[Etoys] Squeak By Example - OLPC edition

[Kim Rose]

Sorry if this is a duplication of information but these papers by  
Alan Kay should also prove informative to educators:

http://www.vpri.org/pdf/OLPCCountries_RN-2007-006-a.pdf
http://www.vpri.org/pdf/etoys_n_authoring.pdf
http://www.vpri.org/pdf/etoys_n_learning.pdf

Kim
On Jul 23, 2008, at 1:41 PM, Serge Stinckwich wrote:

> 2008/7/23 Joseph Apuzzo <japuzzo at gmail.com>:
>> I don't think we need another "Squeak by Example", it a good  
>> programming
>> book that covers it's topic well.
>> What is needed is a book to educate teachers showing them how to  
>> use the
>> OLPC features.
>> That could end with a chapter or two on how to add features /  
>> function to
>> the OLPC.
>>
>> I've been showing teachers what is possible with the OLPC build of  
>> Squeak!
>> and they want to use it, but there is no Book or place to Educate the
>> Educators.
>
> Our idea with this proposal is to attract more developers to the
> Squeak OLPC version.
> I'm not really an educator so i could'nt write something for them.
> But we can added in the book a chapter about "How to write Games  
> for EToys"
> based for example on this article :
> http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Archive/Papers/Gael06aC5.pdf
>
> PS : it looks like everyone reply directly to people and not to the
> mailing-list. Could we fix that ?
>
> -- 
> Serge Stinckwich
> Smalltalkers do: [:it | All with: Class, (And love: it)]
> http://blog.doesnotunderstand.org/
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