Russ wrote: > Hello. This is my first post to the beginners list. I've been a > perpetual beginner since I first found out about Squeak over ten years > ago ( can it really be that long ? at least somewhere at the beginning > of ver. 1.x ) . Anyway, I'm not a programmer, I'm a musician and an > explorer, and currently, a substitute teacher - teaching 9th graders > (gifted ones at that) computer skills. Today I introduced them to Squeak > ! It went really well. First I talked about smalltalk, had them type in > the " Transcript show: 'Hello World'. " program in a workspace, and I'm > sure that bored them plenty. But I did not miss a beat. I next > introduced them to the morphs - the bouncing atoms and the blobs , etc.. > and they were HOOKED ! 80 Kids now know about Squeak. Now what ? What > should I do with Squeak and my 9th graders that will thrill them further > ? Ideas ?
What do you want to teach them? That could provide us with more direction to help. Some ideas: * Have you looked at the projects on squeakland.org? * Although it's a bit young for 9th graders, have you looked at the book "Powerful Ideas in the Classroom" by B.J. Allen-Conn and Kim Rose? * Check out this video: future_software_development_series.kay-alan.lecture.2003-04-24.102656947.wmv at this location: http://ftp.squeak.org/Media/AlanKay/ Go to near the end and see Alan's demo of what other kids have done in squeak. It's a bit more advanced than the book, so it might fit in better for their age. -- brad fuller www.bradfuller.com _______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners