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This morning, I updated my webpage format. I Ruthie and Jenna looked over my methods tutorial. I took headshots of everyone to upload to the webspace. I revised it. Then, I finished going over the teacher workshop materials today (I'd started on Friday). I played around with Scratch and skimmed over the CS unplugged materials. Henry and I uploaded the finished version of my Methods tutorial to the group website. For the rest of the day, I worked on the function tutorial, and an example world with racehorses.
This morning, I added a link to my home page for the Alice Schools page. I gave Gaetjens some ideas for projects to work on as he learns Alice. I also helped Ruthie figure out a way to make her example math world, and then I helped her to debug it as she made it. She's been very creative with the worlds that she's made. Ruthie's addition problems were predetermined; So I made a smaller world that randomly generated the numbers to add. Now, I'm continuing to work on the function tutorial.
This morning, I've decided to split my function tutorial into multiple tutorials. The first tutorial just shows a few examples of how to use built-in functions (class-level and world-level). The second tutorial goes over how to create your own functions. I enjoyed the CS lunch today. The graduate student in the office next to ours gave a talk about why he went to graduate school. I thought it was pretty helpful because I'm considering going to grad school. We checked all of the laptops in D106, but Storytelling Alice didn't work on any of them. I've finished making both of the worlds for my tutorials.
We went over to check on the laptops, but Henry ended up just working with Jeff himself. I'm still working on the tutorials. I made a more complicated example world to expand the second tutorial. Meeting with Professor Rodger made me realize how soon the camps will be starting. Hopefully good planning will result in a smooth next few weeks. It certainly sounds exciting. I'm going to continue to the tutorial making. But I think I'll take a break tomorrow to make a few quick example worlds so that the teachers can see them next week.
Today was a good day. This morning, I went through Ruthie's tutorial for arrays and lists. I don't think the topic is very hard, but I found it confusing. So we went through it together and revised the explanations a little bit. Hopefully people using the tutorial will find it fun too. I worked on the function tutorial a little bit. But then I decided to begin an example world. When I converted the powerpoint tutorials to pdf format, We learned some new things about writing to our group directory. We have to be careful about what font the ppt was written in in order for the words not to overlap with the conversion to pdf. Also, when I save something on my laptop and upload it via a ftp (like ssh) Henry discovered that it is read-only for everyone else.