I'm looking over some of the recent messages and came across this one.
I'll be showing homeschoolers Squeak and seeing where they take it over the next little bit. We are working on software that helps you learn to program. I'm thinking of showing one of our classes Squeak today and another Wednesday. The classes are very small (5-6 kids) and the average age is 12. One is all homeschoolers and another is not.
The first aims for the Squeak etoys were at what we called "lapware" (a parent with a child on their lap). And we have been wanting to do a major push for homeschoolers for quite a few years.
I remember our daughter setting on my lap drawing flowers and other shapes with LOGO. Several years later we were looking at Toontalk and remember the fantastic feeling I got as she was 'aha'ing the messaging between processes. She played with some of the etoys yeserday and I look forward to seeing what she came up with. (She is way bigger than lap size now :-)
Gary