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Call for Papers: SLACTIONS 2009 - Life, imagination,and work using metaverse platforms

Leonel Morgado — 2008-10-01T13:32:38

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Call for Papers - C5 - Extended Deadline!

Kim Rose — 2008-09-29T17:55:42

CALL FOR PAPERS ** Deadline Extended** - NOW OCTOBER 14, 2008 The Seventh International Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing (C5 2009) January 19-22, 2009, Kyoto, Japan http://www.cm.is.ritsumei.ac.jp/c5-09/ Sponsored by Kyoto University Global COE (Centers of Excellence) Program: Informatics Education and Research Center for Knowledge-Circulating Society Viewpoints Research Institute European Smalltalk User Group Hewlett-Packard SCOPE Computers, networks, and other forms of technology are now pervasive in our information-based society. However, most users still function as passive consumers of technology. To evolve into a true knowledge society, it is critical that we transform computer-based human activities to engage users in the active process of creating, connecting, and collaborating together. The C5 conference is for researchers, technology developers, educators, and technology users who are concerned about developing and enabling human-oriented creation, connection, and collaboration processes. C5 is an international forum for presenting ongoing work as well as new work currently under development and for discussing future needs and directions in creative computing and multimedia authoring environments. We welcome equally the submission of technical papers and practitioner/experience reports for paper presentations. In addition, we have added workshops to the conference and are now soliciting proposals fro interactive workshops. Hosted in Japan, this conference builds on the successes and high standards held by previous C5 conferences: 2003-2005, 2007 in Kyoto (Japan), 2006 in Berkeley (USA), 2008 in Poitiers (France). TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Development and applications of collaboration tools and environments - User collaboration using 3D, multimedia, and animation objects - Technologies for creating educational environments - Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) and Technology- Enabled Learning (TEL) - Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), distributed work, and virtual teaming - Hybrid technology activities, such as scientific experiments, instrumentations, participatory design (PD) or simulations , robots, and game playing - Development of applications/content for non-traditional learning and support environments, including mentoring, role-playing, peer-to-peer, "teacherless" environments, low-cost and sustainable technologies (e.g. $100 laptop), and gerontechnology applications, among others. - Applications and tools for education from K-12 through higher education, system design by children, digital library and search environment for children Conference sessions will include invited talks, including one from Dr. Alan Kay (Viewpoints Research Institute), 2003 ACM Turing awards, one from Dr. Allison Druin, Human-Computer Interaction Lab, University of Maryland as well as formal paper presentations, hands-on workshops, informal "un-conference" and "lightning" sessions and social and sightseeing events. PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES C5 2008 invites submissions of full papers in the following categories: - Theoretical papers - Case studies, experiments reports - 'Bringing theory into practice or practice into theory' papers focus on building a bridge between practices and theories in the fields of C5. Full papers must report original work that has not been previously published. Papers must present reports of significant work in research, development and applications with regards to one or more of the conference topics of interest. All submissions will be reviewed by a distinguished international program committee. A full paper with 8 page limit formatted in two columns and 10 point font should be submitted by the paper submission deadline. The papers are reviewed by the program comittee and authors will be notified about acceptance. Accepted authors have to submit a camera ready version of the full paper with 8 page limit by the camera-ready copy deadline. Accepted papers should be revised according to the review reports and the wording should be checked by a native English speaker. Papers should follow the formatting instructions provided by 8.5" x 11", Two-Column Format of "IEEE Computer Society Press - Proceedings Author Guidelines" (please refer to INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS in Conference Publishing Service). Submitted papers and camera-ready papers should be sent electronically through our online submission site (will be available soon). The PDF, Postscript and MS-WORD formats are acceptable. PUBLICATION OF THE PROCEEDINGS Preliminary version of the proceedings will be distributed during the conference. The formal version of the proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society and sent to authors after the conference. For each accepted paper, at least one of the authors needs to attend the conference and give the presentation, otherwise the paper will not be included in the formal proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES Full paper submission: October 14, 2008 **Extended** Notification of acceptance: November 21,2008 Full paper camera-ready copies: December 15, 2008 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Honorary Co-Chairs - Alan Kay, Viewpoints Research Institute, USA - Makoto Nagao, National Diet Library, Japan Advisory Chairs - Kim Rose, Viewpoints Research Institute, USA - Katsumi Tanaka, Kyoto University, Japan Conference Co-Chair - Benay Dara-Abrams, Kinnexxus inc., USA - Hajime Kita, Kyoto University, Japan Program Co-Chairs - Rieko Kadobayashi, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan - Rick McGeer, Hewlett-Packard Company, USA - Serge Stinckwich, Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement, Vietnam Local Arrangement Chair - Hajime Kita, Kyoto University, Japan Publicity and Publication Chair - Hideyuki Takada, Ritsumeikan University, Japan Program committee - Alec Dara-Abrams, Kinnexxus inc., USA - Sidney Fels, University of British Columbia, Canada - Takeshi Fujioka, Kyoto Municipal Horikawa Senior High School - Michael Haupt, Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany - Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso-Plattner-Institut Potsdam, Germany - Ton Kalker, HP Labs, USA - Shinichi Konomi, University of Tokyo, Japan - Tsuneo Jozen, Osaka Electro-Communication University, Japan - Julian Lombardi, Duke University, USA - Shinya Nakagawa, HP Labs, Japan - Yoshiki Ohshima, Viewpoints Research Institute, USA - Ian Piumarta, Viewpoints Research Institute, USA - Shin'ichi Ueshima, Kansai University, Japan - Serge Stinckwich, Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement, Vietnam - Kazutoshi Sumiya, University of Hyogo, Japan - Hiroyuki Tarumi, Kagawa University, Japan

Reminder - C5-09 Submission Deadline - Sept 30

Kim Rose — 2008-09-26T13:11:39

Reminder: Submissions Due September 30, 2009 Call for Papers - C5-09 The Seventh International Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing (C5 2009) January 19-22, 2009 Kyoto, Japan http://www.cm.is.ritsumei.ac.jp/c5-09/ Computers, networks, and other forms of technology are now pervasive in our information-based society. However, most users still function as passive consumers of technology. To evolve into a true knowledge society, it is critical that we transform computer-based human activities to engage users in the active process of creating, connecting, and collaborating together. The C5 conference is for researchers, technology developers, educators, and technology users who are concerned about developing and enabling human-oriented creation, connection, and collaboration processes. C5 is an international forum for presenting ongoing work as well as new work currently under development and for discussing future needs and directions in creative computing and multimedia authoring environments. We welcome equally the submission of technical papers and practitioner/experience reports for paper presentations. In addition, we have added workshops to the conference and are now soliciting proposals fro interactive workshops. Hosted in Japan, this conference builds on the successes and high standards held by previous C5 conferences: 2003-2005, 2007 in Kyoto (Japan), 2006 in Berkeley (USA), 2008 in Poitiers (France). Topics of Interest Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Development and applications of collaboration tools and environments User collaboration using 3D, multimedia, and animation objects Technologies for creating educational environments Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) and Technology- Enabled Learning (TEL) Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), distributed work, and virtual teaming Hybrid technology activities, such as scientific experiments, instrumentations, participatory design (PD) or simulations , robots, and game playing Development of applications/content for non-traditional learning and support environments, including mentoring, role-playing, peer-to- peer, "teacherless" environments, low-cost and sustainable technologies (e.g. $100 laptop), and gerontechnology applications, among others. Applications and tools for education from K-12 through higher education, system design by children, digital library and search environment for children Conference sessions will include invited talks, including Dr. Alan Kay (Viewpoints Research Institute), recipient of the 2003 ACM Turing Award, Dr. Allison Druin, Human-Computer Interaction Lab, University of Maryland, as well as formal paper presentations, hands-on workshops, informal "un-conference" and "lightning" sessions and social and sightseeing events. Important Dates: Full paper submission: September 30, 2008 Notification of acceptance: November 14, 2008 Full paper camera-ready copies: December 15, 2008

"player's" becomes "nil's"; value types

Markus Schlager — 2008-09-25T18:43:50

Hi all, I encountered the following phenomenon, which IMO is quite irritating. It's about "player"-Tiles in scripts with a parameter (screenshots attached). I made an empty script with a player-typed parameter an added a basic method and varaiable-assignment (EllipseTalkTo1.png): Ellipse>>talkto: player Ellipse forward:5 Ellipse's heading :=0 Then I drag player-tiles off the parameter-area to replace the Ellipse-tiles (EllipseTalkTo2.png): Now it looks like Ellipse>>talkto: player Player forward:5 nil's heading :=0 It _should_ look like Ellipse>>talkto: player player forward:5 player's heading :=0 Then I change the parameter-type to sth. different and back (EllipseTalkTo3.png, EllipseTalkTo4.png): "Player" and "nil" become "dot": Ellipse>>talkto: player dot forward:5 dot heading :=0 The _should_ be: Ellipse>>talkto: player dot forward:5 dot's heading :=0 I repeat step two an drag 'player'-tiles to replace the 'dot'-tiles. Now it looks like (EllipseTalkTo5.png) Ellipse>>talkto: player Player forward:5 Player heading :=0 It _should_ look like Ellipse>>talkto: player player forward:5 player's heading :=0 So there are three problems: - Should "player" be capitalized everywhere or nowhere? - Why does "player's" become "nil's" at the beginning? - Why is "'s" missing from the moment at which "dot" appears? And finally I have a request from the point of localization: All value-types of variables or parameters should get marked translatable. At the moment this is true for 'Color' and 'Sound' only. Markus ----------------------------------------------- Markus Schlager m.slg-Mmb7MZpHnFY< at >public.gmane.org_______________________________________________ Squeakland mailing list Squeakland-tgy29QT0A092KDkfy0k2sw< at >public.gmane.org http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland

Saving in etoys

Bill Kerr — 2008-09-22T07:10:17

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version number

Bill Kerr — 2008-09-22T07:39:59

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Windows and Linux does not produce the same .pr files

Hilaire Fernandes — 2008-09-21T07:06:16

When I load DrGeo pr file (http://download.gna.org/istoa/drgeo/) and save it again under Etoys, I have different result when I use Windows or Linux image. 1. The format seems to be different (check both .pr file at http://download.gna.org/istoa/drgeo/) 2. The one produced from the linux etoys is smaller and broken: the pr. cannot be reloaded, get a syntax error 3. the one produced with the etoys windows is just fine Now when I take the windows image and use it in linux I can get proper .pr file I did not succeed to use the linux image with my stock VM: missing primitive It may look like an image problem with the linux version. I have not tested under the XO with latest build what is happening (if loading/saving/reloading is ok) -- http://blog.ofset.org/hilaire

new etoys comments, questions

Bill Kerr — 2008-09-21T02:26:59

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Etoys error on startup

Jens Moenig — 2008-09-15T11:32:23

Hi, I just downloaded the new Etoys and tried to run it on Vista. It came up with an error message informing me about an "invalid utf8 input". -Jens

Release Notes for Etoys download - Sept 2008

Kim Rose — 2008-09-11T18:30:13

Release Notes - Etoys -September 2008 These notes accompany the download of Etoys available via www.squeakland.org as of September 11, 2008. In the past, the system has often been referred to as "Squeak", but to help distinguish it from other versions of Squeak, we will refer to the version now available on the website simply as "Etoys." The team at Viewpoints Research Institute (VPRI) has been working on the "Etoys" activity for the OLPC (One Laptop per Child) "XO" platform. We started from the previous version of "Squeakland Squeak", then added new features and made many bug fixes, performance improvements, and visual tweaks. VPRI has decided to release the Etoys activity for the XO as the "universal" Etoys version for all platforms. Advantages include: 1) Two years of work have gone into improving Etoys overall; 2) Etoys will be identical on the XO, Windows, Macintosh and Linux operating systems; 3) The new features, enhancements, and fixes will be beneficial to everyone. In this way, all users of the XO and other platforms will be "compatible" and be able to share their projects and documentation. Below is a list of "New Features", "New UI Changes", and "Notes on Compatibility". "New Features" -- Functions. There are now over a dozen mathematical functions available for use in arithmetic expressions in scripts, in addition to the arithmetic operators. (Click on the golden treasure box of a script editor, drag out an "abs" tile, drop it on any numeric-valued tile or phrase in a script, and then (unless you actually want "abs") choose the actual function name you desire from the menu that shows up when you click on it. There is also a choice called "parenthesis", which serves to put a subexpression within parentheses, in order to influence order of evaluation. (There is also a way to "wrap" an existing numeric tile expression in a function, by holding down the "shift" key as you click on an "extension arrow" -- this will make the expression governed by the extension arrow become the argument of a function call.) -- Arithmetic Operator Precedence. The arithmetic operators (+ - * / // \\ and min and max) now have more conventional precedence; i.e., multiplication and division are now "stronger" than addition and subtraction. (See below under "Notes on Compatibility" for more details.) -- "RepeatTimes" tile. A tile to write a simple loop is provided.

Please visit the new Etoys website!

Kim Rose — 2008-09-11T16:26:56

Greetings! Many of you have started, or will shortly be starting, a new academic year at your school or University. We wish you a successful and fun- filled new school year! We have just launched our new Etoys web site to coincide with the new academic year. It is still found at "www.squeakland.org", but its design and content are all new. It features a brand-new version of Etoys for download, which we will announce in a separate message. We hope you'll find the new site simpler to navigate, more straightforward in sharing our message, and loaded with helpful content. New materials include complete video from the "Squeakers" DVD and a series of "screencast" lessons, thanks to Tim Falconer of Waveplace. You'll also find some new tutorials and a showcase of projects. Also on the site are web versions of over 50 "QuickGuides", created by Kathleen Harness of Illinois, which provide concise tutorials for many things about Etoys. Living versions of the QuickGuides can also be found "inboard" in the new Etoys application itself (click on the ? at the left edge of the tool-bar). The "showcase" section on the new site has very few projects on it at this point -- please share your projects to help populate this area! We intend the site to be a living, continuously-evolving resource, a showcase and clearinghouse for "all things about Etoys." Please help it evolve and grow. The site will be largely maintained and supported by volunteers, so we need your contributions as well as your suggestions. We will also be producing a quarterly newsletter that will be posted to the site (and sent to you via email if you choose to subscribe) so please share your experiences with us! Thanks to you all for your interest in this learning community. We look forward to exchanging ideas, projects, and more. regards, Kim Rose & the Etoys team

start script anObject aScript vs. anObject aScript ineToy

Young-Jin Lee — 2008-09-10T21:21:05

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Etoys - calendar of events

Kim Rose — 2008-09-02T15:01:46

Hello - Here's wishing everyone a happy "back to school" and start of a new academic year! We hope things are off to a good start already or wish you the best getting started whatever your case may be. We'll soon be launching a brand-new Etoys website - still to be found at squeakland.org -- stay tuned for a further announcement this week. Do you have any specific dates/events set for fall that we can include on the calendar section of our new website? If so, please let us know! We'd love to include news of any workshops, conferences, or presentations relevant to Etoys so the community will know and see what is going on around the world. Please share your events with us! Send either to this mailing list or to info-tgy29QT0A08ujIM/lry48Q< at >public.gmane.org thanks and cheers, Kim

please help - trouble with mouseDown, mouseUp,and looklike

Nicholas Bennett — 2008-09-01T22:27:05

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International Conference on "ICT for Development andEducation"

SeaGate Instiute of Technology — 2008-08-17T09:15:15

We are organizing International Conference on "ICT for Development and Education" on November 1 and 2, 2008. There will be a special session on Squeak Application and training. I would appreciate if some of you could attend the program. This will have a special arrangement for International delegates, participants, sponsors, presenters. For detailed information, kindly contact me Madhur K Shrestha smfound-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w< at >public.gmane.org; 977 1 5537231, 5528481

More fun with DrGeo smalltalk script

Hilaire Fernandes — 2008-08-12T08:54:01

More about DrGeo smalltalk script, explained in a recent article I wrote a few days ago: http://blog.ofset.org/hilaire/index.php?post/2008/08/05/More-fun-with-Smalltalk-script

squeakcmi.org down? content available elsewhere?

Daniel Green — 2008-08-09T14:20:00

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Plan for DrGeo screencast to explain its features

Hilaire Fernandes — 2008-08-07T18:27:42

Hello all, I would like to produce several screencast to explain the DrGeo features. I have written a first plan about what to produce at http://community.ofset.org/index.php/Screencast_DrGeo I would love to get some feedback about content idea aswell technical suggestions to produce good quality screencast (given I am constrained to a linux host). Thanks Hilaire

Some more insights about DrGeo script

Hilaire Fernandes — 2008-08-06T22:11:48

http://blog.ofset.org/hilaire/index.php?post/2008/08/04/Fun-with-Smalltalk-script

Fun with DrGeo II Smalltalk script

Hilaire Fernandes — 2008-08-06T16:18:54

A small video exposing what can be done with this new coming feature of DrGeo: http://squeak.ofset.org/drgeo/script-tangente.ogg By the way, although we hit there senior high school curriculum with this example, it is at heart programming as thought by OLPC project and how to make it accessible and fun for teachers and learners. More to come... Hilaire

DrGeoII and macro-construction

Hilaire Fernandes — 2008-08-03T09:23:53

Some recent developments in DrGeoII to implement macro-construction. Details, explanation and screenshot at: http://blog.ofset.org/hilaire/index.php?post/2008/08/01/DrGeo-II-macro-construction