September+2009

- sent 1.1 to Judi to review and have her son add the audio - started stage setup for Integer Comparison Tool (check buttons, headings, )
 * Sept 30 - Oct 9 -** sick leave
 * Sept 29 ~** sick day - surgery
 * Sept 28 ~** finished adding wait time coding to Mathotel MindsOn 1.1 for scenes 4 and 5, completed final revisions

Sept 24 ~** Medical appt for 1 hour this morning - added waitime coding to scene 3 of Mathotel 1.1 - Greg helped find a silly error in my waittime code which was calling addflash way too many times so looked like it wasn't doing anything. - Greg figured out how to fix the setfocus issue in Scene 4, (used a setTimeout to set the focus on the continue button)made those changes, - this causes a yellow outline on the continue button that we are not quite sure where it comes from. - am working on waiTtime coding for scene 4 - FLASH crashed multiple times today when I was in the middle of something so I had to start over, big waste of time! -Started to look at the storyboard for Catch a Bouncing Ball Greg found the issue with Exp Diff Reps and the story colours not changing. He had forgotten to remove a movie clip for the storycolour pod on frame 1 of scene 2: this._parent.storyColourPod_mc.removeMovieClip; Without this, when you hit replay scene or NEW it didn't know which pod to use. [9:30:51 PM] Greg Clarke: When you hit NEW or REPLAY SCENE, without the remove movie clip, it created a NEW storyColourPod_mc [9:31:20 PM] Greg Clarke: SO ... when you give it instructions to do something ... who knew which version of the storycolour pod showed up ... and which one was reporting to the listener. Good idea to remember this when I begin work on the integer tool.
 * Sept 25 ~ Board Day

- amalgamated the various scenes for Integer Activity 1.1 from summer work by Teresa and Cheryl - fixed the transform.addFlash call so it works. - various other edits (text, feedback messages, etc). still have some continue buttons that are not working quite right, need to ask about standard wait time for "doing nothing" - restricted the user pencil so that lines could be drawn only on the actual grid and not anywhere on the stage - changes between various representations now have the animations staying or not as appropriate - edited set up stuff so that when new button was pressed the graph appeared in the correct location when in Alg Rep mode - conference with Greg re colour changing stuff - helped Crystal swap scenes -uploaded the most recent Integer Storyboards to Isenegger The only remaining glitch in Exp Diff Reps that I can see is that sometimes when in Story rep mode, the colours refuse to change. This is not a consistent problem. Will talk to Greg. Added instructions to the pencil option. (Movie clips need to live for a frame on the stage before they are fully established!) put the x-axis underpad back so you can change the x-axis scale (OOOPPPS!)
 * Sept 23 ~** passed of the Exp Diff REp tool to Greg to see if he can find the last bug and simplify the patterns for JD
 * Sept 22 ~ Exp Diff Reps -** created updateAnimationColours function so that colour changes could happen
 * Sept 21 ~Exp Diff Reps** - points now animate separately and simultaneously! YEAH!!!

- diff rep tool - flags, setintervals, timeouts all are working for joint animation of points!!!! Yeah!!!! - chatted with Greg and Judi re planning for integer cluster Next step - add a condition to the option menu to animate only one point at a time. - worked on creating flags to indicate when various animations are complete, still one outstanding set interval issue that just will not die!!!! - started looking for "tags" in cluster 4 - invited Diane Tepylo to October Flashfest - checked out Judy D's book club files - worked on clearing set intervals from Exp Diff Rep tool (still not working,need help with this) - clickline (Exp Diff Reps) is now working only for positions greater than 3 - Team meeting - re programming the wrapper
 * Setp 18 ~** completed Review of CL004 to determine appropriate tags for each activity to add to the CLIPSinfo.txt file, emailed to Greg
 * Sept 17 ~ Exp Diff Reps -** fixed some of the danglling text issues by moving the definition of some arrays outside of the function (with Greg's help)
 * -**shortened up some of the "y value" text variables so the story equation did not go outside its bounds.
 * Sept 16 ~ CHAMP** presenters proposal for CLIPS workshop
 * Sept 15 ~ Board Day (**Secondary Principals meeting, College Math forum mtg)
 * Sept 14 ~ Team meeting in Barrie

Sept 11 ~ OMCA** - brief CLIPS update re new features added recently (Search, wiki in teacher support, file to download all of CLIPS, Memory match game) Made a date with Dwight Stead to run a CLIPS workshop for the afterschool OAME confernece in their area. Sept 9 ~ Sick day Sept 8 ~ Exp Diff Rep too -** working on clearing all the set intervals so "wonky" things don't happen. Line segements seem good, still problems with the text - Have advanced menu options and directions aligned. Decided to leave the pict rep options as is for now. Spent time exploring the various advanced menu options so I could understand what was happening. - animations now clear when tile options (colour shape etc) or advanced options are changed
 * Sept 10 ~ Board day