Re: [IAEP] Sugar DIgest 2008-09-22

2008-09-25 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:49:56 +0200, Karl Ramberg wrote: repeat 4 (forward 100 right 90) right 45 forward sqrt ((100*100) + (100*100)) In Etoys it is pretty straight forward to make this script, look at attached picture. I lost the track of original ideas there, but one could make a

Re: [IAEP] [sugar] Sugar on Edubuntu

2008-11-06 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Thu, 6 Nov 2008 00:53:11 -0800, Bert Freudenberg wrote: On 06.11.2008, at 00:12, David Farning wrote: Do you know who I should talk to about requesting that http://www.squeak.org/SqueakLicense/ be update to reflect this information? Squeak (at squeak.org) and Etoys (at

Re: [IAEP] squeak/etoys accepted as free software... (was Re: Sugar on Ubuntu - Summary

2008-11-07 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Sat, 8 Nov 2008 01:32:49 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Part of the honest worry about these issues comes from very good reasons not to just trust everyone. But it also seems that e.g. Debian needs to widen its circle of trust to include experts in wider varieties of programming. There

Re: [IAEP] squeak/etoys accepted into Debian main

2008-11-07 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Sat, 8 Nov 2008 00:09:34 -0300 , Jecel Assumpcao Jr wrote: My point was: is forbidding the export clause as part of the Open Source definition a practical concern or is it just a philosophical checkbox? I agree that it would not make sense to have one rule for Squeak and another for the

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on Debian

2008-11-07 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Sat, 8 Nov 2008 04:26:55 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 04:12:13PM -0800, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: At Fri, 7 Nov 2008 19:45:00 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: The Squeak image Etoys (the only one currently packaged

Re: [IAEP] squeak/etoys accepted into Debian main

2008-11-07 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Sat, 8 Nov 2008 05:56:39 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: (In regards to whether it is just a philosophical checkbox, I tend to think so. If a company makes a product based on an open-source project and sells it to Cuba from the US, the company may be punished regardless what its

Re: [IAEP] squeak/etoys accepted into Debian main

2008-11-08 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Sat, 8 Nov 2008 07:03:28 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: I lost you there: Do you mean to say that the intend of the Squeak license is to make sure a US company can earn money from selling Squeak to Cuba - and that the company is punished economically by Cubans instead stealing the free

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on Debian

2008-11-08 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Sat, 8 Nov 2008 06:39:02 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Sorry, I did not realize the importance of your reference to _later_ discussion for your question. Well, from my writing, it is not clear at all. (In my head, it was so clear, though^^;) Sorry about that. Before I posted the

Re: [IAEP] Distributing Scratch - a summary

2008-11-08 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
1. License. For Squeak generally this is an old, resolved issue. For Etoys, it is a resolved issue. 1. Availability of source code. This is an old misunderstanding. I believe noone currently think that source in unavailable - the issue is how to handle the available source (see

Re: [IAEP] Logic simulator

2009-05-04 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Sun, 3 May 2009 22:09:57 +0100, Gary C Martin wrote: Noticed this Flash based logic simulator: http://joshblog.net/projects/logic-gate-simulator/Logicly.html Would be quite a simple sandbox activity to make (python, gtk+, ciaro); but before I burn time (well add to my future

Re: [IAEP] Pangaean

2009-05-20 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Wed, 20 May 2009 11:48:15 +0200, Bernie Innocenti wrote: This project is in many ways complementary to Sugar: http://www.pangaean.org I'd like to know what people think about it. The software appears to be Windows based, but perhaps it's built with portable technologies. If not,

Re: [IAEP] Squeakers documentary (was Re: Physics)

2009-07-01 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Wed, 1 Jul 2009 15:33:14 +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote: On 01.07.2009, at 14:35, Alan Kay wrote: For example, one child Tyrone (shown in the Squeakers CD explaining all this) Squeakers is an award-winning documentary movie about teaching math and science using Etoys in the

Re: [IAEP] Squeakers documentary (was Re: Physics)

2009-07-02 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Very unfortunately, the Galileo moment when a girl pointed out the trick was edited out and not there in the DVD. Another TO DO would be to put that segment on the web also... It is up now. From: http://squeakland.org/resources/audioVisual/ check it out:

Re: [IAEP] [Sur] sugerencia para actividad clock

2009-07-20 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:56:03 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: What about the clock in Etoys? Are you asking the maintainer of the clock done in Etoys? That one has more complicated eye candy but a teacher or a helper of the teacher should make one in 10 minutes or so. However, my point of

Re: [IAEP] [Sur] sugerencia para actividad clock

2009-07-25 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:14:23 -0700, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: At Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:56:03 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: What about the clock in Etoys? Are you asking the maintainer of the clock done in Etoys? That one has more complicated eye candy but a teacher or a helper

Re: [IAEP] [Sur] sugerencia para actividad clock

2009-07-25 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:55:53 -0300, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: At Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:14:23 -0700, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: At Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:56:03 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: What about the clock in Etoys? Are you asking the maintainer of the clock done in Etoys

Re: [IAEP] GPA Class Notes August 5

2009-08-07 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Wed, 5 Aug 2009 14:12:10 -0400, Greg Smith wrote: Kids really wanted to play Scary Maze (http://www.google.com/#hl=enq=scary+maze+game+3aq=0oq=scary+maze+game+aqi=g10fp=flbC24gbdiA) but we said that wasn't available. I tried it via Flash later and it worked fine but I wasn't sure its

Re: [IAEP] Sharing EToys projects

2009-12-06 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:00:59 -0500, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: [1 multipart/signed (7bit)] [1.1 text/plain; ISO-8859-1 (quoted-printable)] Dave Bauer wrote: Do you happen to know what the mime type should be for Etoys to open it? The list of mime types that the eToys activity will

Re: [IAEP] [etoys-dev] TED - Alan Kay - Example(8:44)

2010-02-19 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Gustavo, At Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:35:53 -0300, Gustavo Ibarra wrote: Hello everybody, I am trying to simulate the example  Or This A^2+b^2=c^2 used by AK en the TED conference (8:44) but unfortunelly I am not arriving to the expected results. Does anybody know if the etoy project (I

Re: [IAEP] Problem with Etoy

2010-03-06 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Sun, 7 Mar 2010 00:57:01 +, Parichay Parivesh wrote: Hello, I am having problem with Etoy. I created an image in Photoshop and i converted in jpg then drag into into Etoy but the moment image goes on Etoy it turn into black and white. I don't know how? To check I tried with

Re: [IAEP] help in scripting in etoy

2010-03-12 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:28:02 +, Parichay Parivesh wrote: Hello, Can any one help in scripting with Etoy. I wan to make a matching game through for example match two if match then processed to forward or else say try again. and one more in which drag and drop is used for example

Re: [IAEP] US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praises OLPC in South America

2010-03-17 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:00:25 +1300, Tim McNamara wrote: On 18 March 2010 08:45, Yama Ploskonka yamap...@gmail.com wrote: Panama?  No mention of Haiti itself, alas. Politicians are only as good as their advisers. This is a really positive development, even if some facts are missed.

Re: [IAEP] US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praises OLPC in South America

2010-03-17 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:27:19 -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima yosh...@vpri.org wrote:  And if she gave an impression to think that giving laptops to children in the disaster-hit country will solve their problems, it would be a political

[IAEP] Forward: [squeak-dev] Points of View - a tribute to Alan Kay

2010-05-21 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
An interesting book. (The free PDF version is available on the site as well, but the book form is worth it if you're interested in the history of personal computing and education and books...) -- Yoshiki ---BeginMessage--- Folks, I am pleased to announce the latest publication from

Re: [IAEP] Crazy Idea

2010-06-11 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:14:59 -0400, Chris Ball wrote: Hi, Some schools are getting iPod touches (??? is that the plural) for their elementary schools to use. Apple has a big push with this and has several demo projects going. I saw one at CUE in March. Very impressive!

[IAEP] CFP: Ninth International Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing

2010-07-26 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
A call for papers. This conference has been going some years now, and the Etoys team presented a paper in 2009, for example. It would be a good venue for people in this community. Please forward this to relevant mailing lists, too. -- Yoshiki

[IAEP] Forward: Points of View - a tribute to Alan Kay, second printing available

2010-08-04 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
From Ian... -- Yoshiki ---BeginMessage--- Folks, Some of you missed the first printing of our book Points of View -- a tribute to Alan Kay, supplies of which were depleted less than six hours after the announcement. We have made a second printing of the book that is now available (in

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Exploring Sugar-on-Tablets

2011-04-13 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:55:59 -0400, Erik Blankinship wrote: Before completely dismissing the mac ppc architecture, it is noteworthy that the platform has a bright retrograde future in tablets. http://blogger-off.com/apple-powerbook-g4-12-tablet/ Yup. A lesson we learned is that locking

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Exploring Sugar-on-Tablets

2011-04-13 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:44:30 -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima yosh...@vpri.org wrote:  Yup.  A lesson we learned is that locking ourselves into one particular processor or OS is not a good idea, and trying to predict the particularity

Re: [IAEP] Chess activities

2011-04-29 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Thu, 28 Apr 2011 19:40:41 +1000, Kevin Kirton wrote: Would you need a chess engine though? Obviously you would if you wanted an activity where a player could play against the XO. But a chess engine would be heavy work for the XO wouldn't it? Wouldn't a simple on-screen chess board with

[IAEP] Call for Posters and Demonstrations: Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing

2011-06-10 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Hello, There is a symposium called Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing (VL/HCC). They are looking for posters and demos, including graphical educational systemss such as Etoys. If anybody interested in showing such systems, please submit applications. -- Yoshiki

Re: [IAEP] Call for Posters and Demonstrations: Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing

2011-06-10 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Fri, 10 Jun 2011 09:27:03 -0700, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: Hello, There is a symposium called Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing (VL/HCC). They are looking for posters and demos, including graphical educational systemss such as Etoys. If anybody interested in showing

Re: [IAEP] WEB DEVELOPER FOR SCRATCH 2.0

2011-07-05 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
By now, people here would know about this job offering, but they are still looking for applicants: http://www.media.mit.edu/about/opportunities/web-developer-scratch-20 This would be a really exciting and high-visibility site... -- Yoshiki ___

[IAEP] Abacus suggestions

2011-10-08 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
For the first time I launched Abacus activity today. My impression is biased as I am Japanese and learned a version of it at school, but here is some suggestions: - The graphics lacks essential dots. You see some dots in this picture for example:

Re: [IAEP] Abacus suggestions

2011-10-09 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Hi, Walter, At Sun, 9 Oct 2011 08:57:51 -0400, Walter Bender wrote:  - As you can see, the default 1's digit (the big white dots) is in    the middle, not the far right.  That makes sense to tell that    there are numbers smaller than 1 and for the idea of power of 10.    (It is often

Re: [IAEP] Abacus suggestions

2011-10-09 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Sun, 9 Oct 2011 15:11:24 -0400, Walter Bender wrote: On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 12:29 AM, Yoshiki Ohshima yosh...@vpri.org wrote: For the first time I launched Abacus activity today.  My impression is biased as I am Japanese and learned a version of it at school, but here is some

Re: [IAEP] Sugata Mitra at TED 2013

2013-03-09 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi, When I was teaching I had a saying usually attributed to Confucius (carefully hand drawn in calligraphy… no computers available to print it then) and hung above the chalkboard (old technology). It was my motto for

Re: [IAEP] Sugata Mitra at TED 2013

2013-03-10 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
are not going to need to learn calculus or statistics. cheers DG Yoshiki Ohshima yoshiki.ohsh...@acm.org napisał: On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi, When I was teaching I had a saying usually attributed to Confucius (carefully hand drawn

[IAEP] Fwd: Fwd: [squeakland] The Dynabook and modern computing

2013-04-02 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
It took me while to realize that I forwarded it to a wrong list... -- Forwarded message -- From: Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com Date: Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 11:57 AM Subject: Re: Fwd: [squeakland] The Dynabook and modern computing To: Yoshiki Ohshima yoshiki.ohsh...@acm.org Cc: Bert