[squeakland] New Etoys QuickGuides by Kathleen Harness

[kharness at illinois.edu]

Carlos, 
Thanks for your nice comments about the guides and EtoysIllinois! I am glad to know we are helping. 
 
Let's check with Bert on whether there is time to add translations to the new release. The original guides have been translated into five languages; Sdenka Pilco did the Spanish. None of the 30 new guides have been translated into any language. I don't know yet which guides will be selected for the new version of Etoys. 

Rita provided these instructions for translators: http://wiki.squeakland.org/display/sq/How+to+translate+the+Quick+Guides

If you would like to collaborate . . . you translate the text in the projects and then send them to me. I will do the rest of Rita's How-to list e.g. replacing scripts, images, and aligning things so they look similar from one language to another. 

BTW: I enjoyed meeting Mariana Herrera at Squeakfest in Wilmington. Her presentation was excellent! 
Regards,
Kathleen



---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 06:03:56 -0400
>From: Carlos Rabassa <carnen at mac.com>  
>Subject: [squeakland]  New Etoys QuickGuides by Kathleen Harness  
>To: squeakland at squeakland.org
>
>Kathleen,
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>Thank you all for preparing the guides.
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>Ted 
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>Thank you for bringing them to us all together in this impressive lists.
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>When we had Squeakfest in Brazil last year,  I heard many teachers from Uruguay talking about "Illinois".
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>The work of Kathleen and her colleagues frequently was the first point of contact between Etoys and the teachers.
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>The presentation is exactly what we should always be preaching:  
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>Made with Etoys in a format completely compatible with the XOs.
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>Kathleen,
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>I know some of this material has already been translated to Spanish.
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>What is the status?
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>I had promised to translate the Etoys Manual as soon as it is ready.
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>But maybe I should start translating whatever is not in Spanish yet from your guides.
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>Interesting,  how different we all are.
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>As a senior citizen with engineering background,  the idea of a formal manual was very much appealing to me.
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>But,  as we were recently discussing with some of you,  our main target should be teachers,  they are the ones with the most power to take full advantage of our efforts.
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>It seems Kathleen´s guides are probably more appealing than formal manuals to the teachers using Etoys.
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>Please let me know where to point my efforts.
>
>Carlos Rabassa
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