Greetings everyone,
I've just joined the Squeakland list.
I'm not exactly new to Squeak (I post a lot on the Squeak-dev list), but I haven't done much with educational applications of Squeak.
I'm going to be playing with a few things in the near future that might interest you:
* I'm going to publish a new version of the SARInstaller for 3.2 that will let you load a variety of projects that are available on SqueakMap. In particular, I'm doing this because there has been some interest in using my Connectors package in the Squeakland environment (which is based on a 3.2 image). Connectors lets you make connected drawings using any Morphs; the connections will follow the Morphs as they are moved around. I've used the Squeakland plugin and the Project Pages feature of the Comanche ComSwiki 1.2 to make live shareable drawings in a Swiki. It works great, and is lots of fun.
* I will probably add some kind of gesture recognition to the eToys system. I think I'll make it so you can make a script run when a particular pen/tablet/mouse gesture has been drawn starting at a Morph that uses that Player. I've been working with Nathanael Schärli (who wrote the Genie gesture recognition system that's in Squeak) and we've made a number of improvements.
* I'm interested in adding eToys support to my Connectors to let people learn about (for instance) graph algorithms using live drawings. At least, I'd add a vocabulary that would let you query and modify the Morphs at either end of a Connector, as well as to let Morphs report their incoming and outgoing connections. I may make these sets of connections work like Holders of some sort, I'm not sure (I'm not really sure how to handle the cursor and display of these).
* I'd also like to come up with a version of eToys that is scriptable using some combination of statecharts and tile scripting.
Anyhow, I'm pretty new to this, and if you have any interest in any of these, or any ideas, let's discuss them!
Thanks,
Hello Ned,
While I am sure others have done so privately, I thought it would be good if someone publicly welcomed your presence and proposals to Squeakland.
I look forward to your contributions,
John
-----Original Message----- From: squeakland-bounces@squeakland.org [mailto:squeakland-bounces@squeakland.org]On Behalf Of Ned Konz Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 9:01 PM To: squeakland@squeakland.org Subject: [Squeakland] Hello all !
Greetings everyone,
I've just joined the Squeakland list.
I'm not exactly new to Squeak (I post a lot on the Squeak-dev list), but I haven't done much with educational applications of Squeak.
I'm going to be playing with a few things in the near future that might interest you:
* I'm going to publish a new version of the SARInstaller for 3.2 that will let you load a variety of projects that are available on SqueakMap. In particular, I'm doing this because there has been some interest in using my Connectors package in the Squeakland environment (which is based on a 3.2 image). Connectors lets you make connected drawings using any Morphs; the connections will follow the Morphs as they are moved around. I've used the Squeakland plugin and the Project Pages feature of the Comanche ComSwiki 1.2 to make live shareable drawings in a Swiki. It works great, and is lots of fun.
* I will probably add some kind of gesture recognition to the eToys system. I think I'll make it so you can make a script run when a particular pen/tablet/mouse gesture has been drawn starting at a Morph that uses that Player. I've been working with Nathanael Schärli (who wrote the Genie gesture recognition system that's in Squeak) and we've made a number of improvements.
* I'm interested in adding eToys support to my Connectors to let people learn about (for instance) graph algorithms using live drawings. At least, I'd add a vocabulary that would let you query and modify the Morphs at either end of a Connector, as well as to let Morphs report their incoming and outgoing connections. I may make these sets of connections work like Holders of some sort, I'm not sure (I'm not really sure how to handle the cursor and display of these).
* I'd also like to come up with a version of eToys that is scriptable using some combination of statecharts and tile scripting.
Anyhow, I'm pretty new to this, and if you have any interest in any of these, or any ideas, let's discuss them!
Thanks, -- Ned Konz http://bike-nomad.com GPG key ID: BEEA7EFE
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