Yes, Scratch is another Squeak based authoring system for young people. MIT did a nice job with it. It is aimed at teenagers and is more of a productivity tool than an educational authoring environment.
Cheers,
Alan
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At 02:18 AM 5/21/2007, José Luis Redrejo wrote:
For telecenters, I would take a look to Scratch ( http://scratch.mit.edu/http://scratch.mit.edu/ ), even if at their homepage they only speak about windows and macintosh, it works under linux too (only some issues with the midi support are still remaining, but the rest of the tool works ok). I think Scratch is specially thought for places as telecenters. Regards
2007/5/21, Marta Voelcker <mailto:marta@pensamentodigital.org.brmarta@pensamentodigital.org.br>: Dear Squeakers,
As one of the researchers from the University that is running the OLPC pilot project in Porto Alegre, Brazil, I was introduced to squeak, last February, when I could bring an XO home during a weekend.
But now, my work is related to promote capacity building to the staff of organizations that run TELECENTERS.
Telecenters, in Brazil, are rooms with an average of 12 computers(PCs) with access to Internet inside NGOs or grassroots organizations, located in low-income communities in Brazil.
I am the coordinator of a Foundation that promotes capacity building to the staff of these organizations, to implement curses in telecenters. Our methodology has the same line of constructionism... We have been working "IT Basic knowledge" through project-based learning, now we want to start using Squeak.
In Brazil, schools work on shifts. Children go to school in the morning (8:00 to 12:00) or in the afternoon (2:00 to 18:00). If the child goes in the morning, during the afternoon he or she might get a vacancy in an after school program offered by an NGO or grassroots organization, or religious organization. Government helps supporting these organizations to implement this after school programs. Those organizations are frequently receiving refurbished computers and building partnerships to create their telecenter. Than, they come to us, asking for guidance about what to do with the telecenter.
So, we have telecenters as informal educational environment to work with children and teenagers. We don't need to relate our work to school curriculum, we can promote any kind of curses, workshop, guided playtime... any thing!
We have about 45 of these NGOs equipped with telecenters in Porto Alegre, already working with us (from a total of 150 NGOs partners from other cities).
Our motivation is strongly related to develop programming skills on children and teenagers.
We are thinking about to start with a group of age around 10 and another group around 15. We would choose one telecenter and plan to work there ( instead of train their staff).
But what would we teach? Should we keep thinking in project-based learning? When we use other software we frequently start working with identity construction, and after some exploration of the software, the group starts a project...
But to understand the basis of squeak, the "drive a car " project seems so important!!!
Well, sorry guys to be so long in this Sunday night! Seems that to write to you already made some goals clear to me!
Ideas, experiences and suggestions are welcome!
regards,
Marta Voelcker
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Scratch has only the blocks' wordings translated into portuguese; it has not (as Etoys) an internal language editor, so we only hope John Maloney and his team release an updated version, that either has this editor or a more complete 'dictionary'. Otherwise, Scratch is great kids production environment and a very well-finished system.
Paulo
On May 21, 2007, at 8:32 AM, Alan Kay wrote:
Yes, Scratch is another Squeak based authoring system for young people. MIT did a nice job with it. It is aimed at teenagers and is more of a productivity tool than an educational authoring environment.
Cheers,
Alan
At 02:18 AM 5/21/2007, José Luis Redrejo wrote:
For telecenters, I would take a look to Scratch ( http:// scratch.mit.edu/ ), even if at their homepage they only speak about windows and macintosh, it works under linux too (only some issues with the midi support are still remaining, but the rest of the tool works ok). I think Scratch is specially thought for places as telecenters. Regards
2007/5/21, Marta Voelcker < marta@pensamentodigital.org.br>: Dear Squeakers,
As one of the researchers from the University that is running the OLPC pilot project in Porto Alegre, Brazil, I was introduced to squeak, last February, when I could bring an XO home during a weekend.
But now, my work is related to promote capacity building to the staff of organizations that run TELECENTERS.
Telecenters, in Brazil, are rooms with an average of 12 computers (PCs) with access to Internet inside NGOs or grassroots organizations, located in low-income communities in Brazil.
I am the coordinator of a Foundation that promotes capacity building to the staff of these organizations, to implement curses in telecenters. Our methodology has the same line of constructionism... We have been working "IT Basic knowledge" through project-based learning, now we want to start using Squeak.
In Brazil, schools work on shifts. Children go to school in the morning (8:00 to 12:00) or in the afternoon (2:00 to 18:00). If the child goes in the morning, during the afternoon he or she might get a vacancy in an after school program offered by an NGO or grassroots organization, or religious organization. Government helps supporting these organizations to implement this after school programs. Those organizations are frequently receiving refurbished computers and building partnerships to create their telecenter. Than, they come to us, asking for guidance about what to do with the telecenter.
So, we have telecenters as informal educational environment to work with children and teenagers. We don't need to relate our work to school curriculum, we can promote any kind of curses, workshop, guided playtime... any thing!
We have about 45 of these NGOs equipped with telecenters in Porto Alegre, already working with us (from a total of 150 NGOs partners from other cities).
Our motivation is strongly related to develop programming skills on children and teenagers.
We are thinking about to start with a group of age around 10 and another group around 15. We would choose one telecenter and plan to work there ( instead of train their staff).
But what would we teach? Should we keep thinking in project-based learning? When we use other software we frequently start working with identity construction, and after some exploration of the software, the group starts a project...
But to understand the basis of squeak, the "drive a car " project seems so important!!!
Well, sorry guys to be so long in this Sunday night! Seems that to write to you already made some goals clear to me!
Ideas, experiences and suggestions are welcome!
regards,
Marta Voelcker
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Hi,
Yep, would be nice to see more integration and continuity between different members of the Squeak family. one thing that could help a lot would be to have the possibility to see the Smalltalk code that is behind the Scratch animation/projects as eToys do, even if eToys itself is not available. That could help to make more explicit the bridges between two projects.
Cheers,
Offray
Paulo Drummond escribió:
Scratch has only the blocks' wordings translated into portuguese; it has not (as Etoys) an internal language editor, so we only hope John Maloney and his team release an updated version, that either has this editor or a more complete 'dictionary'. Otherwise, Scratch is great kids production environment and a very well-finished system.
Paulo
On May 21, 2007, at 8:32 AM, Alan Kay wrote:
Yes, Scratch is another Squeak based authoring system for young people. MIT did a nice job with it. It is aimed at teenagers and is more of a productivity tool than an educational authoring environment.
Cheers,
Alan
At 02:18 AM 5/21/2007, José Luis Redrejo wrote:
For telecenters, I would take a look to Scratch ( http://scratch.mit.edu/ ), even if at their homepage they only speak about windows and macintosh, it works under linux too (only some issues with the midi support are still remaining, but the rest of the tool works ok). I think Scratch is specially thought for places as telecenters. Regards
2007/5/21, Marta Voelcker < marta@pensamentodigital.org.br mailto:marta@pensamentodigital.org.br>:
Dear Squeakers, As one of the researchers from the University that is running the OLPC pilot project in Porto Alegre, Brazil, I was introduced to squeak, last February, when I could bring an XO home during a weekend. But now, my work is related to promote capacity building to the staff of organizations that run TELECENTERS. Telecenters, in Brazil, are rooms with an average of 12 computers(PCs) with access to Internet inside NGOs or grassroots organizations, located in low-income communities in Brazil. I am the coordinator of a Foundation that promotes capacity building to the staff of these organizations, to implement curses in telecenters. Our methodology has the same line of constructionism... We have been working "IT Basic knowledge" through project-based learning, now we want to start using Squeak. In Brazil, schools work on shifts. Children go to school in the morning (8:00 to 12:00) or in the afternoon (2:00 to 18:00). If the child goes in the morning, during the afternoon he or she might get a vacancy in an after school program offered by an NGO or grassroots organization, or religious organization. Government helps supporting these organizations to implement this after school programs. Those organizations are frequently receiving refurbished computers and building partnerships to create their telecenter. Than, they come to us, asking for guidance about what to do with the telecenter. So, we have telecenters as informal educational environment to work with children and teenagers. We don't need to relate our work to school curriculum, we can promote any kind of curses, workshop, guided playtime... any thing! We have about 45 of these NGOs equipped with telecenters in Porto Alegre, already working with us (from a total of 150 NGOs partners from other cities). Our motivation is strongly related to develop programming skills on children and teenagers. We are thinking about to start with a group of age around 10 and another group around 15. We would choose one telecenter and plan to work there ( instead of train their staff). But what would we teach? Should we keep thinking in project-based learning? When we use other software we frequently start working with identity construction, and after some exploration of the software, the group starts a project... But to understand the basis of squeak, the "drive a car " project seems so important!!! Well, sorry guys to be so long in this Sunday night! Seems that to write to you already made some goals clear to me! Ideas, experiences and suggestions are welcome! regards, Marta Voelcker _______________________________________________ Squeakland mailing list Squeakland@squeakland.org <mailto:Squeakland@squeakland.org> http://squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland
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