squeakland July 2009

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last sync test from email
by teefal 08 Jul '09

08 Jul '09

-- Timothy Falconer Squeakland Foundation http://squeakland.org 610-797-3100 _______________________________________________ squeakland mailing list squeakland(a)squeakland.org http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland -------------------- m2f -------------------- Sent using Mail2Forum (http://www.mail2forum.com). Read this topic online here: http://squeakland.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=14#14 -------------------- m2f --------------------

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last sync test from email
by Timothy Falconer 08 Jul '09

08 Jul '09

-- Timothy Falconer Squeakland Foundation http://squeakland.org 610-797-3100

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testing squeakland@squeakland.org
by Timothy Falconer 08 Jul '09

08 Jul '09

If you have received this, then you can again use squeakland(a)squeakland.org . -- Timothy Falconer Squeakland Foundation http://squeakland.org 610-797-3100

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Re: [Squeakland] server change with more info
by Timothy Falconer 08 Jul '09

08 Jul '09

Kathryn, All is fixed, but will take some time to settle. Tim -- Timothy Falconer Squeakland Foundation http://squeakland.org 610-797-3100 On Jul 7, 2009, at 4:57 PM, Kathryn Hewitt wrote: > Hello, everyone - > > Doing a little sleuthing here... > > In response to this email, did anyone do anything? > > Kim and I have both heard reports that emails are getting bounced. > She would like me to find out what, if anything, has occurred but to > ask that no on fiddle with it. Ian will address the issue shortly. > > Thanks! > Kathryn > > Viewpoints Research Institute > Kathryn C. Hewitt > Phone: 818-332-3001 > <kathryn.hewitt(a)vpri.org> > Fax: 818-244-9761 > 1209 Grand Central Ave., Glendale, CA 91201-2425 > > Viewpoints Research is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated > to improving "powerful ideas education" for the world's children and > advancing the state of systems research and personal computing. > Please visit us online at <http://www.vpri.org> > ******************************************* > Envelope-to: kathryn.hewitt(a)vpri.org > Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:06:17 -0700 > From: Yoshiki Ohshima <yoshiki(a)vpri.org> > To: squeakland(a)squeakland.org > X-BeenThere: squeakland(a)squeakland.org > List-Id: Squeakland Discussion Forum <squeakland.squeakland.org> > List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland > >, > <mailto:squeakland-request@squeakland.org?subject=unsubscribe> > List-Archive: <http://vpri.org/pipermail/squeakland> > List-Post: <mailto:squeakland@squeakland.org> > List-Help: <mailto:squeakland-request@squeakland.org?subject=help> > List-Subscribe: <http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland > >, > <mailto:squeakland-request@squeakland.org?subject=subscribe> > Sender: squeakland-bounces(a)squeakland.org > > I was supposed to send this text instead of the previous one. > Please don't ignore ^^; > ---- > Hi everyone, > > We're changing the mail server for the Squeakland community mailing > list (squeakland(a)squeakland.org) > > If all goes well, another email will follow this one to say that it's > done. > > If no emails follow within 48 hours (before 17:00 GMT, July 9th) , > then please re-subscribe at http://squeakland.org/discuss/ ... but not > until then. > ---- > -- Yoshiki > _______________________________________________ > Squeakland mailing list > Squeakland(a)squeakland.org > http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland > _______________________________________________ > Squeakland mailing list > Squeakland(a)squeakland.org > http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland

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server change with more info
by Yoshiki Ohshima 07 Jul '09

07 Jul '09

I was supposed to send this text instead of the previous one. Please don't ignore ^^; ---- Hi everyone, We're changing the mail server for the Squeakland community mailing list (squeakland(a)squeakland.org) If all goes well, another email will follow this one to say that it's done. If no emails follow within 48 hours (before 17:00 GMT, July 9th) , then please re-subscribe at http://squeakland.org/discuss/ ... but not until then. ---- -- Yoshiki

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testing the new server
by Yoshiki Ohshima 07 Jul '09

07 Jul '09

Hello, Per Tim's request, I'm sending an email to test the new server. -- Yoshiki

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Kathleen's notes from NECC
by Rita Freudenberg 03 Jul '09

03 Jul '09

Von: Rita Freudenberg <rita(a)squeakland.org> Datum: 3. Juli 2009 18:35:24 MESZ An: squeakland(a)squeakland.org Betreff: Kathleen's notes from NECC Hello All, I wrote these notes/email during the NECC conference. Rita thought they might be of interest to others on the Squeakland list so, here they are. kh June 30 It is a big conference, really big, and the exhibit floor is full of expensive fantastic technology everything from thin client to ways to keep track of student's every keystroke. I saw a demo of the Polyvision gadget I will use this morning and it is a short throw projector and a board, $1500 for a classroom model with an Eno. I went to hear the Starlogo group yesterday but none of them showed, I thought just one had food poisoning and that the others would be there. The room was large and must have had 75 people waiting to hear. I talked to three people in the DC OLPC Learning Club. One of them is starting a summer school lab program of enrichment using OLPCs at a Boston school. He is part of Walter Bender's volunteer army. He had not looked at any of our materials but I think he might after I talked about the kinds of projects there. We are all Sisyphus. July1 The poster session went very well. The Polyvision is not an interactive board like a smart board but it made a great LCD screen about 5x6, bright and clear. There were a lot of people looking for materials for elementary schools. Lots of knowledgeable people, lots of good questions, and favorable comments. Very interested in the lesson plans and the web site library collection. When I mentioned that I hadn't found many programming materials for young students, that most seemed to start at 11th grade even though they were labeled K-12, lots of heads agreed. The postcards were very popular and many commented that they were a smart way to show and to provide our web address. I brought about 150 I think and they were all gone in the first 90 minutes. I started early though, since the space was available when I got here at 8:15, I was up and running by 8:20. Built the poster wall with push pins and examples of postcards, lessons plans and ads for Squeakfest LA. I had people take things off the board or off the table top. When I ran out of pretty cards I handed out the blank postcards and many people noted the web site on their program or a notebook they were filling with ideas. I wrote on scraps of paper, and programs. I saw board members, classroom teachers, administrators, tech managers, from all over the US and a few from other countries . . .Minnesota, Turkey, India, Japan, WV, Indiana, Illinois. Oklahoma. Many people were so happy to know it (Etoys) was free and that the materials were free and that they had been used by young students and that the students could do well. Many people said things along the lines of. . . that was done by a 2nd grader! I think they might have been over stimulated with sell, sell, sell. Elvis was singing on the exhibit floor and there were so many sounds, lights, flashy demos and sales reps hoping for big orders, it felt very competitive. Maybe a few of these people will go ahead and look at our site and our materials. Right now I feel like it was worth the trip. July1 PM I did not have time to meet the Scratch-ed presenter this morning, I will send her a note. I think it was good for us to both be there because we echo each other and amplify ideas. I talked to a prof from Lehigh who had his students write reports about 1:1 computing and most of them are about OLPCs. He said he posted them on wikibooks one-to-one but I can not find it. I know it is there, one of the reports we glanced at is about the Birmingham school 14000 adoption, another about NYC, Peru, Portugal etc. He knows Tim Falconer and is meeting him next week so I can still track this down through Tim. from a response to Tim's questions . . . I estimate I could have given away another 100+ handouts. it was a good crowd and they were very interested in the kinds of learning they could see in the student projects. Numerous people commented about the kinds of thinking and the age of the students. Close questioning about whether these were done by gifted students or not.(not identified as gifted but you look at their projects and wonder why not kh 070309) Also questions about length of lessons and how many years worth of learning to produce the projects I showed. Many of the projects I chose to show were done by 2nd graders, it made it very easy to show beginner projects done by children using Etoys starting in 2nd grade with a 40 minutes lesson, once a week. The CS4K5 lesson plans I showed include NETS, NCTM Focal Points, and Blooms Cognitive domain as reference standards. It meant some thing to a lot of people to see the standards there, although I don't think the NETS standards are really for programming but rather broadly focused on computer literacy. Anyway it was worth the time and thought to include them. One of the handouts was a postcard with an screen print of a student project and the projects I showed on the Polyvision screen were only those 30 projects so that it was easy to see connections and the postcards are beautiful and have the EtoysIllinois web site address on them. I was hoping beautiful would stand out from commercial and would be more likely to be taken home rather than discarded at the end of the day. People chose the card they wanted from among all of them scattered on the table top. I am assuming their choice was meaningful to them either by project, subject or beauty. I also handed out lesson plans and SqueakfestLA posters. One man I met in the presenters lounge teaches at Lehigh and has a meeting with you, Tim, next week. He is from Bethlehem PA. I can't think of his name. His students did reports about 1:1 computing and he was going to email me the URL in wikibooks. I didn't get anything from him yet so please make sure you get it when you meet with him, the brief glance I had at it looked like it would be interesting reading for the ed team. Regards to you all, Kathleen

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deleted scene from Squeakers DVD now online!
by Rita Freudenberg 02 Jul '09

02 Jul '09

Dear Squeakers, one of the scenes, that got edited out of the DVD was the Galileo moment when a girl pointed out the "trick". Now you can watch that scene here: http://squeakland.org/resources/audioVisual/movie.jsp?id=41 Greetings, Rita

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[Fwd: [Squeak Announcements] PhidgetLab and NXTalk going live]
by Robert Hirschfeld 01 Jul '09

01 Jul '09

-------- Original Message -------- [...] Hi, perhaps this is interesting for some people. We hope so. :-) I am glad to announce the availability, as of today, of two Squeak-based projects that both deal with letting Squeak interface with the surrounding world. 1. PhidgetLab Phidgets are sensors and actuators that can be connected to a PC via USB. So far, support for them in Squeak was not freely available - this changes now. :-) A group of students in our group - Lysann Kessler, Stephanie Platz, Thomas Klingbeil, Philipp Tessenow, and Frank Schlegel - have developed PhidgetLab in fulfilment of a coursework assignment. It provides a "low-level" Phidgets API in Squeak, but is also integrated with Etoys. Behold: http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/swa/projects/phidgetlab/ 2. NXTalk Over the past few years, we've made the occasional announcement of this: it's Smalltalk on Lego Mindstorms NXT. It's a real Smalltalk VM running on the NXT, with an image being interpreted. Now it's finally available, including the VM source code. NXTalk is the outcome of Martin Beck's MSc research; Martin is a former student in our group. Behold: http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/swa/projects/nxtalk/ Both projects' source code is MIT licensed. They both are based on (L)GPLed software, though: PhidgetLab uses the Phidgets API from the vendor, which is under the LGPL, and NXTalk uses NXOS, which is under the GPL. We would be grateful for any suggestions for improvement - for both the projects and the respective web pages alike. Experience reports are, of course, most welcome too. Unfortunately, we cannot make the required hardware available as easily as the software. ;-) Please let us know what you think! Best, Michael -- Robert Hirschfeld Hasso-Plattner-Institut hirschfeld(a)hpi.uni-potsdam.de www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/swa

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