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> 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!"