December2011AG

Dec 23 ~ AM ~ BHNCDSB - Christmas breakfast, office work... budget and PO stuff PM ~ CLIPS, final review of 8.2.3 Going Away Party.. it is done! ~ refining bits and pieces of slicing wholes...in activity mode, the reset button has been hidden once the hint button gives feedback that says the model is correct. ~ Adjusted the "Total amount = # wholes" to have the correct pluralization for one whole vs multiple wholes ~ added a ubwait to the hint button when in activity mode ~ adujsted the reset function to remove the pointy finger from the tab container when it first opens (only supposed to be able to close it after an input value has been entered)... the tab was non-collapsible but it looked pressable after reset had been hit. ~Team meeting to say good bye to Bailey... discuss possible co-op student for next term Dec 22 ~ BHNCDSB ~ coaching St. Peter's, PM ~ CLIPS ~ reviewed Crystal's changes to 8.2.3 Going Away Party, sent back to her... only 3 white rows left ~ worked on tidying up Slicing wholes.. trying to figure out why the text that is defined to be arial, some how magically becomes times new roman!??? mysterious! Dec 21 ~ Activboard Training in Mississauga Dec 20 ~ Activboard Training in Mississauga Dec 19 ~ Finished the second review of 8.2.3 Planning a surprise party.. back to Crystal for some finishing touches.. it is really close. ~ met with team to outline Flashfest plans/work assignments, emailed a list of SB's in need of printing to Greg. DEc 16 ~ CLIPS ~ Finally found and fixed the issue with Slicing wholes... needed to move the onAnimation broadcast for completing wholes since it was firing before it was actually done, which meant that the blocks were undefined when I tried to slice them.. hence no pieces to move.... Took a long time to find the problem.. not so long to fix it.. isn't that the way! ~ Finished second review of first two scenes of 8.2.3 Dec 15 ~ CLIPS ~ finished "reviewing" the fla's from December flashfest... overall notes are in a new tab of the CL008 C01 Activity Review google doc... to flashfest or not? ~ created assignments and a list of "Back Pocket" stuff for the January flashfest gang in the flashfestinvitation google doc ~ reviewed it all with Crystal ~ worked on Slicing wholes.. think I made one little baby step of progress... the current status array is now defined rather than undefined!... now all I have to do is figure out what is actually happening/not happening inside the loop for helper0 line 364 ish. Dec 14 ~ CLIPS ~ email.. including latest version of Hops! Looking pretty nifty! ~ Crystal re Storyboarding decisions for 8.2.3 ~ did a bit more work on reviewing Clip 1 fla's to date. ~ ubFraction feedback for Ross Dec 13 BHNCDSB ~ meeting with IT consultants re using a "good" math lesson as a vehicle for teaching technology as well as good pedagogy ~ coaching ~ St. Peter's ~ office time Dec 12 ~ took Mom to pre-op appt. Worked a bit on reviewing CLIP 1 Fraction activities, plan to make up time for half a day of CLIPS work, counting the other half day as a personal day. Dec 9 ~ OMCA Meeting, Hamilton Dec 8 CLIPS ~ tracking down Slicing wholes issue... I think I have it isolated to one for loop, now all I have to do is figure out what the problem is.. somehow, it does not know which cells to move... ~ team meeting re OAME sessions, priority setting, Jan flashfest... ~ registered Ross and I as presenters for the Multipying Fractions session Dec 7 ~ SPec ED Dept MEeting ~ Fraction Operations Dec 6 ~ BHNCDSB ~ prep/ SAT meeting Dec 5 ~ Worked on Slicing Wholes.. fine tuned the various steps... locked items down once they had been set by the tool... found and fixed a myriad of smallish things. Testing for various combinations of wholes, parts and pieces... things seem to work well if a) the model has not been touched.. or the model has been touched but everything is all wrong and b) the wholes are correct and either the parts are correct (or not).. and the pieces are correct (or not) BUT.. am trying to add a condition to deal with the situation where the wholes are wrong and the parts are correct (since it did not make sense to flash something that did not need to be changed)...I can not seem to get the move the rest button to fire properly...giving up for now.. maybe a fresh brain will see something I am currently missing! Dec 3 ~ Flashfest Saturday... helped to support our flashfesters Dec 2 ~ Flashfest: Ross helped me to get the Broadcaster functioning better in Slicing Wholes, also learned how to use Sublime a bit better.. pretty neat. Started flashfest. Dec. 1 ~ Team Meeting/work session at Kempenfelt