June2011AG

~ emailed Flashfest plans to Judi and Mel, updated flashfest invite assignments as cancellations came in ~ Slicing wholes... got the activity specific aspect working again.. it was crashing! ~ tweaked some number stepper stuff thanks to Markus' help... still need to deal with the error checking onChange stuff ~ discovered that I have a whole lot more work to do... the hint button now needs to be programmed to deal with the fact that the students are determining the number of wholes rather than having that value given to them!!! Need feedback for " incorrect number of wholes" with either correct or incorrect number of slices for both generic mode and activity specific mode ~ tweaking positioning of steppers for generic vs activity specific.. arrows overlapped text! BHNCDSB ~ year end mass and BBQ, shippped off GAP stuff !!!!Yeah!!!! ~ Clips meeting re flashfest, work assignments, tool talk, what still needs to be done ~ get my chidren to record some rough audio! ~ SAT training meeting, ONAP training, BIP planning stuff ~ working on adding a warning message.. have a compiler error that I need to investiage further related to the .as file. -- figured it out all by myself, I negelected to scope a variable properly! ~ max changed to 24 wholes
 * June 30** ~ where has the year gone? I seem to have blinked some time back in September and the rest of the year just sped by!
 * ~** Fly on the wall tweaks with Crystal, audio tweaks for 8.1.3, slicing wholes chats
 * June 29 ~ Slicing wholes:** restricting input boxes for the numSteppers, maxChars, etc.
 * June 28 ~ BHNCDSB**
 * June 27 ~** worked on Slicing WHoles tool.. have wholes increasing/decreasing with number stepper in tite.. need to double check all synchronization with all other stepprs, does not work for activity specific question...
 * ~** Crystal likes all the default widths


 * Wacky wiki did not save what I typed for last week!**
 * June 20 ~ all clips... prep for flashfest, no idea of the details**
 * Flash fest meeting in Barrie for June 21 and 22.**
 * June 23 ~ part CLIPs, part SERT meeting, met to discuss tool changes**
 * June 24 ~ BHNCDSB ~ summer institute adobe connect session and BIP planning meeting**

~ fought with dongleXPos and dongleYPos and with Crystal's help sort of won, speech bubbles are still too deep, Greg is working on that. ~ finished amalgamating 8.1.3 fla's, finished making notes in flash fest invitation about what needs doing and how to possibly break it up ~ How much of the reorganizing should I do? ~Personal half day ~ Sick kids ~ started the process of amalgamating Novoflash fest files.. found and made changes to sc 2 from the TY1 version of the fla ~finished amalgamating TY1 fla (evening) ~ talked with Crystal about a few outstanding issues, found a few more bugs while we were chatting, drat! ~ talked briefly about SHYK card games ~ finished looking at 8.1.2 and making a list of what is going on in each scene ~ started to look at the fla for 8.1.3.. have several versions that are in different states, decided I needed to find some software to help me compare them ~Thanks to Ross, I have now successfully downloaded WinMerge and oyFlashDoc.jsfl, now all I have to do is figure out how to use them! ~started to look at the changes Greg made to make Fraction strips work ~ finished my comments in the Estimator google doc, shared it with Crystal and Markus ~ talked to Markus about revisions to Estimator ~ talked with Greg about talking to Judy to borrow Markus for a couple days, got that worked out. ~tried out Alexandra's Bitstrips into Flash instructions, they are a thing of beauty! ~Wrote an email to the CLIPS kids/parents asking them to do the Bitstrip work ~ Greg returned 8.1.3 with Fraction strips working better (still not great~ need to check into this further next week) ~Started working on going through 8.1.2 with a mind towards the July flashfest ~ worked on my estimator pod, chatted with both Judi and Crystal about it.. bottom line is we are pretty sure that Markus needs to do some more work with it.. so started a google doc to outline the things we would like to see added/changed... more testing, breaking, Yeah! ~ crafted an email to send out to our review team for the fraction tool review ~ mangaed to get an estimator pod to show up in banana bread.. need to work on configuring it better.. may need to get Markus to change some stuff, will see once I play some more. ~ Banana Bread ~ got ubWait to work the way I want ~ changed the size of the banana bread so the set of 12 does not look so much like bread sticks ~ tidied up lots of little things.. deleted lots of unneeded code. ~ reviewed sc 4, it works fine except for a couple little things once Greg has fixed ubCombo message to allow text to change colour faster than one word at a time! ~ need to fix the Move the Rest button, add the estimator to scene 9 ~spent an hour on BHNCDSB budget stuff for my Principal of program ~ committed banana bread icon to ubIcon.as and ubIconHelper5.as ~ started to work on dividing up 8.1.3 into chunks to work on this summer... looked at the fla's that were being worked on in November... discovered that something has happened to break all of the animation for fraction strips.. sent it off to Alex to investigate as it is probably related to creating the helper classes?????? ~chatted with Crystal re 8.1.7 fly on the wall. ~ created a jing video for Slicing Wholes ~ reviewed 8.1.7 Fly on the Wall ~ meeting with Greg, Ross and Crystal about our fraction tool status...set Wednesday AM as the final date to send out the fraction tools for review. ~ met with Crystal re Pyramid Mary, planning for next year... lots of new jobs!
 * June 17 ~** upon closer inspection, found another fla for 8.1.3 from the January flashfest, spent the day trying to identify and incorporate the additional components that were not already in the amalgamated file
 * June 16 ~ BHNCDSB ~** Gauss contest packaging
 * ~ Clips** ~ worked with Crystal on Fly on the Wall staging suggestions
 * ~** looked over fraction tool review doc comments to date
 * June 15 ~** amalgamated YT2 file with titles but bad cup
 * June 14 ~** reviewed **Pyramid Solitaire,** found a few more tiny things
 * ~** learned how to use WinMerge to compare flash files
 * ~ 8.1.3 ~** got scene 7 fraction strips working properly
 * June 13** ~ reviewed and greyed out lots of row in Pyramid Solitaire
 * June 10~** we got our pool liner in today, does that count as progress?!
 * JUne 9 ~** spent lots of time, testing, breaking and recording stuff in google docs. (Slicing wholes and Pyramid Solitaire)
 * June 8~** spent lots of time testing the fractions tool review activity.. unfortunately, found some stuff for Greg and Ross to fix.
 * JUne 7 ~** second (?) review of **8.1.7 Fly** on the Wall
 * June 6 ~ 2 hours ~ BHNCDSB ~** trip to Holy Trinity with Mary and Rob re coaching project next year.
 * June 3 ~ CLIPS ~ Yeah!**
 * June 2 ~** Secondary Program team meeting, math planning meeting with Chris and
 * June 1** ~ Collaborative Inquiry session ~ London ~ BHNCDSB