What works? what doesn't?

[edwinp13@xxxx]

I suppose many of you have noticed my latest posting in the 
LogoForum : "Towards Teaching TC & CPS" Maybe it's just tax time, 
but there has been nary a response. I'm thinking that perhaps I may 
be threading new ground with what I'm trying to do. I sure hope 
not. I sure hope that someone who has had similar experiences would 
have tried several approaches.

If you have, would you please tell me what works and what doesn't? I 
started out with a standard Logo approach, albeit I started with a 
triangle instead of a square. I got the class through REPEAT. So 
these 3rd graders can do their own spirographs. I now want to teach 
PROCEDURES and VARIABLES. I wanted to do that last week, but the 
class ... had a mind of it's own.

Anyway, I would like to capitalize on these kids' fascination and 
show them how to program more complex structures. I'm thinking up 
and testing several programs that I'll pre-load on the iMacs to show 
more advanced features. I would like to be able to direct my efforts 
towards those type of approaches that you know has a greater chance 
of re-directing these kids from their present fixations.

Please consider e-mailing me directly, specially if you have greater 
than a 1 MB file attachment. I have a cable modem and it can 
download at 300KbPS.

Thanks a lot!
:-) edwin