Re: [IAEP] Emulating Alice in Turtle?
I'll sketch out a TA project for you to do this... Not too complicated. -walter On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Brooks, Kevin wrote: > The kids in our after school program love Alice (Speak), and we have talked > to them about how she works. I just realized that we could get them to > emulate Alice's opening moves in Turtle Blocks, with either the "speak" or > "show" media objects, but I can't figure out if it is possible to program a > response in Turtle using the "query keyboard" block from the sensors palette > (or some other block like "print" from Python blocks). In other words, > > Speak -- Hello, my name is Alice. > Speak -- What is your name? > query keyboard ... > > ... and allow students to type in their name followed by > > Speak -- That's a funny / cool / name (or whatever response the kids want to > put in). Getting them to program multiple options would be ideal! > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. > > Kevin > -- > Kevin Brooks > Chair > Department of English > Dept 2320, Box 6050 > Morrill 219A > North Dakota State University > Fargo ND 58108-6050 > 701-231-7147 > http://english.ndsu.edu/faculty/kevin_brooks/ > > The computer's true function is to program and orchestrate terrestrial and > galactic environments and energies in a harmonious way. -- Marshall McLuhan > > > > > > > ___ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Emulating Alice in Turtle?
The kids in our after school program love Alice (Speak), and we have talked to them about how she works. I just realized that we could get them to emulate Alice's opening moves in Turtle Blocks, with either the "speak" or "show" media objects, but I can't figure out if it is possible to program a response in Turtle using the "query keyboard" block from the sensors palette (or some other block like "print" from Python blocks). In other words, Speak -- Hello, my name is Alice. Speak -- What is your name? query keyboard ... ... and allow students to type in their name followed by Speak -- That's a funny / cool / name (or whatever response the kids want to put in). Getting them to program multiple options would be ideal! Any suggestions would be appreciated. Kevin -- Kevin Brooks Chair Department of English Dept 2320, Box 6050 Morrill 219A North Dakota State University Fargo ND 58108-6050 701-231-7147 http://english.ndsu.edu/faculty/kevin_brooks/ The computer's true function is to program and orchestrate terrestrial and galactic environments and energies in a harmonious way. -- Marshall McLuhan ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2012-11-16
Chris, I tried the workaround and it works. I can see the dashboard and everything now. James Simmons On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Chris Leonard wrote: > It seems many (not jsut Sugar Labs) are having difficulty creating > profiles and registering as mentors. > > See this ticket > > http://code.google.com/p/soc/issues/detail?id=1640 > > There is a workaround described within. > > On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Chris Leonard > wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Walter Bender > wrote: > >> == Sugar Digest == > >> > >> 1. Sugar Labs has been selected as one of ten projects to participate > >> in Google Code In [1]. \ > > > >> NOTE TO MENTORS: Please create an account on [1] and fill out the > >> Request to be a Mentor form. > > > > > >> [1] http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2012 > > > > > > In order to register as a mentor > > > > go to http://www.google-melange.com -> click login .. new page create > > account ( or log in with your google account ) > > > > cjl > ___ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2012-11-16
Sorry about that. I was not paying attention. Fixed in the wiki and in my blog. -walter On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Agustin Zubiaga Sanchez wrote: > The spanish to english translate was very bad. > My real name is: "Agustín Zubiaga" > > Regards, > aguz > > 2012/11/16 S. Daniel Francis >> >> 2012/11/16 James Simmons : >> > 2). The Python Joven has a developer named Naughty Cristofer? >> Nope, it was the result of putting the name Cristhofer Travieso in >> Google Translate. >> >> See you! >> ___ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > > > ___ > Sugar-devel mailing list > sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2012-11-16
It seems many (not jsut Sugar Labs) are having difficulty creating profiles and registering as mentors. See this ticket http://code.google.com/p/soc/issues/detail?id=1640 There is a workaround described within. On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Chris Leonard wrote: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Walter Bender > wrote: >> == Sugar Digest == >> >> 1. Sugar Labs has been selected as one of ten projects to participate >> in Google Code In [1]. \ > >> NOTE TO MENTORS: Please create an account on [1] and fill out the >> Request to be a Mentor form. > > >> [1] http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2012 > > > In order to register as a mentor > > go to http://www.google-melange.com -> click login .. new page create > account ( or log in with your google account ) > > cjl ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-11-16
The spanish to english translate was very bad. My real name is: "Agustín Zubiaga" Regards, aguz 2012/11/16 S. Daniel Francis > 2012/11/16 James Simmons : > > 2). The Python Joven has a developer named Naughty Cristofer? > Nope, it was the result of putting the name Cristhofer Travieso in > Google Translate. > > See you! > ___ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2012-11-16
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Walter Bender wrote: > == Sugar Digest == > > 1. Sugar Labs has been selected as one of ten projects to participate > in Google Code In [1]. \ > NOTE TO MENTORS: Please create an account on [1] and fill out the > Request to be a Mentor form. > [1] http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2012 In order to register as a mentor go to http://www.google-melange.com -> click login .. new page create account ( or log in with your google account ) cjl ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-11-16
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 2:59 PM, James Simmons wrote: > Two questions: > > 1). I cannot find the Request To Be A Mentor form on the Google Code-In > site. I have a Gmail account so it looks like account-wise I'm all set. A lot of things happen from what they call the Dashhboard http://www.google-melange.com/gci/dashboard/google/gci2012#request_to_become_mentor > 2). The Python Joven has a developer named Naughty Cristofer? > > James Simmons > > > On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Walter Bender > wrote: >> >> == Sugar Digest == >> >> 1. Sugar Labs has been selected as one of ten projects to participate >> in Google Code In [1]. We join, among others, our colleagues at Fedora >> et al., in soliciting the participation of high-school (and in our >> case, middle-school) students to work on projects during a six-week >> sprint beginning on November 26. This is a great chance for the youth >> who have been so instrumental in our growth over the past year to show >> off their talents to the world (and two of them will hopefully win a >> trip to visit Google). Please help Chris Leonard and me finalize the >> project and mentor lists over the next few days. (We are offering >> coding projects, documentation and training projects, outreach, >> quality assurance, and user interface, so even if you are not a >> developer, you likely have some skills to devote to the Code In. >> >> NOTE TO MENTORS: Please create an account on [1] and fill out the >> Request to be a Mentor form. >> >> NOTE TO COMMUNITY: Please add to our task lists [2] and please recruit >> participants. >> >> 2. I am in transit back to Boston from a 3-day trip to Chihuahua, >> Mexico. I gave a lecture on Sugar at Campuslink 2.0, the annual tech >> conference at UACH. I had a lot of fun with the faculty and students >> and even managed to squeeze in a short tutorial on hacking Sugar on my >> way to the airport this morning. I am looking forward to growing >> participation in the Sugar community. (Note to CJL: they are very >> interested in providing Rarámuri language support for Sugar.) >> >> 3. Sugar Labs is holding its annual election to the oversight board >> early next month. In anticipation of the election, I urge you to sign >> up for membership in the Sugar community. You need not be a software >> developer to join: contributions come in many forms, including: >> teaching, documenting, promoting, supporting, etc. (Note: there is no >> membership fee.) So, if you are not already a member, please sign up >> at [3] before 23 November. >> >> "If you're wondering whether you meet the requirements, if you're a >> teacher using Sugar in your classroom, regularly reading mailing >> lists, or have discussed Sugar in IRC, you probably do." >> >> If you are interested in running for one of the open board seats, open >> to any community member, please feel free to contact me or the >> membership committee with any questions before 7 December. >> >> 4. Irma Alvarez has completed Fructose (and Dextrose) translations of >> Sugar into Quechua. Next up: the Honey strings. >> >> === In the community === >> >> 5. The python-joven (Python youth) community has been busy. A number >> of Sugar and GNOME-related workshops were given last week: >> >> * Introduction to Gtk 3 (Ignacio Rodriguez and Flavio Danesse) >> * Game Development on glucose (Ezekiel Pereira) >> * My text editor for GNOME (on gtk 2) (Cristian Garcia) >> * Sugar (Zubiaga Augustine and Naughty Cristofer) >> * Playing with python on my phone (Zubiaga Augustine and Naughty >> Cristofer) >> * A media player on Gstreamer 1.0 (Flavio Danesse) >> * A Client Server program (Flavio Danesse) >> >> 6. Worth a read: a blog from a new Sugar community member [4] >> >> === Tech Talk === >> >> 7. The latest Butia project by Nicolas Furquez and Rafael Sisto is >> pretty cool: [5]. >> >> === Sugar Labs === >> >> Visit our planet [6] for more updates about Sugar and Sugar deployments. >> >> >> >> [1] http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2012 >> [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Google_Code-In_2012 >> [3] >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Members#Applying_for_membership >> [4] >> http://jutanclan.blogspot.com/2012/11/one-laptop-per-child-here-we-go.html?spref=fb >> [5] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF9ZhQYIwVg&feature=relmfu >> [6] http://planet.sugarlabs.org >> >> -walter >> -- >> Walter Bender >> Sugar Labs >> http://www.sugarlabs.org >> ___ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > > > ___ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-11-16
2012/11/16 James Simmons : > 2). The Python Joven has a developer named Naughty Cristofer? Nope, it was the result of putting the name Cristhofer Travieso in Google Translate. See you! ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-11-16
Two questions: 1). I cannot find the Request To Be A Mentor form on the Google Code-In site. I have a Gmail account so it looks like account-wise I'm all set. 2). The Python Joven has a developer named Naughty Cristofer? James Simmons On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Walter Bender wrote: > == Sugar Digest == > > 1. Sugar Labs has been selected as one of ten projects to participate > in Google Code In [1]. We join, among others, our colleagues at Fedora > et al., in soliciting the participation of high-school (and in our > case, middle-school) students to work on projects during a six-week > sprint beginning on November 26. This is a great chance for the youth > who have been so instrumental in our growth over the past year to show > off their talents to the world (and two of them will hopefully win a > trip to visit Google). Please help Chris Leonard and me finalize the > project and mentor lists over the next few days. (We are offering > coding projects, documentation and training projects, outreach, > quality assurance, and user interface, so even if you are not a > developer, you likely have some skills to devote to the Code In. > > NOTE TO MENTORS: Please create an account on [1] and fill out the > Request to be a Mentor form. > > NOTE TO COMMUNITY: Please add to our task lists [2] and please recruit > participants. > > 2. I am in transit back to Boston from a 3-day trip to Chihuahua, > Mexico. I gave a lecture on Sugar at Campuslink 2.0, the annual tech > conference at UACH. I had a lot of fun with the faculty and students > and even managed to squeeze in a short tutorial on hacking Sugar on my > way to the airport this morning. I am looking forward to growing > participation in the Sugar community. (Note to CJL: they are very > interested in providing Rarámuri language support for Sugar.) > > 3. Sugar Labs is holding its annual election to the oversight board > early next month. In anticipation of the election, I urge you to sign > up for membership in the Sugar community. You need not be a software > developer to join: contributions come in many forms, including: > teaching, documenting, promoting, supporting, etc. (Note: there is no > membership fee.) So, if you are not already a member, please sign up > at [3] before 23 November. > > "If you're wondering whether you meet the requirements, if you're a > teacher using Sugar in your classroom, regularly reading mailing > lists, or have discussed Sugar in IRC, you probably do." > > If you are interested in running for one of the open board seats, open > to any community member, please feel free to contact me or the > membership committee with any questions before 7 December. > > 4. Irma Alvarez has completed Fructose (and Dextrose) translations of > Sugar into Quechua. Next up: the Honey strings. > > === In the community === > > 5. The python-joven (Python youth) community has been busy. A number > of Sugar and GNOME-related workshops were given last week: > > * Introduction to Gtk 3 (Ignacio Rodriguez and Flavio Danesse) > * Game Development on glucose (Ezekiel Pereira) > * My text editor for GNOME (on gtk 2) (Cristian Garcia) > * Sugar (Zubiaga Augustine and Naughty Cristofer) > * Playing with python on my phone (Zubiaga Augustine and Naughty Cristofer) > * A media player on Gstreamer 1.0 (Flavio Danesse) > * A Client Server program (Flavio Danesse) > > 6. Worth a read: a blog from a new Sugar community member [4] > > === Tech Talk === > > 7. The latest Butia project by Nicolas Furquez and Rafael Sisto is > pretty cool: [5]. > > === Sugar Labs === > > Visit our planet [6] for more updates about Sugar and Sugar deployments. > > > > [1] http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2012 > [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Google_Code-In_2012 > [3] > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Members#Applying_for_membership > [4] > http://jutanclan.blogspot.com/2012/11/one-laptop-per-child-here-we-go.html?spref=fb > [5] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF9ZhQYIwVg&feature=relmfu > [6] http://planet.sugarlabs.org > > -walter > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > ___ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-11-16
== Sugar Digest == 1. Sugar Labs has been selected as one of ten projects to participate in Google Code In [1]. We join, among others, our colleagues at Fedora et al., in soliciting the participation of high-school (and in our case, middle-school) students to work on projects during a six-week sprint beginning on November 26. This is a great chance for the youth who have been so instrumental in our growth over the past year to show off their talents to the world (and two of them will hopefully win a trip to visit Google). Please help Chris Leonard and me finalize the project and mentor lists over the next few days. (We are offering coding projects, documentation and training projects, outreach, quality assurance, and user interface, so even if you are not a developer, you likely have some skills to devote to the Code In. NOTE TO MENTORS: Please create an account on [1] and fill out the Request to be a Mentor form. NOTE TO COMMUNITY: Please add to our task lists [2] and please recruit participants. 2. I am in transit back to Boston from a 3-day trip to Chihuahua, Mexico. I gave a lecture on Sugar at Campuslink 2.0, the annual tech conference at UACH. I had a lot of fun with the faculty and students and even managed to squeeze in a short tutorial on hacking Sugar on my way to the airport this morning. I am looking forward to growing participation in the Sugar community. (Note to CJL: they are very interested in providing Rarámuri language support for Sugar.) 3. Sugar Labs is holding its annual election to the oversight board early next month. In anticipation of the election, I urge you to sign up for membership in the Sugar community. You need not be a software developer to join: contributions come in many forms, including: teaching, documenting, promoting, supporting, etc. (Note: there is no membership fee.) So, if you are not already a member, please sign up at [3] before 23 November. "If you're wondering whether you meet the requirements, if you're a teacher using Sugar in your classroom, regularly reading mailing lists, or have discussed Sugar in IRC, you probably do." If you are interested in running for one of the open board seats, open to any community member, please feel free to contact me or the membership committee with any questions before 7 December. 4. Irma Alvarez has completed Fructose (and Dextrose) translations of Sugar into Quechua. Next up: the Honey strings. === In the community === 5. The python-joven (Python youth) community has been busy. A number of Sugar and GNOME-related workshops were given last week: * Introduction to Gtk 3 (Ignacio Rodriguez and Flavio Danesse) * Game Development on glucose (Ezekiel Pereira) * My text editor for GNOME (on gtk 2) (Cristian Garcia) * Sugar (Zubiaga Augustine and Naughty Cristofer) * Playing with python on my phone (Zubiaga Augustine and Naughty Cristofer) * A media player on Gstreamer 1.0 (Flavio Danesse) * A Client Server program (Flavio Danesse) 6. Worth a read: a blog from a new Sugar community member [4] === Tech Talk === 7. The latest Butia project by Nicolas Furquez and Rafael Sisto is pretty cool: [5]. === Sugar Labs === Visit our planet [6] for more updates about Sugar and Sugar deployments. [1] http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2012 [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Google_Code-In_2012 [3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Members#Applying_for_membership [4] http://jutanclan.blogspot.com/2012/11/one-laptop-per-child-here-we-go.html?spref=fb [5] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF9ZhQYIwVg&feature=relmfu [6] http://planet.sugarlabs.org -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
