Quiet around here.
So I did two classes for 8th graders, 7 to go. One was pre-Thanksgiving and
included some play with Google Earth. Did you know you can share Places
using XML files (.kml)? Example:
http://earth.google.com/kml/2.0";>
Climatron
-90.2588032444306
38.6141290265980
I've just started reading this paper (wish it covered Python):
Lowering the barriers to programming: A taxonomy of
programming environments and languages for novice programmers
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Volume 37 , Issue 2 (June 2005)
Caitlin Kelleher, Randy Pausch
http://portal.acm