[Yr7-10it] RE: Intel Gamemaker enthusiast stumped at Apple School

[Costello, Rob R]

Philip 

You might be interested in this version of Logo 

http://education.mit.edu/starlogo-tng/


Its free and Java based, so I assume it runs ok on Macs 

It's a "3D" version Logo 

It has a "building block" interface for programming that looks like it
might be accessible for lots of students 

I've downloaded but haven't gone much beyond that - anyone used it in
class? 

(little preview of the interface here 
http://education.mit.edu/starlogo-tng/resources/samplelessons.zip

intro to game programming here 
http://education.mit.edu/starlogo-tng/resources/samplelessons.zip

cheers 

Rob 

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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:30:29 +1100
From: kayp at yeahs.vic.edu.au
Subject: [Yr7-10it] Intel Gamemaker enthusiast stumped at Apple School
To: yr7-10it at edulists.com.au
Message-ID: <20070322213030.128F8AC002 at adm2-mta.vicdir.schools.net.au>
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Hope all are hale and hearty,

I'm a first year out teacher who saw and was impressed by Gamemaker (The
windows/Intel version) during my dip ed.  I've now landed a job at a
school with an apple system.  A quick search revealed an array of
choices, (with, no doubt an array of prices).  Anyway, can anyone out
there recommend a game maker kind of system, free or cheap, for macs,
that I could introduce to  my country school? Does Kahootz do the same
kind of thing? Any ideas would be appreciated.
Cheers, 
Philip Kay
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kayp at yeahs.vic.edu.au
http://www.yeahs.vic.edu.au/

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