Re: Teaching

["Andrea Duran" <ADuran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

So how was this done Jeff?  A lot of the students at OWL really get excited 
about making shapes and when I showed them how to make a star when I was 
making spirals, it really caught their attention. I will soon be embarking 
on introducing a team of student leaders (peer teachers) to new and fun 
advanced ideas, and making stars seems like a good way to get them 
interested as well as increasing thier knowledge in the program.

-----Original Message-----
From: "Jeff Knope" <jknope@xxxxxxxx>
To: <mwforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 14:42:04 -0700
Subject: Re: Teaching

> Jim wrote, "I had one student who
> > for the past 6 weeks has been learning to draw stars
> > in stars in such a way that the spacing between the stars as well as
> the 
> > size of
> > the stars can be varied.
> 
> This problem  reminds me of a program "Lineweaver" that does something
> very 
> similar to what you describe.  It's available to be used with the web
> player 
> at http://www.asis.com/~jknope/lineweave.html.
> 
> This program also uses some of the "CAD-like" functions I described
> before.
> 
> --Jeff
> 





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