squeakland February 2009

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Information Train
by karl ramberg 20 Feb '09

20 Feb '09

I was browsing the internet today and saw this cool demonstration and was really fun to see it used Etoys :-) http://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20090218/ Way to go ! Karl

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ANN: Squeakfest Brasil 2009
by Kim Rose 15 Feb '09

15 Feb '09

Hello everyone, This year we hope to hold two Squeakfest conferences, one in Brasil and another in the United States. While US details are still pending, we're very pleased to announce Squeakfest Brasil! WHEN: July 24th and 25th, 2009 WHERE: Porto Alegre, Brasil WHO: Hosted by UFRGS and Pensamento Digital WHAT: a teacher-oriented, hands-on conference, showcasing Squeak Etoys use throughout Brasil and the rest of South & Central America LANGUAGES: Portuguese and Spanish, with English translators We've timed our conference so you may also attend the 9th World Conference on Computers in Education (WCCE): WHEN: July 27th to July 31st, 2009 WHERE: Bento Gonçalves, Brasil LANGUAGE: English Transportation from Porto Alegre will be arranged as part of WCCE registration. -- Several from Squeakland and Viewpoints will be presenting at both conferences. We encourage others from our community to consider presenting and to help us spread the word to colleagues and friends. We'll be sending a "call for presentations" in March and will also be launching the conference website at that time. To receive further Squeakfest announcements, sign up for mailings here: http://squeakland.org/subscribe/ For more information: Squeakland: http://squeakland.org UFRGS: http://www.ufrgs.br WCCE: http://www.wcce2009.org/ Join us! Kim

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iStoa.net reference book
by Hilaire Fernandes 15 Feb '09

15 Feb '09

For the curious, the following book contains reference to the iStoa model for learning activities. At the end of the book, in the third part, the reader find the models of the exercises. Each exercise model is built from Morph subparts. This subparts can be easily turned as part-bin Morph, to elaborate the Etoys-way learning activities. https://gforge.inria.fr/docman/view.php/1308/5880/iStoaReferenceBook.pdf Hilaire -- http://blog.ofset.org/hilaire

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[Fwd: science/computers]
by Ken G. Brown 10 Feb '09

10 Feb '09

Teaching Education Vol. 17, No. 2, June 2006, pp. 167-179 How Technology Integration in Mathematics and Science Teaching Can Occur: The role of the maverick teacher Barbara Hug* and George Reese University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Helping teachers to change practices by adopting new tools and pedagogical approaches is of inter- est to a wide range of educational researchers and practitioners. This article describes a teacher, Ms. Hogan, who is an early adopter of a technological innovation: the authoring tool Squeak. We analyze email messages from Ms. Hogan applying Rogers' model for the diffusion of innovation. We find that this maverick teacher was quickly persuaded and decided to adopt the tool even before her knowledge of the tool was complete. The tool met the needs of this teacher in her context but in order for her experience to be more general, the authors hypothesize that materials must be created to make the tool relevant to non-maverick teachers. ================================================================================================ EBSCO Publishing Citation Format: APA (American Psychological Assoc.): NOTE: Review the instructions at <http://support.ebsco.com/help/?int=ehost&lang=en&feature_id=APA >http://support.ebsco.com/help/?int=ehost&lang=en&feature_id=APA and make any necessary corrections before using. Pay special attention to personal names, capitalization, and dates. Always consult your library resources for the exact formatting and punctuation guidelines. References Hug, B., & Reese, G. (2006, June 1). How Technology Integration in Mathematics and Science Teaching Can Occur: The Role of the Maverick Teacher. Teaching Education, 17(2), 167-179. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. EJ819798) Retrieved February 9, 2009, from ERIC database.  If you have any problems or questions, contact Technical Support at <http://support.epnet.com/contact/askus.php>http://support.epnet.com/contact/askus.php or call 800-758-5995. This e-mail was generated by a user of EBSCOhost who gained access via the UNIV OF CALGARY account. Neither EBSCO nor UNIV OF CALGARY is responsible for the content of this e-mail.

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Technical Report on OLPC Etoys
by Bert Freudenberg 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

A new Technical Report has been posted to the VPRI website, titled "Etoys for One Laptop Per Child" by Scott Wallace, Yoshiki Ohshima, and Yours Truly: http://www.vpri.org/html/writings.php Abstract We present an overview of the “OLPC Etoys” system, describe the intensive two-year development effort that produced the system, and discuss lessons learned. OLPC Etoys is an end-user authoring system for children, which was chosen to be distributed with the OLPC XO laptops at an early stage of the OLPC project. Since we planned to derive OLPC Etoys by evolving an existing, mature system (“Squeakland”), it was expected to be a relatively straightforward undertaking. However, the OLPC XO platform’s special hardware characteristics, the evolution of the Sugar software stack, and the fundamentally international and multilingual nature of the project, all conspired to make the development effort challenging. Over the two-year course of the project, we successfully kept up with the challenges, and delivered usable Etoys systems for every OLPC release. We steadily improved the UI, added a few high-leverage features, and ﬁxed bugs, with a small and widely-distributed team and with help from the community. - Bert -

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