SqueakFest '06 Schedule
July 19-21, 2006


Columbia College, Chicago





Wednesday, July 19th


Hands-On Workshops Columbia College Chicago Early Childhood Education Program 33 E. Congress Rooms 523 & 525





8:30 AM Continental Breakfast





9:00 - 11:00 Intro to Etoys (K-6) or "The Game's the Thing" (Middle School)

BJ Conn, Open Charter, Los Angeles
Bob Irving, Lancaster Country Day, PA Files
Powerpoint
link to game swiki entry
11:00 Break


11:30 - 12:30 Probing Our World with Squeak Etoys
http://squeakland.jp/abee/tmp/ProbingOurWorld060719.zip



Kazuhiro Abe, Tama Art University Department Of Information Design




12:30 Lunch





2:00 - 4:00 Scratch: A Fun Multimedia Programming


Tool (K-6, Middle & High School)


John Maloney, MIT Media Lab





Thursday, July 20th University Center Conference Center 525 South State Street Lake Room & Loop/River Rooms

8:00 AM Continental Breakfast

8:30 AM Welcoming Remarks

9:00 Keynote Address: Dr. Seymour Papert


10:00 Break

10:30 Panel: Squeak CMI: Community, Projects & Notebook

Kathleen Harness , Avigail Snir, Barbara Hug, Kathleen Smith, Ji-Young Kim

University of Illinois Math, Science, Technology Education




11:30 An Experience of Squeak Teaching in Nepal

Madhur Shrestha, SeaGate Institute of Technology Education
12:30 Lunch

1:30 Visual Programming with Squeak SimBuilder:

Techniques for E-Learning in the Creation of Science Frameworks

Cheryl Seals, Auburn University Computer Science & Software Engineering
2:30 Where's the Math? Squeak for Young Children - Hands On

Jennifer Voorhees, Sidwell Friends School Information Services
http://schoolcomputing.wikia.com/wiki/Squeak
3:30 Break

4:00 Intro of HP Super Science Kids


Tadashi Suto,

6:00 Reception/Dinner at the Hot House - Live Music!



Friday, July 21st University Center Conference Center 525 South State Street Lake Room & Loop/River Rooms

8:30 Continental breakfast

9:00 Panel: Columbia Explorations-Technology in the Early Childhood Laboratory

Carol Ann Stowe, Val Scarlata, Wade Roberts

Columbia College Chicago


Elspeth Stowe-Grant, Karen Putman, Kathy Piane, Christina Hayward

University of Chicago Laboratory School

10:00 Break

10:30 Using Squeak in Latin American Universities


Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas, Javeriana University Mathematics




11:30 Introduction to Kedama - a massively parallel particle programming system

Yoshiki Ohshima, Viewpoints Research Institute
12:30 Lunch

2:00 Circular Reasoning in the K-6 Classroom


TJ Leone

3:00 Break

3:30 NASA Connect Squeak Science Projects


Randy Caton, Christopher Newport University Physics, Computer Science & Engineering
4:30 Wrap Up & Adjourn



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