squeakland December 2006

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Lack of documentation frustrating
by Guyren Howe 27 May '07

27 May '07

Hi, I am volunteering at a local school, and will be doing squeakland once a week with some fifth graders. Squeakland (etoys?) seems ideal for these kids, except that I'm frustrated by the lack of documentation. I've spent ages looking through the website and searching online, and I can't really find the kinds of things I'm looking for. I went through some of the tutorials myself, and those will be great to get started, but I would like to give the kids fairly free reign, and be able to answer most of their questions. I tried to do some little projects myself, but I kept coming up with seemingly simple things I wanted to do, and not finding any obvious way to do them (or, as I say, any documentation suitable for answering the questions). For example: I wanted to make an etoy follow the mouse pointer around. I can't see any way of even obtaining a reference to a mouse object. I would also like to do loops and suchlike. Not obvious how to do that. I can see that if I can dive down into the smalltalk level, I could do it, but this seems like the kind of thing that's probably at the squeakland (etoy? What do I call the kids' environment?) level. But as I say, what I'm really looking for is not this particular fish, but how to fish for myself. I would buy a book, but the one pointed at from the website appears to just be a set of projects, rather than the kind of documentation I'm looking for. Squeak: Learn Programming by Controlling Robots looks like it might be sort of what I'm looking for, although I'm interested in a broader range of Squeakland projects than just the turtle graphics mentioned in the summary of the book. So: where is the documentation it seems ought to be there? Thanks.

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by Kim Rose 20 Dec '06

20 Dec '06

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Reminder: C5 2007 conference in Kyoto - Hotel Registration closing soon
by Hideyuki Takada 18 Dec '06

18 Dec '06

Hello All, [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.] This is a reminder of the registration for C5 2007 held in Kyoto, Japan on Jan. 24-26, 2007. The deadline of the conference hotel registration is Dec. 20. There still some rooms available in low rates. Also, the early registration with the discounted rate is closed on January 10. You can register early and pay in cash at the conference, so please take a look at the conference registration site and register with both conference and hotel. http://www.cm.is.ritsumei.ac.jp/c5-07/participation.html I'm looking forward to seeing you all at the conference. Hideyuki Takada ----- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The Fifth International Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing (C5 2007) January 24-26, 2007, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan http://www.cm.is.ritsumei.ac.jp/c5-07/ Organized by Hewlett-Packard Company Kyoto University 21st Century COE Program for Knowledge Society Infrastructure Viewpoints Research Institute SCOPE Computers, networks, and other forms of technology are now pervasive in our information-based society. However, most users still function as passive consumers of technology. To evolve into a true knowledge society, it is critical that we transform computer-based human activities to engage users in the active process of creating, connecting, and collaborating together. The C5 conference is for researchers, technology developers, educators, and technology users who are concerned about developing and enabling human-oriented creation, connection, and collaboration processes. C5 is an international forum for presenting ongoing work as well as new work currently under development and for discussing future needs and directions in creative computing and multimedia authoring environments. We welcome equally the submission of technical papers and practitioner/experience reports for paper presentations. In addition, we are adding a workshop track for the third day of the conference and are soliciting proposals for half-day and full-day interactive workshops. REGISTRATION FEE Early Registration Rate (on or before Jan. 10): 10,000 JPY Standard Registration Rate (after Jan. 11 and on-site): 12,000 JPY Student Rate (Banquet excluded): 3,000 JPY Extra Banquet (per one person): 3,000 JPY Extra Preliminary Proceedings: 2,000 JPY Early and standard registration rates include a copy of preliminary proceedings (on CD) and banquet. Student rate includes a copy of preliminary proceedings (on CD). Student registrants who want to attend the banquet need to pay for the extra banquet fee. Authors also have to register based on their status (regular or student). Authors whose papers are included in the proceedings will receive a copy of the formal proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society after the conference. Reprints of papers and additional copies of the formal proceedings can be purchased from the IEEE Computer Society. REGISTRATION FORM Registration should be made by E-mail or FAX. Registration Form is available below. (E-mail address and FAX number is included in the form.) http://www.cm.is.ritsumei.ac.jp/c5-07/c5reg.doc (MS-WORD) http://www.cm.is.ritsumei.ac.jp/c5-07/c5reg.pdf (PDF) http://www.cm.is.ritsumei.ac.jp/c5-07/c5reg.txt (Plain Text) Please note that credit card payment is only accepted through fax registration to protect your personal information. If you prefer to register by E-mail, please pay on-site by Japanese cash. HOTEL RESERVATION FORM A group block of rooms at the following 2 hotels has been reserved for this conference with special rates. For reservation, please send the following form by E-mail or Fax by December 20, 2006. Rooms are assigned by the first-come-first-served basis. (E-mail address and FAX number is included in the form.) http://www.cm.is.ritsumei.ac.jp/c5-07/c5hotel.doc (MS-WORD) http://www.cm.is.ritsumei.ac.jp/c5-07/c5hotel.pdf (PDF) http://www.cm.is.ritsumei.ac.jp/c5-07/c5hotel.txt (Plain Text) *Holiday Inn Kyoto (http://www.hi-kyoto.co.jp/) Single Room - 8,000 JPY (+500 JPY for breakfast) Double Room - 11,000 JPY (+1,000 JPY for breakfast) Shuttle Bus available between Kyoto Station and Hotel. Wireless LAN available at Lobby. Major credit cards acceptable. About 10 minutes to Kyoto University by Kyoto City Bus (#206). *Co-op Inn Kyoto (http://www.coopinn.jp/) Single Room - 5,000 JPY (+800 JPY for breakfast) Double Room - 9,200 JPY (+1,600 JPY for breakfast) In-room Internet available for free. Major credit cards acceptable. About 15 minutes to Kyoto University by Kyoto City Bus (#201). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Honorary Co-Chairs Alan Kay, Viewpoints Research Institute, USA Makoto Nagao, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan Conference Co-Chairs Kim Rose, Viewpoints Research Institute, USA Katsumi Tanaka , Kyoto University, Japan Program Co-Chairs Benay Dara-Abrams, DALaboratories, USA Rieko Kadobayashi, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan Rick McGeer, Hewlett-Packard Company, USA Kazuyuki Moriya, Kyoto University, Japan Workshop Track Chair Benay Dara-Abrams, DALaboratories, USA Local Arrangement Chair Hajime Kita, Kyoto University, Japan Publicity and Publication Chair Hideyuki Takada, Ritsumeikan University, Japan Program Committee Michael Bischoff, University of Applied Sciences Luebeck, Germany Masahiro Fujita, University of Tokyo, Japan Mark Guzdial, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Masaki Hayashi, Sega Sammy Media, Inc., Japan Tsuneo Jozen, Osaka Electro-Communication University, Japan Shinichi Konomi, University of Tokyo, Japan Julian Lombardi, Duke University, USA Maic Masuch, Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg, Germany Mark McCahill, University of Minnesota, USA Maggie McPherson, University of Leeds, UK John David Miller, Intel Corporation, USA Shinya Nakagawa, HP Labs, Japan Haruhiko Okumura, Mie University, Japan Zhiyong Peng, Wuhan University, China Ian Piumarta, Viewpoints Research Institute, USA Andreas Raab, Qwaq, Inc., USA David Reed, MIT Media Lab/HP Labs, USA Nathanael Scharli, Google, Switzerland David Smith, Qwaq, Inc., USA Kazutoshi Sumiya, University of Hyogo, Japan Toshiyuki Takeda, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan Shin'ichi Ueshima, Kansai University, Japan -- Hideyuki Takada, Ph.D Department of Computer Science College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University

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hacking EventRecorderMorph
by Hilaire Fernandes 15 Dec '06

15 Dec '06

I will hack a bit the EventRecorderMorph so its recorded mouse position can be relative to a given morph. Are they any insight anyone can share to do so ? Hilaire

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Help needed on reply about squeak
by Brad Fuller 13 Dec '06

13 Dec '06

I received a reply on another mailing list from a person who appears to have installed and briefly tried squeak, but had some negative comments. I was wondering if others here could comment on his reply about squeak and I'll condense a msg to him and send it out to the mailing list. The original msg was a request (from someone else) asking about audio software for children - the thread also included general software for children. Here's his short msg: === Just installed it. A very creative but frustrating package. As with too many of these things, one must be able to read and that in English (or a few European languages?). Fine print abounds in what at first looks like a very sparse UI. The program abounds with objects and widgets. Some very creative and versatile, others frustratingly crude. Graphic objects like squares cannot be resized (nothing stops one from reprogramming them and then dutifully uploading the scalable versions for others to enjoy--smalltalk was once the rage.) Smalltalk 80 is, well, 26 years old. Before Unicode so is incompatable with mutlingual keyboard choices. No Hebrew for my daughter, not in UI and cannot type it in to text objects either. Truetype fonts (newer than smalltalk80) are beatutiful but they are also Unicode based nowadays. I think most kids would enjoy trying various widgets but run out of patience doing anything more with them. Most adults would as well. --

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Seymour Papert seriously injured
by Bob Irving 08 Dec '06

08 Dec '06

While in Hanoi, he was struck by a motorcycle. http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/12/07/mit_figure_struck_inju… Of course, all our thoughts and prayers go out to this great man and friend of Squeak. Bob Irving Middle School Technology Facilitator Lancaster Country Day School Lancaster, PA Blog: http://cougar.e-lcds.org/wordpress/ "In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the Learned find themselves equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." Eric Hoffer

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[OT] Breaking Barriers - The Potential of Free and Open Source Software for Sustainable Human Development
by Diego Gomez Deck 07 Dec '06

07 Dec '06

Hi folks, In the following URL you will find a compilation of case studies of open-source used to reduce the gap between the developed world and the 3rd world. Extremadura LinEx (and Squeak) is analyzed from page 86. http://www.apdip.net/publications/ict4d/BreakingBarriers.pdf Cheers, -- Diego -- ========================================== Diego Gomez Deck ------------------------------------------ http://diegogomezdeck.blogspot.com/ http://smalltalk.consultar.com/ ==========================================

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publishing files
by stvcomplab＠aol.com 02 Dec '06

02 Dec '06

I'm trying to use SQUEAK at my school. All the computers are networked thru a Novell server. I would like to control the location of the student files so that they go to the student's home directory on the server. Any help would be appreciated. Lou ________________________________________________________________________ Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, free AOL Mail and more.

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