Hi Harish, Have you looked at the materials K-5 Technology Passport at www.Squeakcmi.org I wrote them as introductions to Etoys in the classroom and have used them with many young beginners. The site also has some children's projects in the Library Collection tags: letter slates, number slates, Aesop's Fables, Science Books, and others. Regards, Kathleen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harish Pillay 9v1hp" h.pillay@ieee.org To: "squeakland" Squeakland@squeakland.org Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 1:28 AM Subject: Re: [Squeakland] An opportunity to promote Squeak in Singapore
Thanks, Luke, Tony and Eric for your responses. It is certainly encouraging to see the offers of suggestions and ideas.
The contest the ITSC is running, called code::XtremeApps:: 2008 has two categories - an open and a junior. The junior category is what I alluded to - for 12 and under. THe open category is for just about anyone to take part and is pretty much what we did last year: http://www.itsc.org.sg/codeXtremeApps.html
For the junior category, there exists some local expertise in Alice and a decision has to be made as to whether Alice or Squeak is to be the chosen platform. If anyone of you have worked with both, can I ask for a considered opinion on the merits of them? I have found out that stuff created in Alice cannot be "exported" and worked on by others. That could put a constraint on how the contest is run. Squeak, on the other hand, can easily import and export stuff giving the children their own space to work and then for the teams to combine. Please confirm that this is doable.
I need to report back to the organizing committee this coming Monday as to which platform to use and I would love to have Squeak as the one.
I will look into all the links provided by the Luke and Tony to understand better. I am a coder myself, but I haven't had a chance to teach programming to young children and am trying to get my head around to the merits of Alice and Squeak for this task.
Appreciate your inputs and suggestions.
Thanks.
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