Croquet Technology Featured at NACS's CONTEXT 2006

Julian Lombardi demonstrated Croquet as the ‘Digital Classroom of Tomorrow” as an invited speaker at the National Association of College Stores annual meeting in Reno, Nevada on April 8th, 2006.

Croquet Presented at Southern Graphics Conference

University of Wisconsin Art Professor Michael Connors demonstrated Croquet as the potential future of the artistic critique at the Southern Graphics Council Conference on printmaking. The demonstration was based on Prof. Connors' classroom use of Croquet for critical discourse and ePortfolios.

Campus Croquet Users Win award at UW-Madison Showcase

A group of administrative staff at the University of Wisconsin - Madison used Croquet to exhibit their group's work at a campus-wide exhibition of new ideas and best practices called Showcase. In their spare time over a few few weeks, this group built their own 3D multimedia wiki in this first-ever sustained end-user Croquet activity. The group was rewarded with a "Most Interactive" award presented by the Chancellor.

Croquet presented as part of the University of Maryland University College's "Future Watch" Series

Julian Lombardi presented an invited lecture/demonstration of Croquet entitled “The Next Innovative Open-Source Online Learning and Teaching Technology” as part of UMUC’s Future Watch series on February 20th, 2006.

Croquet featured at ELI's 2006 Annual Meeting

The Annual Meeting of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative featured a Croquet presentation by Julian Lombardi. The audience for this presentation included technologists and educators involved in planning, designing, and/or supporting teaching with technology who are drawn from the fields of information technology, instructional support, learners and faculty, librarians, and directors of learning centers. The presentation to a packed house took place in San Diego, California on January 30th, 2006.

Croqueteers to present multiple papers at C5 in Berkeley, California

Alan Kay, David A. Smith, Andreas Raab, Julian Lombardi, Howard Stearns, and Mark P. McCahill as well as other key contributors to the Croquet Project will present papers on Croquet at The International Conference on Creating, Connecting, and Collaborating Through Computing in Berkeley, California on January 26th and 27th, 2006. The conference provides an international forum for technical discussion among researchers, developers and users of object-oriented computing (especially, Smalltalk, Squeak and Croquet), collaboration technologies and learning environments. This year, the conference features a series of special tracks on the future directions of Croquet.

Croquet Lecture at Stanford

Lecture on the social and academic implications of Croquet technologies presented at the Standford Humanities Center Julian Lombardi presented a lecture on Croquet as part of the Stanford Humanities Center lecture series on New Directions in Humanities Research on January 25th, 2006.