March2011AG

~Consult with Crystal re 8.1.3 SB revisions. ~ finished review of 8.1.3 for Crystal ~ worked on Slicing wholes... removed yellow rectangle highlight and replaced it with the yellow table highlight that I created at a later date. ~ working through wording changes to feedback so that it fits... need to fine tune some feedback actions... disable text boxes and such.. then the only major thing I see is that the "Move the REst" button fails to work sometimes. ~ fixed the actions related to an input of 1 so they work the way Crystal wants... modified the logic in my onFramedTextChanged function and my Warning pod so that they both work in synch and deal with the input of 1 before running off to do something else. ~ got an easy fix from Greg so that my input box is now behaving properly - maxChars and restrict is being honoured... do not set the type of input box as Int. ~Worked on reviewing 8.1.3... chatted with Crystal about a title for Clip 1.. are mixed numbers actually fractions? Seriously, this stuff hurts my head! trace("Agnes' way "+this.equalGroupsTab_mc["Total Amount is in 1 group"].panel); trace("Ross' way "+ this.equalGroupsTab_mc.getTabPanelByIndex(0).panel); This works nicely to set things up, but I think it broke all the instances where I use setText to change the input box.. need to look at this more closely, separately from the setArrayText issue. I think these other things are broken because of that. ~ worked on the interactions when a user types"1" into the input box... need to revise this some more to reflect the discussion with Crystal... see google doc notes ~chatted with Crystal re 8.1.2... she is done her revisions... I had a quick peek through the google doc and read her comments.. there are a few rows that I want to check out in the SB.. then this one should be done! PM ~ 8.1.2 Finished review of this storyboard. ~ **8.1.2 Storyboard review**, consult with Crystal... am I on the right track, are the comments helpful, etc? Yes. So, I will finish my detailed review of feedback charts etc, then send it back to her. ~ **Slicing Wholes:** inserted partAmountText.toLowerCase into several feedback statements so that capitals did not appear in the middle of sentences.. very handy new method! ~ changed the feedback text box to an ubComboMessage so I could display stacked fractions... got that to work using variables after getting a hint from Greg at March break. PM ~ BHNCDSB ~ Gr 6 Gap Closing Pre and Meeting ~ revised the One Pager ~ have all of the conditions and feedback statements working for the hint button.. need to refine some things... capitals in the middle of sentences cause of the imported text (Greg told me to try .toLowerCase.. haven't had a chance to yet... also need to ensure fractions are stacked.. some spacing issues. ~ have the actions working for the cases where the input box is empty (3 diffierent ones), the input is incorrect (2 cases) and am working on the correct cases. (9 of them!) ~ talked to Greg about the Integer input box that was misbehaving.. we sort of side stepped the issue by restricitng the input to 1 thru 9.. including the 0 for 10 makes it so that it clears the value first, then allows for new input.. ie entering 2 followed by a change your mind you want to enter 3 resulted in needing to enter the 3 twice... not very pretty. ~ Crystal helped me with my ubWait issue.. changed wait: 0 to wait: 5 and everything is happy... guess the class just not like to "not wait" ~ added actions to the first error condition.. having trouble with ubWait.. want the flash to start right away.. set wait:0 but that does not seem to work! BHNCDSB - Grade 9 GAP closing training ~ disabled number stepper when it is not possible to remove blocks as per Crystal's request last week ~ have "Move the Rest" button working very nicely.. cells move to the correct place.. they are on the highest layer... they transform into place rather than just appearing ~ started working on the "Hint" button.. have most of the text feedback.. need to work on adding the actions. ~ meeting with Crystal, Greg and Ross re Kempenfelt assignments and tool progress. ~ chatted re Fraction Square tool ~ **Slicing Wholes** ~ I actually worked an entire day with out needing to ask for help! (with the exception of feedback wording) ~ number stepper is now giving feedback if you need to add blocks or if you try to remove blocks that are being used. Crystal would like me to try inactivating the left arrow on the number stepper rather than proviing the feedback that I created.... ~ Move the rest button appears when needed.. now all I to do is actually get it to work. ~ have restricted the movement of the cells so they have to stay within a certain region on the tool ~ added a yellow highlight to the row that the dragging started from which appears if they try to drag something from a different row. Heading out to Leadership!
 * March 31 ~ Slicing Wholes...**slow progress trying to get pods to maximize minimize when and where I want and making input boxes "inputable" and not... some feedback word smithing.. getting there but slowly.
 * MArch 30 ~ BHNCDSB ~**Planning for next focus group with Karen, Gauss registration
 * March 29 ~** min review of Tool container for Greg
 * March 28 ~** Ross got my tabs collapsing and expanding properly over the weekend! Thanks!!!
 * Slicing Wholes ~** chatted with Ross about my broken setText methods... under his supervision, changed one line in the getTabPanelByIndex method and things now work nicely.
 * March 25~ Slicing Wholes -** actions for last 3 hint button cases. Learned how to use the fraction class to convert a fraction to a mixed number. Tried to use setArrayText to change the title on the pod.. it broke... whenever the pod is maximized/minimized it loses its contents and reverts to the original title.. .spent some time with Ross trying to track this down...he needed to work on something else so will pursue it more next week. Changed all the pointers to the ubTabContainer to use the method Ross suggested
 * March 24 ~ AM BHNCDSB ~** Principal's Meeting, GAP closing material distribution, ordering, setting up dates
 * March 23~** revisions to **Navigating Clips** one-pager, incorporating the Snapshot Tool
 * March 22 ~ AM** ~ Storyboard review 8.1.2, team planning meeting re summer invitees and awesome new screen capture tool that Greg found/tweaked.
 * March 21 ~ AM SERT meeting, BHNCDSB**
 * PM** ~ storyboard review 8.1.2
 * March Break ~ Slicing Wholes ~** several components of the hint button
 * March 11 ~ Slicing Wholes..** but I do not remember the details or was it that darn One Pager
 * March 10 ~ Slicing Wholes**
 * March 9 ~ SDCO Collaborative Inquiry Session in London**
 * March 8 ~ Slicing Wholes**
 * ~** spent 15 minutes tracking down a spelling error! capital "S" vs "s"... no wonder it thought my variable was NaN!
 * March 7 ~ Slicing Wholes**
 * March 4 ~** Great time at **OAME Leadership..** lots of new learning, consolidation of old learning. See the wiki: leadership2011.wikispaces.com for all the details!
 * March 3** ~ email catch up, Crystal re our days at TCDSB and email to Myrna
 * March 2 ~** BHNCDSB ~ Grade 7/8 Focus Group... Meaning of operations is the same regardless of the number set... great day!
 * March 1** ~ spent the day at TCDSB providing CLIPS support for a LGP inservice