Re: LOGO-L> Logo recommendation for first grader

[Frank Caggiano <caggiano@atlantic.net>]

I would suggest that you try out a few different flavours and decide for
yourself. The nice thing about LOGO (well one of the nice things really)
is that it is fairly inexpensive to get up and running. 

UCB Logo is free and there is a version for all platforms. If you are on
a windows PC you can get George MIll's MSWLogo for free. MicroWorlds
from LCSI is a commercial  product but you can get a full featured demo
disk from them. Plus, if you are on a windows PC, you can download their
web player for free (you don't need MicroWorlds installed on your PC to
run it) and check out the many web sites now with working MicroWorlds
projects.   

There are other version out there but I can't comment on them, these are
the three flavours I am most familiar with.  Check out the Logo
Foundations web page at
http://el.www.media.mit.edu/groups/logo-foundation/ .

for a list of links to the sites I mentioned here and others.

regards and have fun,

Doug Rieb wrote:
> 
> I am not a teacher (in the formal sense, at least) but am the father of a
> bright first grader. I read Seymour Papert's The Children's Machine a
> couple of years ago and got very excited about his ideas and about trying
> out Logo. Now I sense that my son has reached the point at which he could
> enjoy and benefit from Logo activities. However, with all of the flavors of
> Logo out there, I can't tell which product would be the most appropriate
> for a 7-year-old, first-time Logo user. I would appreciate any guidance
> anyone can provide.
.

-- 
Frank Caggiano
caggiano@atlantic.net
http://www.atlantic.net/~caggiano
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