0:46 PM, Lionel Laské <lionel.la...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Steve,
>>
>> Yes, unfortunately EToys could have some limitation because it need to
>> load a full VM to run, it's why it not appear as favorite by default.
>> I'm CC'ed Bert that could help y
Okay, I tried restarting Chrome a second time and now Etoys opens on Mac.
But had an issue saving. I'll investigate further.
Hoping to get Etoys (et al) working on Chromebook's so I can get teachers
in my kids school to start using it.
Cheers,
Stephen
On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Steve
Lionel,
This is great work, thank you.
Ran into a few issues trying to run Etoys (Turtle Blocks seems to run just
fine), :
1. Added Chrome extension but Etoys did not run, just got black screen.
1. Tried on Mac and Windows using latest Chrome, waited about 5
minutes+
2. Also
At Maker Faire New York, I was demo-ing some of the XO's and tried to
hookup a Makey Makey, but it did not work with the XO-4. It worked fine
with the X0-1.
Is this a known bug?
Also, met some great folks and have one 12 year old kid working on turning
his sisters stuffed Monkey into a input
Caryl,
Can you refer me to the nice collection of books in English and Spanish
from the Project Gutenberg collection A good set of stories I can put on
a USB stick would be good for an orphanage my wife is working with in
Colombia (and some other places I know of).
Thanks,
Stephen
On Thu,
Tom,
Thanks for all the information. Just want to be sure I understand. Are you
suggesting I use Quandong (0.96.1) and use UNetbootin instead of
Liveusb-creator?
Thanks,
Stephen
On Aug 4, 2013 6:45 PM, Thomas Gilliard satelli...@gmail.com wrote:
You may want to do an install to a 4GB USB
:08, Steve Thomas sthom...@gosargon.com wrote:
Bert,
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de
wrote:
On 2013-03-13, at 16:50, Steve Thomas sthom...@gosargon.com wrote:
Tried with Etoys 5.0 build 2406. But camera does not work. Saw this in
trakcer
the plugins directory and those two plugins?
Stephen
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.dewrote:
On 2013-03-14, at 17:56, Steve Thomas sthom...@gosargon.com wrote:
Bert,
Video Camera does not work either :(
Odd.
I tried loading just the CameraPlugin
:45 PM, Steve Thomas sthom...@gosargon.com wrote:
XO-1
Linux xo-12-05-2a
etoys5.0 #2406
Mike Lee did the installs.
I found the Scratch plugins Karl referred to in
/home/olpc/Activities/Scratch.Activity/plugins/i686
But there is no plugins directory in /home/olpc/Activities/Etoys.Activity
:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/12.1.0#XO-1
Mike
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Steve Thomas sthom...@gosargon.comwrote:
XO-1
Linux xo-12-05-2a
etoys5.0 #2406
Mike Lee did the installs.
I found the Scratch plugins Karl referred to in
/home/olpc/Activities/Scratch.Activity
Folks,
Heading to Haiting in two days and I have 3 XO's.
1. How can I take a picture with the camera?
1. Tried with Etoys 5.0 build 2406. But camera does not work. Saw this
in trakcer http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-615, but no wifi
access, although I can put files
am
trying now.
Stephen
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Steve Thomas sthom...@gosargon.comwrote:
Folks,
Heading to Haiting in two days and I have 3 XO's.
1. How can I take a picture with the camera?
1. Tried with Etoys 5.0 build 2406. But camera does not work. Saw
, Steve Thomas sthom...@gosargon.com
wrote:
Folks,
Heading to Haiting in two days and I have 3 XO's.
How can I take a picture with the camera?
Tried with Etoys 5.0 build 2406. But camera does not work. Saw this in
trakcer, but no wifi access, although I can put files on a USB
Bert,
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.dewrote:
On 2013-03-13, at 16:50, Steve Thomas sthom...@gosargon.com wrote:
Tried with Etoys 5.0 build 2406. But camera does not work. Saw this in
trakcer, but no wifi access, although I can put files on a USB
suggestions?
Stephen
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Steve Thomas sthom...@gosargon.com wrote:
Bert,
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Bert Freudenberg
b...@freudenbergs.dewrote:
On 2013-03-13, at 16:50, Steve Thomas sthom...@gosargon.com wrote:
Tried with Etoys 5.0 build 2406. But camera does
I will be heading to Haiti next month and the teachers are requesting
feedback and ideas on teaching English at the school I will be visiting.
I am looking for good resources on methods of teaching/lessons, software
suggestions and non computer games and methods of learning.
I have ordered
PM, Gerald Ardito gma...@gmail.com wrote:
Stephen,
I am starting two weeks from tomorrow.
I am still trying to wrap my head about the key goals and projects. It
would
be great to share ideas.
Gerald
On Monday, January 14, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Steve Thomas wrote:
On Sat, Jan 12
can install when you install Sugar, or you can
get them from activities.sugarlabs.org using the Browse Activity.
James Simmons
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 9:27 AM, S. Daniel Francis
fran...@sugarlabs.orgwrote:
Hi Steve,
2013/2/4 Steve Thomas sthom...@gosargon.com:
I will be installing Sugar
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:
Kim Toufectis commented on my post [1] about online services:
:Appreciative of the ideals upon which SugarLabs and OLPC formed, it’s
deeply troubling to envision a commercial entity like FaceBook
integrated into the
Walter,
Thanks didn't know about the age restriction. I can use this on my two
youngest for a while to keep them off :)
I also posted to Scratch to get their feedback.
Stephen
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Steve
Folks,
I will be going to Haiti March 16-24 on a mission trip with Foundation for
Peace. We work with a number of schools in Haiti and I will be bringing
down some laptops and PC's to setup.
I will be installing Sugar on the systems. In checking the Wiki I see
Sugar works with Fedora 18
Great talk. My favorite part was where he showed some Java code and said:
Now, for some of you, when you hear about
this,http://www.ted.com/talks/mitch_resnick_let_s_teach_kids_to_code.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2013-02-02utm_campaign=newsletter_weeklyutm_medium=email#342513
it might
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 6:04 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:
8. Cool visualization of the week [8]. Anyone want to code this up?
[8]
http://www.datapointed.net/visualizations/math/factorization/animated-diagrams/
Beautiful, thanks for sharing. If anyone does code this up,
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 9:58 PM, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote:
Hi
As a beginner, I found creating a Sugar Activity difficult. More difficult
than creating a program to run from Terminal or Pippy. You might get better
value using Pygame and writing something that can run from Pippy. The goal
, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Steve Thomas sthom...@gosargon.comwrote:
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 9:58 PM, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote:
Hi
As a beginner, I found creating a Sugar Activity difficult. More
difficult than creating a program to run from Terminal or Pippy. You might
get better value using Pygame
Gerald,
I switched email subjects and figured I would keep this on the IAEP list
(as I seem to get bounces from others). As a start, below is from an email
I sent to one of the parents:
My approach in general is to try and catch kids doing something interesting
and then name it and bring it to
Mike,
Thanks for the video links.
So two basic comments:
1) The Parental Controls (from what I can determine from the videos) seem
more like Parental FYI rather than controls. I would like to see some
controls to help parents keep kids from distracting themselves to
death. I suspect that one
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote:
Quoting Chris Leonard (2012-12-21 20:04:37)
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Chris Leonard
cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk
wrote:
Wauw - really
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 1:17 AM, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn
alan...@hotmail.com wrote:
Also it suffers from not being able to work in a web page or on an
mobile device which is what most people want to do.
No scratch.. no python.. the future: html5
And Html6 and perhaps Back to the Future
What would also, be good would be tests included in the activity to help
detect color blindness, dyslexia and other common vision issues that affect
kids ability to read/learn. My one son had a hard time learning to read
and it took us a while to find a doctor who could diagnose the issue.
Turns
Alan,
If you have the materials (images, test, knowledge, etc.) I would be happy
to work with you to create some materials in Etoys that could help educate
folks about the eye and more importantly detect vision problems and provide
suggestions and resources on how to deal with them. If you send
Alan,
So to quote your namesake *A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points.*
So let me see if I can change your perspective on Etoys. I just created a
simple lesson in Etoys such as you described in about 10-15 minutes, most
of that time was spent trying to find a good open source image of
Spelling correction:
You can put the lesson on a USB stick and it will run on any Mac, PC or
Linux box, because the code is Byte identical for all platforms
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 1:40 AM, Steve Thomas sthom...@gosargon.com wrote:
Alan,
So to quote your namesake *A change in perspective
Folks,
For this task, could kids use Etoys instead of porting to python?
Thanks,
Stephen
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John,
Also if you would like support with Etoys, I would be happy to help and
live not that far from Philadelphia.
Please check out the lesson plans on etoysillinois.org
They have a wonderful set of lesson plans for K-6.
Steve Thomas
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:50 PM, John Tierney jtis4
Unfortunately I will not be in SF, but I am very interested in Sensors.
Perhaps I can attend or see the final results if you do presentations via
Google Hangout?
I hope to be going to Haiti next March and plan to bring some lessons and
an engineering challenge around the kids/adults building
Thanks, signed up.
Stephen
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi All...
I saw a tweet from Christoph Derndorfer that he has signed up for this
online class from Stanford. It looks like a perfect place for olpc/sugar
labs folks to form a team and look
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 3:42 AM, Tony Anderson tony_ander...@usa.net
wrote:
Hi,
The Khan Academy web site (http://www.khanacademy.org/) is announcing
today
a 'playlist' on computer science. It appears to be
in the definition. I'll see
what the kids come up with and then weave this in.
For example, the abacus -- which vastly predates the Antikythera -- is
also a computing machine. And so is Algebra ...
Cheers,
Alan
--
*From:* Steve Thomas sthom...@gosargon.com
I got I asked my class to play
LightBothttp://armorgames.com/play/2205/light-bot and
then asked them:
How this is like and not like programming
This lead into one kids responding its like mabey small motors and gears
(wish I knew what was going on in her mind, I'll ask in the next class)
So I
Nice. What is the cost of making one of these and is there a parts list?
Stephen
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 10:19 PM, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn
alan...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi,
We have some progress with the butia 2.0 platform [1], including some
related to the new board I / O USB4bot [2]
Is
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote:
Walter, Stephen,
Probably the same solution will not work for all our activities.
TurtleArt and Etoys are complete environments,
probably with the more complex and powerful UI.
Another possible solution would be to
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote:
We receive many times request about adding help in the activities,
and if is true Sugar propose a exploratory approach,
not all the people learn in the same way,
and there are people who prefer a little guidance.
Not
Caryl,
Scratch is an excellent program and a good choice. I also like Mike's use
of Audacity and then importing the sounds which will work in Scratch as
well.
Okay, now in trying to improve on *almost* a white paper here are some
additional thoughts:
As pointed out by Maria, another big
Caryl,
You may want to talk with Mike Lee who did some amazing work with the Lubuto
Project http://www.lubuto.org/ using Etoys.
So here are the pro's and con's of each platform if your are trying to
solve the problems of:
animation, sound, possible narration, interaction and all that sort of
.
Well you could spend time trying to figure out how to beat socioeconomics
and as my Great Aunt Suslie used to say I wish you lots of luck, or
simply do what you can to leave the world a bit better wherever you are :)
Stephen
2012/2/29, Steve Thomas sthom...@gosargon.com:
So I am sharing my
]
Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 10:29 AM
To: Steve Thomas
Cc: iaep; squeakland
Subject: Re: [IAEP] Why Is programming an unnatural activity?
Steve,
for some reason the link to your blog didn't work for me. JIC others
needed it, here:
http://mrstevesscience.blogspot.com/2012/02/why
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 7:36 PM, karl ramberg karlramb...@gmail.com wrote:
Is it not that concise description or definition of any issue is hard.
Most stuff we think or say is quite general and has all sorts of context
and preconsieved notion.
Once we have to work out the details we run into
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@sugarlabs.orgwrote:
On Sun, 2012-01-15 at 09:58 -0500, Steve Thomas wrote:
I am working on a project hosting site for activities (similar to the
Scratch Website) where Sugar users can post projects they create.
I am using Google
So I am taking a P2PU course On How to Teach Web Programmin to Free Range
Learnershttp://p2pu.org/en/groups/how-to-teach-webcraft-and-programming-to-free-range-students/and
a couple of questions came up:
So I pose them to the community:
1. What makes examples good for novices?
2. How do we
, Steve Thomas wrote:
So I am taking a P2PU course On How to Teach Web Programmin to Free Range
Learnershttp://p2pu.org/en/groups/how-to-teach-webcraft-and-programming-to-free-range-students/and
a couple of questions came up:
So I pose them to the community:
1. What makes examples good
Roder tabi...@tabitha.net.nz
*To:* Steve Thomas sthom...@gosargon.com
*Cc:* iaep iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org
*Sent:* Sunday, January 29, 2012 1:29 AM
*Subject:* Re: [IAEP] Nice tool for learning Python
On 28 January 2012 17:28, Steve Thomas sthom...@gosargon.com wrote:
Just found this: http
Just found this: http://people.csail.mit.edu/pgbovine/python/
What I really like about it is that it allows you to step through your code
and visualize what is going on inside the computer.
It also seems to provide a simple interface for teachers to add exercises.
Stephen
Folks,
So one form of content would be project kids/teachers create using various
activities (Turtle Art, Etoys, etc.)
I am working on a project hosting site for activities (similar to the
Scratch Website) where Sugar users can post projects they create.
I am using Google App Engine, but would
The Goal of the Noon Day Project http://ciese.org/curriculum/noonday/ is
to have students measure the circumference of the earth using a method that
was first used by Eratosthenes over 2000 years ago.
Students at various sites around the world will measure shadows cast by a
meter stick and
adults) who have read about
Eratosthenes.
Cheers,
Alan
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squeakland squeakl...@squeakland.org
*Sent:* Wednesday, September 28, 2011 9:06 PM
*Subject
This is a great use of the XO. So for comparison, how much would it cost
for an arduino, with video camera, color display, speakers, speech to text
capabilites, wireless internet?
Plus you get programming environments like Scratch, Etoys and Turtle Art.
My guess an XO would win and it does so
Thanks to all for an interesting discussion, I would like to review what I
got out of discussion along with some comments and questions:
*On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Cherry Withers cwith...@ekindling.org
wrote:
*
When I did my workshop on Etoys in the Philippines back in June, one kid
I have taught both Scratch and Etoys to kids and hands down most kids prefer
Scratch. I also prefer Scratch for certain things, but prefer Etoys for
most learning and teaching.
What can we learn from Scratch (and TurtleArt et al) to improve Etoys? And
vice versa what can be done to improve
Alan,
Okay, I'll bite, I can see how you believe the standard curriculum is way
off, but what part of their proposed solution do you disagree with and where
do you see as the preferred paths?
In particular in the article they state *Science and math were originally
discovered together, and they
Another option is Mark Gudial's IDE
http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/mediaComp-teach#Python he uses for his media
computation course.
He uses jython instead of python, and he has a Linux version. It is a nice
environment that was designed to teach non CS majors how to program, but I
am not sure if it
Alan Kay's Talks *Programming and Scaling *is now available online at:
http://www.tele-task.de/de/archive/lecture/overview/5819/
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Looking for ideas on how we can give kids (and adults) concrete experiences
with the concept of fraction.
Special bonus points for anyone who can come up with an example of division
with fractions (ex: 1/3 divided by 1/2)
Thanks,
Stephen
___
IAEP --
Enjoyed the talks and discussion, some good questions/comments:
- How do you make it easy to author?
- Need to make it as easy as possible to author content, so you can make
your own representations.
- Is this a collection of skills someone actually wants to teach a 10
year old?
A small group of us are working on an OER for
OLPChttp://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooksand have chosen
the topic; Fractions
Here is where we need your help:
-
- Identify Models of Fractions and how we can present these different
models in concrete forms as a kind of Fraction
1. I believe Carlos raises valid points
2. We need specifics so we can prioritize and address them, So:
1. Let's stop talking in generalities and about volunteer vs
corporate, we are what we are, so let's make the best of it
2. We should work with Carlos (who I find
Chris,
My youtube account all of a sudden said You can now upload more than 15
minutes and I was able to upload my Squeakfest talk from 2010 (will be
uploading more soon). Not sure why, but some others may have this option as
well. I can upload some, but would be better on an OLPC/SugarLabs
Bert gave a beautiful demonstration of the power of
Etoyshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUxMP46PM-Iand the ability to
create your own tiles.
My talk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clU3vKxwOXcfeature=related is also
posted (if you only have time for one watch Bert's it's much better).
Hope to
Thank you.
In your book (Davis chapter) you write:
The following anecdote captures the root of the problem. A teacher who had
taken part in a workshop on discovery learning came back almost in tears
complaining that the students had discovered it wrong. Bob Davis himself
and his virtuoso
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima yosh...@vpri.org wrote:
Hehe, I've meaning to just make an Etoys port to NaCl but have not
done it yet... Well, but what about a platform that does not ship
NaCl. You still want to have a self-contained system that *can* run
in NaCl but you
...@solutiongrove.comwrote:
Thanks Thomas thats incredibly helpful and I'll try these out tomorrow.
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Steve Thomas sthom...@gosargon.comwrote:
Caroline,
Your students asked:
Etoys questions include:
1. How do we make a mouth that moves?
When you first
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Steve Thomas sthom...@gosargon.com wrote:
Caroline,
Your students asked:
Etoys questions include:
1. How do we make a mouth that moves?
When you first open Etoys click on the Gallery of Projects then in the
second row, first item from the left
, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Steve Thomas sthom...@gosargon.com wrote:
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Steve Thomas sthom...@gosargon.com
wrote:
Caroline,
Your students asked:
Etoys questions include:
1. How do we make a mouth that moves?
When you first open Etoys click on the Gallery
Folks,
With so many needs in Haiti and limited funds, Bill Steltzer asked a mentor
in Haiti if they should be doing a computer program in Haiti when they
really need clean water, food and shelter.
So with limited funds which do you choose? Clean Water or Education?
Why not both? That is what we
An interface and examples like: http://tryruby.org/ would be a nice. It;s a
hand's on tutorial that walks you through learning ruby step by step and
you feel like you are actually doing and learning something. Ideally you
could also build a framework where users could create their own lesson's
them to Pippy, but, like Steve said, I am not sure what to
do other than press run.
Gerald
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 4:45 AM, Steve Thomas sthom...@gosargon.comwrote:
An interface and examples like: http://tryruby.org/ would be a nice.
It;s a hand's on tutorial that walks you through
I am working on a project where kids will measure tempature and humidity as
part of testing and designing solar stills.
What kind of jack do I need to connect to my sensors?
I assume I plug it into the microphone jack and that should work with the
Etoys World Stethescope.
Stephen
Thanks I will add if testing goes well. Yes I am using on an XO.
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 8:11 PM, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote:
I am working on a project where kids will measure tempature and humidity
as
part of testing and designing solar stills.
What kind of jack do I need to
Caryl,
From the supplies bin, drag out a book. Then click on the Triangle in the
upper left corner of the book (when you hover over it it will say More
Controls. You will then be able to add pages by clicking on the + in the
Book header and you can also duplicate pages from the menu in the
Caryl,
To create I used a holder and filled it with Text Box's (from Object
Catalog, click find and type text). You need to get the halo for each text
box, then from the menu in the halo check Translatable. For the title
above simply use the text from the supplies bin and again check
To import pictures into Etoys from Mac or PC:
On Mac:
- Drag image file from finder window into Etoys
- Drag image from Safari browser into Etoys (other browsers May work)
On PC:
- Drag image file from Windows Explorer window (the one that shows the
list of files) into Etoys
-
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
they want to create math games for these children to use on the XOs.
Wonderful. Games are a great way to learn. A couple of games come to mind:
1. Tic-Tac-Toe
2. Bingo
3. Guess my Rule
*Tic-Tac-Toe*
One
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*To:* Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com
*Cc:* iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; Patricia Curtis patricia.cur...@gmail.com
*Sent:* Tue, October 26, 2010 9:49:44 PM
*Subject:* Re: [IAEP] Ideas
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
How do you make the Etoys-to-go usb from a file on a disk? Does it need
the Live usb Creator?
Just download the Etoys to go zip file from
herehttp://www.squeakland.org/download/ and
unzip it on your USB drive. You can
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi...
Now, here is a crazy idea/question: If Etoys can be put on a usb as an
application and opened with all of these systems, would it be possible to do
the same with any of the Sugar Activities?
Sugar as an
Kellie,
I created a word sort program in Etoys (which is already on the OLPC) here
is a blog entry on the project Etoys Minute - Word
Sortshttp://mrstevesscience.blogspot.com/2010/10/etoys-minute-word-sorts.html
the actual project is posted on the Squeakland site
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com
wrote:
I have had requests for a few things over the years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisenaire_rods - these are popular
math manipulative and an online version would be cool.
Here are some Cuisinaire Rods in
Edward,
Thanks, please send me the outline and what you think needs to be more
easily discoverable and I will work on it.
Stephen
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
It is true that you can do all of these things in EToys, if you know
where to start. It
. Having someone who has thought deeply about
these subjects provide guideposts and suggestions about the questions I
should be thinking about can make me more productive. Your time and thoughts
and GREATLY appreciated.
Thank you,
Stephen
--
*From:* Steve Thomas stevesar
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote:
2. Have you put in the effort to learn about the psychological,
anthropological, neurological and educational sources that were drawn on to
invent both personal computing and the powerful ideas curricula which have
been
Chase,
Thanks for the offer.
We could use some help developing curriculum, educational projects and
documentation in Etoys (www.squeakland.org).
If you are interested, please let me know.
Stephen
-- Forwarded message --
From: cglad...@imsa.edu
Date: Fri, May 14, 2010 at 1:55
We homeschool our four kids and my wife came to me worried that she couldn't
teach our oldest son math anymore (he's 12 now), because he is too quick and
understands the problems faster than her (FYI, my wife has a Masters in
Computer Science and is no Math slouch). So being the good, arrogant,
To get a flap hit CTRLW (on Macintosh CMDW).
This will bring up the World menu. Then click on flaps... which will
display the flaps menu.
Then click on make a new flap
You can now drag text (and any other objects) onto the flap.
Stephen
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Alan Kay
probably consider adding the text flap to the Object Catalog.
Stephen
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Steve Thomas sthom...@gosargon.com wrote:
To get a flap hit CTRLW (on Macintosh CMDW).
This will bring up the World menu. Then click on flaps... which will
display the flaps menu.
Then click
Roberto,
Here are some examples of teaching Mathematics with Etoys:
1. Fractions:
1. Fraction Tools http://squeakland.org/showcase/project.jsp?id=7673 -
Use virtual Cuisenaire Rods to help kids obtain a better understanding of
fractions and units of measure.
2. Fractions
One possibility would be Etoys. You can create the Artwork in Illustrator
and copy it into Etoys. Simply export to jpeg or png, then drag the file
onto the Etoys world.
If you need help with the animation send an email can also send to
squeakl...@squeakland.org
Stephen
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at
and don't even need to be modified to
change the Play's scripts.
Stephen
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Cherry Withers cwith...@ekindling.orgwrote:
Hi Sebastian,
Copying Steve Thomas on this thread. He made an excellent project using
Etoys that may interest you:
http://www.squeakland.org
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