<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div class="entryText"><p>Hi everyone,</p><p>Today, Waveplace is very excited to announce a new software project …</p><p>Tidepool .. a place to play and learn.</p><p>Taking the experience we’ve gained over the last five years teaching Sugar, Etoys, and Scratch in places like Haiti and Nicaragua, we’ve decided to create a brand-new learning system, one that furthers the cause of constructionist learning through a multi-touch interface, open API, and new programming paradigm.</p><p>When will it be available? When it’s ready. We’re currently in the alpha stage with our core group of twelve collaborators. We’ll start an open beta sometime in 2013.</p><p>To see our “big bullets”, visit <a title="Tidepool by Waveplace" href="http://waveplace.org/tidepool">http://waveplace.org/tidepool</a>.</p><p>Follow our blog at <a title="Waveplace Blog" href="http://waveplace.org/news/blog">http://waveplace.org/news/blog</a>.</p><p>We’ve thought about what kind of software we’d create for years, now’s our chance to make it real. We hope you like it!</p><div>Take care,</div><div>Tim</div><div><br></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-size: 12px; border-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><div>--</div><div>Timothy Falconer</div><div>Waveplace Foundation</div><div><a href="http://waveplace.org">http://waveplace.org</a></div><div>+ 1 610 797 3100 x33</div></span></span></div></div></div></span></div></span></div></span>Skype: teefal<div><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><div>Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/teefal">http://twitter.com/teefal</a> </div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">LinkedIn: <a href="http://linkedin.com/in/teefal">http://linkedin.com/in/teefal</a></div><div><br></div></span></div></span></span></div></span></div></body></html>