etoys-dev October 2007

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[Etoys] blogging about constructionism, squeak, etc.
by Timothy Falconer 03 Oct '07

03 Oct '07

Hi folks, Once upon a time, I blogged daily about the semantic web. After a two year hiatus, I'm back to daily blogging, but this time my focus is constructionism, Squeak, and OLPC. Give "Big Fractal Tangle" a try, you might like what you read. website: http://bigfractaltangle.com feed: http://bigfractaltangle.com/index.rdf Thanks, Timothy Falconer

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[Etoys] Switching to 2.2 stream
by Bert Freudenberg 01 Oct '07

01 Oct '07

I think Scott suggested switching to a 2.2 stream to be able to continue working, while 2.1 will be the "stable" version (in case we need to put any more updates into it for trial-3). I just created that "etoys2.2" stream, and also published a first update. To switch your image to the new version do "SystemVersion setVersion" and enter "etoys2.2". Then load updates, you should get update 1665. - Bert -

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Re: [Etoys] Smaller onion skin for painting
by luis ACEVEDO 01 Oct '07

01 Oct '07

> It bears mentioning that the "lasso" and the "grab patch" tools > (found in the Graphics category of the Objects catalog) allow the > user to designate areas on the screen to be "grabbed"; the result of > such a grab is the creation of a new "sketch", just as if the area > designated had just been painted. In this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URX-J83-0Lg I show the use of the paint like a transparency Sheet. Also with a "lazzo" and "grab pacht" tools an image is divided in 6 little parts. I thing a good approach for childrens is a challenge like this: Who can...make a jigsaw puzzle ? greetings Pato Acevedo _________________________________________________________________ Exprésate - diseña tu página de inicio de Live.com como más te guste. http://www.live.com/getstarted

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[Etoys] Smaller onion skin for painting
by subbukk 01 Oct '07

01 Oct '07

Hi, When presented with a large onion skin for sketches, I noticed kids tend to treat it like a large sheet of paper and draw whole pictures instead of drawing small objects and assembling them into widgets. The skin distorts the colors of objects already in the world, so kids shuffle it around when using color picker. Since Etoys is all about encouraging kids to assemble widgets, shouldn't the default size be reduced? I tried various sizes and found 320x300 to be a nice default. It leaves enough of the screen estate visible (for picking colors) while giving enough area to draw small objects. defaultPaintingExtent ^320 @ 300 Regards .. Subbu

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Re: [Etoys] Smaller onion skin for painting
by kharness＠uiuc.edu 01 Oct '07

01 Oct '07

Bert, ah, now there are guides for lasso and grab patch. What else would you like to see there? Kathleen ---- Original message ---- >Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 10:02:04 +0200 >From: Bert Freudenberg <bert(a)freudenbergs.de> >Subject: Re: [Etoys] Smaller onion skin for painting >To: Etoys lists <etoys(a)lists.laptop.org> > >On Oct 1, 2007, at 6:40 , Scott Wallace wrote: > >> On Sep 30, 2007, at 9:01 PM, Juliano Bittencourt wrote: >>> ... But, the idea of creating a tool where children can cut >>> parts of a >>> drawing and transform them in objects sounds very interesting. This >>> would make possible to the child to paint an entire scene, and after >>> that decide what is an object and what is background. >> >> It bears mentioning that the "lasso" and the "grab patch" tools >> (found in the Graphics category of the Objects catalog) allow the >> user to designate areas on the screen to be "grabbed"; the result of >> such a grab is the creation of a new "sketch", just as if the area >> designated had just been painted. >> >> These provide a way that multiple smaller objects can be derived from >> a single initial painting without having to redo the artwork. > >I always wondered how these "tools" could be made more >discoverable ... I know many people who used etoys for a long time >but never discovered and used them. > >Maybe it was simpler when we still had two flaps, the "tools" and the >"supplies" flap. Sigh, screen real estate again ... > >- Bert - > > >_______________________________________________ >Etoys mailing list >Etoys(a)lists.laptop.org >http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/etoys

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