Volume 7 Number 3 - Summer 1999

Extending Educational Horizons in the Spirit of Logo: a 20th Century Epilog P R O C E E D I N G S of the Seventh European Logo Conference EUROLOGO'99 Sofia, BULGARIA 22 - 25 August 1999 Edited by Roumen Nikolov Evgenia Sendova Iliana Nikolova Ivan Derjanski

Editorial

Table of Contents

Keynote Presentations

Constructionism: Putting Logo in a Larger Perspective

SEYMOUR PAPERT

Playing With (and Without) Words

CELIA HOYLES, RICHARD NOSS

Plenary Lectures

Programming the Behaviour of Your Self-constructed Robot

ALAN ANOV

Visualizing Algorithms

WALLACE FEURZEIG

Bringing Back Formal Language:

A Use to Counter My Worries about Computers in the Mathematics Classroom

E. PAUL GOLDENBERG

Software Development, Innovative Practice, Research and the School Context:

Is Synergistic Progress Possible?

CHRONIS KYNIGOS

Logo Connections: Some Cunning Aspects

MÁRTA TURCSÁNYI-SZABÓ

Invited Papers

OpenLogo - A New Implementation of Logo

ANDREJ BLAHO, IVAN KALA_, PETER TOMCSÁNYI

Computer Games for Kids, by Kids

MICHAEL TEMPEL, HOPE CHAFIIAN

Logo Goes to Work

JOSÉ ARMANDO VALENTE, KLAUS SCHLÜNZEN JUNIOR

Networking in MSWLogo

MATJA_ ZAVER_NIK, VLADIMIR BATAGELJ

Papers

Intrinsic Procedures of Intrinsic Curve Equations

UZI ARMON

Frogs' Jumps: An Example of Using Computers as a Means of Empirical Validation

DAVID BLOCK SEVILLA, PATRICIA MARTÍNEZ FALCÓN

Elica Logo and Objects

PAVEL CHRISTOV BOYCHEV

Decentralised Programming of Communicating Turtles

GIUSEPPINA CAPRETTI, MARIA RITA LAGANÀ, LAURA RICCI

Logo and Changes in Learning: Project-based Methodology

VALENTINA DAGIEN

An Approach to Complexity: Building a Robot

YVES DE SAEDELEER

LEGO-Logo (Multi-Techno-Logo) as an Authentic Environment for

Improving the Learning Skills of Low-achievers

YARON DOPPELT, UZI ARMON

Logios: Notes on Logo-like Education for a Biotechnological Species

MÍCHEÁL Ó DÚILL

Permanent Motivation in Logo

KÁROLY FARKAS

Playful Informatics and EuroLogo

KÁROLY FARKAS

Informatics and Information Technologies in a Primary School-based Logo Environment

VESELA ILIEVA, IVAILO IVANOV

Problems of Apollonius

TZVETAN KOSTOV

Logo and Cognitive Observations

CORINNE MARCOURT

WPAL: An Assessment-oriented Web-based Training Tool for Professional Adult Learners

PAOLO MORANDOTTI, FABRIZIO CALÌ

Logo Ideas in Different Contexts

ERICH NEUWIRTH

On-line Course for Teachers

ALESSIO PLEBE

Music and Logo

ALESSIO PLEBE, RUDY BELCASTRO, MARCO GENNARO

Processus cognitifs et activité de programmation en langage Logo

ELIANA MARTINS DA SILVA ROSADO,

JOSÉ ARMANDO VALENTE, ODETE SIDERICOUDES

NETLogo: The European Educational Interactive Site

DEMETRIOS G. SAMPSON, PANAYOTIS PATSOURAS, VASILIS TERZOPOULOS

Integrating Logo into Mathematics Classroom Activities

ODETE SIDERICOUDES

Exploring with Logo: Use of Colours, Drawing Tools and Predefined Figures by Children

PETER L. STANCHEV, IVAILO IVANOV

The Students -- Authors of Tasks

NELLY STOYANOVA STOYANOVA

The Challenge of Teaching in the First Form

NELLY STOYANOVA STOYANOVA

The Characteristics of High Quality Programming and

High Quality Software in Students' LEGO/Logo Programming

JYRKI SUOMALA, JARKKO ALAJÄÄSKI, ARI ALAMÄKI

Logo Programs for Our 3-year Old Daughter Janka

MONIKA TOMCSÁNYIOVÁ

Con-science: Parents and Children Exploring Robotics and Values

MARINA UMASCHI BERS, CLAUDIA URREA

Children's Use of Logo as a Tool for Exploring Their Ideas about Words

SAVALAI VAIKAKUL

GasLab -- an Extensible Modeling Toolkit for Exploring Statistical Mechanics

URI WILENSKY, EDMUND HAZZARD, ROBERT FROEMKE

Chinese Logo and Its Drawing Tools for WWW

WING-KWONG WONG

God Helps Them That Help Themselves

NATALIA YANEVA, IVAILO IVANOV

Panel Discussions

Issues in Staff Development for Dramatic Change in Learning Environments
Activities in the Learning and Epistemology Group at the MIT Media Lab

Posters

A Translator for the Different Languages of Comenius Logo

ANDOR ABONYI-TÓTH

Application of Logo Environment for Children's Creative Work

NINA GOUSKOVA, MARINA OSTROVSKAYA

The Methodics for Training Lagging-behind Pupils in Mathematics with the Use of a Computer

S. S. KRAVTSOV

Possibilities of Logo through the Sight of BANNER STUDIO

ILIANA MISHEVA

Comenius Logo&endash;LEGO Interface

ERIKA NÉMETH, ZSUZSA PLUHÁR

Euro-Logo

ALESSIO PLEBE, RUDY BELCASTRO, MARCO GENNARO

Geometric Speculations

ADRIANA SOBREIRA TORRES

London Meets Texas: an Interactive Pairing

STATHIS TRIANTAFILLOU, YANNIS KOTSANIS, VASILIS ECONOMOU

Demos and Workshops

Playground Project Workshop

ROSS ADAMSON, MIKI GRAHAME, RICHARD NOSS, CELIA HOYLES

Logo as a Scripting Language in a Component Architecture for Exploratory Software

GEORGE BIRBILIS

Demonstration Projects with Comenius Logo

DORA DULCHEVA

The Logo-Observer Software

CORINNE MARCOURT, CONSTANT SOLIMANDO, FRANCIS LOWENTHAL

A Game Factory

ADRIANA SOBREIRA TORRES

About the Logo Film "Egle&emdash;the Queen of Grass-snakes"

DALIA TRINKAUSKIEN

The Linguistic Explorations of Children: Playing with Language through Logo

SAVALAI VAIKAKUL

Author Index

Topic Index

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