Carly,<div><br></div><div>Some other thoughts for games kids could develop.</div><div><br></div><div><b><u>Classification</u></b>:</div><div>One would be a sorting game where kids create pictures and the object is to place them in Holders or Playfields based upon some rule they come up with. Simple classification of geometric objects or characteristics of animals. Then the kids could explain their reasoning when they wind up with different sets from the same original group. Their should also be encouragement for the kids to create their own games by creating their own pictures or taking them with the camera.</div> <div><br></div><div><b><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; ">This really would not require much programming (unless they wanted the pictures or holders to do something special when placed in the correct holder (ie: the holder that matches the rules they thought of).</span></u></b></div> <div><b><u><br></u></b></div><div><b><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "></span>Conectration</u></b>:</div><div>Here kids could learn that "a number is all the ways you can name it" for example:</div> <div><ul><li>4, x x x x</li><li>4, 6 - 2</li><li>4, 3 + 1</li><li>etc (you could also represent 6 - 2 as 6 objects with two crossed out)</li></ul></div><div> <br></div><div><b><u>Tanagrams</u></b>:</div><div>Another thought is tanagrams and tessalations, these are simple to create in Etoys using playfields with gridding on and polygons. In playfield menu, select "playfield options..." check "use gridding" and "grid visible when gridding," then "set grid spacing ..." and use 0@0 for origin and try 40@40 for grid spacing (and other numbers). Then drag a polygon from the "object catalog" onto the playfield. If you "shift click" on the polygon it's handles will show allowing you to move and add vertices.</div> <div><br></div><div><b><u>Tessellations</u></b>:</div><div>I haven't done this, but it should be relatively easy for kids to create simple tessellation makers. Where they have a simple pattern (ex: four squares) where they can color in the individual blocks and then create the tessellation.</div> <div><br></div><div>For <u>Bingo Examples</u> see: <a href="http://www.squeakland.org/showcase/project.jsp?id=10305">Name that Number Bingo</a> and attached project from Avigail Snir to which I made some slight modifications. The flap on page three still has some bugs but it basically builds on an idea/project from P.A. Dreyfus to represent mathematical operations in a different way (you may find it <a href="http://swiki.ofset.org:8000/seaside/SBSuperSwiki/afbbb447-34cc-4ffa-94eb-eee32541a724?_s=vvuGPjwrfKEfRcFh&_k=lFskDKXM">here</a> on the France Superswiki, but superswiki seems to dynamically create URL's for projects, so you can try looking for the project using search and the project name <u>arbreDesOperationsA</u>)</div> <div><br></div><div>For <u>Guess My Rule</u> see: <a href="http://www.squeakland.org/showcase/project.jsp?id=7814">Guess My Rule</a></div><div><br></div><div>Stephen</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Caryl Bigenho <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cbigenho@hotmail.com" target="_blank">cbigenho@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div> Hi Folks,<div><br></div><div>I had a great visit yesterday with the folks at New Tech High @ Coppell, TX. It is a great place, where "facilitators" guide "learners" in their project based learning. We were very impressed. But, I was surprised to discover they do not teach any computer programming at the school. If students want to take programming, they can do a concurrent enrollment at the local community college. Their classes are the traditional courses, taught in a very non-traditional way.</div> <div><br></div><div>Since last year they have been doing a great Contributors Project with XOs they are sending to the rescued slave children at the shelter run by the Touch A Life Foundation in Ghana. As a followup to the work they did last year, they want to create math games for these children to use on the XOs. They tried doing this last year with Scratch but were not satisfied with their "product" and felt they could do better.</div> <div><br></div><div>Their project director is a math teacher and she wants her students to try again this year to create math learning games for the children in their project in Ghana. I suggested she try Etoys this time and promised to get her more information on how to do it. Anything they create will be at a very elementary level as most of the children in the shelter have had no prior school experience. Their lessons in Etoys should be as language neutral as possible and the words they do use can be translated and used by deployments anywhere so this could be a very useful project.</div> <div><br></div><div>So I have some questions about things I need to know to help them.</div><div><br></div><div>How do you transfer an Etoys lesson to the XO (they will have both XO-1s and XO-1.5s) if they lessons are created:</div> <div><br></div><div>On a Mac using Etoys downloaded from the web:</div><div><br></div><div>On a PC using Etoys downloaded from the web:</div><div><br></div><div>On Etoys to go downloaded from the web and, possibly used on both Macs and PCs (they have both at New Tech):</div> <div><br></div><div>Is there a good way to disseminate the projects so that the children won't accidentally erase them... perhaps by using SD cards or USB sticks? Cost is a factor.</div><div><br></div><div>Or... could they make a custom build for their project that would include their Etoys lessons in a way that they wouldn't accidentally be erased?</div> <div><br></div><div>I will probably have more questions as we go along, but this will help get us all started. </div><div><br></div><div>GrannieB (Caryl)</div><div><br></div><div>For more info about NewTech@Coppell:</div> <div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.coppellisd.com/newtech/lib/newtech/pdfs/demonstrationsiteprofile.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.coppellisd.com/newtech/lib/newtech/pdfs/demonstrationsiteprofile.pdf</a></div><div> <br> </div><div><a href="http://www.newtechnetwork.org/newtech_schools" target="_blank">http://www.newtechnetwork.org/newtech_schools</a> (watch the video linked in the upper right corner to see how the school works)</div><div> <br></div><div><br></div> </div> <br>_______________________________________________<br> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br> <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a><br></blockquote></div><br></div>