Hi all,
I would like to help to the community, and, because there are people like me, with difficult learning Squeak/Smalltalk, I want to help them.
I have ZyoForma, an e-learning platform and I will give it to offer Free Squeak Courses.
The platform is based on moodle, and all (teachers, developers), can use it for his own courses to help learning Squeak or Object Oriented Concepts.
The courses can have chats, forums, wikis, cuestionaries, and all the necessary content to make an online course.
There are some conditions: - The course must be free (as speech, and as a beer). Creative Commons license or similar. - The courses must be in English. Other languages are supported but only under translating others. This will help to get all the possible courses on a main language like English. If you want, for example, publish a course about morphic, you need it on English and then, other language you want to publish. You can translate courses from english to your language if you want.
I think this, can help existing wikis and webs to be more easy to learn Squeak and related. IMHO something like this is necessary, because for some people, is very difficult learn Squeak and his concepts browsing only the image, Probably it's the best way, but more people disturbs spending time without results. First, is necessary have a minimal concepts, then, you will be preapared to browse the image and other things.
If you are familiarized with e-learning platforms, ZyoForma accept SCORM[1] files.
Remember, all Squeak Content will be totally free.
If you want to publish a course contact to get information with: teachsqueak@zyoconsulting.com
Questions, critics and insults are welcome.
ZyoForma: http://www.zyoconsulting.com/formacion
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCORM