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June 2010 - lots of stuff, Hockey Activity, KempenPrep, family stuff, some classes stuff, beginning of StoryBoard Builder

top May 21 - OMO stuff / helping Eric with scrolling board_mc for the Integer Car Race activity May 20 - Coordinating KempenStuff for the summer May 19 - OMO stuff / CLIPS coordinating stuff May 18 - CLIPS team mtg - trying to prioritize things needed to get rest of CL005 activities ready to go / OMO emails May 17 - St. Catharines - DSBN research CLIPS group again May 14 - OAME conf May 13 - OAME conf May 12 - working at home - missing OMCA mtg / Cathy Fosnot / fancy dinner out / Barbu .... BUT ... staying to take Alexandra to "Young Woman of the Year" (YWOTY - ee wot ee) dinner (nominated) May 11 - OAME prep / Ross arriving at noon to finalize workshops / OMO site visit May 10 - Alexandra's 18th bday / Hockey activity / Request from CC to update Web Connections / Request to update NumPad to make it ABOVE stage for CL002 activity / Judy D - new computer consult May 7 - Telemeeting w MaryLou Kestell & Judy Compton (re: OAME 40th anniversary) / Leaving to visit Gian in T.O. and take Alexandra to weekend bball prov finals / did some more work on ubButton / looked at Hockey again May 6 - SMCDSB - CLIPS LGP Research - Day 2 May 5 - Worked from home - all day. Skype chat w team. GAINS room schedule up on CLIPS - Progress at a Glance doc. Asked storyboarders to help out in a few spots. Finished Heather's co-op evaluation: Outstanding. Secured domain MathCLIPS.ca after email query to Myrna (thanks Crystal for suggesting that as healthy alternative to www.clips.com ) / OAME prep / Some OMO stuff / Len Catleugh - bring your TI-Nspire's with you and exchange them for TouchScreens. (This offer for all OMCA members on Wed - but - will also do the same swap for teachers on Thurs/Fri while supplies last ! Teachers have to be there in person - no sending a substitute). Fixed Activity Start issue (with button hiding in behind Test Sound button- good eyes Agnes !). Quick peruse (hardly worth of word review) of 2 games by Crystal - looking good. This will be a fun cluster to do for sure ! Suggested idea of Fraction Calculator to Josh when he's done, or stalled on his Integer Car Race. Some more work with ubButtonConfig. May 4 - Telemeeting w Ruth @ 3pm / OAME prep mtg w Ross in the a.m. May 3 - conflab w Ross re: ubShapeConfig - and other features of ubConfigPanel ... suggested some WIBNIs which ... it appears I'll be doing. (Hate it when they bounce back to you). Passed on the ubShape / ubShapeConfig to Eric so he could do the same for ubOptionButton and ubFramedText. OAME prep needs to happen soon too. Apr 30 - Quebec / continued work on ubShape / ubButtonConfig / Myrna discovered continue button wasn't appearing in CL001 activities when first entering scene 2. In fact, problem was that after the Start Page, sound was not playing - which - meant no showcontinue in some cases. Heather, on her last day of her co-op, found what was causing it - the tool tips on the start page. Remove them, et voila, sound re-appears. Created a new property (showToolTips) - default true - set to false for activity_start.swf. Yay Heather! Uploaded changes to OAME and isenegger.ca sites. Apr 29 - Leave for Quebec trip (chaperone school trip w Julie - needed a male who speaks French at the last minute ) / on the bus: worked on ubShape - added two new ones poly / oval - started work on ubShapeConfig - using ubConfigPanel to demonstrate all properties of ubShape Apr 28 - CLIPS std buttons for Scuba Diver (and uploaded) / Changed back of cards in Battle of Integers - edited to create square back of cards for customized deck - uploaded new version of Battle / Reviewed Fishy Story - all done (once Reset btn becomes gray) / Uploaded all activities to OAME that have new std btns (need someone to check my work) / Created Open Question docs for CLIPS 2 - 4 using template from CLIP 1 Show --> emailed to Trish to verify / update if needed / fwd to Marian for OK / / Updated Show What You Know for CLIPS 2 - 4 (created for 4) and uploaded to isenegger.ca and OAME. (haven't PDFd OpenQs until hear back from Marian) / updated CLIPSinfoDev.txt on OAME so that CLIP 4 appears for CL005 / Email from Myrna - may be contacted by Amy Lin / Lynn Dunn re: eLO storyboard and uberFraction tool. / / OMO steering ctee mtg after school Apr 27 - Jonathan @ WLU audition / Did Demo for Diamond Drop during downtime / Started looking over Hockey activity - converted fonts to standard - size 14 - not bold (perhaps we haven't been clear about our standards after all - I mean - Steve and Sandra are veterans. We must make a concerted effort in July to ensure Flashers know our standards - storyboards may appear larger than in real life. Apr 26 - Home - all day - enjoy it and work like crazy to make up for coming week / Prep shell for revised CL003 as per JD's Planning Document. Posted to isenegger.ca (click on Fractions : Addition & Subtraction cluster - you'll see the new 5 CLIPS, names of activities for each, What Math..., Critical Learnings. I can do the same for CL008 once those details are known as well. Emailed JD. One issue: CLIP 4 has 10 activities (# 10 - not showing on Activity List is Show What You Know). Question re: activity numbering. 4.9 --> 4.10 ? 4.A ? OR - make one of Consolidation activities a Show only activity, not a core activity ?? //Fishy Story - still has text issues// Integer Dominoes no longer has scene selector //What's My Floor - added JH interior to elevator// updated ubButton.as (new "purple" and "brown" colourCombos) and included link to CLIPS std button tester in ZenDocs (updated) //Chatted w Ross re: this idea --> came up with the following suggestions for ZenDocs / classes and testers:// //--> if a tester exists for a class, the direct link to the tester can go in the description for the class (will appear at top of file in the description line). Tester should have standard button to return to Zen Docs : ubButton.create(this, zen_btn, {_x:500, _y:250, label:"Go to ZenDocs", useCLIPSstd:true, colourCombo:"green"});// //--> 3 lines needed to add ubConfigPod for class inside an FLA should also be listed in the description (if getConfigObject / setProp methods have been defined and this works for the class)// //--> constructor for the class ( the .create stmt) should also be up top for easy access - a working, if minimal example that can be copied and pasted, then tweaked as needed.// Talked to Ryan today - he will continue to maintain the subversion server for us until we have a GAINS server up and running (as long as we can cover his server fees - which I said we could) //Email to Don from UWindsor re: eLO and CLIPS ubertools - eLO interested in checking out our stuff. (Myrna spreading the news)// worked a bit on Diamond Drop demo mode - have the hand grabbing the diamonds and dragging .. currently they drop only in the right equals spot, but that's a minor detail. //Email from Cathy Bruce - needs me to plan next session with Ruth B (will get together next week) - one of her students in serious car accident, Cathy dealing with issues// Richard phoned to pass on how much Exploring Diff Reps tool is being loved by teachers he's working with - and wondering if we can give it some better exposure - why is it such a well kept secret ??

Apr 24 - AprilFest Apr 23 - prep for AprilFest - yay it's here ! Apr 22 - prep for AprilFest - get latest Radian storyboards, and print off others. Mel to look after her activity (Rep Ints being split into 4.1 and 4.2 for CL005) Apr 21 - Update Integer Cluster with CLIP 4 info Apr 20 - Plan who's doing what for FlashFest Apr 19 - Jonathan @ UWO audition Apr 6 - 16 - stuff - ubButton - make std buttons w rollover gradient and other features as agreed upon by team (then added to my own activities) / Review stuff / Feedback to Trish re: upcoming storyboards / too many other things to remember .. why did I leave this for so long ?? AARRGGGHH .... must update it every day !! Apr 2 - Good Friday Apr 1 - Holy Thursday Mar 31 - Jonathan's 19th bday / working at PF / funeral for Fr. Takas @ 2pm (w bishop!) / Pit Band practice after school Mar 30 - finished CLIP 1 review stuff (I think)- 1. 6.1 changes (bouncing ball) and 6.2 (location quiz) / created soundscripts (uploaded and created directory inside CL005 Source folder on isenegger.ca FTP site) / changed Show What You Know, created Open Qs PDF (need to tweak image of text). Need to switch gears and do OMO and Holy Week prep stuff this afternoon. Will CLIPS more later tonight. Mar 29 - sent info re: review of CLIP 1 to Marian on weekend / Marian replied Sunday night / Teleconf / Skype w Agnes & Trish to review the review, and assign tasks to "make it so". Did 1.4 and 1.5 modifications - started revising expert level for bouncing ball. / Did some coordination re: AprilFest - participants and call to storyboarders for activities to work on. Mar 26 - Finished re-review of Heather's Fishy Story / assigned JH the Counter Act activity / Going to update to v 195 on OAME Mar 25 - Finished review of Eric's Battle of the Integers / helping Mel / Skyping everybody ! / Added two features to big wrapper (now version 195- up on isenegger.ca: a) : will round down activity number (in case sent 6.2 for instance) - so Show activity games, when running standalone and top Activity link is pressed - will take them back to live OAME ShowWhatYouKnow page - and 2) : added link underneath matrix (upon initial entry into CLIPS) that will auto-load inDevMode IF CLICKED - and only upon initial entry. (Reload webpage to get another crack at it if you've missed it - for now). .Josh putting together summary of buttons used in CL005 / Jonathan audition at U of T - 7pm Mar 24 - Updated DropBall (audio dub 1 pt 6 changed to 1 and 6 tenths) / Updated Loc Quiz - slow down dropballs - AND fixed issue with revised ubFraction onLoad event reversing rotation on perpendicular numberline. Updated ubNumberLine.as and ubFraction.as (added setRotation function to ubFraction class). Similar change might be needed to ubNumberLine2.as (change ._rotation = -angle to .setRotation ( - angle ) in order to change internal rotation variable in ubFraction, for boomerang onLoad call reset) / Working at PF as of 10am Mar 23 - Finished compiling MarchFest Radians activities - added text to explain where missing interactions would go, and show "voiceovers" on screen that were missed (not many). Posted to isenegger and emailed Radianeers link (direct to ?cluster=6&clip=1) to allow them to check it out, to help refine terminology. / Emailed Kaye asking for room for 26 Flashers for AprilFest, and querying about possibility of inviting up to 35 Flashers for JulyFest (7 on team + 11 from Fall regulars + 8 March newbies = 26 April invites + 9 potential newbies identified) / Chatted w Ross re: Radians / Flashfests / upcoming Gazette column / OMO mtg Mar 22 - Organizing self / google doc after March Fest / begin to compile Radian activities into 2 files Mar 12 - Worked on Radian activity - plan for newbies - setup Skype mtg time w Ross for weekend / Emailed newbies and those coming to MarchFest / Finished Integer Dominoes - ready for Heather's initial review / helped Eric a wee bit Mar 11 - Skyped w Mel - great work on Name my Int ! / worked on Int Doms / received Fishy Story review fixes back from HI Mar 10 - working @ PF / look at Int Adv and pause/play issues. / sent Int Adventure to Agnes for final review / Crystal finished off last piece in evening / Location quiz - another final review round - really trying to gret CLIP 1 all Done DOne Mar 9 - teleconference re: GAINS room @ OAME conference (CLIPS corner) / chat w Crystal / bounce ideas for Eric / finished Location Quiz review - sent back to Agnes w 3 versions to choose from (JH & CC like door # 3) Mar 8 - SMCDSB OMO regionals - Congrats to St. Monica's who will go onto the Prov OMO end of May / Location Quiz work Mar 5 - Radian cluster setup Mar 4 - Radian activity Mar 3 - Dentist appt @ 9am / working at PF during the day / 3pm - Pit Band practice (PF school musical) Mar 2 - From K - OK for newbie John Rodgers (with S) from BWDSB - sent invite / What's My Floor got final OK from Agnes (Tia toes in line again) / Sent Location Quiz to Agnes for another review (fixed one tiny thing in Crystal's scene -removed _mc on a variable that was causing an undefined in "correct' msg) / from JH - need to tweak wrapper code so that it handles direct requests for activities inDevMode / Mel help - got files, but haven't helped yet (sorry Mel) / Gave Mel OK to work on Name My Integer game (CLIP 2 Show activity) when needing a break from Mathotel / brief Skypes w Ross - would like to see if we can setup a Radian activity for newbies ... need to work on that. / more Integer Dominoes Mar 1 - I can't believe it's March already! What a great Olympic Games for Canada ! YAY Canada ! OMO stuff / Integer Dominoes / updated Integer activities on OAME / emailed Irene (working with teacher using Integer CLIPS) / email from Ross re: another newbie / Request from Irene re: GAINS room at OAME conference - asked me to coordinate the CLIPS corner - need to come up with schedule for 2 CLIPPers per "period" - trying to schedule people so they're not overloaded with workshops they are already doing. (doable ??) Maybe get "friends of CLIPS" to join in on the fun - one storyboarder plus one Flasher per period ??? Hmmm

 Feb 26 - May have to leave work early to drive to London for Alexandra BBall tourney. Feb 25 - Away first thing - MRI for irregular heartbeat in Newmarket @ 8:30 - be back online later hopefully (assuming not too irregular!). Piano tuner coming - if driving is okay from Barrie. Feb 24 - OMO stuff early a.m. / Eric & Josh - PSD with characters in multiple layers / Finished Whats My Floor / Added new event to ubMovieClipTransform.as class --> onFlash / talked to JH about creating a moveCLIPScalc function like the moveNumPad function in activities01.as / YAY for JH and Agnes for finishing off 1.1 and 1.2 - and for Agnes doing her first class edits - and uploads and Zen Docs too !!! Feb 23 - Mel Skype chat re: 5.3.2 / Sent FLA and PSD files (zipped) with mathcot images to Josh to vectorize. Richard Gallant mtg re: OMO. Another BIG DISCOVERY: Flash can directly import PhotoShop files (PSD) - directly imports each photoshop layer as a Flash layer - and can convert each layer to a bitmap movieclip. Best results still to take the bitmaps and do the trace bitmap routine to vectorize. Very cool ! Josh, with Eric's help is going to vectorize all mathcots plus additional unnamed characters (naming fest in March Break ?) FullBody and HeadShots. / Worked on What's My Floor review final things Agnes found (and yet a couple that I found that neither of had discovered yet). Will review my work then send off to Agnes tomorrow. Feb 22 - Thanks to Agnes and Heather who found some of the bugs to fix in Integer Dominoes. JH gave me lots of things to do (reminders of things I didn't do on Friday). Updated activities01.as with her new function showcontinueSetFocus, and zen docked, transferred to isenegger.ca. Updates to numPad: +/- key now respects maxchars. ALSO paste icon (from minicalc) also respects maxchars. minimizeNumPad fixed so that it is respected in all scenes, on start page, and on end page. rollover and tooltip wasn't showing up in big wrapper after returning to Start Page. Found problem: removeMovieClip and attachMovie happening at same time - too confusing for poor lil Flash - so - move removeMovieClip to before onEnterFrame, attachMovie (and tool tips and rollover effects) inside onEnterFrame. Revised Activity Template --> moved def'ns for minimizeNumPad and setNumPadMode into activiites01.as file - also created 3 new functions for numpad (after consultation w JH on Friday) : moveNumPad(newX, newY), sendNumPadTab, sendNumPadClear. Final scene in Activity Template demonstrates usage of all functions, plus gives 2 input text fields, one with a maxchars restriction, to test it out. Updated activity_end.swf to call new minimizeNumPad function so that in big wrapper numpad is closed on final scene. (updated on isenegger.ca). activities01.as zen docs include numpad functions - as well as doc'n for two functions that need to be added to activities to respond to "events" NumPadEnterKeyPressed and NumPadTabKeyPressed. Activity Template FTPed to CLIPS Templates folder on isenegger.ca. Feb 19 - Integer Dominoes - major breakthroughs today - got logic working to determine valid / invalid placment of dominoes / fixed domino pod issues after dealing new domino / created mathcot logic to play or pass / added end if 2 x everyone passes / game is workable - still needs tire kicking / animated instructions / end scene (replay game / new game / end activity --> posted to isenegger.ca. In Other News: JH gave me more numPad work to do / Eric consult - sent to confer w HI re: colourpicker (success) / K confirmed last 2 got in (even though past deadline) - yay for Jamie and Eric (now joining us for March Break) Feb 18 - Skype chat w Mel re: addFlash and endTransform event, sorted out some things. Mel going to look at Kristen's scene and ideally continue on. Worked mostly on Integer Dominoes - got masking working - YAY, along with Deal new domino / Pass btns, End game check (we have a winner). Also, adding coordinate system to dominos ... which should help with next to tackle: logic for determining valid/invalid domino placements. Then, finally, mathcot logic. Getting there ! / Brief skype helps for Josh and then Eric. Feb 17 - Ash Wednesday - mtg in town re: Haiti concert in early afternoon / Integer Dominoes work - fixed pod resizing issues / Chat w Crystal re: BLMs and other ideas ... suggested she email stuff to Myrna for her looksy Feb 16 - Pancake Tuesday - pancakes for kids for brekky - emailed Mel some changes to her activity so it would loop / Heather fixed ubTransform class issue where dropBalls were floating off into space (apparently if their _x or _y == boundary exactly) / worked on Kipper activity - made some changes in setup and logic, emailed results to Eric and Agnes / ready to go back to Integer Dominoes tomorrow - YAY !!! Feb 15 - Family Day Monday - hardly any CLIPS - but did finish my changes on Location Quiz and emailed to JH and CC Feb 14 - St. Valentine's Day Feb 12 - Helped Eric create club shape - uploaded latest ubShape with heart, spade, club, mapleleaf shapes / talked to Kaye - got list of March breakers (see FlashFest Invitation doc) / consulted w Ross re: using ubConfigPod to control an object on screen not a class (use onConfigPodChange to grab changes in settings) / worked on (but didn't quite finsh) Location Quiz changes for my scenes (2,4,6,9,12). Feb 11 - Board office day (finally throwing out files in my old office) / meet w superintendent / finished review work on What's My Floor - and redid mathcots using Trace Bitmap to convert them to vector images Feb 10 - RI & HI chat: Consulted re: sound effect changes, and possible narration changes needed - changed percentGlobalVolume setting in defineSoundEffect and updated activities01 yet again, then passed the "talking stick" to Ross for further changes. Updated CLIPS Progress at a Glance Google Doc - "classes" tab - will use this to keep track of when a class gets changed, who did it, when, and who has the talking stick for it now. VERY IMPORTANT - MUI IMPORTANTE that all UB classy type people keep this updated and don't tread on others toes ! Made changes to LocationQuiz and emailed to CC and JH (common changes for all - including correct / incorrect counter on each scene, fixed ToolTip --> strangest thing - the ToolTip_mc had been relocated to the CENTRE of the stage, and not at (0,0) top left corner .... so ... tooltips were in fact happening ... but off stage. Updated Activity Template with "false" parameter for timelinepause (so by default, in the activity template, pause / play will not start the timeline going forward, since most activities are no longer built that way.) //Started on (and finished) ScubaDiving review for Ryan - looking good.// **MAJOR DISCOVERY !!!!** [] - "YES, Virginia, there IS a way to convert a crappy bitmap into a vector Flash image that can be rescalable and not look pixellated and vomitous !" (Well, the original bitmap has to look half decent actually ...) This could indeed be the answer to all our prayers ! It will be a tad time-consuming to do this for all images in our activities - but it's only the bitmapped ones that will need it, and once they are done once, they just have to be swapped in, and they'll work throughout the activity. It is MUCH faster, and better than retracing and recreating images from scratch - AND - looks better in all resolutions than the current bitmaps which either look okay in large or small, but hardly ever both sizes. //Fixed (finally) Activity Template issue that has been a thorn in the side - numPad not responding (to MinimizeNumPad calls) after returning to Start Page. uploaded to isenegger.ca// ActivityTemplate tab in Progress at a Glance document reorganized similar to classes tab, to track changes so whole team can keep track of them. Feb 9 - JH collaboration: fixed "ding" effect (when pause/play auto-played the correct "ping" sound for no good reason). Created flag soundActive, and new method stopSoundEffect - updated activities01 and wrapperCommon. Tweaked Eric's mapleleaf ubShape (will be coming soon to an ubShape.as file near you ...) / Helped Mel w startDrag issue Feb 8 - team mtg / conversation w Ryan re: ScubaDiving next steps ... and questions about an alternate method of visually defining components (build them with a visual component editor) ... interesting ... / w JH & CC re: Location Quiz Feb 5 - OAME bd mtg Feb 4 - OMO reg'n ctee mtg Feb 3 - YAY - got the final final approval for Integer Dropball AND Ball Bounce - YAY !!! (thank you Agnes) / will move them to OAME (inDevMode) - will look at other things that will need to be updated on OAME live site to support them, along with new numPadded activities / consults w CC re: her team / passed on one possible storyboarder to her (Cassie) / helped Eric w ubOptionButton / Judi consult re: 1.3 sc interactions / worked on Integer Dominoes / Hi to Mel - she's starting officially on Friday (PA day tomorrow for her) / rec'd Location Quiz review - will look at it Feb 2 - couldn't find mask problem for JH / received ZIPs from GregH w new NumPad in activities / sent back to Agnes BallBounce / Int DropBall - added audio Feb 1 - JH emails - ubNumberLine issues (OK - made tweaks) - However - Ross suggested (and by Wed had JH convinced) to use ubNumberLine2 .... and leave ubNumberLine the original for activities that are already done, but not looking for any changes (old and deprecated). (sent HI the brownian motion issue). DID fix colour border issue on Activity Template (that no one noticed since July 2009 - good eye JH).
 * Feb 2010**

top  Jan 29 - funeral in the a.m. (brother-in-law of teacher colleague and distant cousin) / more review work Jan 28 - plan: some Kipper a.m. / no consult w Eric / Afternoon : Agnes reviews Jan 27 - NumPad conquered AND new feature added: if you use the CLIPS calculator, and make a calculation and press ENTER, then switch to numPad, you can paste the value onto numPad, and hence, into the input text field with the focus. (temporarily have added "bonus" input field to DropBall in case you want to test it out). This does, unfortunately, mean activity template updates needed for all activities using numpad. Activity Template updated and on isenegger.ca. Received feedback from Agnes re: Bouncing Ball. Going through Kipper code to find some efficiencies, and tame set interval wildness. Jan 26 - NumPad woes - trying to make it play nicely with ubConfigPod. Updated all Show What You Knows, revised names of activities for 1.1 and 1.2 Received feedback from Agnes re: Integer DropBall - yay Jan 25 - Happy Robbie Burns day to you ! Bouncing Ball - done - updated on isenegger.ca - off to Agnes for review. Updated ClusterPic - some more stuff from Trish. OMO2010 contest ctee mtg Jan 22 - Bouncing Ball sc 2 //tracking down activity start button mystery -- discovered interesting fact - apparently messing up sometimes works out better! A suspect version of button class (on my machine) that didn't take into account all rrect parameters led to current activity start buttons looking nicely rounded (by accident) - hence the cause for alarm for Judi and Agnes. Fixed ubButton.as class - AND - in the meantime discovered pixelHinting flag in lineStyle (when drawing lines using .moveTo and .lineTo commands) - which significantly increases the look of rrects. THOUGH ... (luckily I did think to check this out) - not such a good result on ubShape "circle" - so - left parameter false for that ubShape.// //--> re-uploaded ubButton.as / ubShape.as - ZenDocked / redid InitClasses.swf and clips_b193.swf and activity_start - and uploaded to isenegger.ca. (You will likely have to clear the cache .. it really really wants to hold onto activity_start.swf in its memory)// Updated ActivityTemplate (look for Jan 22nd edition). IF you had the most recent version (Jan 19th) - then to save yourself the hassle of re-applying the new template, the only changes required are in activity_start / frame 2 / find the 4 occurences of ubButton.create and change two parameters to say: labelFitFrame:true, rradius:10, //OMO reg'n ctee mtg// Confirmed with Ryan Dussiaume - will do contract work for CLIPS starting immediately - working on Scuba Diving activity. Jan 21 - Haiti relief concert mtg in town (away from office in the morning) / Email FlashFesters re: March / April dates --> reply to K / Email storyboard leads re: March / April --> reply to K and me / Email team re: newbies for Monday night of March Break (or July wk of Kempenfest2010) / Bouncing Ball tidy up Jan 20 - started by looking at Bouncing Ball activity, making some cosmetic changes to sc 2 / Helped Eric find issue with ubOptionButton / Sidetracked by Ross: ubFraction - needed to be tweaked to work properly with ubNumberLine2 (and v1) - want to be able to have + or - sign out front, showPlus, or not, and calculate the mixed fraction properly (created simplifySigns parameter which takes care of that). Also, added support in ubNumberLine (original) for fractional tick marks and fractions themselves on centred numberlines. Updated InitClasses and clips_b193.swf, uploaded to isenegger.ca and ZenDocked. / Talked to Eric re: co-op student for Sem 2 - gave green light (gr 11 student - 85% in Math and CompSci) / Talked to Kaye - Myrna has given green light to offer Ryan Dussiaume a 20 day contract (for piecework programming on CLIPS). Jan 19 - chat w Ross - solved ubPod mystery - can't handle BLC (hybrid of dynamic and stage object) - expects one or the other, not both. Solution: place textfields on borders so that it can space out the pod accurately, and give accurate Podwidth and Podheight to go by. With that, finished last cosmetic stuff for Integer Drop Ball. started to look at Bouncing Ball activity. Distracted by numPad issues - no rollover or tooltips in big wrapper. Updated Activity Template with the changes needed for this, as well as numPad edits to ensure that using the +/= key works well, more or less as expected. Asked Heather to divert her attention to ubMovieClipTransform class --> addFlashing text fields causing major issues (and Flash crashes) with activity 5.1.2 ... and potentially other places too. Need a way to clear intervals on text fields (possibly use generic movieclip for each scene and attach set interval ids to that? I'm sure Heather will figure it out ! Go Heather ! Sent email with proof of concept to Heather - I've convinced myself that for a single text field that is flashing, I can stop the madness. I'm hoping that Heather can take that concept and expand it to multiple text fields doing any number and type of transformations. You go girl ! Updated page on wiki on how to Update an Activity to the most recent Activity Template Jan 18 - Integer Drop Ball - added load/save high scores pods - strange things happening w ubPod. Skyped w Ryan Dussiaume - has Scuba Diving activity well underway - email sent to Myrna + Kaye re: $ for Ryan as extra CLIPPer on contract. Updated ubNumberStepper and ubLetterStepper (and posted on isenegger.ca) - so that you can define restrictions (0-9 for example) and max num of characters, so that when input is allowed you can't enter directly something that cannot be duplicated with up and down arrows (and produce invalid input later on). Jan 16 - no CLIPS today Jan 15 - Location Quiz work - tweaked Crystal's late night work, then reposted. (Crystal then added more on weekend). Integer Drop Ball - added high score table ! yay ! Created ubLetterStepper to use for entering initials (so IWB users can enter text) Jan 14 - Fought with Vizzy and FlashPlayer - seem to have them working in sync now. Added revised Start page - and var narrationExists:Boolean = false; statement to Integer DropBall and What's My Floor - uploaded to isenegger.ca. Found an interesting issue with ubButton and gradientFills - the gradient is persistent. Skyped w Heather, and discovered issue is buttonInitObj - needed a new Object at beginning of ubButton function. Heather to look through other classes to do new Object thing if needed. Will also update dates on getVersion etc... (Thanks Heather). Working on Location Quiz & Integer Drop Ball today to finalize those components of CLIP 1, and a final review of Integer Adventure. Jan 13 - Finally finished Activity Template - Setup btn (made Test Audio btn similar) / updated activity_start.swf (/lib/common), recompiled InitClasses (added ubButton / ubOptionButton to list as well as RegExp), and recompiled clips_b193.swf - uploaded all to isenegger.ca and ZenDocked revised ub classes. Jan 12 - Activity Template work - got update from Ross re: RegExp - will incorporate into InitClasses & Activity Template (_miniwrapper) / OMO2010 steering ctee mtg Jan 11 - Sent scene to Judi for Activity 1.3 (based on Location Quiz scene) / started work on Activity Template - adding Setup button. Asked Heather to add gradient colouring option to ubShape, ubButton, ubOptionButton, ubPod.
 * Jan 2010**

Jan 9 - JanFest - bought monitor for Mel - back to JanFest Jan 8 - Teamwork in a.m. / JanFesters arrive in aft / Barbu at night Jan 7 - Team mtg w Myrna in a.m. / Teamwork in aft / OMCA dinner evening / Barbu at night Jan 6 - Epiphany / visit Gian / visit KW / pickup Heather / dinner at the Graftons / arrive in Hamilton early evening / Barbu at night Jan 5 - posted ShowWhatYouKnow on isenegger.ca for CL005 - CLIP 1. Added links to PDFs created in Games and Resources. Notified Trish. Jan 4 - Happy New Year and welcome back all ! Sort through email. Received new files from Trish / sent back some edits and suggestions. Received files from Ross re: Rad cluster - looks Rad! Chat w Ross re: possible ubClasses to be developed / possible Rad work this weekend. Chat w Heather - welcome Heather back to the team ! YAY. Gave Heather simple task of creating "arc" shape for ubShape class, and then the ubGSPlikeCircle class (very excited about that one !). Mini-Team mtg w Judi & Agnes & Heather (while waiting for class) - re: this weekend's work / relayed Ross conversation / other issues. Final version of Arcade Fun from Eric - reviewed - looks great - all done - posted on OAME and isenegger.ca. YAY ! Received review from Agnes of things to fix in What's My Floor activity - will do on Tuesday. Chat w Judi re: NumPad woes. Received from Trish CLIP 1 Show info, including details about PDFS to be created. Created PDFs for Frayer Model (simple - just print to PDF), and Integer Cards (used an FMPro template setup to create Avery Business Cards - a bit more time-consuming, but very nice looking results). Talked to Trish at night re: CL005 progress and other details. Created a set of Custom Cards PDF as an alternative to Traditional Cards.  top Dec 18 - finished review work for Whats My Floor - now back to Agnes. Latest version up on OAME and isenegger.ca / Emailed TZ re: extra 10 hrs work (possible 15 - check w JH). Mini team Skype mtg / Merry Christmas (decided to let TZ and CMcQ finish off numberline activity). Set 10am for mtg w JH, AG and HI on first day back - to reorient ourselves and prep for JanFest. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL - IT'S OFFICIALLY HOLIDAY TIME NOW! Dec 17 - finished FractionBuilder ... until Judi needed something else. Made Bldr now wider - SimulationCreationStation pop now opens up to right - note textfield (stores methods and animations used). Had to add a new parameter to getNumerator to distinguish between actual numerator currently being represented, or the numerator in mixed number or improper fraction format. Working on Agnes' review notes for What's My Floor. Doing (gakk) expenses and stuff. Dec 16 - worked on ubFractionOpTool - got all methods working - just need to tweak some things so little bits stop popping up when they should be hidden (gray toggles mostly). Teleconference w Ryan the Skateboarder Dussiuame - he's going to try his hand at doing a CLIPS activity - gave him Scuba Diving. Did a DimDim session (sort of like Adobe Connect) - he's all setup now. Sent feedback to Trish re: A Fishy Story (latest Integers activity). Only 1 activity storyboard outstanding now ..plus Shows. Also some games storyboards not submitted yet -but really close ! Dec 15 - weather permitting, TLDSB with end of research group on CLIPS CL002 project, with Shelley Y and Tara Dec 14 - talked to excited Mel, confirmed that her P will release her for 2/3 of Sem 2 (as of Feb 5). Welcome Mel ! Notified K & MI. Sent some edits to Trish re: two CL005 st bds. Uploaded all approved storyboards for CL005 to isenegger.ca, and colourcoded CL005 tab of google doc. Halfway through one by one fine tooth combing fraction op tool builder fla. (This will be worth it - honest). Received file from DWinsa. Nothing from CMcQ (emailed to say that). Updated movie clip transform to handle textfields for all movts - addFlash, moveZoomSpin, perpetualMotion. Dec 11 - fixed some things with ubFractionOpTool ( ResetAll making visible things that were hidden from the start), other minor things. OK from Myrna re: Mel. Gave Mel ubFractionBuilder.swf - to use to test out simulation cmds - note that not all are functional in test builder. Must finish this quickly! Judi discovered issue with movie clip transforrm class - goes bezonkers if given single textfield. (Saturday: discovered issue - a textfield is an object, just like an array is an object, so class tries to parse it - unsuccessfully. Discovered solution: Have 3 fold if: IF ( targets = type of movieclip --> yay - single object that's a movieclip - go to it) ELSE IF (targets[0] == undefined --> what's this? Must be a textfield! Treat it like a single object and go to it) ELSE ( must be an array of objects - go FORth and transformify ). Will go through movie clip transform class to ensure all functions treat textfields with dignity due them. CHECK for hangers on after switching scenes (hanging on set intervals that is). ALSO --> emailed Trish re: outstanding CL005 activity / game storyboards --. some will come this week, others the week after work, before Christmas, and then she is planning to do CLIPS work while recuperating from surgery - the sequel (in January). Dec 10 - consulting lots - minimal work on ubFractionBuilder - trying to be helpful .... Dec 9 - working on ubFractionBuilder (I wish - didn't get a chance to do anything) / final Arcade Fun - few tweaks- found an oops in Credit Keeper logic - eventually sent back to Eric / helped Agnes w issue / conference w JH re: activity / talked to K re: JanFest / talked to Mel re: work / emailed Myrna re: things skype call w Ryan the skateboarder - he will work on Scuba game to check out Flash and CLIPS - trial run / did some uber thinking about the uberBuilder (Ross' idea from a while back - like the ubFractionBuilder but for all types of classy objects) Dec 8 - Posted What's My Floor to isenegger.ca and OAME - made "What's New" announcement re: Arcade Fun & What's My Floor being available in pre-release form. Asked Agnes to review WMF. returned to ubFractionBuilder to finalize ubFractionOpTool .... will continue tomorrow. Emailed JD re: JanFest and CLIPS team mtg. (Earlier: Emailed team re: OMCA dinner banquet - looks like most said yes - just need to hear from EB and RI ) / Received storyboard progress update from Anne Mac re; CL007 - added to CLIPS Progress at a glance doc ... where also JH has worked on a tab for improvements to Activity TEmplate (which she has agreed to spearhead - yay) Dec 7 - re-reviewed Arcade Fun - almost done - emailed Eric / he's working on the final edits. Re-reviewed Integer Adventure - looks fine - sound OK? Asked JH - she made suggetions -> sent to CC to check out. Finished pre-release version of What's My Floor (including final scene where everyone gets off elevator). Dec 4 - York Catholic DSB - PA day - two 2.25h sessions on LGP CLIPS Dec 3 - Prep for YCDSB PA day Dec 2 - Agnes - array / hitTest qu | Spent most of the day getting uberFractionBuilder pretty much working. Created a Pod for the Simulation Creation Station - and it works ! SO .. with the FractionBuilder you can - design your own version of the ubFractionOpTool - with as many features / interactions as you want (or don't want) --> THEN --> in stage 4, where you get to try it out for size, you can use the Methods textpicker to try out some real time action script effects on the opTool. Click on the SIM button, and the Simulation Creation Station appears where you can choose simulations from a textpicker (love it Ross), or enter them directly, edit, re-order, modify, delete. When the simulation routine is set, click PLAY SIMULATION - and there it goes (pod can be minimized, closed, or moved out of way to view simulation). Tweaks now need to be made - to fractionOpTool class and perhaps simulation class - FractionBuilder not bulletproof yet - but - definitely working enough to be a solid proof of concept. (Don't think about all the work required to develop the Integer version of this ....). Email Ross, Judi and Agnes latest version of FractionBuilder. CLASSES UPDATED TODAY: ubFraction (doc'n change only - documented a variable that allows zero to be represented as 0/n --> needed for Sim pod. Variable existed already - no coding needed - but if I needed, someone else might eventually, so thought I'd better Zen Dock that hidden variable). ubTEXT PICKER : new functions added to allow manipulation of initial TextArray --> allow you to Add / Modify / Delete entries (based on position in array). Needed so that list of simulation commands being built can be dynamic in Sim List text picker. Dec 1 - Confirmed w Ryan - he's done with 1.2 --> onto JH to finish off / tweak / cleanup -prep for OAME. Upgraded ubThermo for Agnes - added setSize / getSize functions. Worked on FractionBuilder - have set method tester working mostly (thanks to ubTextPicker - thanks Ross !). Very cool feature: Called each of the methods with a simple onTextChange event - who knew that functions could be accessed like variables inside [ ] brackets? Makes it very easy to setup. Now to design the simulator tester. Updated ubShape --> added new shape "rrect" --> rounded rectangle. New property (along with wid and ht) to define rounded radius set "rradius" to desired value. (Default 10). When defining ubButtons now, can request shape:"rrect" - and it will give it to you. (Also - had to updated ubFramedText when creating ubThermometer class)  top Nov 30 - Judi - re: ubFraction tool stuff to do / Agnes - re: Thermo array / work on ubFraction Op Tool - decided to upgrade FractionOpToolBuilder - make it a full blown test environment, to test out .create properties as well as set methods and, evenutally, simulator codes too. Kaye - email/phone - re: Jan/Mar/Apr events / clarify rates. Email potential JanFesters (replies to Kaye). Email team re: JanFest early arrival (CLIPS Team mtg w Myrna Thurs a.m.) Nov 27 - Ross' birthday ! HURRAY ! CONGRATULATIONS BUDDY !!! In Belleville - working between bball games. Skyped w JH - helped w target._parent issue that helped resolve a sound issue in ubSimulation class. Finished ubNumberLine class changes / additions from last week's NovoFlash. Started on ubThermometer class (draws it now - no mercury or animation or set/get functions yet). Reviewed GreaterThanLessThan activity for Trish. Nov 26 - Mtg w Judi & Agnes re: Long Range plans. Jan 8/9 / March Break (Mon pm - TWR work days ) / end of April FlashFest. Emailed Kaye re: this - Kempenfelt booked for us for March Break (she's good). Asked about possibilities for Jan - bringing whole CLIPS team (full and partially released members) together for all of Thurs & Fri - and arranging a mtg w Myrna for long range planning during some of that. Possibility of paying for supply tchrs to cover FlashFesters so they could travel in a.m. to arrive at site to start work at noon - avoid yucky dark winter driving where possible. Needs a Myrna reply. / In other news - talked to board person who will finally bill Kaye for my time. Worked on ubNumberLine. (randompoints now labelling - but tick marks not yet.) Nov 25 - ubNumberLine / helped Eric find issue / planning / Crystal activity review Nov 24 - OMO mtg / Novo followup stuff / Eric activity review Nov 23 - OMO contest ctee mtg / NovoFlash follow up - created Google Doc with some ideas re: long range planning / emailed Irene re: Ross being uberReviewer for CLIP 1 / goal: Start radian activities at JanFest Nov 21 - NovoFlash Nov 20 - NovoFlash Nov 19 - Prep for NovoFlash - Just need to adjust ranges when input values are larger, then Addition Workspace will be complete (draft version). Need to create animations for the two Subraction Model workspaces. / Did Review for Crystal's Integer Adventure (5.1.4) and Eric's Arcade Fun (5.3.6) activities - used MS Word review template and emailed to both. Uploaded Oct 22nd Activity Template to CLIPS Templates folder on isenegger.ca - JH upgrading NumPad to look for restrictions (will need to add that to this template) - use as basis for sound work on weekend. (Note to self and others: Again the ugly octal issue - egad - arises ! parseInt - perhaps problem postpones, potentially pacifies. ( Number(0100) interpreted as 100 base 8 = 64. Use instead parseInt ( num_txt.text, 10 ) to force a radix (base) of 10 in interpreting a numeric value for the text string. ) Nov 18 - worked on Integer workspace - close to finishing Addition of Integers workspace (allowPlus parameter added to ubFraction to allow Plus signs to be entered, and remain) Nov 17 - worked on Whats My Floor - adding animation / wait flashes / updated all ubFraction classes w doc'n and ZenDocked the lot / added colourizing ability to ubNumberLine (just for JH) - 3 new parameters to toss in the .create stmt: labelPositiveClr, labelZeroClr, and labelNegativeClr - by default all are 0x000000 (black) so if not defined, stays the status quo. (Did you know that the unit tick marks and the fractional tick marks could also be colour coded - currently all units the same, and all fractional ticks the same - and default is 0x000000 - not the same distinction made between +ve and -ve tick marks ... would that ever be needed / desired ? ). Finished (I think) all changes needed to ubFractionOpTool for JH's simulation class - latest addition to include overRide parameter in ubFracUnitParts class so that when that part is disabled, the simulator can still access the functions it needs to perform certain animations. Also done: add additional pause to ubMovieClipTransform - pauseLocalVariable - to allow a special pause layer to transformations for when you need to pause locally, but not necessarily the entire scene (like with the simulator perchance). / Eric help - making great progress on Arcade - Spinning Wheel Nov 16 - working on ubFraction classes. Planning w JH and AG for NovoFlash - got something for everyone to do ! Pairing RyanSmith w RichDlin, and JaimeE w KristinA. JH to work with TZ. HI to work on graphclass. Sound crew: RI, GPC, JH (and HI if needed). Hoping to be able to review / do final edits to Eric's Arcade Fun, Crystal's Integer Adventure, my Math.Int(DropBall), so they can be pre-released. Need to also fix edits required for 5.1.1 and re-prerelease it. Would be cool if I can also get WhatsMyFloor ready for pre-release by end of weekend too! NOTE: Need to ask Myrna about review cycle - need to find a JD for Fraction Cluster - Trish too busy (methinks) - perhaps Anne Mac?
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 * Nov 2009**

Nov 13 - ECOO conference - wshop w Ross - went great - ... and then it was time to leave. Got a cool prize at the end of the conference though ! Nov 12 - ECOO conference - 1st wshop - mediocre at best - 2nd one w Ross - much better! Nov 11 - Remembrance Day / prep for ECOO conference - CLIPS wshops and GSP5 wshop Nov 10 - Ross teleconference - LGP CLIPS wshop prep / implemented anchorXValue parameter in ubNumberLine for Agnes / working on setWhereDragStrip function for ubFractionTool / a little 5.2.1 work on final interactive scene Nov 9 - filming of Integers Who Cares movie w Anne MacMillan and Nicolette @ Cdn Martyrs elem. schl. in Penetanguishene / went over Integer uberTool w Anne Mac - notes re: changes / implemented a few before end of day. Updated inDevMode on OAME to use pre-release version of Fraction tool (and integer uber tool doc as well) Nov 6 - fixed activity 2.5.3 - problem w Piston graph identified in Minden. (fixed problem w 2.3.2 yesterday). Sent GSP2.2.2 to Agnes to verify that fixing still needed - yes - need to lock down some sections more to avoid mistaken moving of axes. Will do on Monday or over weekend. / Quick chat w Ross re: ECOO wshop next wk (already !). / Did some work on Daniel's activity 5.2.1 - intro scene done / ubFractionOpTool - adding sets and gets - up to setWhereDragStrip / feedback w Eric re: Ring Toss - gave idea for flipping rings - looks very nice now. Nov 5 - CLIPS workshop - intro for those involved in Research project. Nov 4 - Take your Daniel to Work day - Daniel reviewed Eric's Arcade Fun / Agnes' Integer Tool / and started working on CL005-C02_A01 activity. I setup & assisted Daniel / did some ubFractionOp work Nov 3 - feeling icky - not a lot of CLIPS stuff today - started to look at ubFractionOpTool / updated Tools pod in CLIPS (on OAME and isenegger) -removed redundant calcs, added CLIPS calc, redirected UBOSoft calc (temporarily until on OAME), added Dynamic Paper link (cool) / updated Progress at a Glance doc to reflect progress on CL005 Nov 2 - Finished pre-release version of Integer Drop Ball and uploaded to OAME. Thanks to all for the many suggestions for improvement. (internet up and down all afternoon). Updated classes - and uploaded latest versions to isenegger.ca and updated ZenDocs for : MovieClipTransform / ubNumberStepper / ubFramedText. Planned Thursday workshop in Minden w Shelley Y. Agreed w Agnes re: new direction for uberIntegerComparison tool.

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 * Oct 2009**

Oct 9(pm)/11/12 - worked on CL003 2.2 / NumPad / OctoPrep Oct 9 - CL003 2.2 - worked on scene 2 - added pointing finger from 2.3 (nice work Stephen H) - will be a std used in both activities. Working on fixing up scene 2 to be the exemplar from which Dave and Maurizio can work to improve / fix / finesse the rest of their scenes. / Conversed w Judi - and planned out OctoFlash, groupings, and assignments mostly. Huge relief to both of us ... and hopefully to whole team. Details in FlashFest Invitations google doc. / Skyped w Judi later and fixed some oops in uberFraction classes so ubSimulator can work better now. Found an interesting hex math problem - when parsing a string, if you assume it's a number, Flash may interpret it as a hex number (unless there are 8s or 9s in it) .... unless you surround it with the Number function (cast ?)that forces it to be treated as a decimal number. / Tonight - Skyped w Eric as he finished off the logic and got all keys and functions working properly on numpad. (Implementation plan: Greg H is identifying scenes from activities that need NumPad. Eric and Greg will create a wikipage w step by step details so anyone can NumPadize an activity. Everyone to NumPadize their own activities that they have currently on the go, or just recently done. GregH (and possibly SeanG) will do one, under supervision of JudiH - and - depending on time / complexity / how it goes, we'll determine best plan to get them all done from CL001 to CL004 in a reasonable time frame. Oct 8 - CL003 2.2 - did scene 1 - used ubTransformMovieClip class - great work Heather. Needed to update ubFraction class so that denominators (or numerators) could be different colours than rest of fraction. Also updated ubTransformMovieClip (so that endPerpetualMotion could take an array of movieclips,like every other start / end transform function in the class). Documented the PerpetualMotion function - very useful - simulates gravity, pong, or Brownian motion. ZenDocced znd updated on isenegger. Oct 7 - worked out some NumPad logistics - incorporated it into LGP 2.3 and have it working successfully. Little wonkiness in big wrapper - Eric has fix. Created a function call that will auto-minimize numpad when entering scenes for which it is not needed. Very excited. / Setup new laptop / email w John Ross re: CLIPS research - going to be doing presentation for TLDSB and KPR (Tim S to do TVDSB on his own) / Eric checking out CLIPS.ZIP file (oops ZLIPS folder!) / checked out in detail summer work. CL003 2.2 - Adding - MdeP and DW - some scenes done - need work - need animations / simulations - new features to opTool added. CL003 2.3 - Subtracting - Mel & SH - all done up to STOP - some tweaking, just a little animation / opTool features required - but - ready to continue. Need to figure out exactly they will be working on ... but that depends on how much I can get done to prep. FUN ! Oct 6 - finished cross checking all files. Made CL004 cluster movie into an M4V file (MP4 video file for iPod) and posted to OAME and isenegger. ISSUE: both webservers need to allow the m4v Mime Type - sent an email to OAME ISP, Ross doing the same for isenegger.ca / compressed and uploaded new version of CLIPS.ZIP (please test). / Met Eric at PFCSS - finished last pieces of logic needed to make Number Pad work. Eric's got the recursion working beautifully! Hurray ! Also, got an implementation of the ENTER key to work too. Now, just a matter of making it look pretty, and implementing it in the new Activity Template, and figuring out the steps required to put it into activities that have previously been started. / Began transfer of all required files to new 17" MacBook Pro - yay ! (Hopefully its video board / motherboard won't fry on me anytime soon.) Oct 5 - finished LGP 2.3 this a.m. (plus some weekend work). JH reviewed, noticed an oops on my part! Uploaded new version. Creating big ZIP file for OAME. Tried, but wasn't very helpful to JH. Oh well.... Going through files and folders with a fine tooth comb, getting rid of extraneous schtuff - updating tnotes, faq, added link to ipod m4v file for CL002 resources - hoping to do the same for CL004 before zipping up. Verified CL001 files, downloading CL002 now to crosscheck. ZIP file ... not made yet. (Ross was much faster at doing this ....) Oct 2 - continued to randomize LGP 2.3 - spent lots of time refining logic of creating patterns based on 4 different building schemas that fit into a confined space, but was able to re-use code multiple times quickly in subsequent scenes - worth the initial investment in time. Came close -just 3 scenes left to do. Oct 1 - started to work on LGP 2.3 when Ross came online with a brilliant idea of how to fix better what I'd already sort of fixed. Return the onEnterFrame to the activity template around the loadMovie (activity_end.swf) code - last frame on Globals layer - Scene 1 (top object) - then jumpBack routine doesn't need to be on a setTimeout, it can be called directly ... and we don't have to wait for the silly end.swf to load unless we really really want it to. Made the change - updated wrapper to b192 / uploaded files to isenegger including FLA and new .as files, and .swf file to OAME as well. Back to instantaneous Replay Scene btn - HURRRAYY !!!! Thanks Ross. / DID start work on LGP 2.3 - now have ALL scenes properly repeating themselves ... of course for now they ask the exact same question, but you can't go to the next scene unless you get it right 2x in a row, or have 4 goes at it or more. All scenes have a Try Another option, so you could stay and play the same question over and over again if you wanted. Want to finish this activity before compiling CLIPS.ZIP ... ideally sometime tomorrow. (of course, the upload will take forever ... will Bell WiFi be up to the task ???)
 * Oct 31 - Hallowe'en - boo - 50th anniversary for Zia Sara e Zio Ercole (Julie's side of the family - surprise) **
 * Oct 30 - Continued work on Integer Drop Ball **
 * Oct 29 - Finished Pre-Release - draft 1 - of Integer Drop Ball / fixed snapping to right spot when scaling > 1 / tweaked numberLine class / sound issues need to be resolved eventually / emailed team for feedback. / JH chat re: GregH discovery of NumPad issues / FishPond from Arcade Game from Eric - quick review **
 * Oct 28 - Integer Drop Ball in the a.m. - (and p.m. after supper) - level 2 working / multiple levels working (though scaling > 1 has issues) / OMO site visit in afternoon **
 * Oct 27 - continued work on DropBall. Gave Agnes suggestion for change. Conflabbed w Judi re: getValue issue. Checked out Eric's latest work and gave feedback. Created resources txt file and games txt file for CL005 on isenegger. Links to latest version of Integer Comparison Tool (Agnes) on isenegger. Updated InitClasses and clips b193 swf with most recent classes (perpetual motion - elliptical pong now working in Integer DropBall). Integer Drop Ball - level 1 working (intro - demo animation needs to be done / choose a level / replay / next level still need to be done) **
 * Oct 26 - worked on Integer DropBall game - debating whether to make DropBall a class of its own, or just a Library object. To get 3D effect, went with Library object (though, in retrospect ... some inspection of Ross' drop down colourpicker boxes might have provided the Transform tool needed to do that effect dynamically ....). Conferenced briefly with Agnes, Crystal and Eric re: various issues. Fwded query from SJP to Kaye. **
 * Oct 23 - OAME bd mtg / chapter reps PD session - using CLIPS **
 * Oct 22 - prep for OAME CLIPS presentation / Integer Drop Ball - prepped scenes w text and initial layout - worked on Perpetual Motion - elliptical bounding array - got it working - updated MovieTransform class and ZenDocked changes. Did NOT update InitClasses yet. Added Perpetual Motion to DropBalls in Dispenser for sc 2 and sc 3 -posted to isenegger, but until InitClasses recompiled, won't see full glory of the "bingo" effect in big wrapper - but does work in standalone mode: http://www.isenegger.ca/tapatoo/a2wrapperdevelopment/swfPlayer.html?swfURL=lib/CL005_IntegersRepresentCompareOrder/CL005_C01_A05_C_IntegerDropBall/CL005_C01_A05_C_IntegerDropBall.swf **
 * (Alexandra's bball team won the City Championships -yay ! Happy Birthday to Sean Grafton ) **
 * Oct 21 - worked through w Ross fixes needed to b 193 - posted to isenegger and OAME - yay it works! / transferred all NumPad activities to OAME (oops forgot to do that last night) / added fn to ubFractionOpTool for JH / quick review of Fraction activities / updated Progress at a glance doc / looked at minicalc - decided revising to remove keylistener conditionally is a lot of work - and time - not critical for the moment / started checking out Integer DropBall and made skeleton plan to attack this activity / game. **
 * Oct 20 - Responding to Ross' email after the tire-kicking (must have had some steel toe boots on this a.m.) / prepping inDevMode for Agnes' grand unveiling tonight / adding NumPad to activity 5.1.1 / reviewed 5.1.4 and emailed Crystal - did minor tweaks and posted to OAME inDevMode / updated Tools & Search pods w Ross' cool download fn pods / Eric uploaded current draft of Arcade Fun (5.3.6) / emailed Myrna re: inDevMode release - she's OK w that - and asked if we should add inDevMode activity releases to "Pulse of the Province" updates on GAINS. (still need to update What's New w latest cool stuff we've been doing) / sort of maybe helped Judi a wee bit at one point in the day **
 * Oct 19 - Updated all 6 NumPad activiites for CL002 - uploaded them to isenegger - and compiled new CLIPS.ZIP file (had to drive to PF to upload - 3m33s vs 5h+ from home). ISSUES FOUND: Activities must use UNICODE not HEX equivalents to be compatible on all systems (ie ... use "\u00B0" and not "\xB0" in a string ) **
 * ALSO - noted that some activities will need updated minicalc as well as including numpad. Must remember to bring font folder, or graphcalc labels will not show up. Agnes will introduce our inDev feature to the CHAMP miniconference tomorrow .. plan is to have Ryan and Crystal's activity available then. (tomorrow a.m.'s task) / fixed numpad activities w new minicalc - code to switch to correct PreferredCalc - re-uploaded to isenegger / fixed mouseListener issue w 1.1.5 - can now replay scenes and it works **
 * Oct 18 - did get FLA from Eric after church ... and did fix final NumPad issues (need a selective setTimeout to grab the insertion point caret index) + tweaking code to only check for input boxes, and allowing inserting numbers in the middle of a text field, and tweaking replace behaviour. **
 * Oct 17 - OctoFlash - shared w Melanie - she taking over and working on movies. Issues with fraction tool identified by Melanie, Dave and Maurizio, Judi - on to do list to follow up on. Eric worked on NumPad - roadblock on insertion pt - suggested start Integer activity. Tonight - unblocked roadblock and solved insertion point problem - hope to get FLA from Eric tomorrow to allow CL002 FLAs to be updated. Skyped / emailed w Greg Hanta -last of CL002 FLAs emailed to me - just need new numPad_mc swapped in and they'll be good to go. Great weekend folks - let's do it again next month ! **
 * Oct 16 - OctoFlash - prep for it. Final look through 3.2.2 before. Look through 3.2.3 for Stephen and Sandra Jean. Plan for Help Movie for Melanie - 1pger - need to code. OctoFlash begins. Impressive start. Past midnight - get ubPod for Help Movie - menu (optionButtons) - action - end - replay - added msgX: call to ubSimulator - working great. **
 * Oct 15 - (Feeling icky - chills - pains - waaaahhhh) - JH added her $0.02 to the WIBNIs for NumPad. Talked to Eric - will do this: If ENTER has been pressed, then if next key is a Number - it replaces totally what's in the texdisplay. (for JH). If next key pressed is ENTER again, then what's in the textbox gets put in the object with focus (for AG). / ZenDocked latest ubSimulation - tweaked a couple functions to adjust the den and num from above as well as below. / Agnes - first prototype of Integer Comparison toolkit - looking good. Helped find a few things - changing textbox properties mostly to tweak things into working better. / Ross - talk aloud ... trying to get darn FileRef to work ... Ross has ubPods working beautifully for Download progress. Final breakthrough - Ross' idea about asfunction call to OAME download - it works ! / Prep for OMO steering ctee mtg (4:30) **
 * Oct 14 - Cried when reading Agnes' email. Fixed two of the problems after composing myself. Talked w Ross re: download issues / progress bar (he's going to do). M4V now a registered MIME type on OAME - downloading iPod movies now working. Mtg w Judi & Agnes re: OctoFlash. We're set. (we think). Tweaked NumPad w Eric - solved an issue re: minicalc version causing issues with his FLA. Worked on ubFraction - got workspaceShowing:"1+2" working - and created function that could be called anytime to change workspace. Shared w JH. Uploaded latest classes to isenegger. Zendocked them. Done for the night. **
 * Oct 13 - reviewed ubSimulator from JH - great work - gave JH some more simulations to add. ZenDocked it then gave back to JH. Updated classes and transferred to isenegger.ca & updated ZenDocs (fraction classes- added getWhereDragStrip function). Problem Solved w Eric re: numPad 256 levels of recursion (somehow getting above scene level in looking for textbox). **
 * Continued to work on 3.2.2 and ubFractionOpTool - came up with idea for showWorkspace variable to setup workspace when creating frac tool (needed in some scenes, and will be needed in tutorial movie). Emailed team: re NumPad. Agnes replied - she broke it ! **
 * Oct 12 - Thanksgiving Monday **

 top Sep 30 - ... in order to avoid really doing LGP 2.3, last night, decided to check out what the current version of LGP 2.3 did .. tried Replay Scene btn to see if it randomized examples ... and to my horror found ... Replay Scene jumped to end scene - and stuck there ! AAAARRGGGHH. Major panic. Skype to JH / Email all. Today .. spent entire day tracking issue - banged head lots (ow) - conversed with JH re: uberFrac stuff / and some ReplayScene ideas - went down sceneSelector red herring alley / Conferred w Eric - found an issue that helped him out and brainsstormed together some ideas on the replay scene issue. Finally - had the epiphany that it was loading final scene into current scene. Tracked it down --> the loadMovie (activity_end.swf) was happening AFTER the return to current scene, and loading over TOP of the current .scene object. SO .. fixed it --> modified activity_end to call a function in wrapper_common to announce its presence. Function there will determine if it's in the right spot or not. /// Further modifications: Do not jump in wrapper_common UNTIL the "I am here" function is called from activity_end.// Need to clean up these function calls, make it look logical, readable and understandable (hope to send to Ross for clarity check) - but - the guts of it work properly now. PHEW ! / later that night ... DID send the guts to Ross, cleaned up the icky bits, and it works like a charm ... just a slight delay when hitting replay scene btn - but no "END" in sight. :-) Sep 29 - fixed spinning wheel of death that occurred if you wailed on the start btn on the splash screen before info was fully loaded - updated clips FLA and Clips191.as file - created and uploaded build 191 to isenegger (swf, as, fla files uploaded), and updated OAME to b191 as well. / Worked w Eric on number entry pad - he's going fwd w recursiveness. JH sent some ideas on how to get TAB key to fn repeatedly. Sent Crystal on chase to find a way to implement Enter key (virtual enter should simulate real enter - and be captured by Key.Listeners - OR - we need to revise those activities that insist on hitting ENTER without benefit of a chk btn alternative) / Modified Resources pod (thanks for FLA, Ross!) so that it lists all swfs and only swfs available from both games and resources, and orders them alphabetically - uploaded swfs to isenegger.ca and OAME, and put fla into /CommonSource. //phoned Newmarket Best Western to inquire re: NovoFLash - left msg on voice machine of Shelley Robertson.// now going to dive into LGP 2.3 to randomize it - honest - no more avoidance / Doing Clips Progress Log to avoid doing LGP 2.3 Sep 28 - worked on wrapper / activity template to find right level of "_parent"age for number entry pad to access the text fields on the activity scene stage. Changed the minimized icon to fit in with side panel icons (not convinced of placement or look exactly - need feedback from team). Conferenced w Eric re: number entry pad. Change of plans: Don't put the number entry pad on the wrapper, put it only in the activity template - create a variable set on globals frame 1 (w other variables) to determine if number entry pad is needed/useful for this activity, and an if stmt to determine whether it should appear on the mini-wrapper or on the activity of the big wrapper. (Test out a draft version at [] --> Integers activity 1.5 ) Sep 25 - reworked some of number pad FLA and conferred w Eric re: reorg'n - put all action script on actions layer, not buried in buttons if at all possible. Added a minimize btn (not using ubPod yet). / Transferred RobotRuleGame.swf to isenegger and OAME sites, put link in CL004_Games - JH to add link to 1.1 and 1.Show / posted minutes of Sept 14th meeting / conferred w JH re: class issue / Afternoon - prep for MAC2 miniconference workshop Sep 24 - Worked mostly on Expl Diff Reps - FINALLY got simple patterns to work (took a while to remember my logic - even though it was partially documented. Added more documentation to the logic for the next time.) Fixed story colour change issue. (storyColourPod_mc.removeMovieClip; ) Adjusted the shift after changing a pic rep by customizing colour (no longer shift). Added Adv Setup option to allow choosing simple patterns (patterns that only go vertical or horizontal, no weird diagonal type patterns). Posted revised version to isenegger and OAME and notified JD and asked Crystal to review too. / Emailed Myrna list of CLIPPERs so she (her secretary) can prep contracts. / Conferenced w Agnes (interesting times with transform class and setfocus issues too) / got file from Eric - need to have a look - see how to get the wrapper to respond to it (or vice versa). / Updated LGP 1.4 on OAME to new version. / Added tags for all activities (thanks Eric, Crystal and Agnes) to CLIPS info and CLIPSinfoDEV on OAME and isenegger. Sep 23 - Finished (finally - yes) LGP 1.4 - totally randomized. Had to redo sc 8 with the shrinking tiles. Now done. Received all addresses for OctoFlashers - will send to Myrna tomorrow. Talked to Agnes, Eric, Judi conferring about various things. Agnes passed off Expl Diff Reps back to me. Will look at disappearing colour changer controls in story mode -but if can't find out why right away, will ignore the problem. Looking at implementing "Simple Patterns only" for JD. Ross gave suggestion on how to prevent wrapper spinning wheel of death phenom (if you click on start btn too fast in splash screen). Eric ready to test NumberEntryPad - need to add link in Tool icon. Sep 22 LGP 1.4 - adding more randomness - collaborated with Agnes - Eric - Crystal - email Sep 21 - LGP 1.4 finished sc 8 and 9 - now adding more randomness to other scenes (thank Judi) collaborated w Agnes - Eric non Skype chat via clips.etherpad.com Sep 18 - was on Skype while Agnes fixed Expl Diff Reps / fwded 3 integers st bds from Myrna to Agnes & Judi - divided them up for future dev (G taking Integer DropBall / Agnes taking Bouncing Ball game / JH taking 1.3 and work with Cheryl and TZ at OctoFlash. On Skype when JH thought of adding Minimize Btn to ubPod - added to her to-do list. Skype w Agnes & JH to outline work goals to OctoFlash. Fixed problem with CL004 1.3 spinning wheel of death. (we think old version of ubLine causing conflicts - updated InitClasses.swf and activity swf). Working on adding randomness and repetition to CL004 1.4 sc 8. Tagging CL002. Updated CLIPSinfo.txt to show Radian cluster in gray now. Sep 17 - tweaked wrapper to restrict searches to visible clusters games/resources - changed extras search results to show only 1 instead of CL001 (etc..) - finished adding links for extras in CL001 / CL002 / CL004 and updated isenegger and OAME with new games.txt and resources.txt files. Updated OAME to b190. Skyped w Agnes re: Expl Diff Reps. Sent tag= templates to taggers. Downloaded CL004_C01_A04 to add interactivity (as noted in to-do list by JH). Updated CL006 page in CLIPS progress google doc w info from mathedirene.wikispaces.com. NOTE: Things that should be looked at in more detail: Clicking too quickly on Splash screen when first loading can cause spinning wheel of death - turns out that it's not usually death - you can ignore the warnings, then things will continue normally - so more like spinning wheel of great concern. Skyped Heather I for direction in which to look for the fix she put in place (or Ross did) this summer ... but needs to be checked out. NOTE2: Agnes broke activity CL004 1.3 (okay - didn't break it - but found it freaking out at scene 10 when she was going through it on her PC). I couldn't duplicate the freakout, but it should be looked at too. Sep 16 - finished Search feature enhancement - searching Games and Resources.txt files - fixed sorting in Extras area, and sub-search (Search the Results) searching to work accurately. Prepped / Held team mtg on GUTS of CLIPS wrapper and inner santum workings. Eric suggested moving to an SVN to automate version checking and updates ... will look into this ! Sep 15 - email John Ross -need CLIPS.zip for Oct 7th - goal: Oct 1st - Skyped JH - decided I will update LGP 1.4 (possibly 2.3) so LGP activities are done done before CLIPS.zip. Working on adding search for resources/games to Search pod - got it working - need to polish before publishing (later tonight ideally) - sent out reminder to slackers who hadn't responded. Sep 14 - Team mtg - great to see everyone face to face - lots done -see agenda at top (for now) - will make some sort of minutes-like thingy to record our action items and keep us on track (on a future date) - NOTE: Did NOT create new version of CLIPS.zip file -ooops - but DID buy Crystal a monitor (though not a swivel type - sorry 'bout that) Sep 11 - stole Exploring Diff Reps from Agnes, added user drawn line (checkbox and pencil icon) feature, with adjustable endpoints. Uploaded to isenegger, then gave FLA back to Agnes. Fixed strangeness in wrapper v189 (thanks to Skype w Heather - updated Transform.as class file) - and uploaded to isenegger and OAME - What's New link now working in both places - as well as rollovers and minicalc which had mysteriously disappeared temporarily. Created directory structure for CL005 in isenegger.ca CLIPS (a2wrapperdevelopment) directory and added links / items for CL005 to CLIPSinfo.txt file. (NOTE: Discovered that clusters in CLIPSinfo.txt have to be numerical - no skip counting clusters!) Sep 10 - Talked with Pia re: budget / procedures / acquiring laptop issues. Had to go to library to use internet (BellWiFi died in afternoon). Skyped w Eric re: Number Entry pad options. Planned shopping trip w Crystal for monitor. Sep 9 - Happy 999 day! Updated CLIPS.zip links to point directly to [] (and hope most browsers know what to do with that). This way, local copies will always point to OAME as the source for future downloads. Uploaded NavigatingClips.pdf to /lib/common/supports/ directory on isenegger and OAME, and updated Resources.txt (for CLIPS.zip link) and TNotes.txt (for Supports tab link to new pdf file) on both isenegger and OAME. Created a What's New entry on OAME for those changes. Conflabbed with Judi re: ubFractionOpToolAnimator.as file - great work Judi - very cool class --> it's not a "noun" class, it's a "verb" class. Nicely done! Talked to Beth at Kempenfelt - only 8 double rooms available for Nov weekend - plus 8 beds in Foster house - total of 24 max. Weekend before (13th) or after (27th) would be fine. Should discuss options on Sept 14th (alt location probably). OMO contest planning committee mtg at 4:30 - ciao for now Sep 8 - updated OAME website - What's New section - including What's New for CLIPS --> created PHP file to filter just the What's New CLIPS info. Created whatsnew.swf in /lib/common (on isenegger for now) - and "What's New" link in wrapper (between Search and Feedback). Plan: use What's New to keep record of incremental changes. Sep 2 - contacted Kempenfelt about possibility of Nov FlashFest there - other user group has it booked, but MAY be way to squeeze in - not sure. Reviewed a number of Integer storyboards for Trish (before she sends them to Myrna). Integers: All of C01 and C02 have a final or draft storyboard, as does C03_A01. Sep 1 - updating CLIPS Project at a glance doc / booked 80 Bellfarm for Sept 14th mtg w Myrna (confirmed) / prep team mtg - the sequel / OAME website revamp / team mtg Aug 31 - prep for new year / GAINS website update / first team mtg  top
 * Sept 2009**
 * Jun 2009**

Jun 28/29 - continued work on the uberFraction tool - all but 2 rows done of latest review. Add'l msgs (equiv fraction / result can be in lower terms), limits on denominators (<= 25) to avoid huge numbers and spinning wheels of death, tick labels btn has 3 states now (Show All, Hide All, Show 0-->1 ticks)

June 26 - Last official day of school for SMCDSB - FINALLY figured out how to get the drag and drop to work for BOTH fractions. Reset clears workspace counterparts. A few other cosmetic issues. Team meeting. Holiday time - officially .. but doesn't mean all work is done and ready for Kempenfelt ... what else is new ? June 25 - Jonathan's Gr 12 grad (off to Lakehead / orillia campus - in Sept 09) - working on uberFraction tool still - got more done - still a bit to go. Made number of parts an input field so you can enter denominators directly - huge bonus. Working on making first strip draggable and not locked. June 24 - tried to finish uberFraction tool for JDs Wednesday night CLIPPing - but - not quite done yet / Daniels' gr 8 grad / (Jonathan's recital - Concerto duet with me) June 23 - team mtg at 1:30pm / finished first working draft (complete) of uberBuilder - needs some work, but is in fact totally functional at the moment - yay ! Emailed Trish re: Integer storyboards. June 22 - uberBuilder: step 2 working / step 3 looking good and almost updating code June 19 - starting adding code - step 1 working, components disappearing upon click AND changing the related codes June 18 - finished the aesthetics and layout of the uberFraction Builder - all set to go ... tomorrow - add the functionality - and we're good to go ! Amazed at the amazing Iseneggers and their documentation Zen prowess ! June 17 - dentist appt - filling - darn forgot that's what it was for! After my nose thawed out from the freezing .... I ... - helped Agnes with a few things, sympathized with Ross over another broken wrapper issue, gave Heather more work to do ... but she did it quickly - and - have the first step of the uberBuilder looking pretty (just not functional yet). June 16 - finished functionality of ubFractionTool - can now talk to activties! Working on creating an ubFractionOpToolBuilder.fla that can be used to customize the ubFraction tool, and then create the action script needed to plop it into an activity template and run perfectly ! June 15 - added functionality to the ubFractionOpTool to communicate with the outside world .. getNumberOfParts, setFraction, etc.., and started to work on firing events to the activity that called it June 12 - OMCA mtg / OAME bd mtg at night June 11 - Documented and recreated Help doc for last two - AddSubWorkspace and FractionOpTool and posted to isenegger. Planned (not implemented - but planned) additions for FractionOpTool: broadcast event: onFractionOpToolChange( which, whichPart, what, values ....) / planned get and set functions / planned initialization variables to use ... now just to implement all those ideas. DONE (drafty done) the Fraction Tool - with all functioning working - including changing unit length and auto scaling ! YAY !!! There are still some wonky bits .. but I will wait for another day to track those down. //Ross coming over today to upload LGP and wrapper changes to OAME together (2 heads > 1 )// need to prep for OAME presentations .. yikes .. later tonight ??? June 10 - For the 3rd time since I've started this uber project, I'm re-organizing how the uber classes interact with each other !!! Went through all classes (lost steam on final 2 - did cursory work on them) - added documentation (actual comments) in the .AS file, then recompiled the Help Doc file and posted to isenegger for all classes. Major change: All components send event up to parent -- and all set / draw commands have doBroadcast flag (default false) --> to avoid loops of rebroadcasting / redrawing objects unnecessarily. //Talked to JD at night (late) - went through activity CL003_C02_A02 to get a sense of the pared down version of tool needed for early activities - and type of feedback needed.Sent latest version of tool to JD and MI. DID get oversized fraction routines working yesterday - tooLarge arrows popup and disappear (mostly) when they are supposed to. Stil need to work on changing unitLength - some strange things happen there still. (Also - just noticed that msgs don't always delete themselves when situations change and they should.)// //June 9 - uberstuff - getting oversized fractions and arrow indicators to popup correctly .. mostly working ... still need to work out the fall out.// //June 8 - uberstuff - keeping numberline and fractions within bounds of maxx. Getting number entry working well, and responding as should.// //June 5 SMCDSB SMARTbd project wrapup// //June 4 - received review from JD - lots of suggestions to save space (including undoing previous review suggestions) / finished implementing latest suggested changes - have now a whopping 50 pixels you can do something with at the top of the activity screen. Tweaked unitLength changing routine to be more reliable - still need to implement limits (so numberline doesn't go beyond edge of stage, but gives warning instead.) Also having issues with implmenting input boxes for fractions ...// //June 3 - uberFraction stuff - mapped out events / interactions on paper - added feedback - created (i) button for when message box is reduced / minimized. Created pop back when trying to subtract a larger fraction. Created adjustable unitLength tool. Sent to JD for review// //June 2 - SMCDSB Coaching project wrapup// //June 1 - uberFraction stuff - from weekend: added moveable point (draggable - or clickable on number line). Made fraction strip moveable in workspace (only 2nd fraction strip, initial one is still locked in place, and will remain so). / Feedback from JD (+ve). Today: moved two btns up top that pertain to whole tool, added checkboxes to hide/show pic rep / num rep components - if workspace two fractions have diff denominators, resultant fraction = ?. Changed RulerTop (not sure I like the new version as much ... )//

 top //May 29 - Implemented rounding in workspace result (to 2 dec pl) AND approx equals sign. GAINS mtg - Aurora// //May 28 - Showed RulerTop to team - added toggle for RulerTop (maybe need to change thickness of lines drawing toggle to 1. ?/n up above is now mirrored in workspace. Changes in UnitPart tool now take immediate effect in workspace fraction. BIG: Added captions and lines to make screen for appealing. Shaded slightly workspace, as per docs (also helps Ruler effect stand out a bit as something different).// //May 27 - Final nudge change of ExplDiffReps tool - then fwded FLA to Ross. Investigated and created Proof of Concept for NumberEntryPad minicalc - emailed team (and fwded FLA I think ...). Worked on Fraction uberTool - have points appearing / fraction strips hovering / 0/3 showing --> added RulerTop above result fraction strip to make "counting" of fraction strip parts easier. Slid down workspace numberline. More still to do .... Latest version of FractionOp Tool Demo --> []// //May 26 - CLIPS team mtg - face to face - with special guests: Myrna, DZ and JD - topic: Fraction Cluster - discuss.// //May 25 - prepping for mtg tomorrow - completed ZenDocs for all fraction classes created plus ui/Button.as class as well. Created [|index] file to link to all, and uploaded all of them to isenegger.ca. Tweaked ExplDiffReps.FLA for JD - moved Pictorial Rep and Story Rep to the right so screen shots no longer need to include any of the Menu btns. Posted Ross' fix --> HTML file to load ExplDiffReps.swf (so IE7 users who have trouble loading SWFs can still get it.) Tested Ross' even better and more flexible solution on FireFox Mac, hoping that it can be implemented for all other OPEN swf function calls in CLIPS. Created visual demo of FractionOpTool via SmartIdeas, and Demo FLA to share as well. Preparing Fraction folder to share with team tomorrow. (Agreed to do MathCAMPP with Trish - Linear Relations breakout)// //May 23 - figured out (finally) how to get ZenDocs to generate doc file for .as class definition --> should be useful (but does require some planning and pre-formatting of comments while creating .as files in the first place - probably not a bad thing for us to do ...)// //May 22 - some uber work / WShop with PF staff - SMARTbd / added result fraction / smart operator_mc(knows when sum or diff, plus or minus sign)// //May 21 - uberFraction - cleaning up (JD call in the a.m.) / adding more functionality to workspace / reserved room at Hampton Inn for Tuesday mtg// //May 20 - uberFraction - drag and dropping// //May 19 - uberFraction - added workspace// //May 18 - Happy Victoria Day holiday// //May 15 - OAME - GSP Works in Progress wshop// //May 14 - OAME - The Math is made by Flashing wshop// //May 13 - OMCA mtg / OAME prep - helping out OAME2009 gang to make sure MCIS and reg'n is working fine// //May 12 - Emailed latest version of uberFraction work (revised ubNumberLine) to Myrna and JD / Synced files between isenegger.ca and OAME in preparation for Ross burning CDs and going live with new wrapper and LGP on OAME site// //May 11 - Worked on uberFraction development - worked on feedback from JD from weekend regarding current version of ubNumberLine, put in activity sized miniwrapper shell (border - no functionality)// //May 8 - Worked on uberFraction - created ubNumberLine and framework to test it in conjunction with other parts// //May 7 - Plan OAME wshops with Ross / Go back to CL004 and finish loose ends in 2.2 / 2.4 / ExplDiffReps / help team with anything needed// //May 6 - continued working on Fraction uberTool - tool quite a while to expand upon ubButton class and include some documentation. Created ubFraction class to create fraction numbers (similar to previous library uberFlash object) - will use this as basis for creating number line and fraction outputs for CL003. Some tweaking of ubFractionUnitPartTool.// //May 5 - noted a few minor things to change (2.2, 2.4, ExplDiffReps) / worked on Fraction uberTool - got component - Fraction UnitPartTool working - modified ubShape / created (modified) ubButton / created ubFractionUnitPartTool. Cleanup needed for .as files before moving on. Event Handlers needed to be added to FractionUnitPartTool.// //May 4 - took suggestions from team for extra features / details dealing with Story Rep - finished and uploaded to isenegger (late) including additional scenarios// //May 2 / Apr 32 - succumbed to suggestion by JH - "wouldn't it be nice if there were an option to show a story that can be represented by a LGP" ... hence is born the Story Representation - swaps out in place of Pictorial Representation .. started ... and presently working on it (Apr 31st version still intact if decision is to stick with that version, but adding the Story Rep ties in the final activities in the cluster and provides a very nice extension to gr 9, making tool even more flexible and valuable)// //May 1 / Apr 31 - (creative calendaring in order to get done by the "end of the current month") PA day for SMCDSB (didn't go) - Finished 4.4 and sent to JD for final approval - Finished ExplDiffReps tool as per last review - sent to JD for final approval//  top Apr 31 - (creative calendaring in order to get done by the "end of the current month") PA day for SMCDSB (didn't go) - Finished 4.4 and sent to JD for final approval - Finished ExplDiffReps tool as per last review - sent to JD for final approval Apr 30 - Tax day (yikes - better get it done !) - Finished work on GraphingToolkit and sent to JD for final approval. NOTE: Two cosmetic suggestions not done yet - added to to do list (would be nice if ... for later) Apr 29 - Working on latest review for 4.4 Apr 28 - Finished latest review for 2.4 - sent questions to JD (and question to RI) / Helped Agnes with issue (object needs a frame to fully get comfortable and react to functions) / sent minicalc (for inclusion in miniwrapper) to team (just have to copy over the minicalc object to the Library in the miniwrapper stuff folder) Apr 27 - Continued work on 2.4 review - most of time on getting line segments to act as rays if drawn past edge Apr 24 - mini calc - added features - MR M+ <-- key to mini Apr 23 - mini calc - converted to new classes structure - added features - keybd shortcuts for all keys, and shortcuts help menu, relocating graph calc fn help Apr 22 - musical matinee - shared new classes structure with group - Apr 21 - worked on new classes structure / Fractions ubertool Apr 20 - beginning of work on Fraction ubertool / discuss implementing consistent naming conventions - and new classes structure with Ross Apr 17 - Copy PIct Rep working / option to use y=mx+b / final tweaks - ExplDiffReps done //Graphing Toolkit - added camera icon to toolkit - working - done - uploaded - emailed all// //Apr 16 - now we want pods to float above ... some retooling needed here. Menu icon - Copy Graph Rep now works - camera icon removed - all in Menu now// //Apr 15 - re-redesign - using pod for tilekit tools - prototype of graph.php to create pictures (PNGs) of graphs - teleconf w JD re: Fraction ubertools// //Apr 14 - redesign of ExplDiffReps / created camera icon (does nothing)// //Apr 10 - Good Friday// //Apr 9 - Holy Thursday / Finished 2.4 review - emailed JD - uploaded to isenegger.ca / Emailed DZ re: Fractions +/- uberTools (DZ and JD will be discussing this tomorrow via phone, and presumably getting back to me on that). Will begin looking at taking toolkit from activity 2.4 and making it a stand alone resource.// //Apr 8 - Continued on 2.4 review// //Apr 7 - Found some more things to clean up for 4.4 before sending it on for another review. Began work on 2.4 review// //Apr 6 - YAY ! Finished 15/15 of 4.4 review !! HURRAY. Will have another look through tomorrow a.m. before officially announcing this and sending back to JD (or onto JH to colourize). A full, but satisfying day's work - and I'm not TOO cross-eyed.// //Apr 3 - working through 4.4 - up to page 7/15 - slow and steady ... more slow than preferable// //Apr 2 - working through 4.4 - on page 5/15. Team mtg in a.m. Skype call w Judi - re: 4.2 and 4.4 similar scenes - decided to go for the gusto and create smart fade out text function. Have it working for 4.4 scene 5 - need to polish it up, implement it for scene 3 then share with Judi (tomorrow) so she can use it in 4.2. (New learning for the day: You cannot call a setInterval from inside a function that has been called by setTimeout. Need to call a standalone function that will itself make the setInterval call for you.)// //Apr 1 - hmmm ... the possibilities are endless .... but ... no joke, finished revisions of 2.2, and emailed JD re: CLIP 2 ready for final review with extended note about feedback for sc 5 of 2.4 / began work on changes to 4.4 based on JD's 15 pg review. Made it through page 1 today !//
 * May 2009**
 * Apr 2009**

 top //Mar 31 - Jonathan's 18th bday (party planned) - Continuing revisions of 2.2 - added generic audio for 2nd half (repeat of activity) - worked on 2.2 changes// //Mar 30 - finished work on 2.4 as per review 1 on weekend / this a.m. - updated audio for 2.4 (changes in instructions for some scenes / frames - plus better quality sound) - and uploaded to isenegger. / Also, made changes to Show What You Knows - fixed text issues with PC versions / revised revised dates to April 2009 / Made change to 2.1 as requested in CL004 Progress doc / Doing review of all CLIP 2 activities (including 2nd review now of 2.2 ... with ... yay ... more changes to make) - started revisions to 2.2 ..// //Mar 27 - have tutorial portion working without wonkiness - can skip from any section to any other section, things will be there or not be there as required. (One cheat: If you draw additional trend lines or any type of lines then jump to the explore graphing frame, it will only copy over and keep the trendlines that start at y=0. Seeing double otherwise (x wise) and nothing can explain why!). Now ... just a few more rows of the review to polish off ... I hope ....// //Mar 26 - finally figured out some wonkiness (note to self: always INCLUDE the import edu.clips.CLIPSubShape; stmt at the top of each actions layer) - MAJOR ARRGH - prep for MAC2 miniconference// //Mar 25 - working on wonky issues when jumping from one frame of the tutorial to another. Added final part to intro animation (adjusting vertical scale as well as horizontal, so # of tiles at position 10 could be read from graph). Added logic for all tutorial frames to give or not give notices when grid has been changed.// //Mar 24 - solved problem of multiple lines - now selects endpts first, then, nearest line segment. Creates temporary endpoints if actual line goes off grid partially. Fixing wait msgs and appropriate infoTxt (when tutorial section does stuff for you automatically, but not if you do it right yourself).... oops ... strangeness has creeped in with points acting up... AARRRGGGHH// //Mar 23 - return to CLIPS. Working on 2.4 - delving into some functionality quirks - dragging pts and lines, icons disappearing, issues when multiple lines on the grid, inaccessible endpoints if line goes past grid. Solved disappearing icons, and endpoints issues - multiple lines - selecting appropriate one (least distance from hand icon) - almost ...//
 * Mar 2009**

//Mar 14 - 21st - CUBA !!! Ole Amigos !//

//Mar 13 - again with the 2.4 - hoping to complete review ... will report at the end of the day// //Mar 12 - more 2.4 - fixed remaining menu jumping issues, setup levels of questions, including random levels// //Mar 11 - more 2.4 - solved depth swapping issues, got Menu jumping within a scene to work// //Mar 10 - more 2.4 - issues with depth swapping, many cosmetic changes// //Mar 9 - begin work on review of 2.4 - implementing Menu system to jump to Graph Tools Instructions, and Choosing Levels of patterns for graphing question// //Mar 6 - added audio to activity 4.4 - debated with Ross and Judi re: adding features to scenes 4 and 5 to make it quicker (multiple select and drag / copy pos'n n to pos'n n+1 btn) - but - came to consensus that perhaps those tools, while making a reviewers life easier, may actually detract from the learning / student experience. / sent to Judy to review// //Mar 5 - OMCA mtg in Newmarket (doc appt) (pressure from my bd re: next year - what's up? redundancy list posting on Mar 31st) -// //Mar 4 - administrivia / OMO2010 mtg / MAC2 mtg / emailed Judy re: ready for review of activities 4.2 and r4.3// //Mar 3 - FINISHED activity 4.4 (without the audio though)// //Mar 2 - working on 4.4 / Agnes aid//

 top //Feb 27- Waterloo Catholic DSB PA day - workshop with Agnes - CLIPS + SMARTbds - succesful !// //Feb 26 - travelling to Brantford to meet with Agnes / prep for Waterloo PA day / purchased 2nd monitor for Agnes / got testbed setup, FTP, Firefox, gave arguments for use with BHNCDSB IT dept// //Feb 25 - working from home (yay!)// //Feb 24 - at SMCDSB bd office all day - SMCDSB Numeracy Steering Ctee mtg - 9 to 3// //Feb 23 - shows for C03 and C04 (C03 needs CLIPSpod and DownloadFile added / C04 seems OK - example.pdf removed due to unbuttony buttons) / Activity 4.4 (what else) - review of what's missing - adding wait msg functionality - partially done// //Feb 20 - 4.4 - sc 10 - guts / logic working - onto sc 11 (final one ) ... then .. back to do more than guts / pruned progress log// //Feb 19 - 4.4 - sc 9 / 10// //Feb 18 - 4.4 - sc 8 / Show What You Know for C01 and C02// //Feb 17 - SMARTbd workshop @ St. Th Aq (intro workshop for teachers not part of GAINS pilot)// //Feb 16 - Family Day// //Feb 13 - Act 4.4 - sc 6 - working now with random Try Another generating multiple patterns / sc 6 guts done (needs wait msg) / weekend: sc 7 & sc 8 guts done (need detailed feedback and wait msg) - try another auto-generates properly// //Feb 12 - Act 4.4 - finish sc 5 guts / working on sc 6// //Feb 11 - Act 4.4 - sc 5 work// //Feb 10 - Act 4.4 - sc 4 practically done (Rearrange algorithm completed) / CL004 Progress Log created by Ross and team// //Feb 9 - Act 4.4 - continued work with sc 4 / helped Rod Y understand our .txt file for the video player// //Feb 6 - OMCA mtg / OAME bd mtg// //Feb 5 - PLMLP with Ross, Jeff Catania and Frank di P - Web 2.0 / Flash Video Player for EDUGAINS work late with Ross// //Feb 4 - act 4.4 - scene 3 - started scene 4 (wanted to get sc 4 done for activity CL004 - 4.4 - done on Feb 4th ... but .. didn't get it finished) :-( / PLMLP prep// //Feb 3 - Working on activity 4.4 - scene 2// //Feb 2 - Finished 4.3 prep and posted to isenegger - sent email to Ross and Judi re: pre-review / online mtg w Jeff & Ross re: Feb 2.0 wshop// top Jan 30 - CLIPS workshop for SimcoeCounty DSB PA day / early a.m. - working on 4.3 prep Jan 29 - goal: finish anything not done on Jan 28 / MAC2 mtg / OMO planning mtg Jan 28 - goal: finish 4.2 with sound / prep 4.3 for review / receive 4.4 from Dave W Jan 27 - finished 4.2 (without sound). / email tag with Jeff Cole (SMCDSB researcher) re: survey for beginning of Sem 2 - SMARTbd project students. / OMO / OAME stuff Jan 26 - worked on 4.2 - scene 4 (check btn with copious animations and special effects) / hosted Ross for a stopover dinner to break up his drive. Jan 23 - SMCDSB bd office all day - programme services mtg in a.m. / board math ctee in the pm Jan 22 - stress test (not stressful at all to be waiting for one of those) Jan 21 - Finished off CL004_C04_A01 review changes (with Agnes work), sent off to Judy D. Now working on finishing of CL004 4.2 / talked to Greg R re: May/June Jan 20 - early a.m. appts with kids in town - be back home by 11 or earlier hopefully / worked on CL004_C04_A01 / telemtg w Ross, Judi, Kaye / phoned Myrna re: GregR work Jan 19 - finished review of CL004_C02_A02 and posted on isenegger - question for Judy + reviewers: For repeat - do we need sound at all? If so, I will need to re-record for generic messages and not pattern specific references (to shapes, not circles for example) - PLUS - this will make the size of the SWF almost 2x the current size. Is it worth it?
 * Feb 2009**
 * Jan 2009**

Jan 16 - Adobe Connect Users group mtg - 1pm Feb 2.0 mtg 2:30pm / continued work on 2.2 --> finished review for first part -> working on "repeat" - currently working on getting "relative" position 0 shapes to be acceptable (if same configuration, but not necessrily in the exact same spots) Jan 15 - Sent FTP info to Jaime and gave deadline of Tuesday / Emailed Dave W, gave deadline of Monday and upto 12h (has worked 3h so far) / Talked to Greg R - he's documenting all his work, details of work he's doing, techniques he's using plus hours on his new blog http://gregandclips.wordpress.com/ / Working through review of 2.2 - changes up to scene 5 made. Jan 14 - GAINS mtg in T.O. Jan 13 - YAY - finished the final tweaks on Expl Diff Reps - Added audio to Help pod, tweaked help pod to reflect changes in original tool (multi poofs, direction vectors), and fix some functionality (only do opening animation once, and hide menu and animation objects upon click no matter how quick - stop audio / animation when close pod). Had to redefine Close_mc.onPress event to stopAllSounds; Should remember that for future podwork. Took a LONG time to uberComment this FLA so it will be modifiable by others in the future, or useful as a reference document on "how to " ... whatever. Had a second look at MemoryMatchGame for LGP - successfully (I think) centred the patterns on the revolving cards. Emailed the LGP team + CLIPPers re: "final" version of ExplDiffReps (though I know that's just asking for trouble calling anything "final" .... ) Made contact with Jaime Edwards - giving one more chance. Jan 12 - finished overlapping logic for Expl Diff Reps, and added that as a feature in setup. Got multiple shape types to work as well. Jan 9 - doc appt for Jonathan - worked on overlapping logic - to prevent overlaps from happening - added multi-poofs when removing shapes Jan 8 - Expl Diff Reps - changed adding shapes logic so it is intuitive, and behaves itself. no longer wonky. Worked on setup menu to allow for control Jan 7 - Expl Diff Reps - screen aesthetic tweaking - added green/orange colours as options - added black overtext for light colours picked (yellow and cyan) - worked on adding shapes logic (currently - after adding a shape, rule seemed to do strange things - wonkiness) - added checkboxes to hide/show different rep'ns. Added direction vectors to show growingness of growing shapes (Ross' idea) Jan 6 - Epiphany (for us all?) / Reviewed accounting printouts and updated Budget - sent to Pia (@ SMCDSB) and Kaye / Arranged for Heather co-op / Redid sound files for CL004_C02_A01 and re-imported / uploaded finished version of 4-2-1 to isenegger / started CL004_C02_A02 review, then put on hold temporarily / phoned Ruth to get priorities for OMCA retreat: Robot Transformers / Memory Match game / Overview (Ross) / Exploring Diff Reps --> started incorporating Ross & Judi suggestions into ExplDiffReps and polishing Jan 5 - Finished CL004 LGP Memory Match Game (2 card sets - Simple/Composite LGPs) - playable - so it can be used at OMCA retreat - loaded in isenegger - games icon and link in SWF links section as well. Can be referenced in Show Mes (as per Bill Lundy's design). / Budgeting for SMCDSB GAINS project / Look at what needs to get done / reviews from J left to do for Clip 2 & Clip 4.

Jan 1st - HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!  top Dec 20 - Jan 4th - various FlashFesty type things .... Dec 19 - doc appt @ 10am - FINISHED the Fraction Strips tool - Skype-sent it to Ross/Judi - emailed to DZ - added to Fractioneers website (will email to JD and MI) Dec 18 - Fraction Strips tool - still working on it ... Dec 17 - team mtg - continued work on Fr Strips tool (core of Fraction Strips Add/Subtract multi tool used in activities) Dec 16 - working on Fraction Strips tool Dec 15 - looked over ThreeFractioneers DONE sections - (C02 - Adding Fractions / C03 - Subtracting Fractions) + tools descriptions - to get overview of what will be needed - started work on Fraction Strips tool, and planning for Number Line tool - to be tools available from Tools area for use in many activities Dec 12 - outline details of work done/work needed on C04 activities for FlashFest - finished all interactions - what is left is mainly feedback, wait msgs, simple animations and tidying up some screen layout Dec 11 - was pumped about AC mtg with JeffC, Frank diP, - met wtih Ross re: Feb 2.0 / added interactions and tweaked graphbds /patterns for C04-A2/3/4 - 3 activities should be FlashFest ready for teams of 2 - details about what to do, plus how-to on wiki to be added tomorrow Dec 10 - teleconference with Myrna re: coaching updates / team mtg after / adding graphbds and ubPatterns to C04-A2/A3/A4 - prepping for interactions Dec 9 - finished CL004-C04-A01 (except scene 1 clipart intro) Dec 8 - worked on CL004-C04-A01 (Whoops! Damage Repair) - decided to leave scene 1 (clipart manip / intro) for FlashFest Dec 5 - plan to finish off Help for ExpDiffReps tool so that it is done and ready for fieldtesting by Judy D's keen friends / plan to get bouncing setInterval under control. Would LOVE to go back to 4 activities and add in graph boards and patterns objects, but may not get that far today. We'll see ... Oh .. and I did the Progress Log for the week today. (Must remember to do this more regularly) Dec 4 - added fadeout of all but related tiles when drag and dropping (Ross' suggestion) - working on Help POD - GREAT Pod Ross ! Will be working on bounce routine for Judi Dec 3 - finished (mostly) actual interactions of ExpDiffReps tool Dec 2 - created Games / Resources FLAs for CL004 - started work on Exploring Different Representations tool (need this for at least one of the scenes in CLIP 4) Dec 1 - mock up shell for CL004-C04 activities (1-4) - adding text pieces from Storyboard to ActivityTemplates
 * Dec 2008**

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 * Nov 2008**

Nov 28 Web 2.0 workshop in YCDSB - great keynote by Myrna (cool coaching news!) - Gizmos for math teachers licensed - it's true ! (workshop went well - thanks for asking) - Ross - you should have 28 new followers to your blog .. but no pressure. BTW - They LOVED CLIPS when I detoured and showed them that - and they LOVED being able to download individual pieces of it (and .. they loved the uberCalculator AND the number chart too ! ... but .. I did get a "wouldn't it be nice if ...." ... if the tables could include negative numbers as well ... .. it just never ends !). / CREATED a working RSS feed for the OAME website (static file at the moment - and no link on the website itself .. you have to GUESS the filename to subscribe ! Ha ! .. will be working to automate the feed this weekend) / Worked tonight to update the Games and Tools pods to include the DownloadFile function (to enable downloading of memory match game and number chart - and potentially anything else we need. Added Number Chart to Tools pod - as well as link to National Library of Virtual Manipulatives. Nov 27 - HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROSS !! / almost (just this close - missed it by this much - Maxwell Smart close) finished CL4-C2-A4 - got randon LGPs working - just need one final tweak, then this will be ready for the JD review / Worked on WShop prep ... mid-afternoon to .. later ... Nov 26 - worked on CL4-C2-A4 (Practice Graphing) - finishing off Qu 1 - 2nd part - add wait msg - prep to copy and replicate with random LGP Nov 25 - finished CL4-C2-A2- sent to Judy D for review / prepped (part 1) for Nov 28 Web2.0 workshop in YCDSB Nov 24 - worked on adding Scene 8+ for CL4-C2-A2 (repeat action with randomly generated LGP) - almost ready ... Nov 21 - Verified ActivityTemplate on isenegger has dynamic text / uploaded ShowMes for CL002 - C03/04/05/07 with dynamic text +C07Show with MemoryMatch game suggestion / uploaded FLAs for CL002 to isenegger CL002 source/ (also stashed a PILE of FLAs from current testbed into an Archive folder .. it now takes LESS than 3 minutes now to scroll through the current testbed directory looking for a file) / Finish CL4-C2-A2, prepping to send to JD (not ready yet - draft voice recorded, not input - few more wait msgs to add - one issue to resolve -qu: to add Scene 8+ (repeat of activity w/ random pattern for more action) or not ?? / Prep for YorkCatholic PD day next wk - sent description to Connie of wshop based on slimmed down MathCAMPPP desc. / 1pm Adobe Connect Users group mtg / 3pm Adobe Connect mtg with JeffCatania, Ross, Frank diP re: Feb2.0 Nov 20 - Finished (finally) - AND commented - CLIPSubShapeMoving.as file - sent Judi scene 1 working -and team sample file with some bouncing examples. / Updated Numbers Chart V2 version includes improvements suggested by team. Nov 19 - Team mtg - work on CLIPSubShapeMoving .. need to standardize / complete work begun on this class so it is useable by Judi H for her activity scene 1 Nov 18 - SMARTboard project - group mtg # 2 with Richard - focus: Dynamic Interactions and Investigations (questioning / to evoke and expose thinking ) Nov 17 - SMCDSB Chairperson conference - away all day Nov 14 - final tweaks to Memory game -sent off to team for review / sent details and files to Jaime Edwards re: review FLA work / continued work on CL4-C2-A2 - up to scene 5 Nov 13 - worked on CL002 Memory Match game - added user options - # of players - use timer for score - adjust hang time - changed third card game into two games to make options more straightforward - adjusted new fourth game so graphs don't overlap and leave some cards stranded Nov 12 - early a.m. appt / MAC2 mtg after school / SMART webinar @ 4pm - CLIPS work - continued work on CL4-C2-A2 - halfway through storyboard Nov 11 - continued work on CL4-C2-A2 - sc 2 & 3 all done done - sc 4 fr 1done Steady, but slower than anticipated progress. Nov 10 - team tele-mtg - full speed ahead with LGP activities - emailed Jaime re: post-review work / will ask Myrna & DZ re: Fractions Calculator development - useful? / started work on CL004_C02_A02 - PositionZero activity - recording progress / time on task in separate log. Have all scenes text, patterns and graphbds in place. Scene 1 interactions almost all done - final IF stmt for CheckBtn needed. Nighty night. Nov 7 - OMCA mtg Nov 6 - GAINS mtg / CLIPS team F2F mtg after PLMLP (4ish at Ross' hotel) Nov 5 - CLIPS work (MemoryMatch - changed from bitmaps to graphboard graphs for CardSet 2, planned but not implemented CardSet3) / TeacherNotes prep / Feedback to Trish re: wrapper movie / contact Myrna re: TNotes / prep Wrapper for Ross / (no time to do CL001 v2 for 5.3 and 4.4) Nov 4 - 7.3 done / helped Judi setInterval issue / talked to Judy re: Teacher Notes / Memory Match game - prepped 2 card sets, got feedback from Judi / Added Sine Skills Games and Memory Match to C03 ShowMe Nov 3 - Team Skype meeting / phone call from Trish re: wrapper video / fixed final things for CL002 activities - will pick up 7.3 tomorrow (demoed draft of Memory Match Game) - solved issue of soundfinishedDoFunction (will add to wiki details tomorrow) / added functions in activities01.as file ( disablepause / hidecontinue - with parameters + added parameters to soundonlypause function ).  top Oct 31 - Boo! All CLIPS all the time ! Continued to work through Ross' Google doc of things to fix - up to 5.3 and still working on it (finished 3.3, 3.4, 3.6, 5.1, 5.2) Oct 30 - OMO mtg at OELC / CLIPS work / Dr. appt / CLIPS work - CL02C03A03 / CLIPSinfo.txt updates Oct 29 - OAME issue / Fixed pingless problem in SketchingSine activity / Continue work on PracticeGraphing scene -qu 1a) - feedback interactions: highlighting position, showing icons as they move from toolkit to graphboard, and visible while stretching axis, setting correct axes after 3 tries, showing flashing point, and setting point after 3 tries. (slow and steady ....) Oct 28 - 9am appt in Orillia / converted all of Rocket Rules to be consistent (Arial 14) with other CLIPS activities font-wise / finished adding sound to Rocket Rules - works with and without narration (draft sounds are very drafty - need some Daniel retakes done before releasing on an unsuspecting world) / David Zimmer announced DONE storyboards for most of CL003_C02 and some of CL003_C03 - brief look through them. Concentration Game included (any takers?) Need to tweak the fractionstrips and numberline ubertools to facilitate quicker coding. Looks doable! Oct 27 - Responded to Judi's comments & fixed / finalized audio for CL002_C03_A04 (sketching sine curve) / emailed Nicolette re: missing 2 files (will do them myself by week's end if no response) / conversed with Judi re: standardizing fonts in CL004_C02 (will do) - working on more consistent version of Rocket Rules (font-wise and waiting for input msg wise), hope to have that done and uploaded before leaving for bd / 1pm mtgs at Bd Office - (1) HP laptop pilot project (connect to GAINS project??) & (2) SMCDSB Math Steering committee Oct 24 - CL002_C06_A3 (Quiz-Connections) - sound added and uploaded to isenegger / Suggestions on Use for the Key Properities of the Sine Function cards added to the PDF / Added Key Properties Cards as an additional Show suggestion in CL002_C03 / Fixed colour issue with CL002_C05_A03 that Judi spotted (eagle eyes) / (reposted CL2C3A6 quiz this time without the scene controls ... doh !) / Offered to do CL2_C3_A4 with sound .... starting on that now ... Oct 23 - CL002_C05_A2 - sound added and uploaded to isenegger / Adobe Connected with Ross - checked out NearNorth mtg room for Math Leads (very nice) - discovered ins and outs of Q&A chat pod (learned to simulate Participant view as Host -thanks Ross) / Talked with Judi re: text pickers for SineSweeper / CL002_C03_A06 (Quiz) - sound added and uploaded to isenegger / Found CL002_C03_A04 (in isenegger FTP area - /flashfest/Kempenfelt2008/SoundJPC / ) for Judi (JPC started it but didn't finish it off) Oct 22 - Create cards from Key Properties (could be used for review) / CL002_C05_A03 - double checked and fixed sound where needed - added PING sounds for correct answers / re-uploaded previously "done" activiites CL2C5A3 & CL2C3A3 / widened RESET text on graphing calculator and re-uploaded to isenegger and OAME sites / noticed that b167 doesn't resolve all sound issues with welcome/bkgd sounds (quick click to bypass Splash screen and slow download from website results in bkgd sound playing where it oughtn't) / will begin looking at CL002_C05_A02 to add sound and finish off JPC work Oct 21 - sent UberTools to Trish for Integers cluster consideration / fixed and polished sound in CL002_C03_A03 Oct 20 - CLIPS team mtg Oct 17 - OMCA mtg (asst Adobe Connector) Oct 16 - GAINS mtg Oct 15 - SMARTbd project launch - Phase II - using IWB Framework - focus Oct 14 - prep for SMARTbd Oct 13 - CL004_C02_A04 scene 3 Oct 10 - Create agenda for SMARTbd workshop (next Wed) and plan with Richard details. / Fix wrapper b166 - breadcrumbs going awry - added sound to Splash page (with mute btn to turn it off) / Fixed most of scene 2 for CL004_C02_A04 (practice graphing)- except for final animated line during resizing scale. Oct 9 - Plan SMARTbd project workshop # 1 with Richard (travel to Peterborough to consult with Cathy Bruce) Oct 8 - Received JudyD's review of CL004_C02_A03. Daniel has recorded initial sound file (GarageBand) for CL004)C02)A01. NEW CALCULATOR ready - changed name to calculator.swf - updated isenegger and OAME versions of calculator, as well as calculator.html file. Will now incorporate useNarration flag into ActivityTemplate with if / else structure for sound examples and repost new version of Activity Template. Oct 7 - Funeral @ 11 / Soccer game @ 3:30 - in between, worked on melding Maurizio and GregR's work in new Activity Template - strange things still with graphing board - partially resolved. / Skype mtg with Ross and Judi: suggestions for final tweaks to minicalc to be done before Ross adds it to the calculator wiki he's been updating: change to double mathcot icon - and make that a direct link to CLIPS when calculator is run in standalone mode (does nothing when inside wrapper). Close button removed in standalone mode (to avoid disappearing never to come back calcs). Info screen standardized, with info and link to CLIPS as well as references to sources and links to sites. "Download Calculator SWF" now an additional option in menu. Started this ... will finish and publish tomorrow. Oct 6 - Finished CL004_C02_A03 - Check Your Understanding - emailed to Judy D for review. Found TWO anomalies with Graphing Board object: (1) if a scene has an onUnLoad method defined, the NEXT scene, if it has a graphing board defined in frame 1, will show with a dark gray rectangle over the grid (Judi identified it as the mask, and discovered the work around is to define the graphing board on frame 2 - then things settle down and work as they should). (2) When multiple graphing boards are defined in the same scene .. the variables (boardA, boardB, boardC) in fact REALLY only point to the most recent one defined. HOWEVER ... if you define each Graphing Board and attach it to a separate movie clip, you can refer to the objects via their parent movieclips. To see what I mean - check out the code and trace at the end of CL004_C02_A03 - Scene 10 - actions layer - frame 3 (Now uploaded in CL004 Source). / Uploaded version B163 - fixed (I think) breadcrumb issue with (a) overlapping cluster/clip titles and (b) disappearing crumbs. Haven't been able to replicate disappearance anymore - need more testing ??. / ALSO .. added if stmt to miniCalc code - now - will only show the Close Btns if INSIDE the wrapper - otherwise - no close btns (grab plate instead to fill out title bar room. If this isn't visually appealing, I could move the info button over). Note: May need to clear cache to see latest minicalc swf.
 * Oct 2008**

Oct 3 - OAME bd mtg and subcommittee mtgs during the day Oct 2 - embedded prototype for CL003 subtracting fractions in 3 Fractioneers wiki page / work on CL004_C02_A03 - complete own review, incorporating many suggestions from C02_A01 - ready to begin to implement these changes (consistency of font, wait msg, correct ding sound, etc..) / created SoundScript for C02_A01 - ready for recording (Daniel) / prep for MAC2 miniconference Oct 1 - received Judy D's final review of Rocket Rules - just a few things to tidy up, then done. WAIT .. after conference with Judi & Ross - decision to add sound NOW to activities (while still fresh in our minds) - temporay sound at least, to be replaced by studio quality after Judi has constructed our portable sound booths. Working on prototype for Fractions - Subtracting Mixed Numbers to share with DZ and gang ... concerns re: screen size and storyboard template in Word file much larger than actual screen real estate.  top Sept 30 - finished Rocket Rules review work. Discovered problem with CLIPSubPattern .. arrays in classes not self-contained - shared, unless new Array stmt in constructor (Ross solved this issue for me) - will send out new .as file tomorrow Sept 29 - overweekend - fixed problems with CL004-C02-A03 - now need to finish it (fold in Maurizio's scene). Worked on implementing review suggestions for CL004_C02_A01 (Rocket Rules) Sept 26 - Faith Day for SMCDSB / Mtg w Greg R @ GCollege - re: CL004_C02_A03 - spinning wheels and wonky graphing lines Sept 25 - York U @ GCollege in a.m. / mtg w Trish S @ SCDSB in pm Sept 24 - prep for York U presentation / created Teacher Notes icon in side panel - updated wrapper to look for PreferredCalc in activity (which will override default cluster calc setting) Sept 23 - back to CL004 - half way through Judy's review by end of day Sept 22 - finished (?) graph calc and CLIPS uber calc ready for posting to OAME and isenegger.ca sites (done) - updated calculator.html page - emailed Myrna question re: graph calc in degrees mode. Updated Activitye Template and created instructions for converting existing activity to include new CLIPS uber calc (esp for CL002 - set PreferredCalc = "sci") Sept 19 - Adobe Connect user group online mtg - 1pm EST / work (sounding board for) with Ross on resizeable index pages for calculator and wrapper / graph calc conversion work (units / pi / degrees) Sept 18 - Update OAME CLIPS with new CLIPS uber Calc - and modified calculator.html page to allow minicalc to fill window. Updated wrapper version to B158 on OAME, and uploaded FLA and .AS file on isenegger. Prep for mtg w Greg Rodrigo @ GCollege - re: LGP activity from summer + OAME work Sept 17 - "finished" draft of newly dubbed CLIPSuberCalc .... with 4 calcs in one - basic (AKA mini ) scientific, graphing, conversion. Reviewed with Judi and Ross - cleaned up some appearance issues, text - added new Ross' shower idea - "Open in New Browser Window"- to http://oame.on.ca/CLIPS/calculator.html?mode=graphing (or one of the others). Tried to be helpful with Ross as he solved the problem that crept into wrapper B156/157 where activity/feedback overlappage ugliness occurred. He solved it ... I nodded. Sept 16 - continuing graph calc functionality - worked on mouse mode functions. David Zimmer skyped: checkout Fractioneers wiki for new info - looking for feedback re: tools Sept 15 - updated wrapper to B157 to incorporate new minicalc (dual function now requires wider space - need to move calc_pod to left). Work on graphing calc - with Ross to update pickers for design and functionality. Text picker for title bar for switching calc views, colour and shape picker (designed line picker) Sept 12 - started work on adding graphing calculator to minicalc. Updated activity template and posted to FTP. (When minicalc is finalized, will update activity template again). Tried to simulate Judi's wonky arrowheads .. no luck. Need FLA to investigate further. (check .as version) Sept 11 - activity template - minicalculator work on scientific calculator version - it's going to work. Request from Judi - lines with backwards arrows. Sept 10 - Ross straightened me out - re - correct version of miniclips01.as - re-uploaded files from yesterday. Checked and cleaned up and uploaded sound version of CL002_C05_A03. Updating Activity Template. Firefox plug-ins to trace Flash output in browser. Checked CLIPS feedback - request for Scientific Calculator - investigating using the Ultimate Gustavo and customizing for CLIPS wrapper. Sept 9 - finished and uploaded CL004_C02_A01 - ready for Judy D review (this weekend) / Also checked and tweaked and uploaded sound version of CL002_C03_A03 Sept 8 - cleaning up CL004_C02 activities .. discovered setTimeout events that crossed scene boundaries (and messed things up) when using miniwrapper scene controls. YIKES. Skyped with Ross to brainstorm solution. Possible to setup timeOut function calls with parameters, then check calling scene to actual scene. Better solution - create an unLoad function to go in frame 1 of globals layer of every scene to tidyUp before moving to new scene (or hitting replay which is now functionally equivalent to that). Sept 5 - OMCA mtg - didn't go. Worked on efficient ways to create code for wait times ... after x seconds, display feedback msg etc.. Results of investigation in Waiting for Code - Oh page. Begin to clean up CL004_C02_A01 & _A03. (Will start work on Sound Check for CL002_C03_A03 and _C05_A03 another day) Sept 4 - posted CL004_C02_A01 on isenegger website / modified CLIPSinfo.txt file to include links for all LGP activities (team just needs to create folders and add SWFs for appropriate activities as they get finished). Also completed first sweep (edit notes) for CL004_C02_A03 in preparation for fine-tuning and uploaded current version to isenegger (will replace with edited version tomorrow when done). MAC2 mtg in Barrie / errands in town (printer ink / paper / etc..) Sept 3 - finished first edits of CL004_C02_A01 - Rocket Rules. Still needs some if stmt fine tuning, as well as fine tuning of "enter a number" message that appears when nothing has been typed in the entry box after a while Sept 2 - team mtg, home networking attempt # 1 (failure) , LGP Clip 2 - A01 - first edit
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 * Summer 2008**

July 1 - HAPPY CANADA DAY !! June 30 PatternCreatorConfigurator (slightly revised name) - incorporated Ross' ubFramedText class. Created CLIPSubPattern class (.as file), and have code box generating code from Configurator to create patterns from class. Need some more checking and tweaking. Select / Alpha options in new tab - QMark not implemented yet (use new ubFramed Text object perhaps ?) June 29 PatternCreatorConfigurer - converted shapes in patterns from library objects to CLIPSubShapes - added bkgd of activity template and resizer box to allow for sizing. Next steps: need to position pattern in activity template (drag pt enabled) / create class for pattern itself / create code / highlight / alpha / select / qu mark options / incorporate position numbers in iteration objects June 28 PatternCreatorConfigurer - added code for spacing and position number label (1 line or 2 or none) June 27 Successfully got 3 term checker routine to generate code for ub_Pattern --> creating PatternCreatorConfigurer --> will take Ross' tool as input, duplicate pattern in Greg tool with tabs to customize, will (eventually) output Code that can be used directly in ActionScript layer. June 26 Team mtg / prep TestBed.zip and posted on isenegger FTP site / work on 3 term checker ... June 25 Mtg in T.O. with Kevin Maguire (OAME website) / working offsite (cellphone on) -PLAN: incorporate pts and lines from storyboard grid code - reset button functionality - 3 term checker : check for Ross pattern exception / check for pos 0,1,2 / turn into class with function calls June 24 Finished two term checker - worked on - finished v1 of 3 term checker (assumes pos'n 1,2,3) June 23 Two term checker June 20 Fixed points irregularity / pencil tool issues / vertical lines (check for div by 0) / local networking June 19 Working on solving points irregularity issue in Toolkit before incorporating pre-placed lines and points from Judi's Storyboard tool. All hail Ross, this week's MIF ! June 18 Modified graphing board .AS file to handle dashed line segment graphs (not just straight lines). / Went to board office - met with Richard, then Brian B and Perry C - planning for SMCDSB GAINS 08/09 - emailed (late) results to Myrna / Kaye June 17 Converted library Shapes / Lines to Classes Shapes & Lines - perfected arrows (added more shapes) - began tracking down points irregularity (after poofing) June 16 Work with Ross & Judi - understanding classes - incorporating classes into ubLines - got arrowheads to work on line extensions / Pencil tab done June 13 Pencil tool setup tab work begun / Join Pts done June 12 start with "hover" effect, then onto JoinPts tool. June 11 mind-bending teleconference - Ross & Judi classes in Flash investigation - successful conversion of CLIPSubLine ! / continued work with Toolkit Setup - first two tabs now functional (Show/Active / Point/Hand tool parameters) - changes made are reflected on Toolkit and Graphboard - including changing colour of points. Still need to create "hover" effect to determine which point / line will be selected if mouse were to be pressed. Also - Question: Will the point tool ever need to CYCLE through a NUMBER of colours - OR - will it always be a single colour for users to use. OR .. should there be a colour picker right on the Toolkit ? (come back to this question later, after other tabs are enabled) June 10 team teleconference - Graphing Toolkit - continuing Setup tool - working with Judi to avoid overlap and ensure compatibility with her StoryBoard Graph ubertool - completed Setup tool tabs - now just need to make them functional June 9 GraphingToolkit - creating Setup tool for e-developers June 6 OMCA mtg / OAME bd mtg 6th pm + 7th am/pm June 5 GAINS mtg June 4 Alastair PD on video in Peterborough (carpool with Trish and Nicolette) June 3 Team mtg at Mariposa Inn June 2 Team mtg at Mariposa Inn
 * June 2008**

 top May 30 - last day at home for a while - looking fwd to feedback from team on toolkit - prep for Monday's mtg - expenses - forms - paperwork (UGGH) May 29 Graphing Toolkit - got pencil lines to resize (mostly) and y-axis to scale. Send latest version to team. Meeting with Greg Rodrigo in Barrie May 28 Graphing Toolkit - help from Judi re: graphing bd features / tweaks - got rescaling x axis to work. Got points to move properly when resized (mostly) May 27 Graphing Toolkit - worked on refinements from Judy D - points only snapping when close to lattice point, otherwise freeform. Hand tool to move endpoints of pencil line, started on rescaling x axis, redid lines on/off icon May 26 CL004 UberTools - fine tuned functionality for point, hand, pencil, line tools. Refined ub_LineDashed tool to created dashed line segments on any angle for joining points and freehand pencil lines. Emailed mini testbed of CL004 UberTools to team. Worked with Judy D re: ub_Pattern - how to create a pattern using Setup tabs (iteration = position). Note terminology between development terms and final version may change - Judy to make notes of what terms make sense to her and Ruth - will discuss on June 2/3. Ross chat re: wrapper changes. May 23 Some CL004 Ubertool work May 22 SMARTbd workshop - Sci teachers @ PF May 21 SMARTbd workshop - Math teachers @ PF / shared CL004_UberTools with team (graph toolkit still in dev.) May 20 Work on CL004_UberTools - ub_Shape, ub_Pattern, and beginning of ub_GraphingToolkitSimple May 19 - HAPPY VICTORIA DAY ! May 16 OAME website troubleshooting / CL004 uberwork / sent out notices about Mariposa Inn (really June 2nd/3rd - not 1&2 as initially emailed -oops) - booked room for Myrna May 15 MAC2 mtg & AGM - SMARTbd demo (prep in the a.m.) - meeting with Richard G re: GAINS 2008/09 / booked Mariposa Inn for first Mon/Tue of June May 14 Emails ready to send to OAME participants ... but OAME login pages not working (tech support email/phone calls) / Team mtgs / Myrna / Kempenfelt plans / Planning CL004 Ubertools - have ub_Shape and prototype of ub_Pattern working. / Discussion w Judy re: Graphing Tools May 13 Plan to email OAME workshop participants (GSP and Flash workshops) with links to files ... and wiki pages for further dialogue (Ross helped with pages) / Finalize switch to CLIPS 1.0 today (while at PF and have access to high speed in the afternoon) - DONE May 12 OAME website - get FLVs to show up / MIME types / webmail functions May 5-9 OAME week - planning / doing / recovering from OAME workshops May 2 GAINS mtg - the sequel May 1 GAINS mtg
 * May 2008**

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__**April 2008**__
Apr 30 Question to MI/DZ: Should CL005 be visible? CL003 under dev. but CL005 not yet. Mtg w Richard G re: GAINS. Kiwanis duet w J. Apr 29 Added CL003 info into wrapper - got Critical Learning from DZ. Coordinated last activities to fix for CL001 (Thank you Ross and Judi). Added graphic for CL003 and updated movie for CL004. Apr 28 Updated "oranged" activities - Updated WhoCares movies with rollover effects on all buttons Apr 25 PA Day - SMARTbd workshop - Holy Trinity, Bradford Apr 24 Reviewing CL001 - shared google spreadsheet with team - Judi did an orange review. Helped Judy get CL004 info into new wrapper Apr 23 Team mtg -afternoon Apr 22 - SMARTbd workshop - St. Joan of Arc, Barrie Apr 21 - Checking CL001 transfer to new wrapper - meeting Nicolette at SCDSB bd office - see google doc for progress (almost done) Apr 19 - uploaded CL001-C02-A05 - suggested change to activity_start FLA to enable ActivityList btn Apr 18 - Discovered missing audio due to mp3 linkage in original activities - do not copy automatically when copying Scene_x object from one library to another - need to be dragged and dropped specifically. Nicolette checking on that. (Also solves some pause issues). Greg to check out C01-A03 for pause/play discrepancy. Need to find most recent FLA for C02-A05 (thanks Ross). Created [|CL002 Activities Checklist] for tracking readiness of Cluster 2 activities with team. Need to work on weekend to fine-tune CL001 files to ensure smooth transfer. v2 wrapper now stable (IMHO). Added ActivityExtension data to CLIPSinfo.txt file - Ross used this customize SWFlist to work with SAVE feature (SWFlist offers an OPEN and SAVE option - or no option if extension set to "none" ) Apr 17 - WhoCares time as fraction - no more Download slideouts - FullScreen button (with rollover text ... do that eventually for all btns) - Created [|CL001 Activities Checklist] for tracking final details for each activity in conversion process with Nicolette - double checking all activities - buttons - sounds. Greg to do conversion for Quiz and Show Mes (done). Some pause/play issues discovered. Missing audio .. resized scenes ... investigating Apr 16 - Added SWFList to Resources window. Working on fixing the jump to scene issue (targets and _parents misaligning ?) AND solving jump to scene strangeness from CL001 activities Apr 15 - v2Wrapper - with Ross' help, got targeting to work (adding ?cluster=2&clip=3 for example will start immediately at Clip: The Sine Function ). Identified an issue with jumping directly to a scene - in some cases variables / objects not properly initialized - investigating! Decided NOT to jump to a frame other than frame 1 to start a scene - possibility for chaos too great ! / Worked with Nicolette to convert quizzes from CL001 Apr 14 - v2Wrapper - Working on WhoCares movie - getting it to start and stop at the appropriate times, changing pause/play buttons appropriately. Started work on jumping using parameters (thanks Ross for javascript) - opens up another WhoCares worm can - jumping to a clip / activity with WhoCares run-on ! Solved eventually. Apr 11 - PA day # 2 for SMCDSB (9 high schools divided into 3 PA days) Apr 10 - visit to Georgian College - to help students with assignment questions on UberTools (and finally get MacBook memory upgrade - at nonApple prices !) Apr 9 - v2 b141 - activity border now coloured - visited activity links now coloured differently (need to change colour) - Ross compiling suggestions on final tweaks needed to v2. Steve emailed asking if help still needed (replied that it'd be nice to use an image instead of as the link in the table - asked him to solve that issue if possible) Apr 8 - v2 b140 - solved some outstanding issues - Judi found a new one (half loaded activity - then switch to Cluster List /Clip List - eek !) - getting close ! Apr 7 - updated CL002-C03-A03 to work with new graphing bd (mcControlPts, no more mcCriticalPts) - v2 wrapper 139 Apr 1, 2 - SMARTbd workshops (SMCDSB) / Apr 3 - couldn't make it to GAINS mtg - prepped for PA day / Apr 4,11,25 - SMCDSB PA days (SMARTbd workshops)

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__March 2008__
Mar 28 / Mar 31 - v2Wrapper work Mar 27 Georgian College Flash class (prep and class) Mar 26 v2Wrapper: sidebar buttons, copyright and feedback working properly, return to proper layout (Splash / ClusterList / ClipList / ActivityList / Activity), revise activity start & end to fix ActivityList button, modify feedback.swf to properly record Cluster / Clip / Scene # (still need Frame #). Interesting bug: Feedback, then Resources/Links button doesn't (from the web) always bring up the list (Text not found) - close and try again - works. Security Settings note added to Feedback and WebLinks page. Cluster List page redesigned - results of clicking (Index / Grade 7 / Fractions / Trigonometry-Grade 11) now showing. Mar 25 Latest version of v2Wrapper available for viewing http://isenegger.ca/tapatoo/v2WrapperDevelopment/ (FLA there too) / Created conversion instructions - how to take CL001 activity FLA and revise them with the ActivityTemplate08-03-05 to function in the new v2 Wrapper --> sent to Nicolette. / Helped Nicolette setup FireFTP, downloaded KPR Source and will be working on converting to v2 standards. / Continuing work on v2Wrapper Mar 20 Nicolette - using wiki guide to sound in Flash, testing out system by adding audio to Fraction CL003 activity started by her and her mom. / Gave feedback to each group of students questions, returned zip file to Rolf (GCollege instructor) for distribution in today's class. Arranged to visit GCollege class again next week - Thu Mar 27th / Reviewing Ste V E's work on v2 Wrapper - v b133 Mar 19 Revised q2 and q3 / C03A05 done - final review by J^2 ? / Nicolette - downloaded and installed Audacity, learning to use it for audio recording. / Received questions from GCollege students re: assignment Mar 18 Finish changes on C03A05 - not sure about q2 and q3 - investigate Ross' version of angle theta between rays Mar 17 Nicolette: review CL002 to make audio recommendations (which activities need them more than others, from a student's perspective) / Implement suggested changes from Ross on C03A05 Mar 6 Meet with GCollege students Mar 5 Prep FLA for GCollege students, tweak UberFlash, (add mathcots) Mar 4 Plan: Finish Quiz (C03A05) and send for review / Also - plan Georgian College asst for Flash students Mar 3 Now working - qu 1-8 of quiz, and 5 moveable pts for qu 9 / implemented ShuffleDistractors in quiz - individual questions can opt in or out of the shuffle (useful when distractors are images and spacing issues occur if randomly shuffled) Mar 1/2 Worked on qu 7 and 8

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__February 2008__
Feb 29 Some C3A5 work (also Collingwood to Burlington commute in really bad weather !) Feb 28 Worked on Quiz C3A5 - 4/10 questions done-ish / fielded emails from Ste V E - helped with wrapper issues Feb 27 SMARTbd wshop at St. Theresa's, Midland (10 tchrs - math & sci depts) Feb 26 C03A05 Quiz work - dissected inner workings of quiz, putting it back together with 10 qu from C03 - went over content with Ross. Shell working. Feb 25 Telemeetings most of the day - Tech Support for OAME website - Mtg w Ste V E and Ross re: v2 Wrapper (solved some issues with SteVE) - mtg w team and Kaye re: wrapper appearance / brainstorming ideas for C03A05 questions. Nicolette working on revising CLIPSinfo.txt file with activity names /paths/types for revised v2 Wrapper Feb 22 "Almost done" version of C05A03 posted on isenegger.ca (here's hoping to get rid of the 'almost' shortly) / emailed Ste V E re: progress / Prep to start C03A05 (no I'm not suffering from dyslexia / dysdigia / dysnumia - it really is Clip 3 Activity 5) / Asked Nicolette to invite leads for various CLIPS in CL002 to share the Google Docs created for their specific activities. Feb 21 SMARTbd wshop at St. Joe's, Barrie (3 math tchrs) / Adobe Connect session with OAME2008 organizers (ConnieQ + Ada) / fine-tuning of C05A03 into the wee hours Feb 20 Mtg w Greg R and Rolf @ GCollege - group of Flash programmers available for project - Greg to meet class and present "assignment CLIPS" Mar 6th -1pm Feb 19 Nicolette - co-op student in the a.m. - reviewed CL002-C01-A01 in [|GoogleDoc] - created Co-opLog wiki to track tasks. Self - working on C03A03, incorporating latest review suggestions. Adobe Connect session with Jaime Edwards this afternoon to help with Flash - Jaime will continue working on gr 7 Fractions CLIPS. Feb 18 Family Day (holiday) Feb 15 SMARTbd wshop at Patrick Fogarty CHS, Orillia (10 teachers - math & sci depts) Feb 12-13-14 GAINS conf / Will's session Feb 11 Drive to TO / GAINS conf practice in aft / meet with R+J^2 in pm / xfer CL002 to OAME website Feb 10 Key Properties - edits from Judy and Ross - ready to go. One issue with double feedback happening when using Keybd shortcuts. Need (after conf?) to resolve issue w Sc 7 - KeyListener issue (have to go back and find out where to shut off previous ones that are hanging around, creating double calls to the JumpDot function) Feb 9 Key Properties - matching scene Feb 8 Key Properties - finish property pages/ conversation with DZ Feb 7 Key Properties / Web 2.0 startup blog teleconference / OAME website issues Feb 6 Key Properties Feb 5 Revised Key Properties sketch intial scenes / team mtg - plan for revisions to C5A3 half-pint escalator, and as many other revisions as possible / email back and forth with SteVE re: v2 wrapper / question re: medial axis name (horizontal axis translated) / made pancakes for family Feb 4 Created storyboard in Flash and first scene (Intro + Function) for Key Properties sketch / Adobe Connect mtg - universal curriculum.com Feb 3 Planned out storyboard for C3A3 Feb 2 Feb 1 Fixed wrapper issues found by Judy D after her all-nighter of Flashing - plus new ones found by Judi in the a.m.

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__January 2008__
Jan 31 Fix various wrapper issues / finalize miniwrapper (issue with Feedback when used from miniwrapper in activities with _parent objects lke graph board / quiz text - deferred fix till after stick-burn) / updated A2 and A3 files and uploaded to isenegger.ca / modified UnderConstruction FLA and uploaded to template - used by Judy D to complete placeholders for those activities Jan 30 Revamped Feedback - back to using SWF - included page on setting Security Settings created by Ross for using CLIPS from local hard drive (to allow Flash9 player to access local files AND internet sites at the same time) - important since Web links will also not function properly when wrapper is stored on a local drive and not from a website/ updated various wrapper items - including revised Clip3 list / prepared miniwrapper FLA and procedure to incorporate into all CL002 activities - testing it out with Judi and Ross tonight - report back in the a.m. on issues / changed 2007 to 2008 in most places found (still need to do activity start/end templates) / Got Under Construction FLA from Judy (great work!), added miniwrapper and tweaked it - ready to deploy once miniwrapper gets team go-ahead in the a.m. / Showed off FireFTP to Ross and Judi (Judy: check it out - a great FTP program that integrates into FireFox - find it by doing a google search) Jan 29 Finished work - Feedback works from CL001 on OAME, CL002 anywhere, and from miniwrapper anywhere / OAME server switch (again!) - 2 hours getting all OAME related sites functioning again, including CLIPS and CLIPS/viewfeedback.php. It's all good now .. (serenity now ..) / working on fixing CL002 wrapper issues: mortar bd working properly now. Synced Clips_02.as with Ross, and other .as files. Jan 28 Worked on feedback from miniwrapper - getting frame and scene #s to show from both mini and big wrappers / OAME uploads of Gr 12 material Sem 2 batch Jan 25 Superfunctions work / Feedback to work from isenegger.ca Jan 24 Aurora - GAINS conf presentation Jan 23 Prep for GAINS conf presentation Jan 22 Solved the mute issue (calling a sound from inside button .onPress event ... needed to add _parent to mySound as well as parameter for mySound(this._parent) ). Updated wrapper based on new .as functions to incorporate _global variables and uploaded version b111 to isenegger.ca Activities can now have pause/play features for animations (see Clip E, Activities 2 and 3 for examples, also uploaded). Emailed new .as files to Ross for placement in appropriate spot on isenegger.ca Jan 21 Fixed miniwrapper issue - pause/play buttons not working - problem was matter of correct level of _parent.age. Fix using Steve's suggestion and Ross' recommendation: change all occurences of globalSoundVolume and globalPause to refer to _global.globalSoundVolume and _global.globalPause in files: activities_01.as, clips_01.as, clips_02.as, miniwrapper_01.as. EMAILED these files to team, did not upload to FTP server BECAUSE ... mute button NOT working - need to investigate further to determine how to fix before making changes permanent. ALSO - added new pause type: animationonlypause for situations when no timeline activity, no sound, but movieclips running an animation that might want to be stoppable / pausable (like a simulation object). Have it working with CL002_C05_A02/A03 objects ... (but this won't be observable on isenegger.ca until new version of wrapper compiled with updated files is posted ... which I will do AFTER solving the mute issue) ... Is that a mute point ? :-) Jan 21 Added loop to v2WrapperDevelopment superfunctions to read # of activities for x of y navigation bar. (created new data file activity_names.txt, and revised clips.html (matrix table) to include more links, including working links for Index, grade and topic names). Returned control to SteVE - uploaded revised FLAs to isenegger website - clips_v2_b117.fla Jan 19 Added Sound example (sound cancelling headphones) to finish off Activity 3 //(only type of transformation not covered by a context example is reflection in horizontal line - possibly could use sound echo example - Amy Lin working on this ?)// - emailed SWF to Ross (FTP not working) Jan 18 Copied PHP and CLIPS mdb to isenegger website so Feedback will work from there (in the CL002 / Feedback folder, Ross) Jan 18 Received email from Ste.V.E. --> needs me to take over wrapper to get "activity x of y" to work with superfunctions Jan 18 Edited and posted latest version of Clip 5 - Activity 3 (all but Sound transformations) Jan 18 received eeePC (YAY!) and started testing. So far ... connects to the Internet wirelessly piece of cake ! Builtin support for Skype (as long as you remember your password), uses FireFox, has Open Office 2.0, runs CLIPS beautifully - just the perfect size screen (and not a pixel to spare ...). I was able to update my daughter's basketball scores, and manage the OAME website. Jan 17 Finished Escalator simulations Jan 16 DIGIT mtg (Richard went) / ordered eeePC / worked on Pendulum simulations Jan 15 - SMARTboard workshop at St. Dominic, Bracebridge Jan 14 - finished Pistons simulation Jan 8 - 11 - continued to work on Activity 5 / also some OAME / MCIS issues ! Jan 7 - Finished adjustments based on feedback from Ross, Judy and Toronto FlashFesters. Most recent SWF posted on isenegger website along with FLA in CL002 Source directory Jan 7 Organized work done during JanFest for CL003 Gr 7 Fractions - creating wiki to record progress (CL003)

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__December 2007__
Dec.->Jan 6 - updated UberFlash library with FractionStrips, FractionVectorNumberLine, ComboMessage objects Dec. Prepped for JanFest Dec. Created simluations / interactions for Activity 3 - escalator, pendulum, skipper, pistons Dec 3 Meet with Ross & Judy re: Activity 2 Dec 2 Sent TrackThis.fla to Ross & Judy - useful technique for simulating draggability in a non-linear fashion

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__November 2007__
Nov 30 - York Catholic PD day - two workshops on IWB and CLIPS (approx 45 secondary teachers introduced to CLIPS -loved it) Nov 29 Activity 2 - added example 4 (no transformation) Nov 28 Activity 2 - met with Ross and Judy to discuss changes Nov 27 Activity 2 - final scene - combo of transformations Nov 26 Activity 2 - example 3 Nov 23 Activity 2 - example 2 Nov 22 [ //DIGIT mtg in Midland postponed (Snow Day !) / OAME gr 12 notice and revised MHF4U unit 2 files posted// ] Nov 21 CLIP5 - Activity 2 - scenes 4 and 5 - finished interaction up to Example # 1 (first change in context), roughed out remaining scenes Nov 20 CLIP5 - Activity 2 - scenes 2 and 3 - built Ferris Wheel object, made graph grab dynamic values and plot from moving seat Nov 19 Fix CL001_ * Quiz on OAME site - fixed image for quiz 1 - got ding when correct to work on all 3 Nov 19 SceneControlsVisible variable added to ActivityTemplate - miniwrapper will respond (not big wrapper yet) Nov 19 Send Irene updated CD of CL001 (and Ross and Judy) Nov 16 Initial storyboard for CLIP 5 activities done, shell (text only) posted as activities on /CL002/ website Nov 16 Fixed text in the GSP template Nov 15 Emailed Newmarket FlashFesters doing gr 7 work (Trish & Nicolette, Stephanie & Sean ) Nov 15 Adjust wrapper to fix various issues with buttons / combo box controls - now on version b109 Nov 15 Create End of CLIP template Nov 15 Add buttons to the GSP Download Activity template page to reflect start/end pages of other activities Nov 15 Create Show Activity .fla template Nov 14 Finalize Activity Template for Grade 11 Clips - done Nov 14 Create Grade 11 Wrapper for pieces to be included - done Nov 14 Create GSP activity template (using CL002_C01_A03_A_SwimmingPool) - done top