squeakland June 2009

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Squeakfest Brasil
by Marta Voelcker 29 Jun '09

29 Jun '09

Dear friends, We look forward to meet you in Porto Alegre! Marta Voelcker Squeakfest Brasil Organizing Committee INVITATION We would like to invite educators, students, parents and developers to participate at Squeakfest Brasil, an international conference with focus on using Squeak Etoys in basic Education. Presenters already confirmed are leaders from Etoys communities from the USA and Germany; teachers and reps from Latin American countries already using the modality of one computer per child; and brazilian researchers who have worked with LOGO and are currently related to the UCA Project ( One Computer per Student Project a initiative of Brazilian Ministry of Education). Date: 23, 24 and 25 July 2009 Local: Complexo do Salão de Atos II da UFRGS Address: Rua Paulo da Gama s/ nº - Porto Alegre/RS Hours: 9h to 17h Programming and registrations: www.squeakfest.org <http://www.squeakfest.org/>

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default saving to server
by Eisenstat, Sholom 24 Jun '09

24 Jun '09

How can we make our Squeak installations save to a logged-in user's default storage drive on a server? This would have to be a permanent fix to be included on our image rather than one which a student would have to manage. Thanks in advance. Sholom Eisenstat Computer Resource Teacher - Secondary East York Region District School Board

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notes from education team meeting
by Rita Freudenberg 19 Jun '09

19 Jun '09

Hi all, we had our last education team meeting yesterday. Here are the notes: http://wiki.squeakland.org/display/sq/2009/06/18/education+team+meeting+Jun… You can find the older notes here: http://wiki.squeakland.org/pages/viewrecentblogposts.action?key=sq Feel free to discuss and comment! Greetings, Rita --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- education team meeting June, 18 participants: Randy, Marta, Tim, Rita Tim told us about the pilot project that has started in Haiti on monday, June 8. There are not just kids, but also teachers attending the Etoys workshops, who can then teach other teachers. Tim has been contacted by OLPC Philippines, they will use Etoys there. For the Etoys courseware a very important thing is to get a template, so that we can ask others to help developing it. The outline for the basic unit is 1. sketches 2. halos 3. viewers 4. scripts 5. books 6. variables 7. animation 8. supplies 9. tests 10. exploring Randy has started with units about physical motion, they are based on a story, because that's a good way for children to learn things. He did send the projects to the education team to get feedback. On the outline for the lessons we say that each lessons should be 1 hour long, but that's not easy to do, some topics are more complicated than others. But than you don't have to spend all the time on the computer, with some topics we could provide ideas for classroom discussions etc. So for shorter lessons there is space for related things. Marta said she has volunteers who could help us with the course material once we have the template done. They can help with translations, too. Randy mentionend the "big ideas" behind the different sciences covered in school, that we should have in mind when developing course material: physical science - model and scale life science - system earth science - cycle Tim asked Marta if the name "Etoys To Go" for Etoys on a flash drive would be ok in Brazil, Marta said it is. Then he told us, that usb drives are noticeably cheaper with less memory, so maybe we should have "Etoys To Go for Windows", "Etoys To Go for Linux" etc. Most people would know which OS they would need. We will see how much memory the Etoys To Go will actually need. Tim suggested to DVDs with screencasts of the course material for Squeakfest. Marta told us about a problem of Etoys with a brazilian linux version, it isn't working. She will provide a link for the software team, that they can have a look at it. The government is providing more laptops to schools and teachers from that schools are coming to Squeakfest and of course would like to use Etoys. Tim brought up the idea of two new mailing lists: one for teacher and one for technical things. The reason to split would be not to bore teachers with technical details. Rita said, that developers often discuss topics relevant for teachers, additional features or changes will affect their work. Since there is not that much traffic on the squeakland list, there is no urgent need to split soon. The main list should be education-focused and hopefully developers will not discuss deep-down technical details there, that should be on a separate list. But generally issues should be talked about on the squeakland list, hopefully in a way that doesn't scares the teachers away. Randy was impressed by the Etoys video with the MCU interface that has been sent today on the list. He proposed to have a lesson using hardware in the course ware. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Rita Freudenberg Squeakland Foundation http://www.squeakland.org

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great video: etoys interface to microchip
by Rita Freudenberg 18 Jun '09

18 Jun '09

Hi all, I just got noticed about this video on youtube. It's really amazing! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Qsh9vFIls4 Greetings, Rita -- Rita Freudenberg FIN-ISG Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg http://isgwww.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/isg/rita.html

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Download location for Etoys 4.0 image ?
by David Corking 16 Jun '09

16 Jun '09

Can you suggest a place where I can download the Etoys 4.0 2206 image, please? (I don't want to download the whole of Sugar: just the image and changes) I couldn't spot it on the sugarlabs or squeakland sites, but maybe I didn't look carefully enough. The http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Release/Releases/Sucrose/0.84… suggests that 4.0.2206 is an official release for end users. Do I understand that page correctly? Have there been any updates to the Linux VM since Etoys 3.0? David

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save a project in std format?
by Randy Heiland 12 Jun '09

12 Jun '09

Can someone refresh my memory - is it possible to save a multi-page proj in some standard format - powerpoint, pdf, etc? If not, any other suggestions other than manually doing screen captures? To my amazement, I was still able to display this project from some years back in a recent etoys browser plugin and would like to get a backup in another format: http://squeakland.org/project.jsp?http://sda.iu.edu/K-12/math-model-nature.… thanks, Randy

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Broken links to Kedama examples?
by David Corking 12 Jun '09

12 Jun '09

I would like to run the Forest Fire example in Kedama, to see an example of an Etoys cellular automata simulation. Could you point me to an Etoys release and version of Forest Fire code that are compatible, please? Here is what I have tried so far: (a) I downloaded the "Introducing Kedama" pamphlet http://svn.squeakland.org/pdf/kedama.pdf However the links in Appendix E (page 36) seem to be broken. The link is http://www.squeakland.org/project.jsp?http://www.squeakland.org/fun_project… However the Etoys plugin loads nothing, and indeed /fun_projects/ is '404 Not Found'. (b) Instead I downloaded http://www.is.titech.ac.jp/~ohshima/squeak/kedama/forestfire2.pr . However that does not run in the current Etoys (Etoys 3.0, build 2177, 5-Jan-2009 ). It shows an MVCMenu which, I guess, comes from the project loading subsystem: "Reading an instance of KedamaGetPixelValueTile. Which modern class should it translate to? Let me type the name now Let me think about it Let me find a conversion file on the disk" (c) "Gallery of projects" bundled with the Mac Etoys.app download (http://www.squeakland.org/download/) has 3 Kedama simulations, but not the one I desire: ParticlesDyeInWater ParticlesEpidemic ParticlesGasModel Possible ways you might be able to help me: 1. Point me to a version of Forest Fire that runs with Etoys 3.0, or an updated version of kedama.pdf 2. Point me to an archive of a 2004 or 2005 vintage squeakland release image (I read reports that "Squeakland 3.8-05" should run http://www.is.titech.ac.jp/~ohshima/squeak/kedama/forestfire2.pr ), or 3. finally, perhaps you could point me to documentation on how Kedama has changed from 2005 to 2009, so I that I could try to rebuild the 2005 version of Forest Fire to get it running in Etoys 3.0, though this sounds unlikely from http://squeakland.org/download/releaseNotes.jsp . (By the way, are detailed changes to Kedama logged in Monticello, subversion, a changeset, or elsewhere?) David

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Reminder: Deadline for Submission June 15
by Kim Rose 11 Jun '09

11 Jun '09

Greetings! Just a reminder that the deadline to submit to present at Squeakfest USA (Los Angeles - August 10, 11 and 12) has been extended to Monday June 15th. http://squeakland.org/squeakfest/submit/ Come share your experiences and discoveries! Please pass this to any and all you think may be interested who may not subscribe to this list. We look forward to hearing from you.

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Tweak and Etoys
by Long Nguyen 10 Jun '09

10 Jun '09

Hello all, Is the current etoys image written in tweak? If not, is there a date for the revision? Thanks, Long Nguyen Silo3 E-Marketing All information contained within this e-mail is the property of Silo3. This e-mail and any attachments within, may not be used, exhibited, bought, or sold without the explicit written consent of Silo3 or one of its representatives.

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Fwd: [squeak-dev] Fwd: squeakland contact
by Rita Freudenberg 05 Jun '09

05 Jun '09

Hi Long, I forward this to the list, too. Are you subscribed to squeak-dev or squeakland(a)squeakland.org ? Please do so, that we can discuss it there :) Rita Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail: > Von: "Long Nguyen" <long(a)silo3.com> > Datum: 3. Juni 2009 19:58:57 MESZ > An: "Rita Freudenberg" <rita(a)isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de> > Betreff: Re: [squeak-dev] Fwd: squeakland contact > > Thanks for the reply. > > To be a little more specific, this is the page that I get: > > You do not seem to have the Squeakland plugin installed. > Please download the plugin here and then run the installer. > > You could also download DemonCastle1.055.pr and open it in Etoys. > > I've tried multiple times installing and uninstalling Internet > explorer 8 and the standard explorer as well as firefox 3. > > I finally got it to work with firefox 2 in the mozilla archives. > > I'm guessing that one of my security settings are locking it out, > but I do not know which one. I would rather keep everything in IE8 > than move everything back to firefox 2. > > The regular etoys program/installer works fine though. > > Long > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Rita Freudenberg > To: Long Nguyen > Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 11:09 AM > Subject: Fwd: [squeak-dev] Fwd: squeakland contact > > Hi, > > I forwarded your question to the squeak-dev mailing list and got > these answers so far: > > Greetings, > Rita > > Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail: > >> Von: Luis Valente <is.valente(a)gmail.com> >> Datum: 3. Juni 2009 10:23:43 MESZ >> An: The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org >> > >> Betreff: Re: [squeak-dev] Fwd: squeakland contact >> Antwort an: The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org >> > >> >> Hi all, >> >> I'm using IE8 on Vista business without problems. >> Must check activeX permission on launching the plugin. >> >> Luis >> 2009/6/2 Michael Rueger <m.rueger(a)acm.org> >> Rita Freudenberg wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> can anybody help here? >> >> A bit more specific description of "trouble" would help... >> >> I haven't installed IE8 yet, maybe someone with IE8 could check? >> >> Cheers >> >> Michael >> >> >> >> Greetings, >> Rita >> >> Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail: >> >> Von: Long Nguyen <long(a)silo3.com> >> Datum: 2. Juni 2009 19:28:36 MESZ >> An: squeakland staff <webcontact(a)squeakland.org> >> Betreff: squeakland contact >> >> Hi, I'm having trouble running the plugin on IE8 with win xp pro. >> Do you have any tips to get it running? >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> All the best, >> Luís Valente >> > >

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