A free resource and my two bob's worth

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Phil Nanlohy (p.nanlohy@uws.edu.au)
Fri, 17 Sep 1999 15:05:32 +1000 

Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 15:05:32 +1000
From: Phil Nanlohy <p.nanlohy@uws.edu.au>
Subject: A free resource and my two bob's worth

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Hello All,
I've only recently began following the discussion on this list. Although
I realise that its scope is much wider than the programming/Hyperstudio
debate I have a resource that I can offer in this area. It is a free CD.

I edited a conference proceedings this year for K-12 teachers who use
technology in their classrooms. We (New South Wales Computer Education
Group) put the papers on a CD and added a "stack" of resources to fill
it up. Most of these resources were Hyperstudio stacks from elementary
school students and from teachers in my postgraduate classes. There are
also a number that I have made myself to use in my teaching. Most of
the stacks were authored on Macs and while the CD is cross platform the
multi stack projects on the Win side are not always connected up. There
are lots of other teaching resources like ClarisWorks (Mac)or Powerpoint
(Win) children's story books or photos of local areas etc

If you would like one of the 20 odd copies I have left please return a
snail-mail address to the e-mail address in the signature.

<Smiling, he steps up onto his soapbox.>
To my mind, programs like Hyperstudio follow the tradition of Logo, Logo
Writer and the various Something-Card authoring environments. They put
the control of the student's learning environment into the student's
hands. The point is not the cognitive challenge of the programming
syntax or even the collaborative problem solving that programming can
support. The ownership of the learning is what makes these technologies
powerful.
<With a wave, he steps down off his box, picks it up and ambles off into
the crowd to listen to the other speakers.>

Cheers,

Phil

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Phil Nanlohy
Lecturer, Computers in Education
Uni Western Sydney, Macarthur,
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Australia
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