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["Dr. Theresa Overall" <theresa.overall@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
My name is Theresa Overall. I found this group because my name was on  
a web page about the history of logo and that web page had a link to  
this forum. The web page was that of a computer engineering student  
in Ecuador, so I was intrigued to have my name on his website. I'm  
not sure what all was said about me because my Spanish isn't very  
good, but I am a part of Logo history. I was fortunate enough to be  
in the right place at the right time and worked with Seymour Papert  
from 1978-1983 at The Lamplighter School in Dallas. Lamplighter was  
the test site for the first commercial version of Logo, TI-Logo that  
ran on TI 994A home computers. Those were some amazing days.

I taught at Lamplighter for 21 years and then went to work for the  
Integration of Technology into Teaching and Learning (IITTL) at The  
University of North Texas (UNT) where I was working on a master's in  
Computer Education and Cognitive Systems. I have since finished my  
master's and went on to earn a Ph.D. which I just finished in  
December 2006. I am now visiting assistant professor at University of  
Maine at Farmington. While at UNT, I taught 18 sections of the course  
"Computers in the Classroom". My students were all undergraduates,  
most of whom were working to become elementary and middle school  
teachers. MicroWorlds was a part of that curriculum.

For now, I just want to watch and see what this group is all about. I  
look forward to reading the postings that come across the listserv.

Thank you,
:>Theresa<:

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Theresa Overall, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor
University of Maine at Farmington
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