What It Takes to Be Great article

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/10/30/8391794/index.htm?postversion=2006101915

“Research now shows that the lack of natural talent is irrelevant to great success. The secret? Painful and demanding practice and hard work”

explicitly intended to improve performance, that reaches for objectives just beyond one’s level of competence, provides feedback on results and involves high levels of repetition

Makes some great points about the proper kind of hard work:

• explicitly intended to improve performance
• reaches for objectives just beyond one’s level of competence
• provides feedback on results
• involves high levels of repetition
• Consistency is crucia

Elementary School Level Projects

http://www.squeakland.org/school/elementary.html

Phil Firsenbaum has contributed some projects designed by 5th graders in New York.

BJ Allen-Conn has used Squeak as part of her math and science curriculum with her 4th and 5th grade students at the Open Charter School in Los Angeles for two years. Her classroom has been a lab for the Squeak development team. In the Spring of 2000, 21 of BJ’s students created a variety of simulations using Squeak. This year, BJ has chosen to have all 64 of her students use Squeak for the entire school year.

Walking Feet project from Visoracle

http://www.visoracle.com/download/squeak/walking.html

Walking in the blue-green-yellow labyrinth, sticking together, diverging, but never breaking out. Footsteps with the perception and behavior similar to an amoeba.

Wall following feet! Looks funny so kids might like it better than a plain wall follower.

Selected Squeak Links from Visoracle

http://www.visoracle.com/squeak/links.html

A short but very good list of links from Visoracle.

Computer Input/Output Ports and Interfaces

An excellent summary of many current and recent ports on a computer.

PDF version: http://explorersposts.grc.nasa.gov/post631/2006-2007/computer_basics/ComputerPorts.pdf

Word version: http://explorersposts.grc.nasa.gov/post631/2006-2007/computer_basics/ComputerPorts.doc

Maze Maker

http://www.pedagonet.com/Labyrynthe/mazes.htm

Might come in handy if doing a maze robotics activity.

Squeakland’s list of Squeak communities

http://www.squeakland.org/community/links.html

Here is a collection of links to Squeakers and project ideas and examples from around the world.

Most are non-English, which may be good or bad depending on your language!

Randy Caton’s Explore and Learn in the Wonderful World of Squeak

http://www.pcs.cnu.edu/~rcaton/squeak1.html

A bunch of Squeak projects that help the user learn how to use Squeak.

He also lists projects for mechanics and electromagnetics.

Wiki on Squeak especially eToys.

http://squeak.pbwiki.com/

This wiki is a place to discuss the Squeak programming language, and the eToys and Tweak scripting languages in particular.

School Computing Squeak article

http://schoolcomputing.wikia.com/wiki/Squeak

A wiki about computers in schools.Has a good overview of Squeak with some links to sites with projects.