squeakland May 2003

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pen trails
by Randall Caton 20 May '03

20 May '03

Does anyone know how to get pen trails to write on top of an imported graphic (e.g. jpg)? Can it be done? Randy Caton -- Randall Caton Department of Physics, Computer Science and Engineering Christopher Newport University 1 University Place Newport News, VA 23606 Gosnold Hall 136 Voice: 757-594-7188 FAX: 757-594-7919 email: rcaton(a)pcs.cnu.edu web: www.pcs.cnu.edu/~rcaton/

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Current image to use?
by Naala Brewer 19 May '03

19 May '03

Hi everyone, What is the best current squeak image to use to create new projects and/or interactive exploratory scaffolding? Does the Squeakland plugin image now have the full capabilities that a Squeak image from "Squeak.Org" has? Or is it still best to create baseline lessons and explorations in a "Squeak.Org" Squeak image and then allow teachers/students/parents to create off-shoot projects using the internet and the plugin image? Finally, is the newest version of swiki servers working well with the Squeakland plugin image and ".pr's" for accessing and utilizing squeak projects? Thanks! Naala -- Naala Brewer, Instructor Department of Mathematics and Statistics Arizona State University 480-965-0547 (voice) http://math.asu.edu/~nbrewer

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squeak-alice
by Shalabh Raizada 19 May '03

19 May '03

Hi, How can we embed a wonderland camera window in a book morph. How do we create alice actors from the stratch??? Thanx. Shalabh. _________________________________________________________________ Attention NRI! Send money home easily. http://server1.msn.co.in/msnleads/citibankrca/citibankrca2.asp Just sign up!

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sound library
by Randall Caton 14 May '03

14 May '03

Does anyone know how to save a project with a recorded sound so it stays with the project as described in the recent update message? If I record a sound, make a tile, and publish the project, when I close and reopen Squeak, clicking the tile gives the message "can't find in sound library" just like it used to do. -- Randall Caton Department of Physics, Computer Science and Engineering Christopher Newport University 1 University Place Newport News, VA 23606 Gosnold Hall 136 Voice: 757-594-7188 FAX: 757-594-7919 email: rcaton(a)pcs.cnu.edu web: www.pcs.cnu.edu/~rcaton/

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New updates and mailing list changes
by Michael Rueger 13 May '03

13 May '03

Hi all, as some of you already might have noticed there are a few new updates on the Squeakland site and the mailing list system was improved. There are new installers for Windows and Mac OS-9. Mac OS-X will be up a little later. Remember, you can always update your current installation by simply loading any project on the Squeakland site. Mailing list changes: -the message archive now also supports images -posts by newly subscribed list members are now moderated (held until approved by us) until we can verify they are not spammers. Yes, it is that bad! But now some good news :-) - Bug fixed that could result in the loss the viewer for an object - Sounds used in a project are now stored with the project - A Quit button was added at the tail end of the nav-bar, the NEW button was moved to the beginning of the nav-bar - There is a new trail-style called 'dots' - Terminology changes: - 'arrows' is now 'arrowheads' - 'lines and arrows' is now 'arrows'. - 'dotSize' variable governs size of dot. Defaults to 6, the smallest size at which dots start seeming round, but the user can set it to any value between 1 and 100. - New item in the Supplies bin: a translucent, borderless Rectangle in a sequence of 6 colors Enjoy and let me know if you encounter any problems! Michael

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Copy problem
by Phil Firsenbaum 13 May '03

13 May '03

In attempting to create a pattern consisting of a series of dots I drew an initial dot and used the Copy tile (found in miscellaneous category) followed by forward #. If i set this script to ticking and stop it after 6 dots appear, dots will continue to be created across the screen and I'll also have multiple dots on top of each other. What's going on here? The script doesn't appear to be recursive, yet it's behaving as if it were. Is there another strategy for laying down multiple copies of an object?

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[Squeakland] Invitation to "Mission: Squeak Explore" project and Student Voice community
by Amela Sadagic 07 May '03

07 May '03

Dear Colleagues, We are a small non-profit company called Advanced Network and Services, and you may have heard about our work though ThinkQuest and National Tele-immersion initiative that we sponsored and led in past years. We at Advanced are focusing our efforts on a new initiative that we call Exploring the Future of Learning (EFL). One thing that has not changed for us over the time is our commitment to providing students with opportunities to contribute to the education community and to have their voices heard and their contributions respected. Our work in this area will be centered around an on-line international student community for pre college students aged 13-19 called Student Voice. Student Voice will provide students with a variety of opportunities to get involved in student directed activities focused on making learning more interesting, exciting, and valuable. We believe, and we lots of evidence to show it, that students have a great deal to contribute to creating a better future of learning. One of the projects that we offer to students is to do active exploration of Squeak (www.futureoflearning.org/students/squeakInfo.html) - testing and commenting it through dedicated forum discussion led and participated by students, building Squeak Tutorials in Squeak, and creating lessons and activities for their peers. I would like to ask you to take a moment and think about the students you know between 13 and 19 who you think might be interested in getting involved in the EFL Student Voice community and Mission: Squeak Explore project, and to pass along the following message to them. In addition, it would be great if you could pass this message on to appropriate professional colleagues so that they can inform students they think would be interested and able to contribute to this community. Let us know your suggestions and advices on providing most constructive and creative activities for students - we are open to your and your students' ideas. Thank you for your help. best, Amela Dr. Amela Sadagic amela(a)advanced.org Director of EFL Programs ph/cell: 914 224 1276 Advanced Network & Services fax: 914 273 1809 200 Business Park Drive Armonk, NY 10504 project page: www.futureoflearning.org personal page: www.advanced.org/~amela =================================================================== new & coming: STUDENT VOICE - www.futureoflearning.org/students/ Dear student, We are happy to let you know that we are just about to start a new student community called Student Voice for pre-college students of age 13-19. We decided to offer you an opportunity of being among selected students who would kick off and guide this new series of student projects as a part our new initiative called Exploring the Future of Learning - EFL (more details about EFL below). You will notice that these project are somewhat different from our past project ThinkQuest but they share the same spirit - students in the center of all what we do and lots of group work and group creations. Additions to this list are: students as hosts, owners and managers of different activities; contributions from individual students; explorations of new ways we can learn more effectively and be inspired by the power of images, sounds, clever gadgets, simulations, animations, good stories and virtual trips. And we will play with and test some cool emerging technologies that can help that learning too. Student Voice activities do not have the character of competitions - we prefer providing students with creative reward system (see more about reward system below). So let's make this Summer exciting and memorable! So how should we start? 1. We suggest launching a set of discussion forums first. This will give you an opportunity to say what you as a student are interested in doing, what is the way you see the future of learning in and outside of school, and very practically how would you like to contribute to the entire EFL initiative. (see the current list of forums at http://www.futureoflearning.org/students/studentForums.html). Each forum will have three students as hosts. Responsibilities of the hosts will assume good management of well functioning discussion channel (see details below). You may want to explore this role - it will give you great experience in debating and managing constructive group discussion. Right now we are looking for students who would like to be such hosts - let us know which forum you would like to host on page http://www.futureoflearing.org/students/studentHelp.html . You are also more than welcome to participate in discussions in all forums. 2. Mission: Squeak Explore. For people that like testing and experimenting with new systems we have the following challenge: the first system we will be testing is Squeak, a multimedia authoring tool developed by computer pioneer Alan Kay. You can decide to play with and test the system and let us know your comments. You can also decide to participate in our project called "Squeak Tutorials", a new take on how to build tutorial for your peers. Read more at: http://www.futureoflearning.org/students/squeakInfo.html 3. Student Council: Do you feel compelled to discuss, suggest and make recommendations about the activities that will be vital for Student Voice? If your answer is 'Yes' check page http://www.futureoflearning.org/students/announcements.html#Council to apply for Student Council. This is just a beginning and there is more to come in the future. If at the moment your schedule is pretty tight and you cannot participate in those activities, check our page http://www.futureoflearning.org/students/announcements.html at any time for future opportunities. If you would like to work with us please register with Student Voice at http://www.futureoflearning.org/students/register/ . If you would also like to be: - forum host - member of student Council - take up the Squeak challenge tell us that on http://www.futureoflearing.org/students/studentHelp.html Hope you will like to join our efforts and explore possibilities. Let us know if you do! best, EFL team --------------------------------------------------------------------- Exploring the Future of Learning - EFL - www.futureoflearning.org The EFL MISSION By the year 2010, all children will have access to a working and cost-effective, individualized learning environment adapted to their personal learning aptitudes and goals, which is as compelling as other parts of their environment, which helps them achieve their full potential in the world and which is capable of being adapted and used worldwide. The goal of the EFL Program is to create the knowledge, skills and community of people who can lead, enable and support the creation of specific EFL-style learning communities. Above all else, EFL insists that the learning needs and aspirations of the student determine all that we do. Finding out what they are, and creating a system that adapts to them, supports them and helps the student manage them is the central design goal. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Reward system: creative opportunities for students: 1. Student Summer EFL Internship: 3 students will be recipients of a paid internship that will last through June, July and August) during which the 3 students will work together on defining the guidelines for a Student Leadership within EFL. It would cover topics susch as student involvement, proposals for a set of activities that students find compelling and important within the context of EFL work, as well as their suggestions for the best ways to reach and affect larger student population, and create self-sustainable and most effective communication channels. 2. Student Panel: You may be invited to participate in the panel hosted by Jaron Lanier. The theme is: "The future of the schools and future of learning". The event will be organized in NYC area. 3. Series of interviews and stories about students and their work: Exemplary works and contributions will be featured in different public media. 4. Certificates of appreciation will be given to those students who take specific responsibilities within EFL 5. Individual student portfolios - http://www.futureoflearning.org/students/portfoliosInfo.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Seeking compelling high school examples
by Scott Wallace 06 May '03

06 May '03

As Christopher correctly points out, repeating-pattern "textures" are laid out starting at the top-left corner of a playfield. Thus, if you use a graph-paper-like texture in a playfield, and you want a horizontal line in that texture to line up perfectly with the *bottom* of the playfield, it may be necessary for you to resize the playfield manually to make things line up along the bottom edge the way you want. Most of the computer-graphics world operates with coordinate systems in which the origin is at the top-*left* corner and in which y-values get larger as you go *downward*. And indeed all of Squeak *outside the etoy system* operates this way. However, most of the *mathematics* world operates with the conventional "Cartesian" coordinate system, in which y-values get larger as you *upward* in the 2-d plane. The Squeak etoy systm uses these "Cartesian coordinates" for "x" and "y" and "mouseX" and "mouseY" in Viewers and Scriptors. Inevitably, situations arise in which there is a culture clash between the Cartesian view and the computer-graphics view. The situation that Christopher mentions is one. I wouldn't call it a "bug", because if repeating patterns were *not* laid out from the top-left-corner, the result would seem like *more* of a bug, to more people. Cheers, -- Scott >>From: Christopher Sawtell <csawtell(a)paradise.net.nz> >>To: squeakland(a)squeakland.org >>Subject: Re: Seeking compelling high school examples >>Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 22:54:38 +1200 >> >>This project merely illustrates a very minor bug in the playfield. >> >>It seems that the y origin for the graph paper is the top of the playfield, >>whereas the y origin for the graph is at the bottom. Thus, unless the size of >>the y dimension of the playfield is an exact multiple of the graphpaper >>squares the plotting is incorrect. This is illustrated by the graph to the >>left, the plot of which should pass precisely through the corners of the >>squares of the graph paper. >> >>Once again, really a very minor bug. >> >>http://squeakland.org/project.jsp?http://berty/GraphBug.005.pr

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Fwd: Re: Seeking compelling high school examples
by m.rueger＠acm.org 05 May '03

05 May '03

Kim Rose wrote: > Mike, > This still won't work for me...in IE I get a blank Etoy window, in > Netscape I get total gibberish.... > any explanation???? >http://berty.dyndns.org/CSpendulum.pr >http://berty.dyndns.org/GraphBug.pr These URLs point directly to the project file. This may work, but in most cases it doesn't (some browser magic involved). Netscape in your case actually tries to display the *content* of the project file directly, thus the gibberish. Some people might also encounter download problems as these projects are hosted on a so called dynamic dns server. Without going into details it could happen that the server temporarily may not be found. Either download the projects and load them from your local disc or use these URLs that utilize the squeakland launcher: http://squeakland.org/project.jsp?http://berty.dyndns.org/CSpendulum.pr (I just found out that this project contains a TTGlyph, it won't work in the squeakland image. Please *always* use the unmodified squeakland plugin image when you build projects that you want to share). http://squeakland.org/project.jsp?http://berty.dyndns.org/GraphBug.pr (This one seems to work) Michael

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Importing a graphic
by tacmanphil＠mac.com 05 May '03

05 May '03

Oops...I forgot how to import a graphic (jpeg file) into a Squeak project. I should probably start documenting my own work! Phil

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