Two comments:

- My main goal was to suggest that a powerful extendible and customizable
application of this kind (education) with appeal to a possibly large
audience seems a very good match for Squeak.
- On your specific comment - I am not sure what you mean but in this
implementation, the student typically follows the instructor who displays
and uses an application and records his/her voice, occasionally broadcasting
polls such as 'is the pace OK', 'what is your individual (possibly
anonymous) opinion on such and such, possibly broadcast quick tests, moves
control over the master screen around the class, etc., the students see the
displayed window on their screen and can annotate it arbitrarily, replay,
annotate, and search the record, etc. Obviously the idea has lots of room
for customization and extension but that, and the potential appeal to very
many users is why it seems interesting to me.

Ivan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron J Reichow [mailto:reic0024 at d.umn.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 3:30 PM
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> Subject: Re: [Challenge]
> 
> 
> Looks kind of clumsy to me.  Part of that (for me at least) 
> is probably
> because typing notes on a laptop, while clicking around through an app
> like this seems like a suboptimal way of taking notes.  
> Different people,
> different styles, I suppose.  There were a couple of features 
> which struck
> me as interesting, especially in an ITV-lecture class, but 
> nothing which
> couldn't be done with other apps.
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Aaron
> 
> --
>   "the end of the human race will be that it will eventually
>       die of civilization. "                          :: r. w. emerson
> 
> 
> On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Ivan Tomek wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have just seen a demo of Silicon Chalk (see
> > http://www.siliconchalk.com/index.htm). It's a lecture (voice, any
> > application, etc.) recording, 
> question-and-answer/polling/note-taking/etc.
> > supporting tool that, to me, is the first educational 
> application that has a
> > chance of growing and becoming useful.
> >
> > Its main limitations are that it
> >
> > - is restricted to Windows
> > - is not open source, making it, in my opinion, impossible 
> to keep up with
> > possible extensions, customizations, etc.
> > - is written in C++
> >
> > It seems to me that this is a perfect application area for 
> those who might
> > want to try to apply Squeak's features and create a 'killer 
> application'
> > proving its worth. I do not volunteer to implement it :( 
> but there may be
> > some volunteers or students waiting for challenging 
> projects or theses that
> > might make it really desirable for people to learn, use, 
> and advance Squeak.
> >
> > Ivan
> >
>