on 3/12/02 8:40 PM, Donald MacQueen at dmacq at erols.com wrote:

> I am teaching Squeak to nine kids at my local school.  The students
> are three 8th graders and 6 7th graders.  We are using the book
> “Squeak – A Quick Trip to Objectland”.  We have classes once a
> week for an hour in the school computer lab, and have been meeting
> for just over a month.
> 
> It is difficult to tell how things are going. I ask if they understand
> what’s going on and get blank looks.  I ask if anyone is completely
> lost and get the same look.  They all seem to like the Squeak
> environment, especially the music and games. My twelve year old
> daughter is in the class and she says she know what’s going on, but
> I don’t think she see any use in what she has learned.
> 
> I think what is needed is some kind of project that would not only be
> ‘cool’ but also teach them something.  We did John Maloney’s TestMorph
> tutorial and they thought the rainbow morph was ‘cool’ as it bounced up
> and down, but even something this simple was a bit over their heads at
> this point.
> 
> I looked at doing Dan Shafer’s counter tutorial, but I think scripting
> would just confuse them right now.  I’d like to find some kind of project
> involving sound and animation that they could do without too much trouble.
> I thought about doing at tic-tac-toe game, but the graphics involved in
> displaying the board might be too hard.
> 
> I’d appreciate any project ideas.  Thanks.
> 
> 
> 

Hi 

I'm about to finish to write a world with for a robot but this might be to
complex. I also wrote some chapter on what is an object, a class....
I could send it to you.

Stef