[Squeakland] ideas to promote squeak in telecenters in Brazil

[Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas]

Hi,

Yep, would be nice to see more integration and continuity between 
different members of the Squeak family. one thing that could help a lot 
would be to have the possibility to see the Smalltalk code that is 
behind the Scratch animation/projects as eToys do, even if eToys itself 
is not available. That could help to make more explicit the bridges 
between two projects.

Cheers,

Offray

Paulo Drummond escribió:
> Scratch has only the blocks' wordings translated into portuguese; it 
> has not (as Etoys) an internal language editor, so we only hope John 
> Maloney and his team release an updated version, that either has this 
> editor or a more complete 'dictionary'. Otherwise, Scratch is great 
> kids production environment and a very well-finished system.
>
> Paulo
>
> On May 21, 2007, at 8:32 AM, Alan Kay wrote:
>
>> Yes, Scratch is another Squeak based authoring system for young 
>> people. MIT did a nice job with it. It is aimed at teenagers and is 
>> more of a productivity tool than an educational authoring environment.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Alan
>>
>> ---------------
>>
>> At 02:18 AM 5/21/2007, José Luis Redrejo wrote:
>>> For telecenters, I would take a look to Scratch ( 
>>> http://scratch.mit.edu/ ), even if at their homepage they only speak 
>>> about windows and macintosh, it works under linux too (only some 
>>> issues with the midi support are still remaining, but the rest of 
>>> the tool works ok). I think Scratch is specially thought for places 
>>> as telecenters.
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> 2007/5/21, Marta Voelcker < marta at pensamentodigital.org.br 
>>> <mailto:marta at pensamentodigital.org.br>>:
>>>
>>>     Dear Squeakers,
>>>
>>>     As one of the researchers from the University that is running
>>>     the OLPC pilot project in Porto Alegre, Brazil, I was introduced
>>>     to squeak, last February, when I could bring an XO home during a
>>>     weekend.
>>>
>>>     But now,  my work  is related to promote capacity building to
>>>     the staff of  organizations that run TELECENTERS.
>>>
>>>     Telecenters, in Brazil, are rooms with an average of 12
>>>     computers(PCs) with access to Internet inside NGOs or grassroots
>>>     organizations, located in low-income communities in Brazil.
>>>
>>>     I am the coordinator of a Foundation that promotes capacity
>>>     building to the staff of these organizations, to implement
>>>     curses in telecenters. Our methodology has the same line of
>>>     constructionism...
>>>     We have been working "IT Basic knowledge"  through project-based
>>>     learning, now we want to start using Squeak.
>>>
>>>     In Brazil, schools work on shifts. Children go to school in the
>>>     morning (8:00 to 12:00) or in the afternoon (2:00 to 18:00). If
>>>     the child goes in the morning, during the afternoon he or she
>>>     might get a vacancy in an after school program offered by an NGO
>>>     or grassroots organization, or religious organization.
>>>     Government helps supporting these organizations to implement
>>>     this after school programs. Those organizations are frequently
>>>     receiving refurbished computers and building partnerships to
>>>     create their telecenter. Than, they come to us, asking for
>>>     guidance about what to do with the telecenter.
>>>
>>>     So, we have telecenters as informal educational environment to
>>>     work with children and teenagers. We don't need to relate our
>>>     work to school curriculum, we can promote any kind of curses,
>>>     workshop, guided playtime... any thing!
>>>
>>>     We have about 45 of these NGOs equipped with telecenters in
>>>     Porto Alegre, already working with us (from a total of 150 NGOs
>>>     partners from other cities).
>>>
>>>     Our motivation is strongly related to develop programming skills
>>>     on children and teenagers.
>>>
>>>     We are thinking about to start with a group of age around 10 and
>>>     another group around 15. We would choose one  telecenter and
>>>     plan to  work there ( instead of train their staff).
>>>
>>>     But what would we teach? Should we keep thinking in
>>>     project-based learning? When we use  other software we
>>>     frequently start working with  identity construction, and after
>>>     some exploration of the software, the group starts a project...
>>>
>>>     But to understand the basis of squeak, the "drive a car "
>>>     project seems so important!!!
>>>
>>>     Well, sorry guys to be so long in this Sunday night! Seems that
>>>     to write to you already made some goals clear to me!
>>>
>>>     Ideas, experiences and suggestions are welcome!
>>>
>>>     regards,
>>>
>>>     Marta Voelcker
>>>
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