Newsgroups: comp.lang.logo Path: news.media.mit.edu!grapevine.lcs.mit.edu!olivea!news.bu.edu!att-in!att-out!cbfsb!cbnewsg.cb.att.com!dal3 From: dal3@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (dale.e.parson) Subject: Re: Learning LOGO Message-ID: Sender: news@cbfsb.cb.att.com Organization: AT&T References: <2eq9gl$dlu@digdug.pencom.com> Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1993 21:48:14 GMT Lines: 46 In article <2eq9gl$dlu@digdug.pencom.com> ggf@frodo.pencom.com (Gary G Frederick) writes: > >It's interesting to see several requests for input on teaching Logo. Our >home school group is planning on trying out Logo over the next few months. >We will be using ucblogo/ MSWLogo and looking at the Logo manual Dave >Kressen wrote. Any other pointers would be appreciated. > >FYI. > >Most of us do not have any programming experience. We expect to have a >few adults, several 10-16 year olds and a few younger children involved. >We hope to get several families that live in the country involved >electronically. > >I plan on seeing how it goes and using the input to decide if we should I'll be interested in hearing how it goes. I've been waiting for a) a local state university to get back to me on letting me give a free 2- or 3-session tutorial on Logo to home-ed teens & parents using the school's PCs, and b) the opportunity to write a giveaway tutorial to go with the handouts of ucblogo & mswlogo. I had hoped to do the latter over Thanksgiving, but you know how it goes. Now it appears that Dave Kressen has saved me the work. (Thanks, Dave!) Gary, how are you handling the logistics of getting a bunch of homeschoolers & machines together at one time to go over Logo, or are you not doing that? The state u. has been our only lead along those lines, with my only other alternative being to donate the Logo disks, tutorial & some books to the local home-ed library & let 'em call me and otherwise tough it out. 3 tutorial sessions seem like a good way to get over the starter hump & make contact with interested folk in a time-efficient way. My hope for younger home-ed kids is that the trickle-down theory will work, from parents & teen siblings. Dale Parson, Bell Labs, dale@mhcnet.att.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | "These words are too solid, they don't move fast enough | | to catch the blur in the brain that flies by, and is gone..." | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Suzanne Vega | ----------------------------------------------------------------------