[Squeakland] Looking for good souls

Kelly kellydaun at googlemail.com
Tue Apr 25 13:44:32 PDT 2006


Hi Markus,

I am studying at The Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland.

My project is not posted anywhere at the moment, it is due Friday. I am
still making those last minute adjustments and write up. Although I do
present on it tomorrow afternoon!

I will happily make it available for people to view. It is always nice to
see other people's interpretation of squeak and how they use it to create
E-toys.

Regards

Kelly

On 25/04/06, Markus Gaelli <gaelli at emergent.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Kelly,
>
> I am going to a "day of c.s." in my old uni this Friday, and will
> have a little Squeak booth there.
> There will be an inauguration speech of a prof about OO in Bavarian
> high-school classrooms.
>
> Is your Honours project available somewhere? It might be interesting
> for others on this list and also for squeak.de as well to translate
> it and put it on our site.
>
> At which university are you?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Markus
>
>
> On Apr 25, 2006, at 12:09 AM, Kelly wrote:
>
> > Hi Jim,
> >
> > I can't speak for any Schools but my University here in the UK has
> > a keen interest in Squeak.
> > My understanding is that they plan to work with Schools possibly
> > doing workshops to promote interest in computing primarily
> > programming ( but don't quote me on that).
> >
> > I have just completed my Honours project based on Squeak. E-toys
> > for the classroom. Which was to develop a set of interactive
> > lessons to introduce children (late primary/early secondary) to the
> > basic ideas of object oriented programming. I also know of two
> > other students who are doing something similar for different age
> > groups and I think one of them may even be using Alice.
> >
> > I think Squeak is a great educational tool and before taking on
> > this project I had never heard of it. So perhaps raising awareness
> > would help. Or for someone like ourselves to take the initiative to
> > introduce squeak to Schools and Universities. I have an interest in
> > teaching and would most definitely use Squeak again given the
> > opportunity.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Kelly
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 24/04/06, Jim Ford <jaford at watford53.freeserve.co.uk> wrote: I'd
> > be _very_ interested (and surprised) if _any_ schools in the U.K.
> > are showing interest in Squeak! I'd be particularly interested in the
> > comments of any U.K. teachers, or school technicians (like myself),
> > regarding Squeak in primary or secondary education. As I've mentioned
> > before - if it aint in the curriculum, it doesn't even get a passing
> > consideration. In my experience, in a leading independent Secondary
> > School, saving a Word document or Powerpoint presentation on a
> > floppy is
> > as technical as it gets! I wish someone on this list who's a U.K.
> > teacher would pipe up and prove me wrong!
> >
> > Jim Ford
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