Dear ToonTalkers - I am very pleased to announce that Parents' Choice (a non-profit consumer guide to children's products since 1978) awarded ToonTalk the Gold...
Hi all! I will use ToonTalk for two human-computer interaction courses that I teach at the university of Linköping (Sweden). The idea is that the students...
Mikael Kindborg
mikki@...
Nov 14, 2001 7:42 am
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Hi again, One application I have in mind is a simple chat toy that uses long distance birds. While you could use long distance birds directly, I have in mind...
Mikael Kindborg
mikki@...
Nov 14, 2001 8:05 am
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Hi. Sorry for bringing up so many issues at once. This is a question for the people on the list who have used birds with children. When you want to get back a...
Mikael Kindborg
mikki@...
Nov 14, 2001 8:14 am
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Hi Micke, I have done a few classes on TT with students from the kindergarten' teachers course, here at the UTAD. I have dedicated 1-hour per class to teaching...
Hi. I just got help from Ross Adamson in the Playground project, and the trick seems to be to drop the last key sensor on a blank textpad. (One made blank with...
Mikael Kindborg
mikki@...
Nov 14, 2001 11:51 am
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Hi Micke, I had a session where two identical robots would use two birds to "pass a ball" among them. At the time, this issue was not raised by the kid in...
Hi, In the Playground project we did several international games workshops with our children using long distance birds. During the workshops pairs of children...
Hi and thanks. Your list is a good start for a checklist of things you should know in ToonTalk. Such a list could give structure to free exploration and also...
Mikael Kindborg
mikki@...
Nov 14, 2001 3:12 pm
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Hi, Just a thought: show them how easy it is to program concurrent actions in TT: that should be a nice eye-opener! Inté, Leonel...
Micke - While thanking Ross, please also encourage him to post copies of his helpful hints to the list so the rest of us can benefit too! - Jerry Balzano ... ...
Here's the sound recorder I built in toontalk for the whole list to try out. ... uses ... appears. ... the ... record ... backspace ... add ... ...
Ross Adamson
R.Adamson@...
Nov 14, 2001 6:03 pm
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Hi all. I'm glad to see this list functions well even when I'm out with a ... Yes. Just drop the text pad on an erased box. This is a typical use of type ...
... People familiar with function/procedure calls might expect the same bird to come back with an answer. But in ToonTalk there is a simple rule that I believe...
Dear ToonTalkers - A new ToonTalk publicity campaign ( http://www.toontalk.com/English/press.htm ) is being launched today by K. Junger & Associates in the US...
Hi, One of my 4 year olds "discovered" that pictures wiggle when you point at them on his second TT session (I had pointed it out in the first one, and he even...
Hi Leonel, That was a really great story! I guess that we too often underestimate children, especially when not spending time with them. /Micke...
Mikael Kindborg
mikki@...
Nov 23, 2001 7:11 am
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Hi all. It is a real good story. There have been a few occasions when older children (9 or 10) have discovered other inconsistencies and felt I should fix...
Hi, Indeed, I don't see the need for Tooly to wiggle: as I said, this was my first kid to notice it. Regarding "cleaned" (not empty) text pads, however (would...
... I think inconsistencies can be distracting and interfere with the fantasy of being in the ToonTalk world. So on very fast machines I think Tooly should ...
Hi, Sorry, it was clumsy of me not to provide the exact situation: when I said that erased text pads don't wiggle, I was referring to the situation in which...
Ah, you mean erased number pads and I just checked and sure enough it is a bug that erased number pads don't wiggle when a box is held over them. (For those of...
Dear ToonTalkers - I'm proud to annouce that the Japanese version of ToonTalk is now available in Japan. MicroNet ( http://micronet.co.jp/toontalk/index.htm )...
Dear ToonTalkers - Beta 33 is now available. It supports all the standard color depths (8-bit, 15-bit, 16-bit, 24-bit, and 32-bit). It has improved handling of...
Dear ToonTalkers - Several of you have created screen shots of ToonTalk. I just wrote a guide to creating the best possible quality screen shots. It is ...
Dear ToonTalkers - Nightly Business Report (PBS) is planning on showing ToonTalk tonight. Subject to scheduling changes. Let's hope it doesn't get bumped by...
Dear ToonTalkers - Tomorrow the following interview with me on ToonTalk will be broadcast in a few states. It is already available as streaming audio at ...
Hi! When I hide a picture (using the visible sensor) the pictures added to the picture I hide (the parent picture) don't hide. I expected that hiding the...
Mikael Kindborg
mikki@...
Feb 18, 2002 7:07 pm
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Hi. A good point. I think the best solution is that the visibility sensor have a 4th state: 1. See all 2. See some 3. See nothing including parts 4. See...
Hi all. I have a suggestion for the next version of TT. When adding pictures to a picture on the floor, you can size and place pictures in a visual way, direct...
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