[Newbies] I've just introduced some 9th graders to Squeak

[Russ]

Thanks to everyone who responded ! The kids really liked alot of the
Squeakland stuff. I'd like them to start building their own etoys, we'll
see....
- Russ

On 1/26/07, Giovanni Corriga <giovanni at corriga.net> wrote:
>
> Il giorno gio, 25/01/2007 alle 10.45 -0500, Russ ha scritto:
> > Hello. This is my first post to the beginners list. I've been a
> > perpetual beginner since I first found out about Squeak over ten years
> > ago ( can it really be that long ? at least somewhere at the beginning
> > of ver. 1.x ) . Anyway, I'm not a programmer, I'm a musician and an
> > explorer, and currently, a substitute teacher - teaching 9th graders
> > (gifted ones at that) computer skills. Today I introduced them to
> > Squeak ! It went really well. First  I talked about smalltalk, had
> > them type in the " Transcript show: 'Hello World'. " program in a
> > workspace, and I'm sure that bored them plenty. But I did not miss a
> > beat. I next introduced them to the morphs - the bouncing atoms and
> > the blobs , etc.. and they were HOOKED ! 80 Kids now know about
> > Squeak. Now what ? What should I do with Squeak and my 9th graders
> > that will thrill them further ? Ideas ?
>
> You many find many ideas on the Squeakland website
> ( http://www.squeakland.org ), and in the Squeakland mailing list
> ( http://www.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland ).
>
>         Giovanni
>
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