Thanks. I have just added you. Which level should it be ? beginner, intermediate or advanced ?
Cheers
Mariano
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Rita Freudenberg
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Hi all,
I do have another project idea from the squeakland education team. Randy Caton would mentor the project. Here are the details:
TECHNICAL DETAILS
Develop a set of tools in the Etoys/Squeak environment to implement the following:
1. Graphing of Data
Tiles for creating vertical and horizontal grid lines, major and minor tick marks, labels for axes, and a label for the graph would be created to allow students to graph data they acquire in science and mathematics projects.
2. Input/Output of Data From/To Files
Tiles would be created to allow data from the Etoys environment to be output to a file and for information from an external file to be imported into the Etoys environment.
3. Learner and Teacher Feedback
Tiles would be created to allow feedback to be provided to learners and teachers as a student progresses through a project.
BENEFITS TO THE STUDENT
Exposure to Smalltalk programming and the problem solving involved in implementing the above tools in the Etoys environment would be valuable to the student's education. The description above is meant to be an outline, but the project would be somewhat open-ended so the students could use their problem solving skills to modify, improve and enhance the ideas for the tool set as they progress.
BENEFITS TO THE EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY
Learners and Teachers would benefit from more tools in Etoys to enhance their learning.
1. Graphing of Data
When learners are doing Etoys projects that involve acquiring data - either real or virtual - it would be valuable from an educational standpoint if they could stay within the same environment to plot the results of their investigation to better visualize their data. This would fit well with the visual aspect of Etoys.
2. Input/Output of Data From/To Files
This would allow learners to import data for visualization in the Etoys environment. Etoys is richer than most learning environments used in education and very creative things could be done in Etoys to visualize and use external data from a file. Learners and Teachers would also benefit from getting formative feedback on how the learner is progressing. Etoys is a rich environment of objects and data regarding the learners manipulation of these objects would be sent to an external file for educators to analyze at a later date. The feedback would be more sophisticated and useful than a simple list of keystrokes or monitoring of eye movements. Further, data could be retrieved from these files to present to the learner or teacher as formative feedback on the learner's progress.
3. Student and Teacher Feedback
Learners and Teachers would benefit from getting immediate, formative, embedded feedback. Teachers often have 20-30 students in their classroom and they don't have time to give each student very much individual attention. If teachers have immediate feedback on the screen regarding the progress of the student would help them decide which students need the most help. With feedback tools, educational developers who weren't Smalltalk programmers, would be able to create lessons with valuable feedback for learners and teachers.
Am 11.03.2010 um 19:57 schrieb Mariano Martinez Peck:
Hi Folks. Tomorrow (12/03/2010) morning is the deadline for the project submission. We want to apply by noon so we will be adding the last projects in the morning.
So...the deadline is 9:00 am in GMT +1
Cheers
Mariano
Rita Freudenberg
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