[Squeakland] XP, Smartboard, and Squeak?

[Arvind Grover]

Kim, I can see the confusing nature of my statement now. I have never
been able to call up the halo using the SmartBoard alone. I had to
enable the halo from the laptop, and then use handles at the SmartBoard.

Bob, another thing that works really well with the SmartBoard is
creating and running scripts. You can pull out tiles easily from the
viewer at the board, and then run them with the fire button or the
clock.

arvind

-----Original Message-----
From: Kim Rose [mailto:kim.rose at squeakland.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 3:49 PM
To: Arvind Grover; Bob Irving; squeakland at squeakland.org
Subject: Re: [Squeakland] XP, Smartboard, and Squeak?

Hi, Arvind -
What do you mean by "never able to use the halo"?  Perhaps if you say 
more we can offer more help?
cheers,
Kim


At 1:58 PM -0400 4/13/05, Arvind Grover wrote:
>Bob, I had a great time using a SmartBoard with Squeak for an
>after-school club. I was never able to use the halo, but simply being
>able to drag objects around with visually very compelling to the
>students' understanding of objects. If you figure out a workaround,
>please me know, because I hope to have a SmartBoard in my classroom
next
>year.
>
>I didn't really try out the on-screen keyboard, but I know the
>SmartBoard is not fond of pressing two points on the board at once,
>which is probably why your alt-click is not working.
>
>arvind
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: squeakland-bounces at squeakland.org
>[mailto:squeakland-bounces at squeakland.org] On Behalf Of Bob Irving
>Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 10:52 AM
>To: squeakland at squeakland.org
>Subject: [Squeakland] XP, Smartboard, and Squeak?
>
>I realize this may be out of left field, but has anyone ever tried the
>above configuration?  We are getting smartboards in all the classrooms
>next year, and I am experimenting with one now.  I think the
tactileness
>(tactility?) of the Smartboard and Squeak are a winning combination,
but
>I can't figure out how to get the halo of an object, since I can't
>ALT-Click onscreen.   I've tried using the ALT key on the Smartboard
>onscreen keyboard, but no go.
>
>If no one has done this, are there any developer types with a
>suggestion for a hack of Squeak?   And I mean hack in the best way
>possible, of course.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>
>
>Bob Irving
>Middle School Technology Facilitator
>Lancaster Country Day School
>Lancaster, PA
>Blog: www.e-lcds.org/wordpress/
>"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory." W. Edward
>Deming
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