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Re: A very nice article to honor Cynthia Solomon,mother of educational computing

Ron Teitelbaum — 2013-04-24T18:22:53

Hi Rita,

 

http://news.squeak.org/2013/04/24/great-women-in-technology-dr-cynthia-solom
on/

 

Ron Teitelbaum

 

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Subject: [squeakland] A very nice article to honor Cynthia Solomon, mother
of educational computing

 

 

http://constructingmodernknowledge.com/cmk08/?p=1967

 

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A very nice article to honor Cynthia Solomon,mother of educational computing

Rita Freudenberg — 2013-04-24T14:08:52

http://constructingmodernknowledge.com/cmk08/?p=1967

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STEM award

Rita Freudenberg — 2013-04-22T16:28:53

Are you working with Etoys in an afterschool program? Then you can apply for this award:

http://www.afterschoolalliance.org/STEM-impactawards.cfm

Unfortunately, the submission deadline is very soon...May 15th! 

Greetings,
Rita

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Scratch with raspberry pi and jr hi girls

Brad Fuller — 2013-04-08T17:36:30

Dont know if this has been shared or not. If so, sorry for the duplication

 Cool! Scratch used by jr hi girl engineering class with raspberry pi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zJyTY9DMYE&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Fwd: Fwd: The Dynabook and modern computing

Yoshiki Ohshima — 2013-04-03T02:27:07

It took me while to realize that I forwarded it to a wrong list...


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Cc: Bert Freudenberg <bert-STCyKV6c0A3iw4BLtGPswg< at >public.gmane.org>


Ask him: how did the invention of agriculture influence "civilization"?

Or: what is ultimately more powerful, competition or cooperation?

Cheers,

Alan

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Benoit is asking this.

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Re: The Dynabook and modern computing

Benoît Fleury — 2013-04-02T18:36:50

Thank you Bert for the link.

I am not sure to understand this metaphor with agriculture.

"One way to think of all of these organizations is to realize that if
they require a charismatic leader who will shoot people in the knees
when needed, then the corporate organization and process is a failure.
It means no group can come up with a good decision and make it stick
just because it is a good idea. All the companies I’ve worked for have
this deep problem of devolving to something like the hunting and
gathering cultures of 100,000 years ago. If businesses could find a
way to invent “agriculture” we could put the world back together and
all would prosper."

If someone could explain me what it means.

Thanks,
Benoit.


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Fwd: Tabletas Nabi para niños - Agregamos muchas fotos y explicaciones.

Carlos Rabassa — 2013-03-20T18:50:12

Sorry but this is too long to translate.

Nenny and I recently bought one of the tablets on sale at Walmart and used it for several days with our granchildren,  aged 1, 2 and 3.

This report tells about the experience with plenty of pictures,  some of interest to educators,  others for programmers with the specifications of the tablet.

As we discussed earlier,  Plan Ceibal is calling for bids to supply up to ten thousand tablets to be used with children aged 4 and 5 y Kindergarden and Pre-Kindergarden.

Our tablet seems to be the first one offered to the public by N-Vidia.  Hewlett Packard, HP announced theirs for next month and a third one,  I believe Samsung announced theirs too.

Carlos


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Re: [etoys-dev] How can I color one character of text?

Steve Thomas — 2013-03-15T01:57:21

Version 2 - Picture Words

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Version 2 - Picture Words
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Picture Words
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by Steve Thomas<http://www.youtube.com/user/sthomastt?feature=em-share_video_user>
Type in the Word represented by the Picture
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Re: [etoys-dev] How can I color one character of text?

Steve Thomas — 2013-03-15T00:58:17

Steve Thomas<http://www.youtube.com/user/sthomastt?feature=em-share_video_user>
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shared a video with you on YouTube
Thank you Bert!!!
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Word Balloons in Etoys
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by Steve Thomas<http://www.youtube.com/user/sthomastt?feature=em-share_video_user>
Teachers and Students can enter a list of words to practice typing, word
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Re: [etoys-dev] How can I color one character of text?

Bert Freudenberg — 2013-03-15T00:25:45





setColorAtCursor: color 
| m |
m := self costume renderedMorph.
m text
addAttribute: (TextColor color: color)
from: m cursor
to: m cursor.
m changed

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How can I color one character of text?

Steve Thomas — 2013-03-15T00:05:18

I am working on a word recognition/typing program in Etoys for Haiti. (and
anyone else who needs it).

I need to be able to change the color of the character at cursor.

How can I do this?  (squeak code is fine)

Thanks,
Stephen
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Fwd: Gates, Zuckerberg: Kids, learn to code

Carlos Rabassa — 2013-02-28T15:29:45


Carlos Rabassa


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Re: Suggestions needed for Learning(Teaching) reading

Harness, Kathleen — 2013-02-28T13:54:25

Steve,
You might take a look at this:
PUT READING FIRST, the publication that Bonnie Armbruster, Jean Osborn, and Fran Lehr compiled for the National Institute of Child Health and Development (a summary of the large NATIONAL READING PANEL REPORT prepared by DOE in 2001).
http://www.fredonia.edu/coe/Put%20Reading%20First%20Publilcation.pdf
Regards,
Kathleen
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Subject: [squeakland] Suggestions needed for Learning(Teaching) reading

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 ordere

Re: Suggestions needed for Learning(Teaching) reading

Ron Teitelbaum — 2013-02-28T04:59:01

Hi Steve,

 

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teach kids there using our software.  

 

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You could have kids in world, they could read signs, follow verbal
instructions, watch videos and be mentored by a native speaker.  

 

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I will be heading to Haiti next month and the teachers are reque

Re: a little help for my master ;)

karl ramberg — 2013-02-22T21:46:06

The Etoys drawing tool takes a little getting used to. Since the background
defaults to transparent the parts you draw seems separated but are still
one picture.
I see no obvious way around learning the hard way to think about making the
different parts and assemble the pieces on a stage.
There are tools to copy parts of drawings; the lasso and the grab patch
tools.

The Scratch way is maybe a little more obvious since it's a little more
clear that you are making small parts to put on the stage.

The Etoys approach has always been authoring on everywhere, and it can be
approached in many ways. There are many stumbling blocks and
it can be really frustrating to get results. But there are also much
flexibility and many project one can do with surprising ease.

Karl


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Uruguay en NYT Video Juegos

Carlos Rabassa — 2013-02-22T21:03:30

: Uruguay's Video Game Start-Ups Garner Attention
By SIMON ROMERO
The country may be better known for its flocks of sheep and
herds of cattle, but attention is shifting to its growing
start-ups that are engineering video games.

Full Story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/22/world/americas/uruguays-video-game-start-ups-garner-attention.html?emc=tnt&tntemail0=yyp
Carlos Rabassa

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Re: a little help for my master ;)

Juliano Bittencourt — 2013-02-20T15:57:21


Dear Bruno,

In my understanding, objects are representations, therefore abstractions, of phenomenas we are trying to model and simulate. Modeling can be achieved without computers, like when you write a mathematical equation. But simulations are very hard, when not impossible, to achieve without computers. This ability of computers to allow the construction of dynamic models of phenomenas, and to translate the results in different forms of representation/visualization is what differentiated it from other medias, like paper and pencil. This allow us, humans, to have totally different points of view of the phenomenas we are struggling to understand, being them our home budget or our universe.

It is possible to building models and simulations with other programming paradigms, such as procedural or functional programming. However object oriented programming is usually "easier to learn" because it builds upon our physical experience to construct abstract models, in a similar strategy with the one of LOGO, but

Re: a little help for my master ;)

Steve Thomas — 2013-02-20T03:52:54

Bruno,

Excellent question.  I have run into the same problem where a child will
draw a complete scene with many objects (for example two fish, some plants
and bubbles) to create a fish tank all in one "Etoys object".   Then they
want to make the fish move, but the script moves the whole "fish tank." So
in this case the "Etoys object" is the drawing of the tank or the tanks
"costume" to use the Etoys specific term.  But in the child's mind they are
separate objects, that she simply drew all at once.

Let me try and give some definitions from an Etoys perspective (hopefully
folks will chime in and make corrections as necessary):
So from an "Etoys perspective" an Object is "Costume" and optionally a set
of scripts and variables to manipulate that object.  The "Costume" is the
what is displayed on the screen.  So when you "Paint" an Object using the
"Paint tool" you are creating the "Costume" of a single "Etoys Object.

How an Etoys object maps to the mental models inside the child's mind is a
good question.  S

Re: Etoys on Android

Hilaire Fernandes — 2013-02-13T17:07:05

Le 13/02/2013 14:56, Steve Thomas a écrit :

Looks like Google broke the link.


Yes, that's part of the thing you have to do: restrict the access to
some devices, otherwise people will badly rate your apps because they
can't use it on there beloved tiny device.

You can try this direct access to install an APK on your GSIII
https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/?group_id=1308&release_id=7777
It should install but it will be unusable, the smallest useable device
can be a Galaxy Note with a stylus (I regulary use it on this device) or
a tablet 7".

By the way if any has a Samsung Galaxy Note 10" I will be happy to read
about using drgeo on it.

If there is a ready image for etoys I can try to pack it.
Oh but wait, does Etoys work with the COG stack VM?

Thanks

Hilaire

Re: Etoys on Android

Steve Thomas — 2013-02-13T13:56:27

Hilaire,

The link to Dr. Geo for Android  at: http://www.drgeo.eu/tablet does not
work :(
But I did find it with this link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Hilaire+Fernandes+%26+Dimitry+Golubovsky
 :)
But it says incomaptable with my devices (Samsung Galaxy SIII) :(

Stephen

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Re: Etoys on Android

Bert Freudenberg — 2013-02-13T13:03:20

For those who don't recognize Hilaire: His "Dr. Geo" is in both Apple's and Google's app stores:

http://www.drgeo.eu/tablet

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