Hi Stef...

> hi diego
>
> What is the level of your lectured?

Mostly teachers and instructors for teachers.

> What are you teaching them?

eToys and how Squeak can be used to create multimedia presentations.

I mention the possibilities in "deep-squeak" but:

1) I had not enough time to go deeper
2) Most of them was teachers without interest in hard-programming.

> Do you think my book could help them?

Sure!

> What the 80000 PCers will do?

All the students of high-school level in Extremadura (160.000 students)
will have access to 80.000 PCs all the time, every day.

See http://www.linex.org/linex2/linex/ingles/index_ing.html and
http://swiki.agro.uba.ar/small_land/uploads/4/dublin.pdf for more details
about LinEx.

What to do with these computers is part of the/our challenge.

BTW, some of them are considering Squeak as an option and others are
already playing with it.

>Will squeak be installed on them.

Sure! :-)

> Stef
>
> Diego tell us more. What do you think is possible?

This is a really good question.

This is a big opportunity for Squeak but the road is not free of
obstacles.  The first challenge is how to use Squeak in high-school
level.  I put special emphasis in the multimedia features and how to use
them to produce active essays and how to use eToys to enhance this essays
with simulations, animations, etc.

Our guess is that eToys can also be used in the first years of
math/science teaching more in the “original idea”.

> Do you think that a spanish version of the book would help?

Sure!  More or less everything is needed.

In these days we're starting th Spanish translation of the “Powerful Ideas
in Classroom” book (aka the squeakland's book) and our swiki is growing
with a lot of useful information and we're planning to convert it to paper.

> (I'm about to send the final version to reviewers).

I hope I'm on these list :-)

Cheers,

Diego