Welcome to the Education-Revolution List!

[Lewis, Judy]

I've been deleting in mass all the RR emails, but accidentally (?) opened
yours. What a surprise! I've been using HyperCard for years, but only do a
3-week intro with my 7th graders and my 8th graders have 2-weeks to do a
"How To" stack. We use Inspriation to organize thoughts and links. When they
announced Mac OSX would not get HyperCard, I tried several alternatives and
settled on RR. The one think I really miss is that the students can no
longer script melody lines. My HyperCard unit has always featured encoding
music and then trying to write a new melody! 
Thanks for sharing what you do with us out in the land of 34 kids per public
school class--and 1 frazzled old teacher!
Judy Lewis
Lorbeer Middle School
Pomona Unified School District, California

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> From: 	Marty Billingsley
> Reply To: 	Revolution in Education
> Sent: 	Sunday, May 1, 2005 9:19 AM
> To: 	education-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: 	Re: Welcome to the Education-Revolution List!
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> 
> > To start, let's share who we are!
> 
> I'm Marty Billingsley and I teach computer science to high school and
> middle school students at the Laboratory Schools that are part of the
> University of Chicago.
> 
> I'm using RR in my 8th grade class to teach the concepts of programming.
> We use a games-based curriculum in that the final project is to design and
> create a video game.  Since this is a short course (one quarter) and the
> kids start from ground zero, the final projects are often rather simple.
> 
> We try to cover basics like using variables, sub-routines and functions,
> repeat loops, if statements, etc.  Hopefully the kids will carry these
> ideas into other programming classes they take in the future.
> 
> We also touch on some bigger-picture topics like user interface design and
> artifical intelligence.
> 
> I've taught the same course for ten years now, using HyperCard until
> RunRev came to our attention two years ago.  This sounds like a different
> way of using Rev in the schoolplace than the way most other folks are
> using it.
> 
>  - marty
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> Marty Billingsley (marty at ucls.uchicago.edu)
> The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools
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