Re: LOGO-L>Instruction Manual for child

["Dale R. Reed" <dale-reed@worldnet.att.net>]

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> I recently downloaded Logo for windows in order to teach my 8 year old.  Does
> any body know where I can get a clear instruction manual that I can use to
> teach an 8 year old?

Surf to http://www.cyberramp.net/~jmul and follow the directions to
order Jim's fine book.

Also you may find this file of mine interesting.  I mainly made it up
for homeschoolers and I have another similar one with math suggestions
if you want me to sent it to you.  Dale

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Logo is a low level, high level computer programming code where little
children and their grandpas and everyone else in between can cause
"turtles" to do interesting mathematical tricks on the computer monitor.
With colors and sounds and random commands.  Whatever your imagination
can create.  Including Fractals.  

Below is a collection of some of my LOGO bookmarks.  I have quite a few
more but this will get you started and you can find more by using the
included links and searching for LOGO in Yahoo. 

The first three URL's have free software and/or instruction books.  I
started with Brian Harvey's LOGO for DOS.  But if you have windows you
will want to use the Softronix software.  It is super!  Don't forget
your local library for LOGO instruction books. 

Be sure to write me if you get stuck.  I am still a beginner(I spend too
much time participating in discussion lists) but I plan to get better
and it is lots of fun. 

There is a very active LOGO Discussion group for teachers. Very
interesting because people all over the world are using the code.  Some
in other languages. The two moderators of the Logo-L list are John St.
Clair from GlobalSchool Net Foundation and Michael Tempel  from the Logo
Foundation.  

Logo was created by Seymour Papert at MIT.  One smart cookie!  Be sure
to read his latest book, "The Connected Family" and his even more
interesting "Mindstorms" and "The Children's Machine." 

I have MicroWorlds 2.0, PCLogo, Mach Turtles Logo and Brian Harvey's DOS
Logo but most of the time I use the free MSWLogo from Softronix.  

You and your children and/or students have lots of learning and thinking
to do.   

I have a 150MHz Windows 95, 1996 computer with 32 MB of memory and a
17inch monitor.  So some of my comments may be biased toward my
particular equipment.  

Have fun!   Dale

http://www.softronix.com/       Home of MSWLogo.

http://www.cyberramp.net/~jmul/    Inexpensive book "The Great Logo
Adventure" for the MSWLogo software and more LOGO links.

http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/    DOS for older smaller computers, a
version without an editor for Windows 95 and UNIX and these are free! 
And Brian Harvey has written three volumes of the Second Edition of
"Computer Science Logo Style," MIT Press, 1997.

http://www.harvassoc.com/     

http://www.terrapinlogo.com/whylogo/whylogo.htm#9       Link from the
above Harvard Associates.  Very interesting with reasons and links and
other useful information.  This company provides a newsletter,
software(PC LOGO), instruction books and even help with your programming
problems.  

http://www.lcsi.ca/   Microworlds for Apple and Windows 95,  Latest
hi-tech commercial Logo.

http://www.iste.org    Ask for their "The Guide to resources & services
for Techonology-Using Educators" from which you can order the following
two books.  The first book is "Tearless Turtling with MicroWorlds 2.0"
by Irene Smith and Sharon Yoder.  The second book is "Introduction to
Microworlds 2.0, A Logo-based Hypermdia Environment, by Sharon Yoder and
David Moursund, 1996, $27.95.  These books apply to both Apple computers
and Windows computers like mine.

http://el.www.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/    Newsletter, software
books and lots and lots of links to other LOGO material.  

http://www.atlantic.net/~caggiano   Must visit this site.  Rapidly
changing with new things to do.  Especially if you are willing to
download some of the referenced free software.

http://moon.pepperdine.edu/~gstager/home.html  

http://moon.pepperdine.edu/~gstager/logoexchange/    A mighty fine LOGO
newsletter

http://www.ConnectedFamily.com/    Papert's commercial URL

http://www.erzwiss.uni-hamburg.de/Sonstiges/Logo/logomath.htm#english 
LOGO pages on the server at the Department of Education at the
University of Hamburg, Germany.

http://www2.magmacom.com/~dsleeth/

http://mres.www.media.mit.edu/people/mres/

http://www.powerup.com.au/~dpotter/

http://starlogo.www.media.mit.edu/people/starlogo/  Just for the
Macintosh but a Windows version is under development.  Read about Star
Logo in "Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams," by Mitchel Resnick 1994.

http://www.umcs.maine.edu/~obelix/sl/sl.html  Where they developing Star
Logo for the PC

http://www.gsn.org/

http://www.eurologo.org/

http://www.ort.spb.ru/personal/tch/tuzova/logo/animat.htm

http://www.beitberl.ac.il/~shafee/hpage.html

http://www.senet.com.au/~kerrb/

http://www.edu.uleth.ca/edstud/logo/default.html

http://www.oz.net/~greglove/Turtle.htm

http://www.ionet.net/~timtroyr/funhouse/beer.html#unique  Select the
Beer List and then Item 114.

http://web.jenksusa.k12.ok.us/CE/Central_Elementary.html  Public School
with Microworld's Projects.  

http://sciences.aum.edu/mh/faculty/furman/sim.html 

http://www.cowan.edu.au/pa/ecawa/sig/logo/logo.htm

http://el.www.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/VGW/
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