OK....I'm back and working this again. The basics are my bugaboos again. I have a whole new group of students and I'm even using them as my Action Research subjects to prove to my district that this kind of thinking and teaching has real merit.
But, believe it or not, I can get launched because I can't figure out how to save projects. I know I figured it out last semester, but now I can't remember how I did it. I click on Publish It. And I want my students to be able to save the projects in their network folders. But no where can I find a way to browse to them.
Does anyone have directions that I can use? Simple ones? This is the most confusing part of Squeak and it always throws me for a big loop and I get so frustrated. Sorry to vent but I really want this to work and for folks to be excited. And I don't mean to be so critical but I'm not a dummy and I've sat here for 2 class periods trying to figure it out with my kids and now another 45 minutes with my computer teaching partner and we can't figure it out. So it isn't that intuitive.
Please can someone show me the trick to this? It's got to be something that I am missing. And I want to continue tomorrow. We're just working through the tutorials and I have a couple of days to figure it out before it becomes critical. Thanks in advance for all your help.
marsha
Hi Marsha,
But, believe it or not, I can get launched because I can't figure out how to save projects. I know I figured it out last semester, but now I can't remember how I did it. I click on Publish It. And I want my students to be able to save the projects in their network folders. But no where can I find a way to browse to them.
I must confess that setting up Squeak for a classroom is still somewhat tricky and a few people are working on getting better solutions to work.
Please send some more information about your setup offline (Are you using Windows, Mac OS 9 /X, how do your network folders appear to the kids (drive or volume name).
Please make sure to have the newest version of the plugin (just go to squeakland and point to "get updates").
After wondering why your are having such a hard time it occurred to me, that you simply forgot about the "click and hold" oin the navigation bar? When you clikc on the publish or find button, but hold the mouse button down then a menu will appear after a short moment. This menu has entries for e.g. publish as, find (more places) etc.
Even if this solves your problem, please still send the extra information so I can help you with finding a better setup.
Cheers
Michael
squeakland@lists.squeakfoundation.org