Re: [Edu-sig] More on Panda3D

2006-05-08 Thread Tom Hoffman
Hi Kirby, Have you also looked at Soya? I don't think it has come up in this conversation. http://home.gna.org/oomadness/en/soya/index.html Soya 3D is a very high level 3D engine for Python. Soya aims at being to 3D what Python is to programming : fast to learn, easy to use, while keeping good

Re: [Edu-sig] PySqueak: Which 3D package should I use?

2006-05-13 Thread Tom Hoffman
On 5/13/06, Paul D. Fernhout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I should look harder at Soya, at the very least to get a sense of how they used various technologies? http://home.gna.org/oomadness/en/soya/index.html (Looks like it is very Python oriented, but Tom Hoffman suggested it was a tougher

Re: [Edu-sig] OLPC (was FYI: PataPata postmortem link)

2006-11-29 Thread Tom Hoffman
On 11/29/06, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 29, 2006, at 13:00 , Arthur wrote: I fear not only that OLPC is turning into a toy, but a toy for the wrong follks, folks who have enough toys, rooms full of them, lost in their toys, blinking and whizzing hynoptic. Would

Re: [Edu-sig] OLPC (was FYI: PataPata postmortem link)

2006-11-30 Thread Tom Hoffman
On 11/30/06, Dethe Elza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29-Nov-06, at 4:45 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote: I'd love to write software for the OLPC, but I don't have one available. The virtual version is distributed as a VMWare image, which is great as far as it goes. The VMWare player hasn't been

Re: [Edu-sig] Who are these people???

2006-12-01 Thread Tom Hoffman
On 12/1/06, Arthur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reading through some literature of The Future of Learning Group of the MIT Media Lab http://learning.media.mit.edu/projects.html There are astounding statements - in any sense one chooses to take the word astounding. My favorite is right near

[Edu-sig] Python Bridge for Breve

2007-02-18 Thread Tom Hoffman
While trying to learn how to use the Breve templating language, I noticed that you can now use Python code in the Breve 3-d simulation environment, which I'd found to be attractive and impressive on my Mac a few years ago, but doesn't want to work on my laptop running Ubuntu today. see

Re: [Edu-sig] a non-rhetorical question

2007-07-06 Thread Tom Hoffman
On 7/6/07, Andy Judkis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vern, Richard, Your comments were very helpful -- it's sometimes hard for me to see the question as a student would. They can imitate nicely, but asking them to analyze and synthesize (as this question does, at a very superficial level) seems

Re: [Edu-sig] Scaffolding

2007-07-08 Thread Tom Hoffman
On 7/8/07, kirby urner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I've learned a new term from ya'll: scaffolding. Of course I knew it from the namespace of construction, but here it means a framework or prewritten code or auxiliary aids such as diagrams. Anyone want to elaborate? I see links between

[Edu-sig] Python/Moodle Integration

2009-07-01 Thread Tom Hoffman
Apologies for using the edu-sig as a bucket for all vaguely education-related Python news, but some of you may find this useful. As an off-shoot of some SchoolTool work funded by the Escondido Charter School, we've now got mnet-wsgi, WSGI middleware to handle Moodle's MNet web services.