[Webteam] PR info for Squeak

[Darius Clarke]

Hi Irina,

The educational part of Squeak is best used and demonstrated by the folks at 
the Squeakland site that you reference.

I've cc'd this e-mail to Kim Rose at Viewpoints Research who leads the team 
that makes the student learning edition of Squeak. She might be the best one 
to answer all your questions.

Cheers,
Darius

----Original Message Follows----
From: "Irina Lobo" <ILobo at nl.edu>
To: <webteam at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Subject: [Webteam] PR info for Squeak
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 21:57:04 -0600

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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