squeakland December 2008

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Nice site to add to Squeakland; RPM download only shows on Windows IE
by Milan Zimmermann 26 Dec '08

26 Dec '08

I found a very interesting squeak education related site that would be a great addition to the community resources list here: http://squeakland.org/resources/community/ The site is: http://www.yc.musashi-tech.ac.jp/~design/squeak/index.html ------ I also have a note: The HTTP plugin download page seems to have an error that causes the "rpm" option not to show in Firefox (and probably other browsers , works ok in IE on Windows only - which does not really need RPM). http://squeakland.org/download/ Milan

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[ANN]iStoa.net 8.12-alpha1
by Hilaire Fernandes 24 Dec '08

24 Dec '08

Dear all, I am working on a learning system written in Smalltalk. The contents is only in French for now, and only cover multiplication learning, but I am planing for more in various subjects. Underneath the curriculum is modelised in a graph to help situating the learning progression of the learner. It is an alpha state, website http://www.istoa.net -- http://blog.ofset.org/hilaire

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Hilaire Fernandes learning system
by Bill Kerr 23 Dec '08

23 Dec '08

from walter's sugar digest: 6. Hilaire Fernandes, who brought us DrGeo, has <a href="http://www.istoa.net">a new project</a> underway: :I am working on a learning system written in Smalltalk. The contents is only in French for now, and only cover multiplication learning, but I am planing for more in various subjects. Underneath the curriculum is in a graph to help situating the learning progression of the learner. I've done an english translation of the main page using google translate - I'm not certain but it could be Hilaire's intention to eventually develop a computer mentoring system - identified by alan kay as the main thing missing from his dynabook vision (40th anniversary presentation) if anyone improves the translation please send me a copy activité (étayage) = activity (shoring) ??? ABOUT iSTOA.net is a research project to build a platform for interactive teaching and monitoring the Internet. It is free and cross-licensed MIT. Some aspects of iStoa.net: * Interactive exercises for students is important (see this article on the artifacts). * Modeling of the field of learning * The construction of a knowledge model of learning as part of its activities with the software * A remediation when the student is in trouble We are building a community around this project, to help us build it, join us! You can also reach OFSET (Organization for Free Software in Education and Teaching), which supports the project on its list of discussion. NEW IN VERSION 8.12-ALPHA1 Intermediate version. Includes editor notional network, database, web console, the student, the application of test exercises: * Resolution bug # 6936, # 6937, # 6973, # 6939 List of bugs * Version based Pharo # 10192: font rendering plugin with FreeType, verifications and modifications Pharo for compatibility with the latest stable version 41.1 of Magma. * Refactoring code. Correction on some exercises. The console's web master and the students with recording traces are present. However, some simple operations are necessary to activate them. If you want to test, ask on the mailing list. Since its interactive teaching file, ISTO provides access to a set of scaffolding materials. Each shoring is an activity that addresses one or more educational themes and includes a series of exercises. The shoring are classified according to the classification of items of educational curricula. It includes more than 40 educational shoring with more than 160 years. PROJECT DESCRIPTION The platform is aimed at teaching math and French cycle 3 of primary school. Its use is multiple use in the classroom, use at home or remediation monitoring with deferred by the teacher. Each act of the learner is stored in a database, in a local network or the Internet. Of course, use offline mode is possible, there is no case in this recording traces Features ISTO is divided into four main parts: 1. A modeling tool in the field of learning. 2. A corpus of interactive and dynamic. 3. A system for recording acts of learning. 4. A Web console of the teacher to see the traces of learners. These revolve around large parts of modeling the domain of learning. The exercises are the learner according to a part of this model, and partly of his learning. The exercises of the body are modular and configurable objects. They are grouped by activity (shoring). The chart below shows in detail some of these relationships: DIAGRAM Domain de reference: programmes scolaires = Domain of reference: curricula Graphe de competences = Graph of competences Graphe d'etayage = Graphe shoring Apprenant = Learner Modele de connaissance = Model knowledge decrit = described Fait evoluer = Changed modelise = modeled Corpus d'exercices = Corpus exercises pilote = pilot Traitement erreur = Treatment error Domaine de reference: savoir-faire pedagogique = Area of reference: educational know-how The project The outline of the model are in place. The body of exercises is to increase, for a school it takes several hundreds of interactive exercises. But for them, we develop artifacts that are reusable components from one year to another, this reduces the development time necessary. To learn more about the project, visit the state of the project. If you wish to participate in the project, also visit the PARTICIPATE IN ISTO.

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Squeakfest 2009
by Marta Voelcker 23 Dec '08

23 Dec '08

Hello everybody, This is Marta from Porto Alegre - Brazil. It is time to continue to plan and decide things about Squeakfest 2009. My colleagues and I have been talking and we are enthusiastic to hold a gathering in Porto Alegre on July 23rd to 25th ( Thursday to Saturday). Another International Conference about IT for Ed - WCCE -world conference in computers for education is going to take place near Porto Alegre in the following week - July 27th to 31st. We thought that some of the people coming for Squeakfest would get interested in attending WCCE and vice versa. Please visit their website - <http://www.wcce2009.org> www.wcce2009.org. I think this conference is very relevant to our community. It is still possible to submit papers if you are interested! The deadline is December 31st. The Squeakfest would be a gathering for teachers, educators and school coordinators -- a time for Etoy fun and a general get together. We will certainly plan for the participation of some researchers and students as well, but the goal of the conference would be for participants to share how they are using Etoys, or plan to use it, share ideas, experiences, material and strengthen Etoy community bonds. We would also welcome teachers and reps from OLPC schools from Latin America and the Caribbean and if possible, from other countries. Wouldnt it be awesome?! Children from Luciana de Abreu School would certainly attend, present their Etoy projects and, as they are used to doing at conferences, take pictures and interview you guys with their XOs! What do you think about it? Let me know your ideas Is the time of the year good for you? Do you know this WCCE? ( Ive never hear about it before! Isnt it a huge coincidence?! We have been considering Squeakfest 2009 in Porto Alegre since Jan, and then this WCCE is going to be hold in here too?! ) Well enough questions for just one email!!!! I hope to hear from you during the weekend! All the best, Marta Voelcker

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commercial for OLPC from Waveplace
by Timothy Falconer 18 Dec '08

18 Dec '08

Hi everyone, Bill Stelzer from Waveplace has created a 30 second commercial for OLPC using footage from our Haiti and Nicaragua pilots: http://www.youtube.com/waveplace Please rank us and comment us and share us and all that YouTube stuff. We need friends. In other news, the government of Nicaragua received 3,200 XO laptops from a local donor and wants Waveplace to train 400 teachers in 200 schools. Wow. More details can be found in our newsletter: http://waveplace.com/news/newsletter/web.jsp?id=13 You can subscribe to the newsletter at: http://waveplace.com/subscribe/ Should be an exciting year. We've got pilots planned in all four of our existing areas, along with a a few other possible locations in the Caribbean. As for the many who have asked about our upcoming documentary and new textbook, we're still trying to find funds to complete them. We've shot over 100 hours of video, much with the same quality as our many shorts. A call from a donor could come at any time. Maybe from you? Take care, Tim -- Timothy Falconer Immuexa Corporation http://immuexa.com 610-797-3100

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Read about Squeak (in Spanish)
by Kim Rose 12 Dec '08

12 Dec '08

Passing this along to our Spanish speaking friends, Kim Begin forwarded message: > > > Linux Magazine (Spain) usually publishes articles about Squeak. > These articles, past some moths, are free for all people by > Internet. You can read them (if you understand Spanish, of course), > at: > > Squeak, ¿la herramienta que hará la revolución educativa?. JUAN > RAFAEL FERNÁNDEZ GARCÍA : http://www.linux-magazine.es/issue/16/ > Educacion.pdf > > Squeak, la herramienta de los niños. Esto es lo que hay. JUAN > RAFAEL FERNÁNDEZ GARCÍA: http://www.linux-magazine.es/issue/17/ > Educacion.pdf > > Squeak, la herramienta de los niños. ¿Un juicio justo?. JUAN RAFAEL > FERNÁNDEZ GARCÍA: http://www.linux-magazine.es/issue/18/Educacion.pdf > > Física y Squeak. Gravedad y caída libre en un laboratorio virtual. > ANA MARÍA PIZARRO: http://www.linux-magazine.es/issue/ > 27/074-076_SqueakLM27.crop.pdf > > Scratch, una herramienta lúdica de iniciación a la programación. > MÁXIMO PRUDENCIO: http://www.linux-magazine.es/issue/ > 28/078-082_ScratchLM28.crop.pdf > > De viaje con Squeak. Los alumnos crean sus propias aplicaciones > interactivas. DANIEL SANCHO EHLERT: http://www.linux-magazine.es/ > issue/29/080-083_EducacionLM29.crop.pdf > > De Gutemberg a Sophie. Reinventando la escritura en la era digital. > El futuro de la lectura y la escritura. MÁXIMO PRUDENCIO: http:// > www.linux-magazine.es/issue/30/079-083_EducacionLM30.crop.pdf > > Unas palabras mágicas. Programación basada en la semiótica de los > cómics. MÁXIMO PRUDENCIO: http://www.linux-magazine.es/issue/ > 34/079-082_MagicWordsLM34.crop.pdf > > Ratón musical. Música con Squeak. DANIEL SANCHO EHLERT: http:// > www.linux-magazine.es/issue/35/081-084_EducacionLM35.crop.pdf > > Calculadora educativa. Simulación de la Texas Instrument Little > Professor. DANIEL SANCHO EHLERT: http://www.linux-magazine.es/issue/ > 37/077-080_EducacionLM37.pdf > > Pitágoras y Squeak. Longitúdes. Ángulos. El teorema de Pitágoras. > ENRIQUE MOLINER: http://www.linux-magazine.es/issue/ > 38/079-082_EducacionLM38.pdf > > Items about Squeak published in Linux Magazine Squeak, ¿la > herramienta que hará la revolución educativa?. JUAN RAFAEL > FERNÁNDEZ GARCÍA : http://www.linux-magazine.es/issue/16/Educacion.pdf > > Squeak, la herramienta de los niños. Esto es lo que hay. JUAN > RAFAEL FERNÁNDEZ GARCÍA: http://www.linux-magazine.es/issue/17/ > Educacion.pdf > > Squeak, la herramienta de los niños. ¿Un juicio justo?. JUAN RAFAEL > FERNÁNDEZ GARCÍA: http://www.linux-magazine.es/issue/18/Educacion.pdf > > Física y Squeak. Gravedad y caída libre en un laboratorio virtual. > ANA MARÍA PIZARRO: http://www.linux-magazine.es/issue/ > 27/074-076_SqueakLM27.crop.pdf > > Scratch, una herramienta lúdica de iniciación a la programación. > MÁXIMO PRUDENCIO: http://www.linux-magazine.es/issue/ > 28/078-082_ScratchLM28.crop.pdf > > De viaje con Squeak. Los alumnos crean sus propias aplicaciones > interactivas. DANIEL SANCHO EHLERT: http://www.linux-magazine.es/ > issue/29/080-083_EducacionLM29.crop.pdf > > De Gutemberg a Sophie. Reinventando la escritura en la era digital. > El futuro de la lectura y la escritura. MÁXIMO PRUDENCIO: http:// > www.linux-magazine.es/issue/30/079-083_EducacionLM30.crop.pdf > > Unas palabras mágicas. Programación basada en la semiótica de los > cómics. MÁXIMO PRUDENCIO: http://www.linux-magazine.es/issue/ > 34/079-082_MagicWordsLM34.crop.pdf > > Ratón musical. Música con Squeak. DANIEL SANCHO EHLERT: http:// > www.linux-magazine.es/issue/35/081-084_EducacionLM35.crop.pdf > > Calculadora educativa. Simulación de la Texas Instrument Little > Professor. DANIEL SANCHO EHLERT: http://www.linux-magazine.es/issue/ > 37/077-080_EducacionLM37.pdf > > Pitágoras y Squeak. Longitúdes. Ángulos. El teorema de Pitágoras. > ENRIQUE MOLINER: http://www.linux-magazine.es/issue/ > 38/079-082_EducacionLM38.pdf > > Articles published by Linux for release: > > Squeak Polar. La hoja de cálculo Skeleton y la representación > gráfica de curvas. ENRIQUE MOLINER. > > Memorice. Diviértete poniendo a prueba tu memoria. MÁXIMO PRUDENCIO > > Regards, > Máximo Prudencio. > > > >

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a watcher
by Jane Bennett 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

Can anyone help me? I need to create a "watcher" tile that will count how many falling cherries a bird touches as it flies around. I'm not sure how to do this. Please respond Janie B.

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40th Anniversary of the Dynabook
by Brad Fuller 06 Dec '08

06 Dec '08

All, Alan, Chuck, Mary Lou and Steve did a fabulous job at the Computer History Museum's program last night. Insightful and educational as always. Alan, will you make your Squeak project available for us to review? I noticed that they were videotaping, so I assume the video will be available on the CHM youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/computerhistory Thanks to all that made it possible! best, brad

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C5-09 Kyoto - Registration now available!
by Kim Rose 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

Greetings! Online registration is now available for "C5-09" -- The 7th International Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing to be held January 19-22nd, in beautiful Kyoto, Japan. Online Registration can be found here: http://www.cm.is.ritsumei.ac.jp/c5-09/index.php?Registration General Conference and program information can be found here: http://www.cm.is.ritsumei.ac.jp/c5-09/ Join us for 4 days of workshops, paper presentations and stimulating invited talks by Dr. Allison Druin, University of Maryland; Dr. Alan Kay, Viewpoints Research, and Dr. Tomonori Aoyama, Keio University. We wish to thank our sponsors Global COE Kyoto University, Viewpoints Research, Hewlett-Packard, ESUG and Matthew McCauley for their support. We hope to see you in Kyoto in January! -- Kim

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