squeakland May 2012

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Greetings from Montevideo, Uruguay
by Carlos Rabassa 23 May '12

23 May '12

Christine, Congratulations on your continued and successful efforts! We were impressed with the group of girls and their work when we met in the U.S. Virgin Islands I believe in 2010. We continue working as volunteers to help with Etoys and OLPC, as volunteers. We would like to share the material you just sent to the Squeakland list. However, the message we received doesn´t seem to be exactly what you sent, it suffered some changes when processed by the list. I cannot find the blog you mention. All I can get is the school´s website. Could you post another short message containing only the link to the blog which I hope shows what you are doing this year in St. John´s? I would like to share it with some of your uruguayan colleagues. Thanks and best wishes to you all! Carlos

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Sharing
by Christine Murakami 22 May '12

22 May '12

I hope you don't consider this "spam." I've never thought to share with this community, but I'm now leading our third "deployment" trip with high school girls to teach Etoys. We are working with grades 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8, in St. John USVI. Since you all work so hard to make Etoys what it is, and since it's such a vital part of our program, I thought I'd share our blog link, in case you'd like to follow our progress. (link below with my signature) Thanks for ALL your help! You are a fantastic community to work with. It never takes long to get help from someone out there! Best, Christine Murakami Christine Murakami Upper School Technology Integration Specialist Columbus School for Girls 56 S. Columbia Avenue Columbus, OH 43209 614.453.4538 For Girls. For Excellence. For the Future. www.columbusschoolforgirls.org<http://www.columbusschoolforgirls.org/> csgolpc.2012.weebly.com<http://csgolpc2012.weebly.com/> [Description: Description: CSG_little_wordmark]<http://www.columbusschoolforgirls.org/index.aspx> [Description: Description: small Facebook] <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Columbus-School-for-Girls/182439396917?v=wall> [Description: Description: Small Linked In Signature Icon] <http://www.linkedin.com/company/columbus-school-for-girls> [Description: Description: Small YouTube Icon] <http://www.youtube.com/user/ColumbusSchoolGirls> [Description: Description: Small Flicker Icon] <http://www.flickr.com/photos/csg123/sets/> [Description: Description: Small Twitter Icon] <http://twitter.com/#!/CSGAdmissions>

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Etoys Challenge
by Carlos Rabassa 15 May '12

15 May '12

While reading this interesting article, I wondered if someone might be interested in using Etoys to explain the concepts explained by Dr. Chow in this interview. Carlos : A Mathematical Challenge to Obesity By CLAUDIA DREIFUS Carson Chow has used mathematical models to determine the causes of obesity, and ways to stem the epidemic. Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/science/a-mathematical-challenge-to-obesi…

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How to get a button to start painting
by Luis Valente 15 May '12

15 May '12

Dear friends, I've a student developping a project to teach some basic math concepts. In her proposal, it's needed a button to start drwaing things using the etoys paintbox. Because it will be needed several times I can't recommend the "do menu item" "repaint". Anny suggestiont to help solve this problem will be appreciated. Luis

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Fwd: [New post] Library Collections | EtoysIllinois | Illinois
by Steve Thomas 15 May '12

15 May '12

I agree with the Post from Sugar Labs @ NSDU. Etoys Illinois <http://etoysillinois.org/library?tags=Computer%20Programming%20Tools%20in%2…>is "one of the best Etoys repositories around". Stephen ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sugar Labs @ NDSU <donotreply(a)wordpress.com> Date: Tue, May 15, 2012 at 1:32 PM Subject: [New post] Library Collections | EtoysIllinois | Illinois To: stevesargon(a)gmail.com ** New post on *Sugar Labs @ NDSU* <http://fargoxo.wordpress.com/author/kab13/> Library Collections | EtoysIllinois | Illinois<http://fargoxo.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/library-collections-etoysillinois-i…> by kab13 <http://fargoxo.wordpress.com/author/kab13/> Library Collections | EtoysIllinois | Illinois<http://etoysillinois.org/library?tags=Computer%20Programming%20Tools%20in%2…> . Can't remember if we have blogged this great site before or not, but probably one of the best Etoys repositories around. *kab13 <http://fargoxo.wordpress.com/author/kab13/>* | May 15, 2012 at 12:31 pm | Categories: Etoys <http://fargoxo.wordpress.com/?cat=388406> | URL: http://wp.me/p11bkN-ha Comment<http://fargoxo.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/library-collections-etoysillinois-i…> See all comments<http://fargoxo.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/library-collections-etoysillinois-i…> Unsubscribe or change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions<https://subscribe.wordpress.com/?key=59d517182387e524c80a6977993a7caf&email…>. *Trouble clicking?* Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://fargoxo.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/library-collections-etoysillinois-i… Thanks for flying with WordPress.com <http://wordpress.com>

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Invitation to connect on LinkedIn
by Hilaire Fernandes 15 May '12

15 May '12

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Etoys 5 release !
by karl ramberg 07 May '12

07 May '12

Hi Squeakland is proud to announce the release of Etoys 5, which you can now download from our website. Special thanks our developers, particularly Ricardo Moran, Bert Freudenberg, Scott Wallace (and my self) for their dedicated efforts in the last weeks. http://squeakland.org/download/ In the Etoys 5 you'll find new features, like single-stepping a script, attached watchers, a graph paper tool or the integration of ScratchConnect. You'll find a list of the new features, changes and bug fixes along with a list of contributors in our release notes. For the new features, we added a section with more detailed explanations on how to use it at the end of the notes. http://www.squeakland.org/download/releaseNotes.jsp Thanks to everyone who helped us to make this happen! Cheers, Karl Ramberg Squeakland Developers Team

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How to Train Your Robot
by Steve Thomas 04 May '12

04 May '12

So I tried using Dr. Techniko's How To Train Your Robot<http://drtechniko.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/how-to-train-your-robot/> with about ten kids 10-16 years old. I have done similar things in the past with kids based on seeing Seymour Papert videos where he has children pretending to be the "turtle" and the other children give the commands. Besides being a lot of fun, I really think the kids learned a lot and got a feeling of success. Here is a list of some of the things kids came up with: 1. Created Looping techniques 1. While walk 2. Repeat 4 times: walk 2ft 2. Came up with the idea of using coordinates to program the Robot (ex: goto 1,0 - an actual good use of goto :) 3. Measured the whole path, drew models of the path with measurements and planned out everything on paper before writing the program 4. Came up with various sensors (ex: sense Obstacle) 1. Special thanks to those who improved the sensors and had me stop BEFORE I hit the wall!!! 5. Used the idea of Homing Beacons 6. Had two styles of programs one where you loaded all the instructions into the Robot, then the Robot followed the instructions. The other interactive where you guided the Robot with voice commands. 1. Question, in the above two examples, where was the "intelligence?" In the programmer or in the program? 7. Came up with the idea of functions or methods. Higher level commands (aka abstractions) to get a robot to do something (ex: walk = left foot forward, right foot forward). 8. Not only did folks walk up the ladder of abstraction as in item 7, one of you walked down the ladder of abstraction and created more detailed command for left foot forward, explaining what each part of the leg had to do to "move left leg forward" 9. Last but far from least, you made mistakes!!!! Woohoo!!! Yippeee!!! If you don't make mistakes, you are not learning. Of course that's only true if you learn from your mistakes. But the best is to learn from the mistakes of others, you don't have time to make them all yourself. Feel free to watch me for mistakes, I am a great teacher that way :) General Techniques for facilitating learning: - Clap, Clap, Clap - you need this to get their attention and bring a room full of engaged noisy kids to silence and get their attention to make a point or share a really cool thing some kid did. I generally start my first class by staring at the kids and not saying a word. I do this until they start to notice, quiet down and are all looking at me. Then I clap my hands three times and wait for them to repeat. If only a few of them do, I shake my head and clap three times again until all the kids do it. This is usually enough for them to get the idea. I will then do this again when they are not too distracted to get them in the habit. Usually only takes a few attempts and they respond each time after that. - Give the concept the kids come up with a name. Allow the kids to be the teachers. When a child does something worth noting, do the Clap, Clap, Clap, then say what a great idea had, she .... Be specific in the praise, not "oh Mr. Steve is wonderful" - Catch kids doing things you can compliment them on, ideally in front of the whole class. Once the kids see you complimenting and praising one child they all want it. Better yet, don't wait for kids to be successful, orchestrate their success. - Lower the Rope - If a task is too hard for some children, give them an easier task. The goal is to make them successful, not to frustrate them. - Raise the Bar - Plan on tasks for kids who finish quickly or get the solution fast, so that they are challenged and not bored. If appropriate and they could help teach, but you need to train them to teach in a way that builds kids up and helps make them successful. Things I would do different next time. - I would spend more time in the beginning letting the kids program me, so I was sure they all got the idea. - I would also let them program me "interactively" (responding to each command as they say it, rather than having them tell me a bunch of commands at once). - I would have "lowered the rope" for certain kids and had them program me to walk a straight line to get to a wall, while others were working on the more "complex" challenges. - I also like the idea from Dr. Techniko of asking kids to program their parents to do something silly or funny.

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Re: [squeakland] Fwd: SQUEAK EN ARM FEDORA 14
by Hilaire Fernandes 02 May '12

02 May '12

If someone can propose me an archive with a build of the VM for ARM, better based on StackVM, I will be happy to build a DrGeo activity for XO1.75 with the latest DrGeo development. Hilaire Le 25/04/2012 18:26, Bert Freudenberg a écrit : > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Ariel Calzada <ariel(a)activitycentral.com> >> Subject: SQUEAK EN ARM FEDORA 14 >> Date: 25. April 2012 04:56:27 GMT-07:00 >> To: "squeakland.org mailing list" <squeakland(a)squeakland.org>, america-latina(a)squeakland.org, Rafael Ortiz <rafael(a)activitycentral.com> >> >> Hola Lista! >> >> Estoy intentando correr squeak para XO 1.75 ( Fedora 14 ), tengo problemas en cuanto a que tengo una imagen ( drgeo.image ) >> la cual al parecer funciona con una version de interpretador específica (6504) y la que viene para entorno es 6502. La verdad >> no conozco mucho de SQUEAK y por eso quisiera que alguno pudiera darme luces en el tema. >> >> Saludos, >> Ariel Calzada >> Activity Central > > -- Dr. Geo -- http://www.drgeo.eu

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