1. What is special about Etoys? (Rita Freudenberg)

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>   1. What is special about Etoys? (Rita Freudenberg)
>   2. Re: we have officially overtaken etoys.com in google
>      (Timothy Falconer)
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> Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:54:49 +0200
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> That is one of the questions we came up with at yesterday's education
> team meeting. When I talk about Etoys, I can most often just say "it  
> is
> a constructionist tool" and that sets it apart from many other tools.
> But what is special about Etoys compared to Alice, Scratch, StarLogo  
> etc.?
> First thing what comes to my mind: you can do in Etoys what you can do
> in the other tools, and then more. But we should have examples and be
> more concrete. So please tell us about your experiences, send your
> examples where you say: you could never do that in one of the other
> languages etc.
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> We will collect everything on the wiki here:
> http://wiki.squeakland.org/display/sq/Etoys+in+comparison
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> Greetings,
> Rita
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> Rita Freudenberg
> FIN-ISG
> Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
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> Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 10:04:30 -0400
> From: Timothy Falconer <[hidden email]>
> Subject: Re: [squeakland] we have officially overtaken etoys.com in
> google
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> On Sep 3, 2009, at 5:12 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
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>> On 03.09.2009, at 22:52, Timothy Falconer wrote:
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>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> Something surprising and new . . .
>>>
>>> http://www.google.com/search?q=etoys
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>>> We're #1, ahead of etoys.com.  This is a pretty clear indication of
>>> word spreading about us.  (Yes etoys.com still sells toys.)
>>
>> Not from here ... it's #1 on google.de but #2 on google.com.
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> The Etoys.com advertisement sometimes comes before us, but I'm
> consistently seeing squeakland over etoys.com on google.com.
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> Anyone else seeing this?
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