[choose] Invitation to ESUG-Teachers Day on Friday, September the 10th in Koethen (Anhalt) / Germany

ESUG-Teachers Day Kickoff Event We are pleased to invite you to the first Teachers Day of the ESUG-European Conference of Smalltalk Technology. http://www.esug.org/conferences/twelfthsmalltalkjointevent2004/esug- teachersday/ The meeting will be held place on Friday, September the 10th 2004 in Köthen (Anhalt). Goal We want to bring together German speaking teachers and active Smalltalk developers to show the possibilities of object-oriented modelling and simulation in educational environments. Especially we want to • introduce different usage-scenarios of Smalltalk environments in classrooms, which could reach from simulations in physics and mathematics to building multimedia content and animations in the fine arts. • collect ideas for tutorials and start curriculae • plan actions to introduce Smalltalk and especially Squeak-Distribution to German speaking schools. • plan further co-operations and start, if possible, concrete classroom activities. The following topics will be presented: • Caro and Bot: A Smalltalk-Environment for Children from 11, to learn programming • Experience report about the use of Swikis and Smalltalk at the French School of Bern • Short Intro of Squeak and the German Squeak Association Squeak e.V. • Etoys: A drag'n drop Script- and simulation environment • Report of the anual School-Squeaker-Meeting in Chicago • StarSqueak / Kedama: StarLogo in Squeak, an environment to simulate emergent behavior • Smallland: Experience report about the use of free Software in Spanish Schools: Squeak is installed there on 80000 computers, 50 teachers create curriculae We are happy about more experience reports and presentations. If you want to participate or to show, what you do with Smalltalk, please register by sending a mail to gaelli(a)iam.unibe.ch with • your name and email-address • and i.a. the title of your presentation/tutorial/etc. with a short description Time and Place Friday, September 10th at 9.00 o'clock in Köthen at the Hochschule Anhalt (FH) // Fachbereich Informatik //Lohmannstraße 23 Costs This event can be visited for 50 Euro, independent from the conference, including lunch. Cheers, Markus, Marcus + Stef choose-news(a)iam.unibe.ch is a *moderated* mailing list for announcing non-commercial events related to Object Technology in Switzerland. Please send announcements to be posted to: choose-news(a)iam.unibe.ch To unsubscribe, please send the message "unsubscribe choose-news" to: Majordomo(a)iam.unibe.ch To learn more about SI and CHOOSE, see: http://www.choose.s-i.ch/