Getting Started!
Our first meeting went well and we have a large (16) group of students with diverse backgrounds, which will make for interesting and useful interactions as we explore technology applications for classrooms. We began with course and people introductions and then moved into a brief introduction to Logo. Logo provides a backdrop to our course since it was the first educational computer application that focused upon creating an active learning environment for students. 505 students quickly embraced the Logo experiences and worked through primitives, procedures and simple programming. I look forward to seeing the resulting Logo assignments.
I was pleased with our first night together. We have an active, well informed and talkative group, and I anticipate a dynamic learning experience together.
I am a little concerned about the Martin Luther King holiday taking some of our initial momentum, but I think we will all be ready to go with issues like cognitive science, school transformation and blogging!
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