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C5
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Croquet: A Menagerie of New User Interfaces
1 A new architecture like Croquet presents numerous opportunities and challenges to create useful interfaces to enable access to the underlying power of the system. In particular, ...
David A. Smith, Andreas Raab, David P. Reed, Alan ...
C5
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Free Software for a World in Motion
This paper focus the need for new educational software environments for exploration of global statistics. We present some concrete examples of highly interactive, non-linear, visu...
Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Ola Rosling
C5
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Design for an Extensible Croquet-Based Framework to Deliver a Persistent, Unified, Massively Multi-User, and Self-Organizing Vir
We describe a design for a collaborative Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) to support massively multi-user and multi-institutional learning communities. This architecture extends...
Mark P. McCahill, Julian Lombardi
C5
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Scratch: A Sneak Preview
information technologies as "the ability to reformulate knowledge, to express oneself creatively and appropriately, and to produce and generate information (rather than simply...
John Maloney, Leo Burd, Yasmin B. Kafai, Natalie R...
C5
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Enabling Social Dimensions of Learning through a Persistent, Unified, Massively Multi-User, and Self-Organizing Virtual Environm
Existing online learning experiences lack the social dimension that characterizes learning in the real world. This social dimension extends beyond the traditional classroom into t...
Julian Lombardi, Mark P. McCahill
C5
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Dolittle - Experiences in Teaching Programming at K12 Schools
The Japanese government has been promoting IT education, including programming, at elementary and secondary (K12) schools since 2002. We have developed Dolittle, an object-oriente...
Susumu Kanemune, Takako Nakatani, Rie Mitarai, Shi...
C5
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
TSU.MI.KI: Stimulating Children's Creativity and Imagination with Interactive Blocks
Young children often build various structures with wooden blocks; structures that are often used for pretend play, subtly improving children's creativity and imagination. Bas...
Yuichi Itoh, Shintaro Akinobu, Hiroyasu Ichida, Ry...
C5
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Squeak in Spain as Part of the LinEx Project
Extremadura regional government [1] has started to use Squeak [2] within the LinEx [3] project. Cooperation from the group Small-Land [4], devoted to spread the use of Squeak in t...
Diego Gómez Deck, José L. Redrejo Ro...
C5
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Skeleton - Easy Simulation System
Skeleton is a visual scripting environment as an extension of Squeak etoy [1] with Connectors [2] system to make mathematical and physical simulation for non professional computer...
Takashi Yamamiya