Macintosh Classic at hamvention

[TheIanMan85]

In Primary School there was a traffic light on the wall of the cafeteria. If we started to get loud it would go to yellow...really loud and well I think you can guess. Clowns rode out on unicycles and shot us with paintball guns. OK it just turned red. The clown thing sounded way more interesting.

Not sure if it was some noise sensor, or just someone with a remote or button of some sort, but I still think it was a good idea. Unicycle clown paintball patrol is better idea though. }

I collect Macs and old telephones and related equipment. Also in college I used to collect parking tickets due to a total disregard for campus parking policies. :lol:

 

[Scott Baret]

Actually, noise is exactly what I plan to use mine for!

I found a remote control traffic light kit and may eventually buy one for this particular signal. There's an old light that flashes in the youth center where I run Macs4Kids each month so I may ask to look at that one for the purposes of wiring and mounting. If something goes wrong, no need to fear--I bought two signals so I would have a spare/backup. Hopefully I don't need to use that; would make a mighty fine rec room decoration.

My proposal for the light:

Green: The students may talk, work cooperatively, etc.

Yellow: It's time to wrap up. Time to stop talking and get quiet for the red light.

Red: All talking must stop. All eyes must be on me, directions will be given.

I plan on using this for a number of things--morning arrival, indoor recess, centers, cooperative learning experiences during lessons, etc.

If I really wanted to get creative for centers, I could get one of those green arrow segments and put it on my signal for center rotation!

 

[techknight]

You know, thats actually a neat idea. Never thought of that, but of course I am not an educator either.

 

[tecneeq]

You use red (wich is usually means negative, no, stop) to enforce something that you want the kids to view as positive, yes, go. Sounds wrong to me.

I would connect it to a microphone and let it go red when the microphone picks up a lot of noise and green when there is no noise. If the lights are big enough you coud paint a smiling face on the green light and a frowning face on the red one. I'm not sure what to do with the orange one. :lol: