Back with MircoWorlds

[Heikki Korpinen <heikki.korpinen@xxxx>]

Hello, best wishes from Finland!

I am new to this list, made my subscription yesterday. But not very 
new with Logo and MicroWorlds, just coming back after break of half a 
decade in using Logo (and later MicroWorlds) almost daily.

I belonged to a group of parents, who founded the first computer club 
in a Finnish elementary school in Helsinki 1982. Twenty years ago! We 
used Apple Logo with children and teachers for years, we had a floor 
turtle etc. It was a fantastic period of time in my life too. We 
wrote two books about using computers and specially Logo with young 
pupils. We trained teachers in Helsinki area, also many parents 
learned Logo to join as instructors of new clubs etc. We even visited 
MIT in 1985.

After I had left my duties in the club, they got MircoWorlds later 
there too. I also purchased the software to use at home for pleasure. 
My piece of MicroWorlds is 2.0 from 1996. What's the updated version 
now? What's new in it? Should I upgrade my piece of software?

Then from 1990 to spring 2001 I worked in the Helsinki University of 
Technology for Freenet Finland, a community based network for Finnish 
schools - students, teachers and parents.

I'd like to learn from you all what's MicroWorlds today, experiences 
of using it at any level of schools, success stories, projects, new 
software, books, discussion groups ... what ever. First I'll try to 
find couple of elementary schools, which were interested in my 
introduction to MicroWorlds and Logo as such.

I'd also like to know if there are any Finnish teachers or other 
people on the list or teachers from other Nordic countries. I am not 
a teacher, so I don't know very much about daily computer use in 
schools in Finland today besides of the over all network activities I 
worked for.

Sincerely yours

Heikki Korpinen