On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Steve Thomas sthomas1@gosargon.com wrote:
Caroline,
Your students asked:
Etoys questions include:
- How do we make a mouth that moves?
When you first open Etoys click on the "Gallery of Projects" then in the second row, first item from the left is a "Bouncing Ball Animation" basically it behaves like flip animation (where you draw the different positions on the edge of each piece of paper and flip through the pages to animate). Have the kids make different drawings of the mouth and place each one in a Holder. Then open the Holder's viewer go to the collections category and you can iterate through the items in the Holder and set the Mouth graphic to the "Holder's player at cursor graphic" To get the "Holder's player at cursor graphic" tile you need to click on the
Sorry, I didn't finish the previous sentence (plus there is a simpler method, from the Mouth's viewer, in the graphics category is a scripting tile "mouth | looks like | dot" drag that onto the world to create script, the from the Holder's viewer category "collections" drag the "Holder's | player at cursor" tile on top of the "dot" in the "mouth | looks like | dot" scripting tile. The scripting tile will then look like "mouth | looks like | Holder's player at cursor". I have been playing with Etoys for a long time and this is the first time I noticed this method of setting a player's costume. Learn something new everyday ;)
Stephen Etoys Minutes and more info at http://mrstevesscience.blogspot.com/
Caroline,
You also mentioned that:
Etoys on a stick only works when java is installed on the computer. Several of the computers did not have java and no one knows the admin password to install it.
This seems really strange, are you running Etoys inside a browser?
Stephen
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Steve Thomas sthomas1@gosargon.com wrote:
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Steve Thomas sthomas1@gosargon.com wrote:
Caroline,
Your students asked:
Etoys questions include:
- How do we make a mouth that moves?
When you first open Etoys click on the "Gallery of Projects" then in the second row, first item from the left is a "Bouncing Ball Animation" basically it behaves like flip animation (where you draw the different positions on the edge of each piece of paper and flip through the pages to animate). Have the kids make different drawings of the mouth and place each one in a Holder. Then open the Holder's viewer go to the collections category and you can iterate through the items in the Holder and set the Mouth graphic to the "Holder's player at cursor graphic" To get the "Holder's player at cursor graphic" tile you need to click on the
Sorry, I didn't finish the previous sentence (plus there is a simpler method, from the Mouth's viewer, in the graphics category is a scripting tile "mouth | looks like | dot" drag that onto the world to create script, the from the Holder's viewer category "collections" drag the "Holder's | player at cursor" tile on top of the "dot" in the "mouth | looks like | dot" scripting tile. The scripting tile will then look like "mouth | looks like | Holder's player at cursor". I have been playing with Etoys for a long time and this is the first time I noticed this method of setting a player's costume. Learn something new everyday ;)
Stephen Etoys Minutes and more info at http://mrstevesscience.blogspot.com/
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