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LOGO/MICROWORLDS WEB RESOURCES Set up by the St. Michael’s College
GED 958 ~ LOGO Programming Class Summer Session 2003 ~ Burlington, VT General LOGO links This website has a overview of what LOGO is and how it
came into existence. Furthermore,
the site has a resource center for different links pertaining to LOGO.
Very good. Many different categories of information. User friendly. http://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/
This is a great Thinkquest site for use in the
classroom. It easy to understand, and kids will enjoy it. Logo will take your
students through a series of lessons that will provide a basic foundation in
Logo programming that can then be experimented with creatively. Good lesson on
angles. A guide for using MicroWorlds. Cute with great MIDI
selections. Fun! Projects don’t seem to be working. http://www.cs.bsu.edu/homepages/ggreen/mwpro/title_page.htm
A user friendly explanation of the basic commands and illustrations. www.logosurvey.co.uk Gary Stager put this site together for “progressive educators”. http://www.stager.org/logo.html He breaks down his LOGO page under headers such as, Build Your Own Virtual Pet with MicroWorlds®(1998), make Your Own Tamagotchi. A web based book on learning Logo by Paul Dench (paul.dench@bigpond.com.au) A Turtle for the Teacher This site offers 4 books online. The books range from introducing the basic commands to programming in 3D.http://www.education.tas.gov.au/itproject/topics/programming.htm This site has examples of designs that can be tried
using the basic commands and encourages different ideas to be explored.Insides
Basic Control with LOGO
LOGO FOR YOUNG CHILDREN
This website offers ideas and resources of how to get
young children to learn computer use through LOGO programs. This site is a collection of lessons that can be used
with Microworlds, however, it gives a little too much of
step-by-step directions. http://www.kidscanprogram.com/
Very basic site created by a parent teaching LOGO to his
son’s second grade class. http://mckoss.com/logo/ LOGO FORUMS
SPECIFIC PROGRAMMING SITUATIONS (i.e. “BOUNCE”)
Site
that explains how to use bounce in computer games and how certain students
learned to make the specific angles. Very specific and helpful information.http://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/pubs/logoupdate/v7n3/games.html SCHOOL PROJECTS This elementary school has an extensive list of projects that were completed by students using LOGO. Integration good. http://www.blakeschool.org/aaa/projects/lower/ More examples of students work using MicroWorlds.
These are 5th grade students from Baltimore, Maryland. SCIENCE & LOGO This science center has compiled a list of games that
were made using Microworlds, a LOGO program. http://www.greatestplaces.org/games/
This site has a collection of projects created by
students at a science museum. http://www.smm.org/lt/class/ MATH & LOGO
This is a nice site for giving ideas of how to relate
LOGO with math. “The Turtle
School of Dance” gives ways some schools in Massachusetts use Microworlds to
explore geometry concepts with sixth grade students. http://www.erving.com/turtle/
Patrick Carmichael is a a Lecturer in the University of
Cambridge Faculty of Education. This site is for a course he teaches in the UK
and includes an overview of LOGO and some examples of how it can be used to
teach math. http://learntolearn.ac.uk/patrick/ict/modules/ict8.html Math Cats is a math website with many galleries, including one with Microworld projects. http://www.lego.com/eng/education/mindstorms/home.asp?menu=
SPECIAL USES of LOGO
This site offers information about using speech input
and output in Logo programming to make it more interesting for all kinds of
users. Visit this site where students use LOGO to design Navajo
craft designs.
LEGO ROBOTICS SITES LEGO Mindstorms For
Elementary and Primary Schools This site offers information on using LEGO robotics. It covers design technology, computer technology and how this integrates with math and science. It is a commercial site, but offers a lot of good information. http://www.lego.com/eng/education/mindstorms/default.asp Robolab Links This site has Robolab related links including projects,
designs, tutorials and competitions. Mindstorms VS
Robolab This site is
designed to help K-12 teachers choose the right RCX kit for their classroom and
ensure that their students gain the most out of the experience. It offers a
comparison between the two systems. Robotics in the
Classroom This is a good website to get general information of robotics. It offers classroom activities, challenges, stories and links. http://www.occdsb.on.ca/~proj4632/index.htm A wide assortment of LEGO activities can be found under
the “Useful Links”
section. A set of classroom activities with PDF
files of sample problems/challenges and sample solutions. http://www.edex.com.au/lego/ Other Versions of LOGO
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