unfortunately, when I went into the tutorials, I
>>ran into problems on the background and the first (painting) tutorial.
>>I'm wondering if there is a known problem running the Squeak plug-in on
>>IE6 on Win XP (though the problem still exists after I escape the
>browser),
>>or perhaps the tutorials aren't quite ready.
>>
>>In the case of the background, the right edge of the text is cut off
>>(I'd guess about 3-5 characters worth) making it hard to read the
>>article.  Also, if I left click on the text, then use the mouse scroll
>>wheel (expecting to scroll down in the text), the pictures jump from
>the
>>right to the left side, covering the text.  I can't figure out how to
>move
>>them back off the text.
>>
>>In the case of the painting etoy, after escaping the browser and
>  >clicking on the paintbrush icon as directed on page 1, a transparent
>  >skin covers the entire screen, not just the working area.  If I try to
>  >click on the 'page' buttons, I end up painting on them instead.  I can
>>only get rid of the skin by choosing 'keep' or 'toss' on the palette.
>I
>>can't follow the rest of the tutorial,  because the paint operation
>isn't
>>staying within the workarea.  Is there a way to fix these problems?
>>
>>Finally, it's not clear what to do after reaching the end of a tutorial
>>lesson.  The 'prev/next' buttons on the navigator tab don't seem to do
>>anything, so I was left with selecting 'quit' which took me back to my
>>browser with a blank screen and a message "Squeak Plugin <inactive>".
>>Is there a way to navigate to the next tutorial or at least back to the
>>webpage?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>--
>  >Greg
>>
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