Re: arguments for newtext command

["Dr. Theresa Overall" <theresa.overall@xxxxxxxxx>]

I had students who wanted to create their own calculator using  
MicroWorlds. WOW! What an exercise! It was fabulous. Some got into  
the interface of it and enjoyed arranging the digits horizontally or  
with the 0 before the 1 instead of after the 9. Some got into  
display, some the mathematics behind it. I even had one student who  
added a feature that when you hit the division sign, it asked if you  
wanted your answer with a whole number remainder, a fraction, or a  
decimal. And she wrote 3 different programs--1 for each operation.
Have fun!
:>Theresa<:


On Jun 18, 2007, at 4:19 PM, Daniel Ajoy wrote:

> On 18 Jun 2007 at 15:25, Erik Nauman wrote:
>
> > I know this might sound kind of boring but one thing I plan to try  
> > next
> > year with my 6th graders is to use MicroWorlds several times  
> > during the
> > year to emulate normal productivity programs like word and excel  
> > so they
> > understand how they function behind the scenes. We'll emulate SOME
> > features, mind you, not try to create fully functioning programs.
> >
> > Thanks, Erik
> textboxes are flexible. I think you could ask your students to  
> implement
> this functionality:
>
> * word processor: bold, italics buttons, font size change, font  
> face change
> * word processor: search and replace
> * word processor: simple mail merge
> * chat: MW can read and write to a text file in a shared folder.
> * bar chart plotter
> * pie chart plotter
>
> Daniel
> OpenWorld Learning
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