Hi, Andy - We're having a "Squeakfest" at Columbia College, in Chicago.. here's the original post: Please let Wade Roberts (wroberts@colum.edu) and me know if you can join us. cheers, Kim

-- The Interactive Multimedia and Early Childhood Education Programs at Columbia College Chicago and Viewpoints Research Institute invite you to Summer SqueakFest03 on the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago.

SqueakFest03 will be Wednesday, August 6, to Friday, August 8 (two full-day sessions on Wednesday and Thursday, and a morning session on Friday). There is no registration fee.

Columbia has negotiated workshop rates at the adjacent Congress Hotel of $109 per night (single and double occupancy). Continental breakfasts and boxed lunches will be provided.

SqueakFest03 is also co-sponsored by Columbia's School of Media Arts and School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, home, respectively, of the Interactive Multimedia and Early Childhood Education Programs.

In addition to a workshop on using the Etoy component of Squeak, we thought that it was time to try to assemble a critical mass of folks to discuss best-practices and practical considerations. We hope that attendees will arrive with examples and details of student projects, lesson plans, assessment details, stories, anecdotes, pedagogical approaches, and the like. What worked? What didn't work? Why? What can we draw as conclusions, learn from, and do differently (or the same) in the future. Most importantly: What can we learn from, and teach, each other?

We welcome participants from elementary, junior high, and high schools, and education programs at institutions of higher-education.

There will be plenty of time for attendees to break out into sessions by subject areas and by grades.

There will also be time for educators to provide feedback on teaching and using Squeak (features? interface? implementation?) to the developers.

At the conclusion of SqueakFest03, the IM Program will post and serve Squeak projects brought to or sent to the workshop.

Columbia College Chicago is the country's largest arts, media, and communications school, with an enrollment approaching 10,000 students, and offers both undergraduate and graduate degrees. At the undergraduate level, it is open-admissions, by mission and philosophy. It is located in Chicago's South Loop, adjacent to Grant Park and Lake Michigan, and is convenient to the city's many museums and other cultural and popular attractions.

Attendance will be limited. Reply with your interest to: Kim Rose: Kim.Rose@viewpointsresearch.org AND Wade Roberts: wroberts@colum.edu

Columbia College Chicago: http://www.colum.edu

Interactive Multimedia Program home: http://interactive.colum.edu

Early Childhood Education Program: http://www.colum.edu/undergraduate/earlychildhood/index.html

IM/ECE partnership: http://interactive.colum.edu/partnerships_ece.aspx

Hope to see you in Chicago! Wade & Kim

I remember seeing reference to some Squeak summer workshops/institute in earlier posts. (Columbia?) Anyone have any info sources/ideas.

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