Karl,
This would be great, as I understand what you are trying to do, it involves screen sharing and object sharing/communicating across computers.
The ability for a teacher/student to see a 'History" of what they have done and as an alternative/replacement for Event Theater. Something akin to a background screen capture that can replay what the user did. See SQ-571 for more ideas on what I am looking for.
Also, could NetMorph, also be used to have a "repository" of objects/scripts that can be pulled into a project? Similar to Scratch's "choose a new sprite from file". Ideally with some kind of information to let teacher's know if the student's created the object themselves or got it from a repository or another student. This would help solve the following problems:
1. Some students aren't confident in their drawing abilities, so having pre-drawn objects would help them (ie: lower the floor). They have a great idea, but stop because they feel they can't draw the objects or animations. 2. I create an object and associated variables/scripts to do something (stop all playing sounds, create a bar graph, plot a function, capture keyboard input and set variables for game control, define a capture user input object and scripts, etc) and want to re-use them in other projects. But currently I have to re-open the project or projects and drag them into the supplies bin each time to "copy" them between projects.
Thanks,
Stephen
Message: 1 Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:35:52 +0100 From: Karl Ramberg karlramberg@gmail.com Subject: [etoys-dev] Collaboration for Etoys To: etoys dev etoys-dev@squeakland.org Message-ID: 4B3F9208.4070106@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Hi, I have been looking at the NetMorph image and its collaboration tool and it does what its does quite well. I have not been able to load the NetMorph package from SqueakMap into the Etoys image, there are some conflicts in translation tools I have not figured out yet...
But, before going further with NetMorphs I thought it would be good to have a idea about what we want the collaboration tools to achieve. What should/would the collaboration be like, what kind of environment do we want to provide. I think it would be nice if we could build a BookMorph like/Project/Wiki like environment where we have the full Etoys environment and versioning per page.
What are the use cases for collaboration ?
- Teacher showing projects to:
- one student
- group of students
- whole class
- Teacher monitoring / eavesdropping / helping ?
- one student
- group of students
- whole class
-Students showing others stuff - one student - group of students - whole class
- Students working on projects together
- two students
- group of students
- whole class
Setting up groups and administrate parts of network.
Here are links to two collaboration systems:
SeeThroughTalk , shared screen development http://swikis.ddo.jp/SeeThroughTalk NetMorphs where you send morphs to each other http://swikis.ddo.jp/NetMorph
Karl
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