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December 2008
Dec. 27 - (2 hours) - C01 A01 completed scene 3 (six tiles in total) Dec. 26 - (1 hour) - C01 A04 - scene 3, add code for upto three attempts if not correct on first try; flash points and revised feedback to be dependent upon attempt number, scene 7 add pattern and graphing board and one draggable movie clip Dec. 24 - (4 hours) - C01 A04 phone conference with Judy re: C01 A04; implement some of Judy's revisions; scene 2 revise code so board y max is 20; complete one example including return to selection screen with continue button and faded first choice Dec. 23 - (3 hours) - C01 A04 revise scene 1 so only one point can be moved at a time; add waiting code for all frames including necessary fixes for mixing points and text etc. Dec. 22 - (6 hours) - C01 A04 complete scene 3, scene 5 (adjust select area and need rectangle), scene 6, recorded narration, export as mp3 and import to fla; set up scene 2 patterns and select area Dec. 21 - (4 hours) - C01 A04 finish scene 1, complete scene 4, frame 1 with waiting code, instructions for all scenes Dec. 20 - (3 hours) C01 A04 scene 1, frame 2, coding for dragging all points along with correct feedback; Dec. 19 -CL004 C01 A04; pattern for scene 1; pod for feedback; graphing board; animate entrance of points; not possible to position pod so that it was not in way of pattern or graphing board or continue button; shrunk everything down to create space in between; create the scene so that it can be reused with the different patterns in scene 2 (ie just gotoAndPlay this scene with different version #) Dec. 18 - finish animation of robot for scenes 2-6 (picks up number, eats it and then spits out tiles; finished CL004 C01 A01 scene 2 Dec. 17 - revisions to scene 1 frames 1 and 2 as per discussion with judy; Team Meeting; begin scene 2 animation of the robot Dec. 16 - Board Day EQAO/Data Analysis Session Dec. 15 - Revise wrapper, miniclips.as, clips.as so that the wrapper buttons will control all sound effects; record sound for CL004 C01 A01 (needed some of it to test the wrapper changes so decided to do it all); revised and test CL004 C01 A01 so that wrapper handles sound effects Dec. 13 & 14 - Added animation to robot_mc so that its arms will move; finished scene 1 frames 1 and 2 including wait messaging and pause/play without Narration set; set up textbox for input on scene 2 but had to use onEnterFrame to handle ENTER and TAB (want them to display a message but not select the text); added a sound effect for robot and code in activity so wrapper will handle it (not nice as this needs to be done on each frame with animation); suggested to Ross that we have wrapper handle this; Ross expertly redirected the request back at me Dec. 12 - BR School Visit re: EQAO; office (photocopy and prep for Tuesday's session) Dec. 11 - CL004 C01 A01 begin scene 1 frames 1 and (set up initial part of scene so it can be worked on at FlashFest; more EQAO prep for presentation Dec. 10 - teleconference with Myrna; team meeting re:FlashFest; more EQAO preparation Dec. 9 - Board Day - Prepare for EQAO Presentation - ppt and handouts; #$%# computer crashed and killed several slides in ppt Dec. 8 - Board Day - Prepare for EQAO Presentation - ppt and handouts Dec. 5 - had _parent issues (forgot that my object may be many layers down so this._parent.usingNarration won't cut it); added the narration/tweaked coding for all scenes; added a time delay on calling the wait message code if using narration (instructions et al were flashing well before sound finished); when adding this time delay must delete the setTimeout when clearing messageInterval in case they finished before timeout starts; create an onSoundComplete for narration to handle pause/play button (if other animation are happening sound finished will not gray out pause); final check and then sent to Judy for review Dec. 4 - record narration; edit sound bits; save them as mp3; import into Flash and set linkage; check the activity on a PC and in the different sizes using Ross's buttons online wrapper; resolve issue with the wait message and hiding instructions (interval being cleared while instructions are blank); begin editing code for narration in frame 1 Dec. 3 - Conference call with Greg – Greg xplained how to use the coordinates to set up a pattern in the configurator as well as reviewing code to allow user to dynamically change the pattern using a multiplier; finished scene 7 including wait messages and pause/play (resolved issue with add2Grow moving the block up); final check on entire activity w/o sound; total up hours to date; create script for sound; should probably review CL004 C01 A02 to see if instructions disappear during wait message flash (drag at point invisible and see what happens) Dec. 2 - Team meeting Dec. 2nd – magnifier pod and arrows; complete expense forms; scene 6 including wait messages and pause/play (hand took longer than expected); start of scene 7 frame 1; resolved issues with pattern configurator/creator as pattern wouldn't fit; after much trial and tribulation realized I could add rows to creator for larger patterns Dec. 1 - DI Regional Symposium

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__November 2008__
Nov. 29th - CL004 C01 A03 - scene 5 (hooray an easy one) Nov. 28 - Board Day - EQAO results BT and SJB Nov. 27 - CL004 C01 A03 - scene 3 (4 frames) --> pause/play checked no wait code required;revise Graphing Board.as file (added two functioons --> fadeBoard - change the alpha by the value and setAlpha - change the alpha to the given value; scene 4 (2 frames) --> pause/play checked no wait code required Nov. 26 - CL004 C01 A03 - finished scene 2 frames 4 and 5; added check mark to fill in blanks; addes pause/play settings and wait messages to scene 2; scene 1 revised wait code (if you clicked on a number while it was flashing it disappeared - fix: on Press redisplay instructions, clear Flash Interval and reset alpha of numbers to 100 --> **weird**: Flash would not execute the code while it was in an onPress for the number - I had to put alpha code in a function and call this function from onPress); added sound effects for bouncing balls; tested both scenes in big wrapper Nov. 25 - CL004 C01 A03 - Resolve transition issues during the morph (several objects out of alignment); move graphing board over to allow for more space; add additional morph (move pattern title to middle, one title per column) to create more space Nov. 24 - Revise scene frame 1 to use Greg's new bouncing class; issues with bouncing class and replay (tried to fix it to no avail let it in Greg's capable hands; complete scene 2 frame 1 and complete scene 2 frame 2; space is an issue so squish things up and make necessary changes to scene 1 frame 4 (so morph is accurate); look ahead realize that there will be some major spacing issues; contact Judy D and work out a solution Nov. 21 - Board Day - meetings to update progress and plan next steps; Nov. 20 - finish frame 4, begin scene 1 frame 1; finish the wait message and pause/play controls (need to add Greg's bouncing to finish scene) Nov. 19 - finish frame 2 and 3; begin frame 4 and start adding wait messages and pause/play controls with/without sound for scene 1 Nov. 18 - CL004 C01 A02 scene 1 frame 1 (Greg will tweak ubShapeMoving so it is better suited to the activity's needs); move onto frame 2; Funeral Home Nov. 17 - review Greg memory game; after sound revisions to CL004 C01 A02; send EQAO data to schools and email EQAO re:concerns; begin CL004 C01 A03; determine how to use Greg's ubShapeMoving class Nov. 14 - Board EQAO - visit CN and CHS Nov. 13 - Board EQAO - SJB and STM IIRA IIRR ISD Nov. 12 - BOARD EQAO - CHS EQAO ppt (mark distribution); CHS IIRR and IIRA; BR IIRR. IIRA and ISD Nov. 11 - BOARD EQAO - CN TinkerPlot templates; BT excel files and TinkerPlot templates; CHS ISD excel and TinkerPlot Nov. 10 - BOARD EQAO- refine EQAO Tinkerplot Templates for IIRA, IIRR and ISD; revise St. Mary EQAO files; download and refine CN excel files Nov. 7 - EQAO data St. Mary - Visit dept head at St. Mary to discuss results Nov. 6 - Marian Small's PLMP Questioning Session Nov. 5 - College Math Project Forum at Convention Centre Nov. 4 - With Greg's help found source of error for shoes doing the wave, errant setInterval; revisions round 2 as per Judy's email; retest the game in the 4 sizes (as chosen by "b" buttons) and made changes as necessary Nov. 3 - Team meeting re: OMCA presentation on Friday (plan and outlline responsibilities); Change onRelease to onPress in sinesweeper otherwise if you roll before mouse on up doesn’t register; revise sine dancing so that if max misses exceeded then dance animation is omitted; fix setup game grid window screens for sine dancing practice with TextPicker follow major tics; revise the start game frame (add start button and move instructions and TExtPicker around et al; add the play choices buttons to summary screen and revise so dance only happens if misses<11; fix set focus issue; add sine curve button (always visible in practice) Nov. 1&2 - Fix the wave on sinesweeper bonus round; revise the number of attempts in the bonus round to be 22/13 or 1.7; change the mathcot page so that the mathcot makes a recommendation and feedbck is only how to improve score - done for both games; add next round, return setup, return menu buttons to mathcot frame in both games; change font in all Textpickers to "Arial"; capitalize Continue throughout activity; revise wording of intro screen in sinesweeper practice (SSP); add a bonusRound flag so SSP can function as both bonus and practice; rearrange first frame in SSP and SDP to group by axis and add more meaningful names; add play again same grid, play again new grid, return to menu buttons to last frame of SSP; adjust sinesweeper animation at end to push stones; italicize x and y and add (degree) to x in all scenes; adjust main menu to add practice links; set up defaults for the practice versions - sinesweeper, sine dancing and sinesweeper practice are finished - Yeah!!!

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__October 2008__
Oct. 31 - HWCDSB - meeting re:EQAO data, visit STM - preliminary EQAO results discusssion Oct. 30 - Begin Judy' suggested revisions; sinesweeper - revise scoring calculation and table to add more attempts; fix error when a miss occurs to left of first key point (shoe jumped to right and drew half the graph); adjust the feedback so that recommendations go into the speech bubble; not finding all points button shows and links to activity 3.4; add next round, return Setup, return Menu buttons for navigation; several smaller adjustments; with the exception of TextPicker Arial font and recommendation for non-perfect score sinesweeper is done Oct. 29 - Added levels 2-5 in sine dancing; added the bonus round for sine dancing; change score calculation and guide to allow for a minimum of 20 seconds; Judy review of games to suggest revisions and improvements (maybe Greg's 5 minutes, no maybe 15 minutes to implement) Oct. 28 - installed FlashTracer with help from Ross; Ross helped with setPickerindex not being called [need wrapper to load an instance from each class, delete it so properties of the object are available everywhere] (1 hour) and not able to click on all values in levelChoice (forgot to include it in function activePicker); ; change picker panels to open on the right; add scoring guide to sine sweeper; revise score coding so minimum time is 15; fix sound and wrapper mute in scenes 3 and 5; add textPickers to scenes 3 and 5; add message if click on grid frames 5 and 7 of bonus round Oct. 27 - Lag time issues with 3.4 and pencil/drag points (2 hours) test in other browsers and machines, appears to be buttons; Greg standard text sizes in LGP (0.5 hours), revise code so it determines number key points rather than hard coding; add textPickers to scene 3; fix sound and wrapper mute interaction for curling rink movie clip Oct. 25 - check TextPicker.as to ensure it broadcasts message; 2.3.5 sine dancing; delete listeners and mouse functions in onLoad - unable to verify that some are actually deleted; add text pickers and convert comboBox coding for level and on score page play again and bonus round; logic works for bonus round; click in white space closes pickers; resolved sound issue in scene 4, wrapper volume wouldn't control sound 2.7.1 sound issues; added a button which shows curve on rollOver but it will only be displayed if the score is not perfect; button is hidden when score is perfect Oct. 24 - HWCDSB board day - Faith Day Oct. 23 - Use tablemaker to create scoring guide for sine dancing; discovered default font is Times New Roman and must use an embedded font to override; Flash does not embed special characters in fonts in its library; uploaded swf to ftp site and discovered that the comboBoxes do not work need to rework with textPickers; Greg discovered that the sound isn’t muted – most likely caused by attaching sounds to movie clips to prevent setVolume from acting as a global setting - fix this; revisions to TextPicker.as to allow setting the index; tested and the function sets the index (difficulties debugging as I revised the file in the classes folder in testbed for activity forgetting that there was a pointer for classes for all documents directing it somewhere else; attached two text pickers timer and sound Oct. 22 - email blitz; revise so that the boot continually draws the curve rather than when passing key points; test and revise scoring logic; redesign scoring table - Greg offering help via TableMaker Oct. 21 - Sine Dancing - if scoring structure; frame for displaying score update to reflect changes in sine sweeper; logic to display graph after 10 misses; issue with boot when dragging: the user can move backwards; attempted to implement Greg's solution Oct. 20 - Team meeting with Myrna and Irene; setting priorities until Xmas; #1 finish CL002 by Nov. 6th Oct. 19 - Team meeting at the Clarke household, thanks to Greg and Julie for their hospitality Oct. 17 - HWCDSB board day - more EQAO Oct. 16 - add code for unLoad; revisions to sine dancing seem to destroy the sound; conference with Ross and realize that sound must be put in its own movie clip or setVolume acts as a global controller (summarize findings on wiki); create a document to outline the parameters (graphing board settings) for each level, suggested new features and scoring; set tolerance and boot size for each level Oct. 15 - Sinesweeper Game- Bonus Round attach key points and coding for game (including animation at end); sound and timer settings are recalled; sent it out for review, begin work on Sine Dancing; add sound controls Oct. 14 - Sinesweeper Game - add scoring guide; logic for Bonus Round activation (comboBox only one can be yes - perhaps Radio buttons would be better); Bonus Round input screen; new learning: there is a property called maxChars which limits the number of characters which can be input into a field (will save time with setFocus and contents not being selected); installed FlashPlayer 9 on Windows side; couldn't get swf to play - finally figured out it could be opened in IE (duh!!) Oct. 13 - Thanksgiving Day - Ticats lose yet again Oct. 10 - HWCDSB more EQAO Oct. 9 - CL002 C03 A06 Sine Skills Game - sinesweeper, add sound control, scoring for no timer, if structure to make recommendations about next steps; Oct. 8 - Create narration script documentation for CL004 C01 A02; revise code CL004 C01 A02 wait message so that it nevers wipes out feedback, create standards for wait message; CL002 C03 A06 Sine Skills Game - sinesweeper make game more intelligent and streamline scoring Oct. 7 - Team in-service session: revising the wrapper and html code to allow usingNarration flag to be set in url; revising the wrapper to allow Greg's resize function to be called to fix spacing issues with textboxes etc; Re-exported narration to 32 bit mp3 (decreased size of swf from 3.5 M to 1.1 M); sound script document Oct. 6 - Completed recording/addition of narration for scenes 5-8; tested pause/play and replay scene; sent to Judy for review Oct 3 - HWCDSB Board Day (am meeting, EQAO ppts); Ross re: sound issues in scene 4 Oct 2 - Greg Commissioning Mass; CL004 C01 A02 Narration scenes 3 and 4; issue with sound not triggering onSoundComplete event; scenes 2-4 pause button disabled when nothing to pause Oct. 1 - Ross re:sound and pause functions, team meeting: re:narration and activities; decided to put rough recordings of narration into each activity to ensure that action script code is correct; later when professional recordings are created only the library sound file need be replaced; we need to document sound files names in a file; added narration to scene 2 CL004 C01 A02; gotoAndPlay(prevFrame) not a good choice gotoAndPlay(currentframe-1) works

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__September 2008__
Sept. 30 -Jessica dentist; round 2 revisions to CL004 C01 A02 Sept 29 - email blitz; round 2 revisions to CL004 C01 A02; Ross pencil work around; seems issue was caused by not defining an onReleaseOutside (registration point very close to tip of pencil); reviewed old activities to ensure onReleaseOutside present Sept. 26 - HWCDSB Board Day Sept. 25 - revisions to CL004 C01 A02 - finished but there are new issues online which don't appear in the mini or locally Sept. 24 - revisions to CL004 C01 A02 Sept. 23 - take Mom/Dad to optometrist; team meeting re:subtracting fractions; revisions to CL004 C01 A02 rows 1-12 Sept. 22 - Summarize new learnings from CL004 C01 A02 and enter them into the wiki; add details for naming parts of graphing board (storyboard grid) and ubFramedText in wiki Sept. 19 - HWCDSB Board day Sept. 18 - CL004 C01 A02 - add the code for waiting in all scenes, final review and tweaking of activity; sent it to Agnes, Melanie and Judy for some testing Sept. 17 - CL004 C01 A02 scene 7 frames 2 and 3, review scene 6 Sept. 16 - CL004 C01 A02 scene 3 frame 2; check pause/play and replay for scene 1-6, scene 7 frames 1 & 2 Sept. 15 - Resolved the wonky arrow issue (angle orientation was -1 to adjust for Flash being opposite Cartesian Plane; set to it to 1 and y coordinate to -y); CL004 C01 A02 scene 3 frame 1 completed; begin frame 2; revised GraphingBoard.as file to resize mask and background when size is changed Sept. 12 - HWCDSB day Sept. 11 - Add code for unLoad function in each scene (setInterval, timeouts, mouse and keyboard listeners), CL004 C01 A02 scene 3 frame 1 Sept. 10 - fix bug in CL002 C06 A03; check/revise CL002 C07 A03 with audio added; conference call re:miniclip.as et al; CL004 C01 A02 scene 2 frames 7 and 8 Sept. 9 - CL004 C01 A02 completed up to and including scene 2 frame 7, pause/replay work and solved issue with dropping "P" (not enough to set embedFonts to true must reassign a new text format to the text field which includes an embedded font.) Sept. 8 pm - Ross re: pause and unLoad function; CL004 C01 A02 pause/play button scene 1, scene 2 frames 1 and 2; issue with position number label dropping the "P" Sept. 8 am - Board meeting re: math PD Sept. 5 - Curriculum meeting at board; CL004 C01 A02 - revised scene 1, revised scene 2 frames 1 to 4; made an additional copy of the tower by duplicating the movie clip in the library Sept. 4 - PD re:Text Animation Effects - found two web-sites with tutorials; two commercially available packages; CL004 C01 A02 animating text Sept. 3 - Meeting at Board; CL004 C01 A02 Sept. 2 - team meeting; email clean sweep; CL004 C01 A02 revise/debug scene 2 frames 4-5

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__June 2008__
June 26 - Team meeting re:Kempenfest plans June 25 - scatterplots tab - a to b and a through b work; edevloper tab all grapher board and scatterplot items are coded correctly; added ability to make a point draggable; secondary curriculum lunch meeting June 24-Summer MFM2P writing project meeting; edeveloper tab - add text box with scroll and copy button; scatterplot tab - a to b works; e-code first to last and first through last works June 23 - Ross, Greg, Heather, Nicolette sound meeting; scatterplot tab; revise as per Judy's suggestions; connect all points works; edeveloper code works for board and points June 20 - closing Mass and Farewell; SMART Board demo; add point size to scatterplot; revise arrays to track locations; colour picker defines default colour, default point is "new" June 19 Awarded this week's Most Improved Flasher (wannabee Flasher); step up line portion of scatterplots; added line segments (first-last and first-edge) with properties of colour, thickness, line style; created arrays to track location of points and lines; June 18 - Work on the scatterplot tab - changing colour, label, coordinates etc for points June 17 - Consolidate Grid-Border-Background tabs, add Movies-Notes tabs, revise Graphs tab June 16 - Meeting Ruth, Ross, Greg, Judy re: shape tool; Meeting Judy, Greg re: Graphing toolkit; graphingboard.as - revise so tics, labels only show when on grid, edit/update button visible all tabs but code; update on TAB or ENTER; tabIndex for board June 13 - upper GI am; Judy re:revisions to storyboard grid, border and background tabs; revisions as per Judy email June 12 - Storyboard grid - axes tab - add arrows, toggle, zero positions, axes thickness - grid tab - revise graphing board.as - print ticks, labels and grids at border (should be zero but due t program calc error needed to add a tolerance; Skype meeting Ross and Greg re: shape picker June 11 - Skype teleconference Ross and Greg - extending movie clip class; Storyboard grid, board tab - title rotation, change font size, Ruth effect June 10 - team meeting re:Storyboard grid and Kempenfest plans; revise Storyboard grid (autosize titles and maintain position - add ubershape class, clean up code [delete boxes/code references no longer needed give edit drag points]) June 9 - review CL004 C01 and created summary notes of tools required for Kempenfest; wiki lesson from Judy (as teacher) - created e-Developing Storyboards page; revised Storyboard grid to work onMouseMove as per Greg's suggestion to use flags to avoid several onMouseMoves conflicting with each other June 6 - College Math Project Presentation Mohawk; Storyboard grid - colour picker class June 5 - Student Success Steering Committee Meeting am; Central Support Meeting pm; Storyboard grid - move translation point to origin, add ability to change colour of points and segments June 4 - Grapher Board.as - add functions to setBoardsize, setboardCoordinates, getBoard_x and _y; code Storyboard grid so you can dynamically resize grid and change location; need to work on labels for grid and perhaps make them dynamic for dragging and input of content June 3 - team meeting Mariposa Inn June 2 - team meeting Mariposa Inn

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__May 2008__
May 30 - C06 A03 May 29 - review Growing Patterns cluster; C06 A03 May 28- Greg grapherboard.as; added arrows to axes and revised code to ensure axes, labels and ticks are only drawn for portions in the grid. C06 A03 May 27 - SMART Board in-service session May 26 - Graphing board - dashed lines; C06 A03; update new laptop for SMART Board presentation May 23 - C06 A03; Board Office (laptop repair, criminal ref check, receipts) May 22 - Focus on Big Ideas In-service; C06 A03 May 21 - prep for in-service; C06 A03 May 20 - Board Business (USB sticks, email); C06 A03 May 16 - C06 A03 May 15 - C06 A03; board office - upload files conference May 14 - Team meeting; C06 A03 May 13 - Team meeting; board office - upload file; C06 A03 May 12 - C06 A03 May5-9 Board Business (Textbook Purchase; TI-Nspire quote; Test drive SMART Board; SMART Board session:ERO, Room Booking, Numbers, Food, Participants etc.); PD plans next year; Contacts re: extension of TPA; LMS FirstClass conference update; review OAME presentation; CL001 C03 A06 - games practice May 3 - CL001 C01 A04 scene 1 and 8 May 2 - TI-Nspire CAS training; CL001 C04 A01 scene 9 May 1 - TI-Nspire CAS training; CL001 C04 A01 scene 9

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__April 2008__
Apr. 30 - Ross re: C04 A01 fix; sound C04 A01 think I found a method which will work in both wrappers Apr. 29 - CL001 C02 A01, C04 A01, Apr. 28 - review CL001 to ensure corrections made Apr. 25 - Meeting McMaster Research Connection; Meeting Judy - ; CL001 C01 A04 Apr. 24 - CL001 C01 A02; CL001 C01 A03 Apr. 23 - Team Meeting; Sine Curve Skills Game Apr. 22 - Review CL001 in new wrapper Apr. 21 - Review CL001 in new wrapper Apr. 20 - review C04 A03, C06 A03 and C07 A03 to ensure all well with new wrapper Apr. 18 - Judy re: C06 A03 & OAME conference - decided not to add part "c" to C07 A03 as not in curriculum; finish coding C06 A03; test wrapper V2 C04 A03 C06 A03 and C07 A03 are complete Apr. 17 - PRIME P & A Day 2 Training Apr. 16 - Coding C06 A03 part "c"; OAME conference meeting; Team Meeting Apr. 15 - "Focus on Big Ideas in Intermediate Mathematics" PD session, scripting C06 A03 part C Apr. 14 - complete coding C06 A03 part "b" Apr. 11 - C06 A03 revise part "a" and begin coding of part "b" Apr. 10 - Meeting at Board re:Assessment/Evaluation and DI plans for next year; install (rather try to) Virus Barrier on Mac; Apr. 9 - review v2 wrapper send notice to Greg re:bugs (looks great); Judy re: C04 A03; C07 A01 recode correct version; begin C04 A03 changes as per Ross's suggestions (issue with replay scene perhaps due to new wrapper; Apr. 8 - review C07 A01 in light of changes to graphing board.as; code/test C07 A03 with new flag for mouse issue; C07 A01 re:graphing board issue; testing of wrapper v2 Apr. 7 - Testing C04 A03 in wrapper re:mouse issue; part "a" C06 A03 Apr. 4 - Prepare summary of issues with cause by revision to wrapper; send to team; make necessary fixes as per wrapper change to C07 A03 and move objects on parent to scene; upload latest version of graphing board and SMART Ideas map to ftp site Apr. 3 - Meeting of the Minds with Ross - re:graphing board and big wrapper issue - determined cause of problem class is imported once only (first class wins); solution add code to wrapper so it imports latest version of graphing board .as; local test of fix to see impact on existing activities Apr. 2 - Ross wrapper issue - pencil cursor overwrites features of the wrapper; perhaps a new variable _global.WrapperStuffGoingOn, C03A04 scenes 12,13;final revisions C03 A04 post for review; being part a of quiz C06 A03 Apr. 1 - Judy re:review of revisions; further tweaking of scenes 2-9; add scenes 10,11  top

__March 2008__
Mar. 31 - Judy re:additional revisions to C03 A04 scenes 2-4; continue revising C03 A04; pause/play button revise code to use Ross's suggestion of onEnterFrame rather than setInterval Mar. 28 - more revisions to C03 A04 Mar. 27 - Judy Ross C03 A04 sketch entire graph (this will become a new activity under consolidation), make changes to C03 A04 as per discussion Mar. 26 - GAINS planning session at Board with SSL; Judy re:feedback scene 10; scene 10 coding Mar. 25 - team meeting; review scene 10 with Judy; revise feedback for scene 10 C03A04 (left max and min) Mar. 20 - scene 10 C03A04 - extending to other cycles Mar. 19 - extend grid in scene 2,5-9 C03 A04 Mar. 18 - Board Textbook Review Session- complete revision of scene 3 C03 A04 Mar. 17 - C03A04 - extend grid in scene 3 Mar. 11-14 - Linear Growing Patterns script writing in Toronto Mar. 8-10 - complete scatterplot layer in graphing board, add e-developer layer Mar. 6 - storyboard grid - suggested tweaks, add graphs layer, scatterplot layer Mar. 5 - School PD "Focus on Big Ideas in Intermediate Math"; tweak story board grid Mar. 4 - PRIME P & A training Mar. 3 - review CL004 C02 A04, conference with Judy re: storyboard and storyboard grid format; continue work on Storyboard Grid swf (board, axes, grid, border, background complete); revisions to graphing board (add thickness for border and move mcAxes to mcContainer otherwise labels will be masked in case where xmin and ymin = 0; add titles to the x and y axis- these titles can be roated 90 ccw but an embedded font must be used and stored in and linked from the library) Mar. 1-Mar. 2 - Storyboard Grid swf - split up the swf into 8 sections and make it menu driven (board, axes, grid, border, background, scatterplots, graphs, edeveloper)  top

__February 2008__
Feb. 29 - record sound for C03A04 (needed to resolve current issue with Mac micFlex); conference with Judy re:scenes 6-7, revisions to scenes 3 & 5, storyboard grid; create draft script for scenes 6 and 7, create draft storyboard grid swf send to Judy for review Feb. 28 - conference with Judy C03A04 - complete scene 5 in C03A04 (yeah!) Feb. 27 - conference with Judy re:changes to C03A04, revise C03A04 as per our discussion in scene 5 Feb. 26 - contacts re:script writing, conference with Judy re:C03A04, code C03A04 scene 5; add ability to label axes "x" and "y" in graphing board Feb. 25 - meeting at board re:PD for balance of the year, C03 A04 scene 5 add code to draw curve through key points Feb. 22 - C03 A04 - scene 5 - set up logic to allow interaction with 9 total practice questions but only 3 at a time (similar to quiz) - add code for positioning key points Feb. 21 -teleconference with Judy to script rest of C03 A04; revise scene 3 in C03 A04 - new learning- use setInterval to animate on 1 frame; use Greg's code to setup a menu of choices in scene 4 Feb. 20-CLIPS team meeting, contact potential GAINS script writers, final revisions to GraphingBoard.as (sent out to the crew and posted on ftp site), revise scene 2 of C03 A04 to reflect changes to GraphingBoard.as - interesting learning - if you want CLIPSnewLayer to attach properly you must precede //board.// with //scene.// eg scene.board.mcContainer Feb. 19 - Windows finally arrived (quite an ordeal in obtaining the product key) so install Windows XP on Mac, install ministry licensed software both MAC/PC versions, install LaCie software and back up system, revisions to GraphingBoard.as Feb. 15 - board PD session - "Focus on Big Ideas" in intermediate mathematics Feb. 14 - prep for board PD session Feb. 13 - GAINS Conference Feb. 12 - GAINS conference Feb. 11 - Spoke with Greg and resolved library issues, revised and tested C07 A03, C06 A03 to update for audio test; quick review of C03 A03 and C07 A01 (look great); split first scene of C03 A04 into two scenes, update GraphingBoard.as (prints correct number of tics and labels on each side, draws border) Feb. 10 - revise C07 A03 to update for audio test -issues with library on copy; add Booleans for drawBoarder, drawBack, drawGrid on GraphingBorad.as Feb. 8 - continue coding C03 A04 (refine movements) - Ross suggested a simpler way to move the graph by accessing mcGraphs directly; GAINS budget meeting; Create a smart ideas map of the graphing board -including all movie clips and functions - Good news: I understand how the graphing board works now Feb. 7 - continue coding scene 1 C03 A04; Web 2.0 meeting; Math meeting at board Feb. 6 - Give Judy a hand with the graphing board; begin coding C03 A04 Feb. 5 - Review C07 A01; Add shuffle distractors to C06 A03 and move them from parent to scene (this can now be used as a template for future quizzes); Coordinate board PD; Create draft script for C03 A04; Feb. 4 - Set up Google document and respond to concerns re: C05 A03; download SMART Ideas and review map for Clip 3 - flesh out ideas for quiz C03 A06; reset registration point for scenes in Quiz to (0,0) - interesting learning it is possible to reinitialize values of fields etc. on the stage w/o using action script simply by removing them from a frame; AC with ICT Feb 1 - Testing of wrappers prior to burn, review format of stick, final check of progress log issues for burn, minor revisions C06 A03

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__January 2008__
Jan 31 - revise C06 A03 part b as per suggestion; figured out how to use fireftp; complete burn readiness procedure for C06 A03 and C07 A03 Jan 30 - brainstorm feedback issue:, test mini-wrapper feedback in C07 A03; code part B for C06 A03; send to Judy for review Jan 29 - write a script for part C for C07 A03- send to Judy for review; code for initial screen and parameters for part C07 A03 Jan 28 - make arrangements for budget meeting; review board e-mail; make final review changes to CL003 C07 A03; ready when .as files ready for compile; Ross showed me a neat trick for adding break lines to code to aid in debugging; review cluster to determine properties of periodic functions already covered; begin the script and design of part c - properties of the sinusoidal curves Jan 26- debug the feedback/error messages so they are displayed in the appropriate order; fix bug that permitted user to ignore error message re:non-numeric input and min value larger than max values; add title to the grapher; send C0 A03 to Judy for final review so it can be ready for copy to USB stick. Jan 25 - Change feedback for the quiz to include the values of the parameters; remove the number reference in the instructions on the grapher; add parameter values to the grapher feedback; create an array for feedback on the parent; revise wording of feedback as per Judy's input. Travel to Dundas Jan 24 - completed rows 9 and 10 in feedback; revised code so that errors in the window range will be handled first - next unsuitable grid but will only be invoked after change or check pressed - next no change or no points moved - feedback given on the positioning of the points. Upload revised activity template. Travel to Aurora Jan 23 - onChange not suitable as it is tripped with each keystroke; setup and populate array to contain suitable gird for each sine curve; create a function to check suitability of grid; add code to display appropriate error for unsuitable grids; create counter/Boolean flag to track the number of changes to window; add code to reset the grid to something suitable after 5 tries; worked with Judy to establish a priority for display of error messages Jan 22 - Skype meeting Ross and Greg; completed feedback for correct graph; completed rows 13-15; continued work on row 9, learned how onChange feature works; Jan. 21 add correct transformation descriptor to electronic grapher; revise feedback for quiz; create ERO & expenditure plans and e-mail to schools; seek clarification for vertical compression issue; review the grade 11 cluster Jan 18 - Pickup the new Mac laptop; Begin work on Judy's revisions; Need clarification on language around vertical compression Jan 15-17 evening Success using Ross's multi-frame code to correctly set focus; Ross's suggested revisions complete Jan 15-17 day PRIME PD sessions grade 6 teachers Jan 14 More work on setting focus; revised error checking for xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax; prep for PD session late afternoon Jan 12 Issues with setting focus correctly seeking Ross's input Jan 11 OMCA retreat Jan 10 pm OMCA retreat Jan 10 am Work on setting focus to field in error Jan 9 Implementing revisions for C07 A03 as per Ross's feedback Jan 8 Revised the activity template so that registration point for scene is at (0,0): sent to Ross for review Created progress log secion in the wiki Jan 7 Completed first draft of C07 A03: sent to Ross for initial review Jan 2-5 Revise so point coordinates won't change on resize; use Ross's quiz code to create quiz component of the activity

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__December 2007__
Dec 18-21 Complete work on the grapher, add check feature, resize buttons, grid, labe axes etc; add mask and code to hide components outside of grapher Dec 17 Literacy Strategies in Math PD session Dec 13-14 Western Region Computer Conference Dec. 12 Meeting with Steve, Judy, Ross in London Dec 10-11 Work on the grapher component of C07 top

code What do you think of adding a new function to activities.as which automatically creates this function; you would need to pass it a parameter which indicates if animation is done.

function soundfinisheddisablepauseifanimationended(animationactive:Boolean) { this._parent.mySound.onSoundComplete = function { if (!animationactive) { if (_global.globalPause == "soundonlypause") { _global.globalPause = "scenepause"; }       }    }; } code