squeakland November 2010

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Etoys developer chat today
by Bert Freudenberg 15 Nov '10

15 Nov '10

It's Monday again, so there is another chance to chat! The channel has been quiet lately. I'm usually there but won't chat to myself ;) If you want to chat, don't wait for others to start. To find out when and how to chat, or see the logs, go here: http://etoys.squeak.org/chat/ - Bert -

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Re: [squeakland] [Olpc-uruguay] ¿Cómo beben los gatos?
by Carlos Rabassa 14 Nov '10

14 Nov '10

Caryl / Carolina, thanks for your interest in this page. Following your suggestion, we just completed its translation into English at: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1nYLK_M1Rw53iMHoU997O0B3CvM3hu2Mzck… Carlos Rabassa Volunteer Plan Ceibal Support Network Montevideo, Uruguay On Nov 12, 2010, at 8:31 PM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > Gracias Carolos > > ¡Qué buena idea! Tan creativo. Me gusta mucho este. > > Carolina > > For folks on the IAEP list who don't read Spanish... translate this one. It is a great science lesson idea. > From: carnen(a)mac.com > Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:53:08 -0200 > To: america-latina(a)squeakland.org; olpc-sur(a)lists.laptop.org; olpc-uruguay(a)lists.laptop.org; olpcpuno(a)gmail.com; olpc-bolivia(a)lists.laptop.org; iaep(a)lists.sugarlabs.org > Subject: [Olpc-uruguay] ¿Cómo beben los gatos? > > Una sugerencia de material para usar en clase (???) con la XO. > > S031 - ¿Cómo beben los gatos? > https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1D4lZEfZEy0UpiqSQL0TQOokwp475J89_A2… > > > Carlos Rabassa > Voluntario > Red de Apoyo al Plan Ceibal > Montevideo, Uruguay > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Olpc-uruguay mailing list Olpc-uruguay(a)lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-uruguay______________________________… > Olpc-uruguay mailing list > Olpc-uruguay(a)lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-uruguay

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E033 - Automatic translation of entire documents
by Carlos Rabassa 13 Nov '10

13 Nov '10

E033 - Automatic translation of entire documents https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1tpEv4wwZEgoE-eP9U5s9-ONuD_GCU4dNUa… Carlos Rabassa Volunteer Plan Ceibal Support Network Montevideo, Uruguay

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Etoys developer chat today (JavaScript magic)
by Bert Freudenberg 08 Nov '10

08 Nov '10

Hi folks, our chat info page now lists the time for upcoming chats in your local time zone thanks to a bit of JavaScript: http://etoys.squeak.org/chat/ The chat is every Monday at 12 noon Squeakland Time. To participate, or see previous chat logs, go to that page. Everyone is welcome! - Bert -

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[Q] Where can I test uploading of Etoys projects
by Carlos Rabassa 07 Nov '10

07 Nov '10

Young-Jin Lee: This page contains instructions on saving and publishing Etoys projects. https://docs.google.com/View?id=dg7q79cx_577dfz55mcv It is free and all are encouraged to use a private folder at MySqueakland or to share the projects with others in the Etoys Showcase. Carlos Rabassa Volunteer Plan Ceibal Support Network Montevideo, Uruguay

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[Q] Where can I test uploading of Etoys projects
by Young-Jin Lee 06 Nov '10

06 Nov '10

Hello, I am teaching Etoys in my educational technology course and have a question about uploading Etoys projects. I want to demonstrate how to upload Etoys projects and play them in a Web browser, but do not know where I could upload examples. If there is a place where test projects could be uploaded, I want to have my students upload their test projects. Thanks in advance.

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Kedama Questions
by Steve Thomas 06 Nov '10

06 Nov '10

Yoshiki, I was helping my son with Chemistry and the question on his test was "Which has more molecules, a liter of frozen vegetable oil or a liter of liquid vegetable oil. So I reminded him the experiment we did with the balloon and how it contracted when we put it in ice water and expanded when we warmed it up. Then I thought your Particles Dye in Water<http://squeakland.org/showcase/project.jsp?id=7429>project and tried resizing the Kedama World (which didn't work) I was able to change the worlds scale. I eventually created two separate Kedama worlds in another project each with 500 turtles and scaled them to convey the idea. I wanted to make a copy of the Kedama World (two avoid creating the same scripts twice), to show the "Dye in Water" model with different tick rates at the same time to facilitate comparison (which is easier when you can see both at the same time). This idea came from my youngest son who suggested we try the Dye in Water with Ice Water and Hot Water. So, couple of things: 1. Can you change the size of a Kedama world (w/o changing the size of the turtles?) 2. Just curious why does each edge have its own mode (bouncing, wrap, stick) as opposed to one for all? 3. How can I model the color changes for a Particles in Dye project. I was thinking of something along the lines of having the colors "mix" when the dye and water were in the same spot (or in the other's patch) but wasn't sure how to do that. I assume it has to do with setting the red/green/blue component from/into patch, but couldn't quite figure it out. 4. How can I add an extra turtle to a world? (ex: dye and water)? Lastly I really love your question: "Is there really such a thing as a molecule? How can we avoid asking you just to believe it?" I have been posing this question to a bunch of folks including some professors at Princeton. Two of the three said something like "that's a really good question, I don't know I've just always believed it" One just got this big smile and said, "its a model and we use experiments to see how well the model works." Thanks, Stephen

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education team meeting notes
by Rita Freudenberg 04 Nov '10

04 Nov '10

Hi everyone, here are the meetings notes from last week's education meeting. Our next meeting is today, 1:30 EDT on Skype. Let me know if you want to join! Rita -------------------------------------------------------------------------- On our meeting last week Cherry reported from the OLPC-SF summit. Rita asked about suggestions for her online presentation at International conference on ICT for Development and education, Nov 16-17. We got contacted by Gary Lebowitz, who is interested in long-distance training and validation of teaching approaches using Etoys. We will schedule a talk with him and the ed team. We then discussed what infrastructure to use for organising the work of the education team. Some weeks ago, we already decided to use the tracker. But there are some concerns about the usability of jira for our tasks. We came to the solution to use jira for the to-do-list, and then have wiki pages related to issues, where we discuss and comment. At the end we continued the discussion about our plans to rewrite the "powerful ideas" book within Etoys. And we need to put more of our material on visible places on our website! http://wiki.squeakland.org/display/sq/2010/10/28/education+team+meeting%2C+… Rita

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blog posts & photos from Haiti
by Timothy Falconer 03 Nov '10

03 Nov '10

Hi everyone, I'm down in Haiti with Adam Holt, visiting schools and organizations for OLPC laptop pilots. You can follow my daily blog posts here (with photos): http://waveplace.org/news/blog It's been quite a wonderful trip so far, with much more to come. Take care, Tim -- Timothy Falconer Waveplace Foundation http://waveplace.org + 1 610 797 3100 x33

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Free - Free music for Etoys projects
by Carlos Rabassa 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

Many of those who know us as Squeakers, frequently send us questions. Someone recently asked how to add music to an Etoys project. The question was more specific. It had two attached files: - An mp3 file with the music to be attached. - The Etoys project they wanted to add it to. There were two problems: The incompatibility of the mp3 format with the XOs. The music they sent us is copyrighted. Will very much appreciate any comments that might help us, with either or both problems: 1) Best way of transferring an mp3 file to a format acceptable to the XOs. 2) Best places where children may download legally and without charge, music for their Etoys and other XO projects. Thanks!! Carlos Rabassa Volunteer Plan Ceibal Support Network Montevideo, Uruguay

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