From kim.rose at vpri.org Mon Dec 1 10:01:25 2008 From: kim.rose at vpri.org (Kim Rose) Date: Mon Dec 1 14:35:26 2008 Subject: [Squeakland] C5-09 Kyoto - Registration now available! Message-ID: Greetings! Online registration is now available for "C5-09" -- The 7th International Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing to be held January 19-22nd, in beautiful Kyoto, Japan. Online Registration can be found here: http://www.cm.is.ritsumei.ac.jp/c5-09/index.php?Registration General Conference and program information can be found here: http://www.cm.is.ritsumei.ac.jp/c5-09/ Join us for 4 days of workshops, paper presentations and stimulating invited talks by Dr. Allison Druin, University of Maryland; Dr. Alan Kay, Viewpoints Research, and Dr. Tomonori Aoyama, Keio University. We wish to thank our sponsors Global COE Kyoto University, Viewpoints Research, Hewlett-Packard, ESUG and Matthew McCauley for their support. We hope to see you in Kyoto in January! -- Kim From billkerr at gmail.com Fri Dec 5 19:20:26 2008 From: billkerr at gmail.com (Bill Kerr) Date: Sat Dec 6 01:00:30 2008 Subject: [Squeakland] 40th Anniversary of the Dynabook In-Reply-To: References: <491389F6.4040008@yahoo.com> <548347E6-9E9E-4E8C-84BE-8F3DB2759A35@vpri.org> Message-ID: <5d2dce520812051920r3efe2eacx63e2448cb7eb1233@mail.gmail.com> http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2008/12/alan-kay-after-40-years-dynabook-is-n= ot.html I have transcribed a section of Alan Kay's recent presentation marking "40 years anniversary of the dynabook" because I see it as an important contribution to ongoing discussions about the significance and prospects for the XO, or OLPC On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Brad Fuller wro= te: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Kim Rose wrote: > > HI, Brad - > > > > Sorry for delay in response. I am checking with the Computer History > Museum > > now to see if Alan's talk and the panel following it were indeed > recorded. > > I'll send info on where one might watch once I receive a response. > > The event is now on Youtube: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DtQg4LquY0uU > > > > > On Nov 6, 2008, at 4:21 PM, Brad Fuller wrote: > > > >> All, > >> > >> Alan, Chuck, Mary Lou and Steve did a fabulous job at the Computer > >> History Museum's program last night. Insightful and educational as > >> always. Alan, will you make your Squeak project available for us to > >> review? > >> > >> I noticed that they were videotaping, so I assume the video will be > >> available on the CHM youtube channel: > >> http://www.youtube.com/computerhistory > >> > >> Thanks to all that made it possible! > >> > >> best, > >> brad > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Squeakland mailing list > >> Squeakland@squeakland.org > >> http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Squeakland mailing list > > Squeakland@squeakland.org > > http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland > > > > > > -- > Brad Fuller > > _______________________________________________ > Squeakland mailing list > Squeakland@squeakland.org > http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland > -- = Bill Kerr http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://vpri.org/pipermail/squeakland/attachments/20081206/607e630b/att= achment.htm From jbennett at benedictine.edu Wed Dec 10 22:31:12 2008 From: jbennett at benedictine.edu (Jane Bennett) Date: Thu Dec 11 02:26:05 2008 Subject: [Squeakland] a watcher Message-ID: Can anyone help me? I need to create a "watcher" tile that will count how many falling cherries a bird touches as it flies around. I'm not sure how to do this. Please respond Janie B. From kim.rose at vpri.org Thu Dec 11 06:07:30 2008 From: kim.rose at vpri.org (Kim Rose) Date: Thu Dec 11 08:02:05 2008 Subject: [Squeakland] a watcher In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <9551D1CA-2D86-4ACE-A96A-152C7213A974@vpri.org> Hi, Janie - It sounds like the creation of a variable will help you here -- create a variable by clicking the "v"-like button found at the top right of a viewer. You can call it "counter" perhaps --- create a script for your counter that increases by 1 each time the bird touches a cherry (you can use a "color sees" or "color under" test for this). give this a try ... cheers, Kim --- Viewpoints Research is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to improving "powerful ideas education" for the world's children and advancing the state of systems research and personal computing. Please visit us online at www.vpri.org On Dec 10, 2008, at 10:31 PM, Jane Bennett wrote: > Can anyone help me? I need to create a "watcher" tile that will > count how many falling cherries a bird touches as it flies around. > I'm not sure how to do this. Please respond > > Janie B. > > _______________________________________________ > Squeakland mailing list > Squeakland@squeakland.org > http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland From offray.luna at javeriana.edu.co Fri Dec 12 11:26:05 2008 From: offray.luna at javeriana.edu.co (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Offray_Vladimir_Luna_C=E1rdenas?=) Date: Fri Dec 12 17:23:59 2008 Subject: [Squeakland] Read about Squeak (in Spanish) In-Reply-To: <49688D6E-FDF2-4222-9038-67AC5A6EFB18@vpri.org> References: <20461294.1223807029599.JavaMail.milan.zimmermann@sympatico.ca> <49688D6E-FDF2-4222-9038-67AC5A6EFB18@vpri.org> Message-ID: <4942BACD.70307@javeriana.edu.co> Hi Kim, Kim Rose escribi?: > Passing this along to our Spanish speaking friends, > Kim > Thanks a lot for the links. We have collected some more of them in our local wiki also: http://www.el-directorio.org/Squeak/Enlaces This is the page with more links (not only in Spanish but there are a few ones, specially the educative ones which have Spanish information). And in this page: http://www.el-directorio.org/Squeak We have a little more information about installing and small tips . Cheers, Offray Ps: I'm glad to recovering back my virtual life. From timothy at immuexa.com Thu Dec 18 09:46:52 2008 From: timothy at immuexa.com (Timothy Falconer) Date: Thu Dec 18 09:51:44 2008 Subject: [Squeakland] commercial for OLPC from Waveplace Message-ID: Hi everyone, Bill Stelzer from Waveplace has created a 30 second commercial for OLPC using footage from our Haiti and Nicaragua pilots: http://www.youtube.com/waveplace Please rank us and comment us and share us and all that YouTube stuff. We need friends. In other news, the government of Nicaragua received 3,200 XO laptops from a local donor and wants Waveplace to train 400 teachers in 200 schools. Wow. More details can be found in our newsletter: http://waveplace.com/news/newsletter/web.jsp?id=13 You can subscribe to the newsletter at: http://waveplace.com/subscribe/ Should be an exciting year. We've got pilots planned in all four of our existing areas, along with a a few other possible locations in the Caribbean. As for the many who have asked about our upcoming documentary and new textbook, we're still trying to find funds to complete them. We've shot over 100 hours of video, much with the same quality as our many shorts. A call from a donor could come at any time. Maybe from you? Take care, Tim -- Timothy Falconer Immuexa Corporation http://immuexa.com 610-797-3100 From hilaire at ofset.org Fri Dec 19 06:50:16 2008 From: hilaire at ofset.org (Hilaire Fernandes) Date: Fri Dec 19 06:54:40 2008 Subject: [Squeakland] [ANN]iStoa.net 8.12-alpha1 Message-ID: <7ac6e0530812190650l76395339ree10a02b1b790ccf@mail.gmail.com> Dear all, I am working on a learning system written in Smalltalk. The contents is only in French for now, and only cover multiplication learning, but I am planing for more in various subjects. Underneath the curriculum is modelised in a graph to help situating the learning progression of the learner. It is an alpha state, website http://www.istoa.net -- http://blog.ofset.org/hilaire From milan.zimmermann at sympatico.ca Sun Dec 21 11:42:08 2008 From: milan.zimmermann at sympatico.ca (Milan Zimmermann) Date: Sun Dec 21 13:22:43 2008 Subject: [Squeakland] Nice site to add to Squeakland; RPM download only shows on Windows IE Message-ID: I found a very interesting squeak education related site that would be a great addition to the community resources list here: http://squeakland.org/resources/community/ The site is: http://www.yc.musashi-tech.ac.jp/~design/squeak/index.html ------ I also have a note: The HTTP plugin download page ?seems to have an error that causes the "rpm" option not to show in Firefox (and probably other browsers , works ok in IE on Windows only - which does not really need RPM). http://squeakland.org/download/ Milan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://vpri.org/pipermail/squeakland/attachments/20081221/f79de429/attachment.htm From offray.luna at javeriana.edu.co Tue Dec 23 05:35:27 2008 From: offray.luna at javeriana.edu.co (=?windows-1252?Q?Offray_Vladimir_Luna_C=E1rdenas?=) Date: Tue Dec 23 09:33:55 2008 Subject: RES: [Squeakland] Squeakfest 2009 In-Reply-To: <001401c94d29$efe526e0$cfaf74a0$@org.br> References: <023a01c94c1e$902d7d80$b0887880$@org.br> <86r654szik.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> <001401c94d29$efe526e0$cfaf74a0$@org.br> Message-ID: <4950E91F.2000200@javeriana.edu.co> Hi Martha Marta Voelcker escribi?: > > Randal, Jecel and all, > > June is also possible, but, I was thinking how Smalltalk Conference > and how FISL atmosphere relate to the Squeakfest that I had in mind > (similar to Chicago 2007)... > > I have limited experience, but the way I see things, the currently > biggest challenge for E-toys growth is not on its code, is not related > to software, but to teachers and schools reps. It is related to > communicating /what for,/ and /how to,/ use it inside schools. > > In this context, making a metaphor with sports, let's say... with NBA > - I see the developers/programmers as the wise and experienced > coaches, and I see the teachers as the players. They are those who > score, who make it happen inside the classroom - I would like to see > them becoming the stars, shining in this context! > > The name Squeakfest made history already, and so we plan to keep it, > but in fact, the idea is not about squeak-the programming language- > the idea is gathering together to share experience and plans about E-toys. > > Talking about e-toys I am particularly motivated about 2009 - the > landscape had never been so proper to make it growth. Taking growth as > explained by > > David Cavallo's in his paper - Models of growth ? towards fundamental > change in learning environments - ... /as the terms replication and > scaling are themselves problematic and misleading. /I see 2009 proper > for growth because OLPC has already delivered XOs in schools in many > countries; technology price had go down also in developing countries? > But schools will need initiated teachers, teachers active in e-toys > community, to make it happen. > [...] > > Maybe, relating Squeakfest with a big software conferences might scare > teachers? > > In the other hand, making Squeakfest close to an IT for Education > conference (WCCE) is probably going to increase attendance of teachers > and people from education area. > Nice to hear about you and your views for the incoming Squeakfest. Talking about the Cavallo's article. His group also said that changes in macro scale require also (among other things): * Materials: things that make easy the work with new paradigms (etoys and OLPC are two of them) and * bottom up and emergent process * Community and communication So I think that Squeakfest has a lot of opportunity to take advantage of this things. I emphasize this three because with a little switch in Squeakfest they can help to create a more large scale changes: * We need a more bottom-up spaces in the event. Of course workshops and usual conferences will be there, but I would propose something more emergent and bottom up. We have here in Colombia something called Educamp[1], the space and the dynamics emphasize the emergent process of knowledge building between participants. Other things like the world cafe work in the same vein [1] http://educamp.wetpaint.com/ [2] http://www.theworldcafe.com/ We need also somekind of "Squeak cross-pollination" between Squeak and other communities. For me Squeak has somekind of natural way to construct a discourse about computers as cognitive artifacts. In some way things that you think for long time ago before knowing Squeak about what computers should be, are already there, but you find this a a lot of other interesting ideas in other communities. Recently I found the idea of a self-contained, elucidative system in Tiddlywiki. Would be nice to put this ideas and communities to chat and to stretch ties and talks between them. There is any place for papers submisions or ideas about workshops? I will really like to present something this year also. Cheers, Offray From billkerr at gmail.com Tue Dec 23 15:00:48 2008 From: billkerr at gmail.com (Bill Kerr) Date: Tue Dec 23 15:16:43 2008 Subject: [Squeakland] Hilaire Fernandes learning system Message-ID: <5d2dce520812231500j14e0e536qa27d951066e3bd7c@mail.gmail.com> from walter's sugar digest: 6. Hilaire Fernandes, who brought us DrGeo, has a new project underway: :I am working on a learning system written in Smalltalk. The contents is only in French for now, and only cover multiplication learning, but I am planing for more in various subjects. Underneath the curriculum is in a graph to help situating the learning progression of the learner. I've done an english translation of the main page using google translate - I'm not certain but it could be Hilaire's intention to eventually develop a computer mentoring system - identified by alan kay as the main thing missing from his dynabook vision (40th anniversary presentation) if anyone improves the translation please send me a copy activit=E9 (=E9tayage) =3D activity (shoring) ??? ABOUT iSTOA.net is a research project to build a platform for interactive teaching and monitoring the Internet. It is free and cross-licensed MIT. Some aspects of iStoa.net: * Interactive exercises for students is important (see this article on the artifacts). * Modeling of the field of learning * The construction of a knowledge model of learning as part of its activities with the software * A remediation when the student is in trouble We are building a community around this project, to help us build it, join us! You can also reach OFSET (Organization for Free Software in Education and Teaching), which supports the project on its list of discussion. NEW IN VERSION 8.12-ALPHA1 Intermediate version. Includes editor notional network, database, web console, the student, the application of test exercises: * Resolution bug # 6936, # 6937, # 6973, # 6939 List of bugs * Version based Pharo # 10192: font rendering plugin with FreeType, verifications and modifications Pharo for compatibility with the latest stable version 41.1 of Magma. * Refactoring code. Correction on some exercises. The console's web master and the students with recording traces are present. However, some simple operations are necessary to activate them. If you want to test, ask on the mailing list. Since its interactive teaching file, ISTO provides access to a set of scaffolding materials. Each shoring is an activity that addresses one or more educational themes and includes a series of exercises. The shoring are classified according to the classification of items of educational curricula. It includes more than 40 educational shoring with more than 160 years. PROJECT DESCRIPTION The platform is aimed at teaching math and French cycle 3 of primary school. Its use is multiple use in the classroom, use at home or remediation monitoring with deferred by the teacher. Each act of the learner is stored in a database, in a local network or the Internet. Of course, use offline mode is possible, there is no case in this recording traces Features ISTO is divided into four main parts: 1. A modeling tool in the field of learning. 2. A corpus of interactive and dynamic. 3. A system for recording acts of learning. 4. A Web console of the teacher to see the traces of learners. These revolve around large parts of modeling the domain of learning. The exercises are the learner according to a part of this model, and partly of his learning. The exercises of the body are modular and configurable objects. They are grouped by activity (shoring). The chart below shows in detail some of these relationships: DIAGRAM Domain de reference: programmes scolaires =3D Domain of reference: curricula Graphe de competences =3D Graph of competences Graphe d'etayage =3D Graphe shoring Apprenant =3D Learner Modele de connaissance =3D Model knowledge decrit =3D described Fait evoluer =3D Changed modelise =3D modeled Corpus d'exercices =3D Corpus exercises pilote =3D pilot Traitement erreur =3D Treatment error Domaine de reference: savoir-faire pedagogique =3D Area of reference: educational know-how The project The outline of the model are in place. The body of exercises is to increase, for a school it takes several hundreds of interactive exercises. But for them, we develop artifacts that are reusable components from one year to another, this reduces the development time necessary. To learn more about the project, visit the state of the project. 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URL: http://vpri.org/pipermail/squeakland/attachments/20081224/7eb2ff89/att= achment.htm From billkerr at gmail.com Tue Dec 23 15:06:00 2008 From: billkerr at gmail.com (Bill Kerr) Date: Tue Dec 23 15:16:44 2008 Subject: [Squeakland] [ANN]iStoa.net 8.12-alpha1 In-Reply-To: <7ac6e0530812190650l76395339ree10a02b1b790ccf@mail.gmail.com> References: <7ac6e0530812190650l76395339ree10a02b1b790ccf@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <5d2dce520812231506v798491a8y6a84b2b0e9b36f23@mail.gmail.com> On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 1:20 AM, Hilaire Fernandes wrote: > Dear all, > > I am working on a learning system written in Smalltalk. > The contents is only in French for now, and only cover multiplication > learning, but I am planing for more in various subjects. > Underneath the curriculum is modelised in a graph to help situating > the learning progression of the learner. > > It is an alpha state, website http://www.istoa.net I've done an english translation of the main page using google translate - I'm not certain but it could be Hilaire's intention to eventually develop a computer mentoring system - identified by alan kay as the main thing missing from his dynabook vision (40th anniversary presentation) if anyone improves the translation please send me a copy activit=E9 (=E9tayage) =3D activity (shoring) ??? ABOUT iSTOA.net is a research project to build a platform for interactive teaching and monitoring the Internet. It is free and cross-licensed MIT. Some aspects of iStoa.net: * Interactive exercises for students is important (see this article on the artifacts). * Modeling of the field of learning * The construction of a knowledge model of learning as part of its activities with the software * A remediation when the student is in trouble We are building a community around this project, to help us build it, join us! You can also reach OFSET (Organization for Free Software in Education and Teaching), which supports the project on its list of discussion. NEW IN VERSION 8.12-ALPHA1 Intermediate version. Includes editor notional network, database, web console, the student, the application of test exercises: * Resolution bug # 6936, # 6937, # 6973, # 6939 List of bugs * Version based Pharo # 10192: font rendering plugin with FreeType, verifications and modifications Pharo for compatibility with the latest stable version 41.1 of Magma. * Refactoring code. Correction on some exercises. The console's web master and the students with recording traces are present. However, some simple operations are necessary to activate them. If you want to test, ask on the mailing list. Since its interactive teaching file, ISTO provides access to a set of scaffolding materials. Each shoring is an activity that addresses one or more educational themes and includes a series of exercises. The shoring are classified according to the classification of items of educational curricula. It includes more than 40 educational shoring with more than 160 years. PROJECT DESCRIPTION The platform is aimed at teaching math and French cycle 3 of primary school. Its use is multiple use in the classroom, use at home or remediation monitoring with deferred by the teacher. Each act of the learner is stored in a database, in a local network or the Internet. Of course, use offline mode is possible, there is no case in this recording traces Features ISTO is divided into four main parts: 1. A modeling tool in the field of learning. 2. A corpus of interactive and dynamic. 3. A system for recording acts of learning. 4. A Web console of the teacher to see the traces of learners. These revolve around large parts of modeling the domain of learning. The exercises are the learner according to a part of this model, and partly of his learning. The exercises of the body are modular and configurable objects. They are grouped by activity (shoring). The chart below shows in detail some of these relationships: DIAGRAM Domain de reference: programmes scolaires =3D Domain of reference: curricula Graphe de competences =3D Graph of competences Graphe d'etayage =3D Graphe shoring Apprenant =3D Learner Modele de connaissance =3D Model knowledge decrit =3D described Fait evoluer =3D Changed modelise =3D modeled Corpus d'exercices =3D Corpus exercises pilote =3D pilot Traitement erreur =3D Treatment error Domaine de reference: savoir-faire pedagogique =3D Area of reference: educational know-how The project The outline of the model are in place. The body of exercises is to increase, for a school it takes several hundreds of interactive exercises. But for them, we develop artifacts that are reusable components from one year to another, this reduces the development time necessary. To learn more about the project, visit the state of the project. If you wish to participate in the project, also visit the PARTICIPATE IN ISTO. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://vpri.org/pipermail/squeakland/attachments/20081224/cb973271/att= achment.htm From hilaire at ofset.org Wed Dec 24 00:07:03 2008 From: hilaire at ofset.org (Hilaire Fernandes) Date: Wed Dec 24 01:52:12 2008 Subject: [Squeakland] [ANN]iStoa.net 8.12-alpha1 In-Reply-To: <5d2dce520812231506v798491a8y6a84b2b0e9b36f23@mail.gmail.com> References: <7ac6e0530812190650l76395339ree10a02b1b790ccf@mail.gmail.com> <5d2dce520812231506v798491a8y6a84b2b0e9b36f23@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <7ac6e0530812240007s3fef90c3j552a7e8db759713b@mail.gmail.com> Etayage is a French translation of Scaffolding, in relation to Joseph Bruner term. In iStoa.net, an Etayage is a set of exercises organised with a specific pedagogical goal. The whole is organised from the largest to the smallest as: Etayage > Etayage step > Exercise > artefactafs A suggested reading in English: https://gforge.inria.fr/docman/view.php/1308/5741/istoa-exercises.pdf Hilaire > if anyone improves the translation please send me a copy > activit? (?tayage) = activity (shoring) ??? From yoshiki at vpri.org Thu Dec 25 18:51:24 2008 From: yoshiki at vpri.org (Yoshiki Ohshima) Date: Thu Dec 25 20:44:22 2008 Subject: [Squeakland] Nice site to add to Squeakland; RPM download only shows on Windows IE In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: At Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:42:08 -0500, Milan Zimmermann wrote: > > I found a very interesting squeak education related site that would be a great > > addition to the community resources list here: > > http://squeakland.org/resources/community/ > > The site is: > > http://www.yc.musashi-tech.ac.jp/~design/squeak/index.html That would be good and there are some others like: http://mts-j.hiho.jp/ that could be added. (And some clean ups like taking "HP" out from "HP Super Science Kids", etc.) -- Yoshiki