Question: What do 3000 children have in common? Answer: They all love to play (who doesn't;-).
And what better game than Logo. It's simple, graphical, and therefore easy to learn (especially handy when dealing with a heterogeneous group with no common language). Best of all it starts with simple rules but can quickly develop complex game patterns and require the use of sophisticated strategies.
*Personal Plug* Do you need volunteers? I spent some time teaching computer science (using Logo) to "troubled" grade school students.
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Thinking I could get some free (as in beer) stuff, I surfed out to supernova.org only to find the following when displaying the search page:
c hive.jar-27b6d965-34a57383.zip
Scan type: Realtime Protection Scan
Event: Virus Found!
Virus name: Trojan.ByteVerify
File: C:\Documents and Settings\..\Application Data\Sun\Java\Deployment\cache\javapi\v1.0\jar\ar
Location: Quarantine
Action taken: Clean failed : Quarantine succeeded : Access denied
Date found: Thu Feb 12 15:15:40 2004
Perhaps there is some sort of moral lesson here about honor amongst thieves.
Try geek corps or Engineers without borders or if you're Canadian you can apply to Net Corps.
Answer: They all love to play (who doesn't
And what better game than Logo. It's simple, graphical, and therefore easy to learn (especially handy when dealing with a heterogeneous group with no common language). Best of all it starts with simple rules but can quickly develop complex game patterns and require the use of sophisticated strategies.
*Personal Plug* Do you need volunteers? I spent some time teaching computer science (using Logo) to "troubled" grade school students.