RE: good Logo activities at NRICH

[Patricia Maloney <maloneyp@xxxx>]

Hi, Jean!
I am also a sixth grade teacher (in Massachusetts). We recently
finished working on an activity called "Turtle Dance." The kids loved it.
Basically, we introduced some geometry ideas such as line, angle, etc. and
then the kids went to the computer lab. There they learned simple
programming ideas, made polygons, rotated them, and filled them in with
color. They also added music and, in some instances, animation to their
designs. We finished up with a recital. It was a lot of fun and the kids
learned a lot about MicroworldsPro.
I, too, am completely overwhelmed by the Logo Forum. I just don't
know enough about it to understand a lot of what is being said half the
time, but I'm willing to learn and Wendy has been a great help. I hope that
there will be a basic (and I mean basic) course put together at some point.
Good luck with your project. Maybe I'll hear from you soon. Adios,
we're off for Easter break/April vacation.
Pat 

> ----------
> From: Jean Stringer[SMTP:sjbkids8@xxxx]
> Reply To: MWcybercourse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 9:16 AM
> To: MWcybercourse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: good Logo activities at NRICH
> 
> Thank you for the message, and I hope to start Logo
> with my 6th graders after Spring Break. I will look
> at this web site and let you know how I feel.
> 
> I for one am so overwellmend by the Logo Forum I can't
> keep up. This is the list I need to be on! :)
> 
> Anyone have CuSeeMe? I would like to use that with the
> logo also. :)
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Jean
> --- Wendy Petti <WendyPetti@xxxx> wrote:
> > Hello, MWcybercourse members, it is time to wake
> > up!!
> > 
> > A couple of you have written to me to ask if the
> > MWcybercourse group 
> > is still active. Well, in theory it is, but you all
> > will have 
> > noticed a slumber of more than a month in which not
> > a single message 
> > was sent to the group. We all need to share ideas if
> > we are ever 
> > going to create a cybercourse. This is not "my"
> > group; it is "our" 
> > group. But I confess I have put no energy into
> > thinking about the 
> > cybercourse in recent weeks, and now I am ready to
> > get back into 
> > action.
> > 
> > I would like to call your attention to a series of
> > Logo activities 
> > which are developed and archived at a wonderful
> > British math site, 
> > NRICH. The direct URL for the Logo activities is:
> > 
> >
> http://www.nrich.maths.org.uk/mathsf/journalf/rb_logoland.html
> > 
> > and you can also follow the many links at the left
> > edge of that page 
> > to explore other areas of the site.
> > 
> > The activities do seem to assume some initial
> > knowledge of Logo, and 
> > yet if you scroll down to the bottom and work your
> > way up from there, 
> > you can get a good introduction with increasingly
> > complex challenges.
> > 
> > So... how about checking out the site and sharing
> > some reactions in 
> > relation to how we might conceivably proceed with
> > the MicroWorlds 
> > cybercourse???
> > 
> > Wendy Petti
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> ====> St.Julie Billiart Eighth Grade Students 
> sjbkids8@xxxx
> 
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