squeakland August 2005

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Squeak Etoys and preschoolers
by Leonel Morgado 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

Hi, I'm interested on computer programming experiences with children aged 3, 4 and 5. I was unable to find documented cases of Etoys use in this age group, but expect that there should be at least a few user stories. If anyone has reports, photos, or even just recollections of such cases, I would love to hear about them! Inté, Leonel Morgado

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1st Grade
by Mark Kesling 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

I am teaching 60 1st graders in 6 40 minute periods with 10 in each period per week. This means I have contact with all the 1st graders once a week. I started using Squeak with them yesterday and it was an overwhelming success. Does anyone else work with this age group? Any tips anyone has? Thanks, Mark

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Please help us test "Squeakland05"
by Kim Rose 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

Dear Squeaklanders -- Greetings. We've been working hard to ready an updated and improved "Squeakland image" intended to be the standard base for us to use in the 2005-06 school year. It is important that it be well-tested before putting it up on the Squeakland website, so that schools can install for the new year, etc. So, we are now asking you to help us with that testing now and throughout SqueakFest. The new image can be downloaded from one of these sites: http://squeak.hpl.hp.com/~andreas/Squeakland05.zip http://www.impara.de/~andreas/Squeakland05.zip http://squeakalpha.org/squeakland05/Squeakland05.zip Installation instructions: * Navigate to the Squeakland installation directory: [Win:] C:\Program Files\Squeak\Plugin [Mac:] After unzipping the compressed file, a "Squeakland05.image" Squeak icon will appear on your desktop (it will *not* replace your current Squeak icon). Double-click on it to launch. * Rename the existing SqueakPlugin.image into SqueakPlugin05.image * Extract Squeakland05.image and rename it to SqueakPlugin.image When you open the new image you will see "- Squeakland05 - This is a test version." in the center of the screen. If you so not see this, you have not launched the new image. There is not a lot visibly different in this image from last school year's version. It has had some bugs fixed, and is now based on the 3.8 "squeak.org" image used by developers, programmers, etc. We like keeping these versions as compatible as possible. Much of the new code helps with mutiple languages within Squeak and compatibility with Squeaks in other countries (Japan, Spain, etc.) What is most important is that you load *your* projects into this image to make sure they load properly. Please also create, play, publish, etc. to test it out. We want to use the next 2 weeks for testing and feedback. We will make fixes/adjustments if necessary and then "freeze" it and post to Squeakland immediately following SqueakFest (by August 15) to ensure the posting of a stable version for installation for the '05/06 school year. Please please report any problems and if do you, be sure to tell us which platform you use, which OS, browser version, and include any 'broken project', screen shot of error message, etc. The more info you send us the easier it is to try to determine the problem. Thanks in advance for your help to test! Hope to see you at SqueakFest! regards, Kim

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Alan Kay keynote at SqueakFest
by Kim Rose 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

Greetings, Squeaklanders - Many of you have expressed interest in listening to the talk Alan gave at SqueakFest in Chicago a few weeks ago. Our friends at Columbia College have made it available in both .wav and .mp3 format here: http://interactive.colum.edu/partners/squeakfest/2005.aspx We will have this available via the Squeakland website soon, too. happy listening, Kim

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NetMorph; squeakland vs. squeak
by Randy Heiland 26 Aug '05

26 Aug '05

Hi Squeakers, As events from Squeakfest continue to bubble in my brain and outreach opportunities present themselves, I've been wondering lately about the NetMorph demo. I think this sort of functionality, i.e., distributed objects in Squeak, would be great fun and could lead to some terrific educational projects. So, my first question is - exactly how steep is the barrier to getting it working in the Squeakland version of Squeak (since it was pointed out that it required the "full" Squeak version). (Warning: probably leaving the intended range of topics for this list) This got me to wonder, more generally, about the differences in "full" Squeak (at squeak.org) vs. Squeakland Squeak and, for that matter, full Squeak vs. Tweak (or whatever it may eventually be called). For starters, there's the question of the sizes (disk and memory) of these different animals. A quick glance at the size of the image from Squeakland05 is ~17M. After downloading Squeak 3.8, I see its image is ~18M, but there's also a 14M "changes" file which, I'm assuming is required to run the image? Running the Squeakland05 app, I see it uses about 28M of memory. The Squeak 3.8 app uses about the same. I guess buried in my ramblings is my concern for yet another open source software community to be split. My desire to have the NetMorph functionality, but wanting to stay with the more kid-friendly Squeakland version of Squeak, is just one semi-frustrating example. --Randy

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New Tutorial for German Users (Beginners)
by Heiko Schröder 19 Aug '05

19 Aug '05

This is just a little information for german users. Since 20. August a new german tutorial is available on the site: http:// www.od.shuttle.de/evb-1/squeakdoc The tutorials aim is to get through the basics of SQUEAK and receive well established knowledge to explore the environment by your own. Since the tutorial wants especially to support school, it is addressed to pupils of an age of 15 and higher (9 th class in Germany). But nevertheless the author hopes that the text is interesting enough for every beginner. The tutorial covers in this version the basics of Smalltalk and the object oriented concept and the most important tools of SQUEAK. Future versions aim on Morphic, Turtle-Graphics, E-Toys and Alice. Be aware that the tutorial is an open project and everyone is encouraged to contribute for its improvement. Have a lot of fun. -- Heiko Schröder Praha, Ceska Republika http://www.od.shuttle.de/evb-1 http://home.foni.net/~heikos

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Pausing animation?
by Bob Irving 16 Aug '05

16 Aug '05

I can't find a way to insert a pause in an animation. My students want to slow down their animations. I taught Microworlds last year, and in that language, you inserted a pause of x seconds in the script to slow down the motion. Is there a way to do this in Squeak? Thanks in advance, Bob Irving Middle School Technology Facilitator Lancaster Country Day School Lancaster, PA Blog: www.e-lcds.org/wordpress/ "It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory." W. Edward Deming

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Alan's talk available?
by Randy Heiland 15 Aug '05

15 Aug '05

Would Alan's talk at Squeakfest be available at some point? I'd be happy to purchase a DVD or whatever. I enjoyed seeing/meeting everyone! --Randy

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FW: FW: Call for participation: UNESCO Digital Arts Award 2005
by Mankovsky, Sheine 13 Aug '05

13 Aug '05

FYI Sheine Mankovsky >-----Original Message----- >From: bbracey(a)aol.com [mailto:bbracey@aol.com] >Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 10:44 AM >To: mlsalumni(a)discussion.iste.org; K12ADMIN(a)LISTSERV.SYR.EDU; >socrat(a)MIT.EDU >Subject: Call for participation: UNESCO Digital Arts Award 2005 > > > > >Young artists from around the world are invited to take part in this >year's >award devoted to the theme of 'Cities and creative media'. Organized >in >collaboration with Art Center Nabi (Seoul, Republic of Korea), the >award program >specifically aims to encourage young emerging artists to cultivate new >forms of >expressions using new media and technology to envision how urban spaces >and city >environments could be transformed into creative outlets. > >The submission deadline is 14 September 2005. All project proposals >should be >submitted online at the official website of submission of the >competition at web >http://www.nabi.or.kr/unesco_award, where participants will also be >able to find >further information (description of sub-themes, general guidelines, >submission >criteria, etc). All submissions should be in English. > > The total prize money is US $10,000 and an international jury will >select the >award-winning projects. > >SOURCE: >http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=28051&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL _ >SECTION=201.html >_________________________________________

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make sibling from script
by Randy Heiland 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

Is there a tile to create a sibling of an obj? Given that a search on 'sibling' only turned up 1 tile, I'm guessing not. But it'd sure be nice! :) --Randy

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