So McCarty, my supervisor @ Winterhaven, treasured faculty, talked me through a demo dowload of Squeak to the Toshiba, as kids were settling into their seats (projecter already running). Now I have it open in another tab, within FireFox. Let's go see if the plug-in actually works (didn't quite get to it, as class was starting)....
Got a mouse-on-wheels, Loading Project... (I passed on getting updates this time)... OK, Teds Ocean comes up, I beckon my wife, and she comes over to watch. "What about the car?" That's what Tara's been up to, programming a car (one of the eToys exercises). We check another canned example: Stair. Quite fun then, not just an applet as plugin, but I guess the whole Squeak development environment, which is the 6.5 meg I downloaded. The browser simply wraps this deeper think tank with a friendly and familiar out frame, one which conveniently connects me to worlds I'll want to check out anyway. OK, so now that's on the Toshiba. Tara can show us about the car. And I can learn more about this teaching environment (I've been also looking at the books). Kirby _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
