Re: [IAEP] Walter's visit

2009-10-15 Thread DancesWithCars
interesting conversation about programming languages and how students use the tools provided... But sure wish Walter/ Nick would visit DC and stop by OLPCLearningClub users group meeting or the last ClassActs book sprint on their visit/ PR / sales tour of Congress... On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at

Re: [IAEP] Walter's visit

2009-10-14 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 03:49, Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote: Rita and Edward, I am very interested in EToys and Scratch. Last year, one of our 5th grade classes used EToys to create lab reports after science fair projects. We were really just beginning with the XOs and EToys,

Re: [IAEP] Walter's visit

2009-10-08 Thread Rita Freudenberg
Gerald Ardito wrote: As some of you know, I am a middle school teacher and doctoral student working with 150 XO laptops in a set of 5th grade classrooms. My research interest is to see how those devices and the Sugar software impact the learning environment of the classroom. We were

Re: [IAEP] Walter's visit

2009-10-08 Thread Edward Cherlin
Second Rita's suggestion. The transition from tile-based programming in Turtle Art to Etoys projects can be made very easy. The same for Scratch. Since Turtle Art can save programs in Logo, it also gives a good start to learning the UCBLogo Activity. This last Saturday I gave a presentation on

Re: [IAEP] Walter's visit

2009-10-08 Thread Gerald Ardito
Rita and Edward, I am very interested in EToys and Scratch. Last year, one of our 5th grade classes used EToys to create lab reports after science fair projects. We were really just beginning with the XOs and EToys, but they were really fascinated with the scripting/programming piece. And I have

[IAEP] Walter's visit

2009-10-07 Thread Gerald Ardito
As some of you know, I am a middle school teacher and doctoral student working with 150 XO laptops in a set of 5th grade classrooms. My research interest is to see how those devices and the Sugar software impact the learning environment of the classroom. We were fortunate enough to have Walter