I am a faculty member at National Louis University as well as the technology coordinator at a K-8 school in Evanston, IL. I have used Squeak with my students. A colleague and I are working on an article for a technology in education publication. The article is about several multimedia-authoring tools, including Squeak. We would like to provide a concise description of each tool. We can't guarantee that all the information will appear in the article, but we'd like to get the correct information.
Do you have a PR person who could answer these questions? Let me know if I can contact somebody at Squeak for this information. Thank you. -Irina Lobo ilobo@nl.edu 847-905-2017
Questions: 1) Can we have permission to print a screen capture of Squeak? Is there one you would like us to use?
2) Here are a couple of quotes from our draft. Can you verify that these are accurate? Quotes: "Within CREATE Together and Squeak, for example, students actually participate in object-oriented programming, assigning attributes and actions to objects."
"In Squeak, the tools for each object appear when the object is selected and are hidden when the object is not in use."
"Programs like Squeak allow students to draw their own pictures and then animate them. "
3) Here are some categories of information. Can you look this over for accuracy, fill in blanks, and give us your take on each item? We would love more information on these categories.
Squeak Title/Contact Information Squeak - www.squeakland.org
Price: free
Platform: Mac OSX and higher / Win 32 and higher / Unix / RiscOS
Recommended Grade Levels :
Special Features : - open source code - active community of users in several countries
Creative Options - basic drawing tools - several plug-ins that play and manipulate sound file as well as 2D/3D graphics
Publish/Share: - active Squeak community, so students in community can share and modify projects online - Squeak plug-in can be downloaded
Support Materials - tutorials on www.squeakland.org http://www.squeakland.org - Powerful Ideas in the Classroom by B.J Allen-Conn & Kim Rose - Squeak: A Quick Trip to Objectland by Gene Korienek, Tom Wrensch, Doug Dechow
It appears to me that you are actually inquiring regarding SqueakLand which is a specific application of Squeak and not about Squeak itself. Please contact the SqueakLand group. Contact information can be found at
http://www.squeakland.org/contact/contactmain.html
Ken Causey
On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 21:57 -0600, Irina Lobo wrote:
I am a faculty member at National Louis University as well as the technology coordinator at a K-8 school in Evanston, IL. I have used Squeak with my students. A colleague and I are working on an article for a technology in education publication. The article is about several multimedia-authoring tools, including Squeak. We would like to provide a concise description of each tool. We can't guarantee that all the information will appear in the article, but we'd like to get the correct information.
Do you have a PR person who could answer these questions? Let me know if I can contact somebody at Squeak for this information. Thank you. -Irina Lobo ilobo@nl.edu 847-905-2017
Questions:
- Can we have permission to print a screen capture of Squeak? Is
there one you would like us to use?
- Here are a couple of quotes from our draft. Can you verify that
these are accurate? Quotes: "Within CREATE Together and Squeak, for example, students actually participate in object-oriented programming, assigning attributes and actions to objects."
"In Squeak, the tools for each object appear when the object is selected and are hidden when the object is not in use."
"Programs like Squeak allow students to draw their own pictures and then animate them. "
- Here are some categories of information. Can you look this over for
accuracy, fill in blanks, and give us your take on each item? We would love more information on these categories.
Squeak Title/Contact Information Squeak - www.squeakland.org
Price: free
Platform: Mac OSX and higher / Win 32 and higher / Unix / RiscOS
Recommended Grade Levels :
Special Features :
- open source code
- active community of users in several countries
Creative Options
- basic drawing tools
- several plug-ins that play and manipulate sound file as well as
2D/3D graphics
Publish/Share:
- active Squeak community, so students in community can share and
modify projects online
- Squeak plug-in can be downloaded
Support Materials
- tutorials on www.squeakland.org http://www.squeakland.org
- Powerful Ideas in the Classroom by B.J Allen-Conn & Kim Rose
- Squeak: A Quick Trip to Objectland by Gene Korienek, Tom Wrensch,
Doug Dechow
Hi Irina,
The educational part of Squeak is best used and demonstrated by the folks at the Squeakland site that you reference.
I've cc'd this e-mail to Kim Rose at Viewpoints Research who leads the team that makes the student learning edition of Squeak. She might be the best one to answer all your questions.
Cheers, Darius
----Original Message Follows---- From: "Irina Lobo" ILobo@nl.edu To: webteam@lists.squeakfoundation.org Subject: [Webteam] PR info for Squeak Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 21:57:04 -0600
I am a faculty member at National Louis University as well as the technology coordinator at a K-8 school in Evanston, IL. I have used Squeak with my students. A colleague and I are working on an article for a technology in education publication. The article is about several multimedia-authoring tools, including Squeak. We would like to provide a concise description of each tool. We can't guarantee that all the information will appear in the article, but we'd like to get the correct information.
Do you have a PR person who could answer these questions? Let me know if I can contact somebody at Squeak for this information. Thank you. -Irina Lobo ilobo@nl.edu 847-905-2017
Questions: 1) Can we have permission to print a screen capture of Squeak? Is there one you would like us to use?
2) Here are a couple of quotes from our draft. Can you verify that these are accurate? Quotes: "Within CREATE Together and Squeak, for example, students actually participate in object-oriented programming, assigning attributes and actions to objects."
"In Squeak, the tools for each object appear when the object is selected and are hidden when the object is not in use."
"Programs like Squeak allow students to draw their own pictures and then animate them. "
3) Here are some categories of information. Can you look this over for accuracy, fill in blanks, and give us your take on each item? We would love more information on these categories.
Squeak Title/Contact Information Squeak - www.squeakland.org
Price: free
Platform: Mac OSX and higher / Win 32 and higher / Unix / RiscOS
Recommended Grade Levels :
Special Features : - open source code - active community of users in several countries
Creative Options - basic drawing tools - several plug-ins that play and manipulate sound file as well as 2D/3D graphics
Publish/Share: - active Squeak community, so students in community can share and modify projects online - Squeak plug-in can be downloaded
Support Materials - tutorials on www.squeakland.org http://www.squeakland.org - Powerful Ideas in the Classroom by B.J Allen-Conn & Kim Rose - Squeak: A Quick Trip to Objectland by Gene Korienek, Tom Wrensch, Doug Dechow
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