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Xinyu Liu | 6 Apr 2006 16:33
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I want to introduce squeakland to my Chinese friends

Hi,

I am a programmer come from China. From a friend I got to know about squeakland.
I think it is really a great thing. It can help kids in all ages learn something while playing.
However, when I search squeakland materials in Chinese by Google, I found that there
is little Chinese information about it, nor a Chinese community.

So, I decide to translate some basic background of squeakland to Chinese language.
I just tried a couple of pages in www.squeakland.org. But I used some images, pictures,
and links from www.squeakland.org. Is it OK? Can you give me a permission that I can
use them? I just want to continue this work, to try my personnal best to introduce squeak
to China, to let more and more chinese people know about it.

the translated Chinese pages are here:
http://liuxinyu95.googlepages.com/squeakland   main page
http://liuxinyu95.googlepages.com/squeakland.kids.home  kids play page
http://liuxinyu95.googlepages.com/squeakland.plugin.download  download page
http://liuxinyu95.googlepages.com/squeakland.school.home  school staff page
http://liuxinyu95.googlepages.com/squeakland.community.home community page
http://liuxinyu95.googlepages.com/squeak  squeak introduce page

Best regards.

Yours,
Liu

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Kim Rose | 6 Apr 2006 19:13

Call for Presenters! SqueakFest '06 - July 19-21

Dear Squeaklanders,

The SqueakFest '06 website has just gone live:

http://interactive.colum.edu/partners/squeakfest/

(Also linked from the Squeakland.org homepage.)

We will continue to add to it as details become developed, but this is *the site* for SqueakFest '06 info and news.  

Please find the "Call for Presenters" via that page.  We ask those of you wishing to present to submit this online form as soon as possible. Presentations can be in the form of hands-on workshops, lecture-style presentations or panel sessions.

This year, thanks to support from Motorola, DiamondCluster, Columbia College, Chicago, Viewpoints Research and others, registration fees will be *waived* for presenters.

In addition, this year we have funds to provide some travel scholarships/stipends ($500.00) to presenters requiring travel assistance. Travel stipends will awarded based on circumstance and time of submission of proposals (i.e, first requests considered first).

Submissions for presentations are due by April 30th as we need ample time to review, notify those acccepted, create the program, etc., etc.

Online registration will be open in the next few weeks, please check again.

Please share this announcement with friends and colleagues you know that might be interested in presenting their experiences, research, projects, ideas.

Also please share the url with anyone you know that might wish to attend!

We look forward to seeing you in Chicago, in July.

regards,
Kim Rose, Wade Roberts, Neil Pagano, Carol Ann Stowe




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Yoshiki Ohshima | 6 Apr 2006 19:21

Re: I want to introduce squeakland to my Chinese friends

  Hello, Xinyu,

> I am a programmer come from China. From a friend I got to know about squeakland.
> I think it is really a great thing. It can help kids in all ages learn something while playing.
> However, when I search squeakland materials in Chinese by Google, I found that there
> is little Chinese information about it, nor a Chinese community.
> 
> So, I decide to translate some basic background of squeakland to Chinese language.
> I just tried a couple of pages in www.squeakland.org. But I used some images, pictures,
> and links from www.squeakland.org. Is it OK? Can you give me a permission that I can
> use them? I just want to continue this work, to try my personnal best to introduce squeak
> to China, to let more and more chinese people know about it.

  That sounds great!

  There is a fairly well translated site in Japanese with original
content plus Japanese oriented news:

http://www.squeakland.jp/

I'm not at the position of giving the permission, but there is a
preceding example, so it should be ok.

  Squeak is "multilingualized" and there are successfully deployed
versions for Japanese and Korean.  (I happen to be the person who did
it.)  Supporting Chinese is straightforward but I haven't get around
doing it.  (Even there have been a few requests in the past from
Chinese speaking people already.  Sorry for my laziness.)

> the translated Chinese pages are here:
> http://liuxinyu95.googlepages.com/squeakland   main page
> http://liuxinyu95.googlepages.com/squeakland.kids.home  kids play page
> http://liuxinyu95.googlepages.com/squeakland.plugin.download  download page
> http://liuxinyu95.googlepages.com/squeakland.school.home  school staff page
> http://liuxinyu95.googlepages.com/squeakland.community.home community page
> http://liuxinyu95.googlepages.com/squeak  squeak introduce page

  Looks good (though I can't really tell^^;)  Keep up with good work!

-- Yoshiki
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Hilaire Fernandes | 7 Apr 2006 09:31

Interactive geometry and mosaic

Hello all,

Here is another small demonstration about interactive geometry within 
Squeak.
This demo shows the use of some planar transformations: the central 
symmetry and the translation are used to build step by step part of the 
mosaic. It also helps to show the relation between the composed 
symmetries and the translation.

What I love is the ability within Squeak to mix, at any time, external 
tools as the PaintBrush or the Etoys ones to verify some ideas or 
hypothesis. This really help to improve the pedagogical efficiency of 
the interactive geometry tool, which I found are, in other platform, to 
much rigid in term of pedagogical exploration capabilities.

I am sorry this demonstration is in French only, but the videos are easy 
to understand and figure out.

http://www.univ-savoie.fr/Portail/Groupes/fernandes/demos/4-mosaique/index.html

Hilaire Fernandes
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Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas | 7 Apr 2006 07:30
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Re: I want to introduce squeakland to my Chinese friends

Hi all,

Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:

>  Hello, Xinyu,
>  
>
[...]

>>So, I decide to translate some basic background of squeakland to Chinese language.
>>I just tried a couple of pages in www.squeakland.org. But I used some images, pictures,
>>and links from www.squeakland.org. Is it OK? Can you give me a permission that I can
>>use them? I just want to continue this work, to try my personnal best to introduce squeak
>>to China, to let more and more chinese people know about it.
>>    
>>
>
>  That sounds great!
>
>  There is a fairly well translated site in Japanese with original
>content plus Japanese oriented news:
>
>http://www.squeakland.jp/
>
>I'm not at the position of giving the permission, but there is a
>preceding example, so it should be ok.
>
>  Squeak is "multilingualized" and there are successfully deployed
>versions for Japanese and Korean.  (I happen to be the person who did
>it.)  Supporting Chinese is straightforward but I haven't get around
>doing it.  (Even there have been a few requests in the past from
>Chinese speaking people already.  Sorry for my laziness.)
>
>  
>
We're also working with Squeak with my students here in Colombia. I dont 
know much about college/university students using Squeak in Latin 
America (only with childs in Extremadura, Spain), in fact we have just 
started. All the contents we're making are a product of the learners 
network and are under a Free Content License (CC-By-SA). I think that 
we're now not only needing Free Software, but also Free Contents, 
because knowledge is changed when is used, so its natural path.

The difference between our wiki and the smallland wiki is that contents 
are product of the Work with the students, instead of a more informal 
users/devs networks, but would be nice to stablish links between two 
collectives. As I said, we're just starting, but any help is welcome:

www.eduwiki.info:9090/IntroduccionInformatica/Squeak

Cheers,

Offray

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.:| Comunidad  |  Libertad |:.  
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Kim Rose | 7 Apr 2006 17:09

Re: I want to introduce squeakland to my Chinese friends

Dear Liu,

Thank you for your wonderful efforts and introducing yourself and this work to the Squeakland community!  Your efforts should be of great value to many, many children and adults, so we thank you. 

On behalf of Viewpoints Research, please accept our permission to use images and links from our website pages to create your Chinese translation.

I hope you have seen the "Squeakers" DVD which has Chinese subtitles -- if you do not have a copy, please let me know where I can send one to you.

I don't know if you are able to travel (easily) outside of China, but many of us will gather in Chicago, Illinois for "SqueakFest '06" this summer -- it would be wonderful to meet you -- here is more info on SqueakFest : http://interactive.colum.edu/partners/squeakfest/

Please feel free to continue to correspond with me directly, should you need more information about Viewpoints Research,  or materials posted on the Squeakland site. 

In addition, I know the greater Squeakland communityand readers of this mailing list  will be interested in your efforts, to learn more about Squeak's spread into China and its use and practices.

Thank you again and welcome to the Squeakland community.
best regards,
Kim Rose



At 10:33 PM +0800 4/6/06, Xinyu Liu wrote:
Hi,

I am a programmer come from China. From a friend I got to know about squeakland.
I think it is really a great thing. It can help kids in all ages learn something while playing.
However, when I search squeakland materials in Chinese by Google, I found that there
is little Chinese information about it, nor a Chinese community.

So, I decide to translate some basic background of squeakland to Chinese language.
I just tried a couple of pages in www.squeakland.org. But I used some images, pictures,
and links from www.squeakland.org. Is it OK? Can you give me a permission that I can
use them? I just want to continue this work, to try my personnal best to introduce squeak
to China, to let more and more chinese people know about it.

the translated Chinese pages are here:
http://liuxinyu95.googlepages.com/squeakland   main page
http://liuxinyu95.googlepages.com/squeakland.kids.home  kids play page
http://liuxinyu95.googlepages.com/squeakland.plugin.download  download page
http://liuxinyu95.googlepages.com/squeakland.school.home  school staff page
http://liuxinyu95.googlepages.com/squeakland.community.home community page
http://liuxinyu95.googlepages.com/squeak  squeak introduce page

Best regards.

Yours,
Liu

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Xinyu Liu | 8 Apr 2006 15:47
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Re: I want to introduce squeakland to my Chinese friends

Dear Rose, Ohshima, Luna,

Thank you! thanks for the greate community supporting. I'll try my best to continue this work.
I believe with squeak spreading in China, there will be more and more Chinese people join us. A  team can  do much more than an individual, so we hava a greate tomorrow!

To Rose,
Thank you and Viewpoint Research! I'll try to make the Chinese translating pages consist with the original sources, both contents and style.

I watched some clips of "Squeaders" documentary film from www.squeakland.org. It's very wonderful. However, I doesn't find the DVD sold in China store. I'll ask my friends to help me seeking it in Japan, our neighbourhood country.

To Ohsima,
I read your HP both in squeak pages and in T.I.Tech. You did not only port Squeak to many PDAs, but also help to develop the multilingualized Squeak. I happen to spend 2 years in T.I.Tech and know Janpanese language. So, I am very interesting in building a Chinese version Squeak. I believe I can learn a lot from you.

Best regards.

Yours,
Liu

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stéphane ducasse | 8 Apr 2006 23:34
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[ANN] New microworld + Extra chapters for the BotsInc environment

Hi all,
I'm currently migrating to the newest release of BotsInc environment  
the second microworld that was initially planned to be described in  
the book.

For now I published on my web site http://smallwiki.unibe.ch/botsinc/ 
download/ an old image that you can use with the current environment  
(just drop the .image file on the squeak executable). Pay attention  
that this is an old version (prior to the distribution 02-2005). This  
old image that works on any platforms. I also released some advanced  
drafts of chapters describing this microworld and also some really  
fun chapters for BotsInc. I hope to find some money to ask a  
professional to proofread them. For now they are given for free as  
they are. I plan to give them for free in the future too.

Stef

PS: you can get more about BotsInc at:

http://smallwiki.unibe.ch/botsinc/

BotsInc is the environment of the book Squeak: Learn Programming with  
Robots I wrote over the last 4 years. With Bots Inc you will learn  
how to program robots in an interactive environment. Bots Inc  
proposes three teaching approaches: direct command of robots,  
scripting robots and programming robots. The book contains 24  
chapters going step by step over topics with a lot of examples. Bots  
Inc is fun but it is not a toy, it teaches you 100% real programming.  
Bots Inc is built on top of the rich open-source multimedia Squeak  
environment that you can also discover.

  "if you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you
  do different? ...  especially if,  by doing something different,
  today might not be your last day on earth" Calvin&Hobbes
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Kim Rose | 8 Apr 2006 21:31

Re: I want to introduce squeakland to my Chinese friends

Dear Liu,

Regarding the "Squeakers" DVD -- you can find it distributed through Japan here:
http://www.squeakland.org/sqmedia/movies/order.html
The DVD is not sold in stores in any country -- only online.  We would be happy to send you one at no cost if you provide a mailing address, but perhaps it is easier to obtain via Japan for you.

I believe your knowledge of Japanese will be very useful as our colleagues in Japan have done so much to improve Squeak, create projects for children, conduct workshops, etc.

By the way, several of us from Viewpoints travel to Japan two or three times a year...perhaps at some point we can meet you there.  Our next trip is planned for June.

regards,
Kim



At 9:47 PM +0800 4/8/06, Xinyu Liu wrote:
Dear Rose, Ohshima, Luna,

Thank you! thanks for the greate community supporting. I'll try my best to continue this work.
I believe with squeak spreading in China, there will be more and more Chinese people join us. A  team can  do much more than an individual, so we hava a greate tomorrow!

To Rose,
Thank you and Viewpoint Research! I'll try to make the Chinese translating pages consist with the original sources, both contents and style.

I watched some clips of "Squeaders" documentary film from www.squeakland.org. It's very wonderful. However, I doesn't find the DVD sold in China store. I'll ask my friends to help me seeking it in Japan, our neighbourhood country.

To Ohsima,
I read your HP both in squeak pages and in T.I.Tech. You did not only port Squeak to many PDAs, but also help to develop the multilingualized Squeak. I happen to spend 2 years in T.I.Tech and know Janpanese language. So, I am very interesting in building a Chinese version Squeak. I believe I can learn a lot from you.

Best regards.

Yours,
Liu

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Jim Ford | 9 Apr 2006 11:25
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Re: I want to introduce squeakland to my Chinese friends

Kim Rose wrote:

> The DVD is not sold in stores in any country -- only online.  We would 
> be happy to send you one at no cost if you provide a mailing address, 
> but perhaps it is easier to obtain via Japan for you.

Would it be practical to make the DVD available as a bittorrent? I 
wouldn't mind seeding it indefinately for downloaders.

Whilst I'm very interested in Squeak, the school where I work (as a 
Science Technician)  is basically indifferent to anything not Microsoft. 
I'm particularly excited in the idea of it being introduced to China. 
Now, where are our Indian friends?

Jim Ford
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