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....<br>- Russ<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/26/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Giovanni Corriga</b> <<a href="mailto:giovanni@corriga.net">giovanni@corriga.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Il giorno gio, 25/01/2007 alle 10.45 -0500, Russ ha scritto:<br>> Hello. This is my first post to the beginners list. I've been a<br>> perpetual beginner since I first found out about Squeak over ten years<br>> ago ( can it really be that long ? at least somewhere at the beginning
<br>> of ver. 1.x ) . Anyway, I'm not a programmer, I'm a musician and an<br>> explorer, and currently, a substitute teacher - teaching 9th graders<br>> (gifted ones at that) computer skills. Today I introduced them to
<br>> Squeak ! It went really well. First I talked about smalltalk, had<br>> them type in the " Transcript show: 'Hello World'. " program in a<br>> workspace, and I'm sure that bored them plenty. But I did not miss a
<br>> beat. I next introduced them to the morphs - the bouncing atoms and<br>> the blobs , etc.. and they were HOOKED ! 80 Kids now know about<br>> Squeak. Now what ? What should I do with Squeak and my 9th graders
<br>> that will thrill them further ? Ideas ?<br><br>You many find many ideas on the Squeakland website<br>( <a href="http://www.squeakland.org">http://www.squeakland.org</a> ), and in the Squeakland mailing list<br>(
<a href="http://www.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland">http://www.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland</a> ).<br><br> Giovanni<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Beginners mailing list
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