Re: Message from OWL in Denver

[WendyPetti@xxxx]

Chris, Your OWL program sounds wonderful. And even though you are hoping for 
a MicroWorlds teacher to come to Denver to support your efforts, I am more 
excited about the idea of seeing what we here who have signed on to the 
MWcybercourse list can do to support your efforts from a distance. Maybe 
your OWL program could be a good way to test out some of the initial 
materials we might post. And I do think that the members of MWcybercourse 
form a MicroWorlds users group of sorts. (There are plenty of MicroWorlds 
users at the LogoForum, too, even though they are not among the most prolific 
contributors.)

I wonder if you would share with us the types of MicroWorlds projects you've 
already tackled as well as the types of projects or specific programming 
skills for which you would like some support. That way maybe some of us 
could start working on preparing some relevant distance materials to post 
online for you to try. We might as well start somewhere, and instead of 
designing materials for hypothetical future users, I like the idea of 
creating some materials for a real and immediate audience of MicroWorlds 
learners.

Wendy

> I'm hoping the MW Cybercourse will be a wonderful resource to teachers and
> student-teachers in our program -- especially on the computer programming
> front.
> 
> We too are working to develop a users group and resource library that would
> support funner, faster, and deeper MW learning.
...
>Christopher Myers
>Executive Director
>OpenWorld Learning