etoys-dev July 2008

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[Etoys] Jiggling the mouse
by K. K. Subramaniam 02 Aug '08

02 Aug '08

Hi, Yesterday, I watched a 7-year old girl use Etoys to assemble a face using ellipses and rectangles. Sometimes, the rotation center had to be changed from the default for embed ops (e.g. ears). I had taught her to bring up the halo menu and and use the red menu button to turn on the direction handle. She discovered that moving the rotate button leaves behind the direction handle and preferred to use it. When the rotate button is used, the direction handles appear and stays on even when the rotation ends with the original heading. My initial reaction was to make a note to file a trac ticket. But then, watching the ease with which she used the rotate button to bring up the direction handle and move it around, I realized this jiggle gesture comes easily and naturally than shift click for children. Jiggle the dup button to get a sibling, jiggle the color button to get a property sheet and so on. BTW, I made a one-liner fix to use simple drag (instead of shift-drag) for moving direction handles. If others can try this out and find it useful, I will file a ticket for its inclusion in Etoys. Subbu

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[Etoys] Squeak By Example - OLPC edition
by Serge Stinckwich 28 Jul '08

28 Jul '08

Hi all, we are willing with Marcus Denker to write an OLPC edition of the Squeak By Example book (http://www.squeakbyexample). This book will be mostly based on the SBE and some chapters specific to the OLPC platform. What do you think about the whole idea ? Do you any any ideas of specific contents that could be added to this OLPC edition ? Thank you, -- Serge Stinckwich Smalltalkers do: [:it | All with: Class, (And love: it)] http://blog.doesnotunderstand.org/

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[Etoys] Call for Papers - C5-09 Kyoto Japan January 19-22, 2009
by Kim Rose 26 Jul '08

26 Jul '08

Call for Papers - C5-09 The Seventh International Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing (C5 2009) January 19-22, 2009 Kyoto, Japan http://www.cm.is.ritsumei.ac.jp/c5-09/ Computers, networks, and other forms of technology are now pervasive in our information-based society. However, most users still function as passive consumers of technology. To evolve into a true knowledge society, it is critical that we transform computer-based human activities to engage users in the active process of creating, connecting, and collaborating together. The C5 conference is for researchers, technology developers, educators, and technology users who are concerned about developing and enabling human-oriented creation, connection, and collaboration processes. C5 is an international forum for presenting ongoing work as well as new work currently under development and for discussing future needs and directions in creative computing and multimedia authoring environments. We welcome equally the submission of technical papers and practitioner/experience reports for paper presentations. In addition, we have added workshops to the conference and are now soliciting proposals fro interactive workshops. Hosted in Japan, this conference builds on the successes and high standards held by previous C5 conferences: 2003-2005, 2007 in Kyoto (Japan), 2006 in Berkeley (USA), 2008 in Poitiers (France). Topics of Interest Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Development and applications of collaboration tools and environments User collaboration using 3D, multimedia, and animation objects Technologies for creating educational environments Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) and Technology- Enabled Learning (TEL) Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), distributed work, and virtual teaming Hybrid technology activities, such as scientific experiments, instrumentations, participatory design (PD) or simulations , robots, and game playing Development of applications/content for non-traditional learning and support environments, including mentoring, role-playing, peer-to- peer, "teacherless" environments, low-cost and sustainable technologies (e.g. $100 laptop), and gerontechnology applications, among others. Applications and tools for education from K-12 through higher education, system design by children, digital library and search environment for children Conference sessions will include invited talks, including Dr. Alan Kay (Viewpoints Research Institute), recipient of the 2003 ACM Turing Award, Dr. Allison Druin, Human-Computer Interaction Lab, University of Maryland, as well as formal paper presentations, hands-on workshops, informal "un-conference" and "lightning" sessions and social and sightseeing events. Important Dates: Full paper submission: September 30, 2008 Notification of acceptance: November 14, 2008 Full paper camera-ready copies: December 15, 2008

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[Etoys] Help: QuickGuide issues
by K. K. Subramaniam 25 Jul '08

25 Jul '08

Hi, Has anyone been able to save and reload a bookMorph from the QuickGuides in etoys 3.0-2059? Here is what I did: In etoys 3.0, click Help->Paint->Brushes Duplicated this book onto the world. control-right-clicked for menu and saved morph in file. deleted the bookmorph. opened file list and loaded the morph from its file. I get a 'class is not in structures list' error. The saved file has references to classes like Player117 etc. I thought such names were strictly local to an image. In the same image, I am able to create a new bookmorph and save and reload it in an image successfully. TIA for any assistance .. Subbu

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[Etoys] Spanish translation of Etoys?
by Yoshiki Ohshima 25 Jul '08

25 Jul '08

Hello, Just checking, but what is the latest status of the Spanish translation of Etoys? The outstanding trac ticket is http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6911 and my understanding is that José and Antonio and others commits the translation to the Pootle server but it seems that it hasn't happened yet. Thank you! -- Yoshiki

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[Etoys] Project Navigation
by Derek O'Connell 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

>From the point of view of an end-user and using a fresh install (etoys-image-and-pr-080708): Opening to the default project and clicking "previous project" takes the user to the "Unnamed1" project (actually the root project). How then do they get back to the default project? Seems impossible without advanced knowledge but am I missing something obvious? Also, is there an on-line searchable version of this list?

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[Etoys] [ANN] Squeak/Etoys OLPC page available
by Robert Krahn 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

Hi -- We are happy to announce our Squeak/Etoys OLPC page at http:// www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/projects/olpc/ where we are going to publish projects/content developed by our students. Comments are welcomed. Enjoy! Robert Krahn HPI Software Architecture Group http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/

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[Etoys] MC support in EToys image
by Serge Stinckwich 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

Hi all, i would like to base the next SqueakBot release on EToys image. I'm trying to install Monticello available on SqueakMap, but there is some errors ... You did'nt use MC for your development ? -- Serge Stinckwich Smalltalkers do: [:it | All with: Class, (And love: it)] http://blog.doesnotunderstand.org/

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[Etoys] Squeak By Example - OLPC edition
by luis ACEVEDO 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

Hi list: About this: >> I've been showing teachers what is possible with the OLPC build of Squeak! >> and they want to use it, but there is no Book or place to Educate the >> Educators. > There is already a book about EToys : > http://www.squeakalpha.org/sqmedia/books/kimbjbook.html > But his book is not adapted to the OLPC version. > There is even a french translation of this book here : > http://smallwiki.unibe.ch/traductionfranaisedepowerfulideasintheclassroom/ I thing may by add one or two chapters like this: http://blog.ofset.org/hilaire/index.php?post/2008/05/01/Operational-thinking Or the same in Spanish, with youtube videos using the xo squeak.image : http://patricioacevedo.blogspot.com/2008/07/piaget-vygotsky-kay-de-la-teora… Sorry for my basic english skills, cheers Pato Acevedo _________________________________________________________________ Descarga GRATIS el poder del nuevo Internet Explorer 7. http://optimized.msn.com/Default.aspx?mkt=es-cl

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Re: [Etoys] Squeak By Example - OLPC edition
by Serge Stinckwich 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

2008/7/23 Joseph Apuzzo <japuzzo(a)gmail.com>: > I don't think we need another "Squeak by Example", it a good programming > book that covers it's topic well. > What is needed is a book to educate teachers showing them how to use the > OLPC features. > That could end with a chapter or two on how to add features / function to > the OLPC. > > I've been showing teachers what is possible with the OLPC build of Squeak! > and they want to use it, but there is no Book or place to Educate the > Educators. Our idea with this proposal is to attract more developers to the Squeak OLPC version. I'm not really an educator so i could'nt write something for them. But we can added in the book a chapter about "How to write Games for EToys" based for example on this article : http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Archive/Papers/Gael06aC5.pdf PS : it looks like everyone reply directly to people and not to the mailing-list. Could we fix that ? -- Serge Stinckwich Smalltalkers do: [:it | All with: Class, (And love: it)] http://blog.doesnotunderstand.org/

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