The very first time a child sees their object move with a simple forward script is always a magical moment for me and the kids. Never fails. Exploration and excitement explodes after that. I'm new to teaching Etoys as well. Definitely caught the bug. :-)
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Simon Schampijer <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > I am teaching on a regular basis in the Planetarium pilot in Berlin, > Germany [1]. I have been using Etoys now for several weeks and here is > some first feedback. > > First: The kids do like it a lot! I want to encourage everyone to > include it in his curriculum. > > For example you can teach easily the concepts of the coordinate system > with Etoys. You create an object and print out the X and Y values when > moving it on the screen. Or you can use a joystick to alter the position > of this object and use this method to deepen the coordinate system concept. > > Of course we did as well the famous car example. It was slightly changed > in my class: A bug has to crawl a lane using one or two sensors to stay > on the lane. A lot of interesting concepts to learn here, too (positive > and negative numbers for example). > > And to bring this all together into a portfolio you can use the book > tool (found in the treasure chest) to create a story including all your > objects and games, pictures etc you created. > > I wrote down a few items I was missing when using the book tool and > while doing so, I figured they were all there, just hidden by default. > > - resize all of the book not just one page > - maybe that could be the default option? > - duplicate a page > - different background color > - different sound when turning the page > > When you hit the little button at the far left you will get more > options. And when you use the menu in the middle of the book toolbar you > get all of these options and a lot of more. Just in case someone runs as > well into this :) > > A few things that I came across, too: > - German: When you drop the 'joystick up down' and 'joystick left right' > option onto the world it will change to English. Not when you use it in > a script though. > - some buttons are hard to use: for example when you want to alter the > behavior of the X value of an object (increase..). Those are hard to > navigate. Or dropping options into the test script does not work as smooth. > > That's all for now - keep up the good work, team Etoys!. > > Thanks, > Simon > > PS: Of course I am happy to turn items into bugs later. Just thought I > give here a little summary first. > > > [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Deployments/Planetarium > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >
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