Cherry, Randy, Rita, Avigail, Kathleen
At January 21 we talked about ideas to have Etoys projects and workshops in museums. While working on courseware, we will think how we can use parts of it for workshops. The paint box issue came up (from Rita): when starting Etoys 4, the painting area will be smaller then the screen. There are different opinions: while some like the larger area because the kids have freedom to paint big pictures, others had problems with these big paintings, because they are too big to be moved on the screen. We found out that we can just turn "etoys frindly" off and get the larger paint area. But to find the menu is not easy. We will go through all the preferences and make a list which of them we would like to have in a "Etoys Preference Pane".
Avigail asked if we will change the introductory page on the website
http://www.squeakland.org/about/intro/
Cathie Galas already reviewed a chapter, and the education team strongly suggests to give it a revision.
In the next week we talked about the upcoming book sprint and Tim's Haiti videos.
http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/haiti/waveplace_foundation_haiti_reb.html
We will focus on the book sprint right now to get the manual finished, which then can be translated. After that, we will go on with our courseware. We will get help from a teacher who knows Haiti and who will give us feedback how our courseware copuld be used there.