Hi all,
It's the beginning of this semester and we, at university are starting some courses using Squeak. The first one will start this Friday and will have a month of duration. I was talking today with the people who will take the course and they expressed their interest specially in the creation of collaborative hypermedia with Squeak.
The people who going to start the course is working with new technologies and education. They have some experience with learning management systems, like Black Board and social software like mediawiki. They have different background from engineering, graphical design, education and literature, and they want seriously to integrate Squeak in the virtual learning experience in the University. They have proposed three narrative "excuses" for the authoring: city maps (stories of places), travels (stories of journeys) or moving from home to home (stories of the things that we have in home).
I know that Squeak spirit is also "to provide computer support for the creative spirit in everyone" and educative correlate make a lot of sense for the scenario that we have here. We can create hypermedia stories with bookmorph and some other morphs... but I'm thinking in the collaborative part of the experience, because I have never made collaborative authoring (or even programming in Squeak). Monticello is more for programmers; I have heard of Nebraska but never use it. I have browsing quickly the SqSqueak site and I see a category on the Object Catalog called "Collaborate", with things like Nebraska Server, Fridge, Badge and so on... even there is a server with boards that can be shared, but seems to need some kind of plugin to be used (I think that is the Squeak plugin for the browser)... will be really nice to know more exactly where to find more documentation on this category and collaboration in general in Squeak.
Any advice, intended activities, pointer to documentation or ideas about for this course will be greatly appreciated. I think that it's a good opportunity to spread the Squeak word. I'm all ear and eyes and will be waiting for your advices on how to proceed.
Cheers,
Offray