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
 
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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>
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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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