Koji,
Thank you for creating this, it would be great for inclusion in the next
version of Etoys.
One idea is to have each laptop as its own game controller, with the
Scratch project as the "Game Board/Display" (Tried with two versions of
Etoys connected to one Scratch sending messages and it worked fine).
Another idea: kids could enter their answers/comments from their desks,
optionally the teacher could see the answers and then display them all
at once. Could be used for team games etc. This addresses the problem
of the teacher only being able to hear one answer at a time and when one
kid answers, the others don't have to think or simply copy and the
teacher is not aware of what is going on with all the kids.
Besides being really fun and motivating, it really makes messages much
more visible and tangible. Kids using Scratch (in my experience, which
is limited) usually don't use Broadcast/Receive.
Question, how does "receive messages" work? ie: how do I send messages
from Scratch to Etoys? Can I also pass variables? Is it a broadcast
message (ie: send to all connected Etoys or can I address individual Etoys?
Would be real nice if we had a way to do this Etoys to Etoys (perhaps
there is and I don't know it).
Stephen
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Steve Thomas <
sthomas1@gosargon.com
<mailto:
sthomas1@gosargon.com>> wrote:
To quote my 9 yr old son: "Wow, Do you know what this means? Etoys
is very hard to use, but at the end of a project its awesome,
Scratch is very easy to use , but its not very good at the end.
Now, you can combine them!"
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Bert Freudenberg