Squeakfest Brasil

Squeakfest is an international event created to get together the Squeak Etoys community from all around the world. It is open to all educators, programmers, communities leaders and parents that are willing to use Squeak Etoys to improve children's learning.
The Squeakfest Brasil will be bring together the Etoys Developers Team, Researchers and Educators leaders of Squeak Etoys Comunities in places like USA, Brasil, Uruguay (and other contries of South America) and Germany. Contributors of the LOGO's movements (during the 80's and 90's) are going to participate.

The Call for Presentations is already open! (click here, or go to "submeter")

Etoys is a media-rich authoring environment that encourages deep learning through experimentation.

Children use Etoys to make their own models, stories, and games, which keeps them engaged because it's a lot of fun. But Etoys isn't just child's play. Etoys makes abstractions more palpable, allowing children to visualize and explore new ideas.

Many workshops are planned for the three days of the event. The are sessions aimed to all users from all levels: "first time Squeakers" are all invited for the beginners workshops.

To showcase classroom use, we'll have sessions with local children. Teachers will be able to sit and work with the students, learning both Etoys and how to teach with it.

Besides the workhops, the Squeakfest Brasil is planned to have works presentations, followed by moments for discussion and construction of plans to use Squeak Etoys in the School.

Among the speakers there are researches and educators pioneers in the use of Squeak Etoys from around the world (USA, Brasil, Uruguai, Germany, among others). The keynote speaker will be Léa Fagundes (side picture).