Re: LOGO-L> Digital Pets

["Gary S. Stager" <gstager@pepperdine.edu>]

Bill and Richard,

I worked on this project with year 5-6 kids in Melbourne last August. It 
was a sensation and I've been trying to run a Logo Exchange article all 
year. Adam Smith and Josie Hopkins of Melbourne were doing this nearly a 
year ago too.
>Also it is an interesting reflection on School that many of them have banned 
>tamagotchi's. Your way is far more creative.

Well, more than one school (in your corner of the world) that requires 
every student to have a laptop in school banned Tamagotchis by invoking 
the school's prohibition on bringing electronic devices to school. Nice 
bit of hypocrisy, huh? One teacher nearly had a heart attack when I 
suggested loud enough for all of her students to hear that the kids could 
make their own in MicroWorlds. You should have seen the look on the kids' 
faces and the subseqent whispered brainstorming.

Send me your screen shots!

-=Gary

PS: BTW, how are you handling elapsed time and randomness in your "pets?"
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