[Webteam] PR info for Squeak

[Ken Causey]

It appears to me that you are actually inquiring regarding SqueakLand
which is a specific application of Squeak and not about Squeak itself.
Please contact the SqueakLand group.  Contact information can be found
at

http://www.squeakland.org/contact/contactmain.html

Ken Causey

On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 21:57 -0600, Irina Lobo wrote:
> I am a faculty member at National Louis University as well as the
> technology coordinator at a K-8 school in Evanston, IL. I have used
> Squeak with my students. A colleague and I are working on an article
> for a technology in education publication. The article is about
> several multimedia-authoring tools, including Squeak. We would like to
> provide a concise description of each tool. We can't guarantee that
> all the information will appear in the article, but we'd like to get
> the correct information.
> 
> Do you have a PR person who could answer these questions? Let me know
> if I can contact somebody at Squeak for this information. Thank you. 
> -Irina Lobo
> ilobo at nl.edu
> 847-905-2017
> 
> Questions: 
> 1) Can we have permission to print a screen capture of Squeak? Is
> there one you would like us to use? 
> 
> 
> 2) Here are a couple of quotes from our draft. Can you verify that
> these are accurate? 
> Quotes: 
> "Within CREATE Together and Squeak, for example, students actually
> participate in object-oriented programming, assigning attributes and
> actions to objects."  
> 
> "In Squeak, the tools for each object appear when the object is
> selected and are hidden when the object is not in use."
> 
> "Programs like Squeak allow students to draw their own pictures and
> then animate them. "
> 
>  
> 3) Here are some categories of information. Can you look this over for
> accuracy, fill in blanks, and give us your take on each item? We would
> love more information on these categories. 
> 
> Squeak 
> Title/Contact Information
> Squeak - www.squeakland.org
> 
> Price: free
> 
> Platform: Mac OSX and higher / Win 32 and higher / Unix / RiscOS
> 
> Recommended Grade Levels :  
> 
> Special Features : 
> - open source code 
> - active community of users in several countries
> 
> 
> Creative Options 
> - basic drawing tools
> - several plug-ins that play and manipulate sound file as well as
> 2D/3D graphics
> 
> Publish/Share: 
> - active Squeak community, so students in community can share and
> modify projects online
> - Squeak plug-in can be downloaded 
> 
> Support Materials
> - tutorials on www.squeakland.org <http://www.squeakland.org>
> - Powerful Ideas in the Classroom by B.J Allen-Conn & Kim Rose 
> - Squeak: A Quick Trip to Objectland by Gene Korienek, Tom Wrensch,
> Doug Dechow

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