Editable Reveal.js presentation built around Jason's 2026-10-15 wiki outline, followed by the earlier Chloe/Bridget narrative and paper workshop material.
Pages
- Presentation: the slides. Press S for presenter view.
- Speaker notes: every slide's full notes, as a reading copy.
- Paper activities: instructions for all three exercises, order cards and the routing card.
- Counter machine cards: print on card stock. Memory sheet, blank ADD and TAKE cards, and a setup page for each program.
- Homework: build a computer from two instructions: from
takeandaddup to a processor, with exercises and checked solutions. - Image prompts: the prompts used for the exercise illustrations.
Working on it
- Open
index.html;notes.htmlpreserves full speaker notes and distinguishes Jason's wiki bullets from proposed connective narration. - Edit
slides.json(bodyandbulletsare HTML), then runnode www/workshop-v2/build.cjsfrom the repository root. - Run
node www/workshop-v2/verify.cjsto run the counter machine programs exactly as the slides and printed cards define them, and every homework instruction,, and to check the slide count, direct image references and local links. - All eighteen images use absolute
/mechanical-turk/uv/assets/HTTPS URLs. No image binaries or base64 data are added here. Internet connectivity or a browser cache is needed for those images. Slides 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 use six of theassets/chloe-bridget-v4/scenes, including the new 07-dark-animations and 08-alebrije (05-dark-windows and 06-closed-factory are not used), with alt text fromwww/story/story.json. - Slide 6 links directly to
assets/chloe-choices.png, verified in the UV list on 2026-10-15. - The linked triptych currently shows the earlier rendition. Replacing the unversioned asset updates this presentation without changing the source.
- Timings are rehearsal estimates totalling 88 minutes, including 15 minutes of questions at the end, with Alan Turing and Turing completeness introduced first, then a bridge from the story (a crayon for computing), two exercises (a counter machine with crayons; the word hat with the Mechanical Turk, probability and training) and a demonstration. The activities are untested with teachers.
- The prior
www/workshop/draft and stories remain unchanged. - Exercise 3 (the network exercise) is parked in
parked/: its slides inparked/exercise3.jsonand its activity-sheet section inparked/exercise3-activities.html. Its print sheet, net-cards.html, is still generated but not linked.
Outline source: https://ollama.openbeagle.org/mechanical-turk/wiki?name=2026-10-15-notes
Asset inventory: https://ollama.openbeagle.org/mechanical-turk/uvlist
Illustration edges use a narrow CSS alpha feather on the natural image bounds. This blends the outer paper margin into the canvas without modifying or re-uploading any UV asset; interior colors remain unchanged.
Press S or choose Presenter view to open the synchronized speaker window with the current slide, upcoming slide, notes and timer. Allow pop-ups for this site if the window is blocked. Keep the main deck open; on two displays, project the main deck and keep the speaker window on the laptop. The existing Speaker notes link remains the full reading copy.