squeakland May 2008

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by Dreyfuss Pierre-André (EDU) 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

Hi, v-toys for OLPC are available at: http://community.ofset.org/index.php/V-toys_international You'll find some documentation and tutorials on the same page. V-toys is a visual scripting system compatible with Etoys. Easier for beginners and international in the sense that tiles are identified by icons instead of text. It was presented at the c5 conference in Poitiers http://uptv.univ-poitiers.fr/web/canal/61/theme/54/manif/168/index.html Help balloons in English will help using the tiles and explain what kind of parameter is needed. I am translating now 'Etiquettes actives' (active labels) which is an easier way for programming to very beginners. You can see and download the french version at: http://community.ofset.org/index.php/Etiquettes_actives. Watch the list: Other projects are coming: Examples of Projects mixing DRGeo and E-toys. An Expert system (forward chaining.) Written in Smalltalk, it is working but I have to build the interface for the use with v-toys. It is already working in a project for driving a tic tac toe game and in a project making deductions about figures of DrGeo. Best regards

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Etoys documentation in Spanish
by Yoshiki Ohshima 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

Hello, I came back from an OLPC event held in Cambridge, MA and saw a lot of people from Latin America countries. Uruguay and Peru are officially deploying hundreds of thousands of XO laptops, and other countries are trying to do similar or smaller scale pilot test. The "vibe" (as Alan wrote) or the feeling of "making progress" was very strong. During the event, I was asked a lot of times about documentation in Spanish. I know there are bunch of documentation done in Spanish (in Latin America and in Spain), but I couldn't point out many of them by myself. I merely managed to point to the translation of the Powerful Ideas book but that was it. I think it would be nice to have a place to share these documentations, and have a single location to look at. Let us say if we have a good "documentation and curriculum" section on http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Etoys/lang-es, and people who have done documentations in Spanish add theirs to it, that would be nice. If you think it is a good idea, please start the section on the wiki and add the documentations? I will later check the page and let the people who are doing deployment and contents making in these countries know about it. Thank you! -- Yoshiki

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Upcoming talk
by Joe Apuzzo 30 May '08

30 May '08

I will be giving a talk this coming Wednesday (www.mhvlug.org) http://news.squeak.org/2008/05/24/new-yorkers-chance-to-see-squeak-based-ed… I'm working up my slides and I will be using the latest squeakland/etoys build to demo. I've done the "car" demo ( mastered that) and also can demo the "car on a track". But does anyone have any suggestions for math and science? aka something that I can build on the fly and show a topic that a Middle School or High School teacher would do in class? Thanks Joe Apuzzo Gnu_Joe

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Support for workshop
by SeaGate Institute of Technology 29 May '08

29 May '08

Dear Kim, We plan to organize one a workshop for about 90 participants from 30 schools. I wonder whether Viewpoints Research Institute may support the program by providing Squeak Books and DVDs for the participants. Your support will be well appreciated. Best regards, Madhur

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Re: [Squeakland] Etoys documentation in Spanish
by Jordi Delgado 28 May '08

28 May '08

Hi, > Excellent. > I really hope that these kids will really learned a lot! > For BotsInc I'm aware of a private spanish translation. I'm still > trying to negociate to get the > rights for the book. Er... Stef, if you mean the translation I am doing, it is a translation to catalan, not to spanish. Not that the two languages are a lot different, but they are different languages. You know, like french and spanish, or portuguese and spanish. BTW, I am finishing the final index, so in two or three weeks I'll have a publishable first draft of the entire book. If you do *not* mean my translation, it would be nice to collaborate in a spanish translation, provided it is underway... > For squeakbyexample, I do not know the status of the translation. It looks like Offray has already started the translation. As soon as I finish with the BotsInc book, I'll start to collaborate with them in the spanish translation of SBE. However, I do not see it finished anytime soon (not before the summer) unless we find more collaborators. Bests, Jordi

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Re: [squeak-dev] Re: [Squeakland] Etoys documentation in Spanish
by Yoshiki Ohshima 27 May '08

27 May '08

At Mon, 26 May 2008 23:08:31 +0200, Serge Stinckwich wrote: > > Yoshiki Ohshima a écrit : > > Thank you for the information. > > > > I edited the English page (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Etoys) and made > > a section for Spanish documentation. Please add more, and update the > > Spanish page as well! (There should be tons of more Etoys related > > documentation. Or, perhaps linking to the presentations done at past > > SqueakFests might be good.) > > > > I add also a section about french documentation. That is good. Senegal, some other African countries, and for some extent Haiti will benefit from it. -- Yoshiki

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Re: Squeakland Digest, Vol 61, Issue 11
by Young-Jin Lee 19 May '08

19 May '08

Yoshiki, I am using a Mac (v. 10.5.2) along with a FireFox (v. 2.0.0.14). Thanks in advance. Young-Jin On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 2:00 PM, <squeakland-request(a)squeakland.org> wrote: > Send Squeakland mailing list submissions to > squeakland(a)squeakland.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > squeakland-request(a)squeakland.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > squeakland-owner(a)squeakland.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Squeakland digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Problem launching eToy project (Yoshiki Ohshima) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 00:04:46 -0700 > From: Yoshiki Ohshima <yoshiki(a)vpri.org> > Subject: Re: [Squeakland] Problem launching eToy project > To: squeakland(a)squeakland.org > Message-ID: <uhccxif75.wl%yoshiki(a)vpri.org<uhccxif75.wl%25yoshiki(a)vpri.org> > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > Young-Jin, > > > I am recently experiencing a problem launching eToy project using a Web > browser. > > For example, when I click on the " > http://www.squeakland.org/project.jsp?http://www.squeakland.org/fun_project… > > examples/ants2.pr " which is a Web link for the Ants Kedama example > available at the Squeakland.org, I got a blank Web > > page. > > > > Is there anyone having this problem? > > Can anyone explain how to solve it. > > It highly depends on the variation of platform (like what flavor of > Windows, or Mac, or Linux) and what Web browser you use. Can you tell us a > bit more? > > On Windows Vista and IE7, or Windows XP, I think it works, for example. > > -- Yoshiki > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Squeakland mailing list > Squeakland(a)squeakland.org > http://squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland > > > End of Squeakland Digest, Vol 61, Issue 11 > ****************************************** >

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Squeak for Teachers
by SeaGate Institute of Technology 19 May '08

19 May '08

Hi Squeakers, We are thinking of organizing a workshop on "Squeak for School Teachers" for two days in near future. If you have a plan to come to Kathmandu, Nepal, you can share your knowledge among our teachers. And through this, we wish to introduce Squeak in Schools. Kindly let me know your availability. Best regards, Yogesh Shrestha Coordinator

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Constructionist schools in San Francisco
by Drew Hess 17 May '08

17 May '08

Hi, I'm a computer scientist who'd like to see constructionism at work in the classroom. Can anyone point me to schools, clubs or other organizations in the San Francisco area where Etoys, Croquet or other constructionist environments are actively being used? I'd like to observe, if that's possible; I'm considering becoming an educator, inspired by Seymour's and Alan's visions, and I'm curious to see how close we are to those ideals. thanks! d

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Problem launching eToy project
by Young-Jin Lee 17 May '08

17 May '08

Hello, I am recently experiencing a problem launching eToy project using a Web browser. For example, when I click on the " http://www.squeakland.org/project.jsp?http://www.squeakland.org/fun_project…" which is a Web link for the Ants Kedama example available at the Squeakland.org, I got a blank Web page. Is there anyone having this problem? Can anyone explain how to solve it. Thanks in advance. Young-Jin Lee

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