squeakland August 2009

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List of EToys suggestions
by Ted Kaehler 11 Aug '09

11 Aug '09

Session on what We want: For beginners, make it VERY difficult to bring the system to its knees. Way to tell if totally locked up. Using the Frame rate monitor -- if going too slow, warn or stop new objects from being dragged out. Repeated presses on a button, launches too many things -- prevent. Detect and stop recursion in scripts. Colors for script catagories! Icons for them? Book of many pages with scripts running in each page. Why do they Keep running? Is that needed? Touch pad is bad. Hard to grab things. (use a mouse). Make Handles on halos even larger! Area around a small object where you can bring up a halo. As if clicked on the object. Asking for gradual transition to text -- fade away the tiles. Not all tiles are equally relevant -- fade out some of them? Hide some of them deeper? Dr. Scheme -- gradually reveals features through levels. 6 Levels. Click on a tile in a script, and show where that tile came from, and a help page for that tile. (does hover work inside a running script?) Remember that can hover over a tile in viewer and see a description. Do Etoys with natural languge -- synonyms for tile names? Levels, but you have to pass a test to get to the next level. Halo Handles move when rotating -- use histeresis so they stay out a certain distance and does not move? After one rotation they stay in one place. Freeze the world and let me edit. Freeze the world and then unlimited undo. time line/history. Make random composition of scripts easier, as in Scratch. Snap together or not. (What are the learning in Scratch?) Need predictability. Did that sketch drop into a book page or not. Failing to Embed needs Feedback. Microworlds -- packages products that only show some thing, like Dr. Geo (or better example?). Sandboxes. For any JPEG, an easy way to paint transparent on it -- remove the background by hand. Better interaction between objects -- blocks. Allow planned Natural selection of arrangement? combinations. Examples automatically generated. Notes by Ted. -- Ted Kaehler http://tedkaehler.weather-dimensions.com/us/ted/index.html (home) 3261 Montecito Drive, Las Vegas, NV 89120. voice (702) 456-7930 "Fifteen years ago, who would have predicted that teenagers would be allowed to edit the world's primary reference source from their homes?" -- Peter Eckersley, Electronic Frontier Foundation "Thank you, Ward Cunningham" --TK

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Inquiry: Etoy (or other) Projects in Physics (specifically acoustics)
by Brad Fuller 11 Aug '09

11 Aug '09

Hi All, I'm looking for a demonstration about acoustics. This would be for a college-level beginning class. I doubt that one exists, but I thought that maybe I could start with a physics project (or any code, if you have it) to get an idea of how to create/modify for acoustics demonstrations. Any ideas most welcome! Thanks much! brad -- Brad Fuller *NOTE NEW PHONE* +1 (408) 335-0112

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Quick start guide
by Hilaire Fernandes 11 Aug '09

11 Aug '09

I am looking at updating for my students the Quick etoys guide as we had for post OLPC Etoys http://squeak.ofset.org/guide-rapide_etoys.pdf Did some of you already update such a guide, if so I will happily translate it in French. Hilaire -- http://blog.ofset.org/hilaire

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Etoys presentation in Chile - delayed by 2 weeks
by Rita Freudenberg 11 Aug '09

11 Aug '09

Hi everyone, I would like to let you know that the Etoys presentation in Chile, which was supposed to be tomorrow, is rescheduled to Wednesday, August 26. Greetings, Rita

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Re: Sketch Divider
by rogerwillson 11 Aug '09

11 Aug '09

Thank you Yoshiki, I am Roger Willson, I like the information you shared. I exstreamly thanking you. Be connected with me and help after this time also. ------------------------ Mind Games -------------------- m2f -------------------- (from forum) http://squeakland.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=10103#10103 -------------------- m2f --------------------

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Re: Quick start guide
by rogerwillson 11 Aug '09

11 Aug '09

Hi Hilaire, Actually it is possible in many ways. But in which way you want to translate that. Tell me so i can help you. ------------------------ Mind Games -------------------- m2f -------------------- (from forum) http://squeakland.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=10102#10102 -------------------- m2f --------------------

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Re: [squeakland] Video broadcast from Squeakfest Los Angeles
by Karl Ramberg 10 Aug '09

10 Aug '09

On 2009-08-10 23:16, Kim Rose wrote: > Tim got a different mic for the video camera now. So, if you haven't > given up....let us know if it has improved.... > thank you! > Kim Ah, much better :-) Karl > > On Aug 10, 2009, at 12:10 PM, Karl Ramberg wrote: > >> On 2009-08-10 12:00, Rita Freudenberg wrote: >>> Karl Ramberg schrieb: >>>> On 2009-08-10 18:43, Bert Freudenberg wrote: >>>>> It's live this moment: >>>>> >>>>> http://www.justin.tv/squeakland >>>>> >>>>> Hopefully they will find a better microphone ... >>>>> >>>>> - Bert - >>>> >>>> It's not possible to hear what they say, really ... >>> It should be better by now... Or do you mean that the problem is >>> hearing what people from the auditorium are saying? >> It's the sound in general. It has a metallic reverberation that make >> it virtually impossible to hear what they say. >> >> It's like listening to scuba divers talking in microphones underwater >> ;-) >> >> Karl >> >> _______________________________________________ >> squeakland mailing list >> squeakland(a)squeakland.org >> http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland > >

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Video broadcast from Squeakfest Los Angeles
by Bert Freudenberg 10 Aug '09

10 Aug '09

It's live this moment: http://www.justin.tv/squeakland Hopefully they will find a better microphone ... - Bert -

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Etoys presentation in Chile
by rita＠isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de 09 Aug '09

09 Aug '09

Hi all, there will be an etoys presentation at Universidad de Chile in Santiago next week. You can also find out about it here: http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/1877/article-87394.html Greetings, Rita Charla: An instrument whose Music is Ideas. Smalltalk, eToys and the Idea of the Children's Machine Charlista: Marcus Denker Fecha: 12 de agosto Horario: 12:00 a 14:00 horas. Sala: Auditorio DCC (Av. Blanco Encalada 2120, tercer piso) Abstract This talk will present the history and current state of explorative learning environments that came out of the Smalltalk tradition of realizing a personal computer for children of all ages. The personal computer was influenced to a large extend by the idea of providing a tool for thinking and learning. In the first part of the talk, I will give a short overview of the history of the computer as a personal medium and exploration environment. The second part I will introduce Squeak eToys and Scratch, two current projects that stand in the tradition of the original Smalltalk project. ------- Marcus Denker is a postdoc at the PLEIAD lab, DCC/University of Chile. Before, he was a postdoc at the Software Composition Group, University of Bern. His research focuses on reflection and meta-programming for dynamic languages. He is an active participant in the Squeak open source community for many years. Marcus Denker received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Bern/Switzerland in 2008 and a Dipl.-Inform. (MSc) from the University of Karlsruhe/Germany in 2004. Full CV at: http://marcusdenker.de/CV.html.

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squeakfest at UCLA next week; bring a child, get in free
by Timothy Falconer 08 Aug '09

08 Aug '09

Hi everyone, We're two days away from the start of Squeakfest USA (http://squeakfest.org ), which is being held at the UCLA Faculty Center from Monday, August 10th to Wednesday, August 12th. We're excited by the presentations we've got lined up, including a keynote by Alan Kay. Presenters will discuss how they're using Squeak Etoys and OLPC XOs in places like Nepal, South Korea, Uruguay, Haiti, Nicaragua, the United States, and more. We've still got room in our children's workshop, which runs from noon to two each of the three days. Kids aged 8 to 12 will use Etoys on provided XOs, learning to create animations and stories, just like in the Waveplace pilots. Best of all, if you bring a child, we'll waive your registration fee, which is otherwise $125 for the conference. Take care, Timothy

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