<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi everyone,
<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Waveplace raises money to buy XOs for Caribbean children. We're creating courseware to teach digital media skills. We're training teachers to use XOs in constructionist ways.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>And we have a new website: <a href="http://waveplace.com">http://waveplace.com</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Of interest since last time ... </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>1) Waveplace went to Haiti and made a wonderful video showing Susie Krabacher (subject of an upcoming major motion picture) with her kids and an XO:</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="http://waveplace.com/locations/haiti/">http://waveplace.com/locations/haiti/</a></font></div></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>2) we're a few weeks into our first pilot in St John ... the twenty kids are loving their XOs and Squeak Etoys. See our press:</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="http://waveplace.com/news/press/">http://waveplace.com/news/press/</a></font></div></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>3) we've just published our first newsletter, which talks about these two efforts as well as another upcoming pilot on St Vincent:</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="http://waveplace.com/news/newsletter/">http://waveplace.com/news/newsletter/</a></font></div></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>4) Alan Kay and Kim Rose joined our board of advisors! This is a very good thing, since we're focusing entirely on Squeak Etoys in our courseware.</div><div><br></div><div>If you haven't been to the site before, there's twenty video tutorials on Squeak Etoys, which people seem to like. Another twenty are scheduled to appear this month.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Anyway, sign up for our monthly newsletter if you're interested, and pass the word if you have time. We need all the help we can get.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Tim</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>--</div><div>Timothy Falconer</div><div>Waveplace Foundation Inc.</div><div><a href="http://waveplace.com">http://waveplace.com</a></div></body></html>