Squeakland.org

[Dave Master]

OOPs! 'Sorry all...thought I was just replying back to
Alan... Please disreghard.  Dave
--- Alan Kay <Alan.Kay at disney.com> wrote:
> Squeakland.org
> 
> As all of you know, Squeakland.org is currently
> "under construction" 
> and due to open "any week now". Our plans have been
> to have at least 
> three sites, one for each of the authoring
> environments in Squeak 
> that we've been working on. So:
> 
>    * Squeakland.org is primarily for children,
> parents and teachers 
> who use "etoys"
> 
>    * SqueakOmni.org is for "Omniuser Squeakers" --
> sort of from 
> Hypercard to Lingo and beyond
> 
>    * Squeak.org is for "Expert Level" Squeakers --
> the bolts, nuts and 
> guts of the system
> 
> The middle site and the middle authoring environment
> are quite a few 
> months away from birth.
> 
> The first goals for Squeakland.org are to make sure
> that the plugin 
> can be downloaded and run everywhere with as little
> difficulties as 
> possible. We enlist your aid to help do these tests.
> 
> The mailing list -- squeakland at squeakland.org -- is
> hoping to attract 
> people who are interested in elementary education
> and play and how 
> computing might enhance them. Specifically, we are
> looking for enough 
> day to day users of the site to create a forum for
> our next stages, 
> which include a sample curriculum, and the next
> round of etoys. It 
> would be nice to generate about10-50 emails a day
> about these issues. 
> We at SqC plan to develop a trial curriculum this
> summer with several 
> teachers that we've been working with, and we will
> do most 
> correspondance using squeakland at squeakland.org.
> 
> Though an important part of this mailing list is to
> get bug reports, 
> we plan to copy all technical emails to the regular
> Squeak mailing 
> list. Squeakers, please don't scare off the parents
> and teachers -- 
> after the children, they are our main intended
> users.
> 
> We will send out quite a bit more information about
> how to use the 
> site as it gets closer to completion. For now,
> please try downloading 
> the plugins and then try navigating around, both at
> the top HTML 
> level of the site, and the entirely within Squeak
> levels below.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Alan
> 
> 
> 
> 


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