[IAEP] First day of Etoys class in Somerville

[Caroline Meeks]

Thanks Thomas thats incredibly helpful and I'll try these out tomorrow.

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Steve Thomas <sthomas1 at 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 is a "Bouncing Ball Animation"
> basically it behaves like flip animation (where you draw the different
> positions on the edge of each piece of paper and flip through the pages to
> animate). Have the kids make different drawings of the mouth and place each
> one in a Holder. Then open the Holder's viewer go to the collections
> category and you can iterate through the items in the Holder and set the
> Mouth graphic to the "Holder's player at cursor graphic" To get the
> "Holder's player at cursor graphic" tile you need to click on the
>
>    - How do you control the placement of a speech/thought bubble.  One
>       girl made a very large heart with a face and the speech bubble appeared
>       right at the top, it would look much better if it were over on the side and
>       closer to the mouth.  But I don’t see how to control how it is positioned.
>
> Unfortunately you can not control the placement. What you could do is grab
> an image of the speech bubble and move the grabbed image to a different
> spot.
>
>    - How do you make moving eyes (from the object catalog)part of an
>       object so when you move the object with a script the eyes move too?
>
> If you place the eyes on top of the object you want to embed them in, then
> get the halo for the eye and click on the menu icon (top row, second from
> left), then select "embed" and choose the name of the object you want to
> embed them in. OR get the Halo of the item to which you want to add eyes
> then from the menu icon enure "accept drops" is checked. Now anything you
> place on that object will be embedded in it. NOTE: you may want to turn off
> "accept drops" once done, also if you move an object (using the move icon,
> instead of the pick up icon from the Halo, it will not embed).
>
>    - How do I control when a speech bubble appears and disappears.  I
>       seemed to be able to get it to appear fairly easily with the various options
>       in the script but it then seemed to disappear again immediately.
>
> Hmmm, can you share an actual project when this happens? Usually to get a
> speech bubble to disappear I use the "stop saying or thinking" tile. not
> sure why it would disappear otherwise.
>
>
> I'll try and post an Etoys minute some time tomorrow night to show how
> these things can be done.
>
> Stephen
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Caroline Meeks <caroline at solutiongrove.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Report is here:
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z2wFRkZPOxKpREA6sV1-XVdxjm7bC9jP50KWkdL6d64/edit?authkey=CP7cjcgL&hl=en#
>>
>> We are working in a computer lab in a housing project in Somerville run by
>> the Haitain Coalition of Somerville.  We are using etoys to start with to
>> help support collaboration between Waveplace and the Somerville Haitian
>> Coalition.  The students did very impressive work for the first day.
>>
>> We are using E-toys on a USB stick that works on both PC and Linux and
>> hopefully mac in a day or two. The goal is to have it
>> also automatically backup to dropbox. This currently works on XP, hopefully
>> ubuntu will be next.
>>
>> We could use help from E-toys users. I have a bunch of how do I do this in
>> E-toys questions in the report.
>>
>> We could use help in writing the backup script for ubuntu.
>>
>> Check out the report. It has nice screen shots. :)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Caroline
>>
>> --
>> Caroline Meeks
>> Solution Grove
>> Caroline at SolutionGrove.com
>>
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>>
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Caroline Meeks
Solution Grove
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