Friday, December 4, 2015

Countdown Deal (Teaching EasyLogo, 2nd Edition)

Teaching EasyLogo, 2nd Edition will be available starting at a 83% discount on Kindle Countdown Deals at Amazon.com from  December 4, 2015 till December 11, 2015 May 19, 2015..

The book is available to purchase from Amazon.com at: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00H7ISGC2
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Thursday, December 3, 2015

Trip to the moon

In Teaching EasyLogo [2nd Edition], in the new Chapter 10, we deal with more advanced animating ideas. One of them is to use a space rocket that was previously created and animate it vertically and horizontally and have a trip from earth to the moon! The animation shows in the animated GIF below.


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Monday, October 19, 2015

Teaching EasyLogo, 2nd Edition


Teaching EasyLogo, 2nd Edition is scheduled to be published for October 30, 2015 and is ready to pre-order from http://www.amazon.com/dp/B016TYHVXO.

If you're just getting started with EasyLogo programming, this is the book you want - whether you're a computer science teacher or a first-time learner. EasyLogo is a simplified Logo language which is becoming a popular educational programming language used by many first-time learners in classrooms and homes around the world.

In the second edition of Teaching EasyLogo, there are some corrections mainly in typographical errors and other simple mistakes that were in the first edition.
Furthermore, there were added many new examples in various chapters. The new sections are :

Chapter 4. Color fun:
  • Fish
Chapter 5. Loops, loops, loops:
  • Molecules
  • Space Rocket
Chapter 6. Procedures:
  • Schooling fish
  • Snowman
Chapter 7. Animation:
  • Flying Space Rocket
  • A Space Race
Chapter 9. Animating with backgrounds:
  • Christmas Tree
  • Partying Snowmen
In the second edition was added a whole new chapter, Chapter 10, where we present a few more advanced animation examples.
Chapter 10. Advanced animation ideas:
  • A trip to the moon
  • Fishbowl with a fish
  • Two fishes in the fishbowl
Teaching EasyLogo covers all the features of EasyLogo, and shows how kids can learn fundamental computer programming concepts as they create their very own drawings and simple animations. The learning method is focused on discovering the features step by step and solving problems with the current available amount of features on the students hands at that time. Gradually students through fun programming challenges will create basic shapes, and later will be able to build more complex shapes using repeat loops and procedures. In the end, they will use different methods to create simple animations.

This book is approximately 26600 words long, contains 71 figures and is about 162 kindle pages.
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Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Τη σχολική χρονιά 2013-2014 δίδασκα το μάθημα των Τ.Π.Ε στο 1ο Δημοτικό Σχολείο της Σιάτιστας (site). Στα πλαίσια του μαθήματος οι μαθητές (της Γ' τάξης έως και της Ε') δημιούργησαν απλά κινούμενα σχέδια. Οι μαθητές δώσανε ζωή στις ιδέες τους, χρησιμοποιώντας μια δραστηριότητα του λογισμικού GCompris. To GCcompris είναι μία θαυμάσια σουίτα εκπαιδευτική λογισμικού που αποτελείται από πολλές δραστηριότητες για παιδιά ηλικίας 2 έως 10.

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Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Βιβλίο Διδασκαλίας EasyLogo

Μόλις ολοκλήρωσα το βιβλίο "Teaching EasyLogo" και είναι διαθέσιμο στο Amazon σε μορφή για Kindle. Διατηρώ ένα blog για το βιβλίο στο teachingeasylogo.blogspot.com με περισσότερες πληροφορίες και μερικά παραδείγματα που περιλαμβάνονται στο βιβλίο.

Teaching EasyLogo καλύπτει όλα τα χαρακτηριστικά της EasyLogo, και δείχνει πώς τα παιδιά μπορούν να μάθουν βασικές έννοιες του προγραμματισμού ηλεκτρονικών υπολογιστών, καθώς δημιουργούν τα δικό τους σχέδια και απλά κινούμενα σχέδια. Η μέθοδος μάθησης επικεντρώνεται στην ανακάλυψη των χαρακτηριστικών βήμα-βήμα και την επίλυση των προβλημάτων με την χρήση των χαρακτηριστικών που είναι γνωστά στους μαθητές εκείνη τη στιγμή. Σταδιακά οι μαθητές μέσα από διασκεδαστικές προκλήσεις προγραμματισμού θα δημιουργήσει βασικά σχήματα, και αργότερα θα είναι σε θέση να οικοδομήσουν πιο πολύπλοκα σχήματα χρησιμοποιώντας δομές επανάληψης και διαδικασίες. Στο τέλος, θα χρησιμοποιούν διαφορετικές τεχνικές για να δημιουργήσετε απλά κινούμενα σχέδια.

Αυτό το βιβλίο είναι περίπου 18000 λέξεις, περιέχει 46 εικόνες και είναι περίπου 121 σελίδες στο kindle. Η καταμέτρηση των σελίδων μετρήθηκε χρησιμοποιώντας τη μικρότερη γραμματοσειρά σε ένα Kindle Paperwhite 3G.

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Sunday, April 13, 2014

GCompris animation examples

This year i am teaching computer science at the 1st Primary School of Siatista (site). As part of our lesson students (3rd grade to 5th) were asked to create simple animations. The students brought to life their ideas using an activity of the GCompris software. GCcompris is a wonderful educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10.

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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

I just completed the book "Teaching EasyLogo" and made it available at Amazon as a Kindle Edition. I maintain a blog dedicated to the book at teachingeasylogo.blogspot.com with more information and some examples of whats inside the book.

Teaching EasyLogo covers all the features of EasyLogo, and shows how kids can learn fundamental computer programming concepts as they create their very own drawings and simple animations. The learning method is focused on discovering the features step by step and solving problems with the current available amount of features on the students hands at that time. Gradually students through fun programming challenges will create basic shapes, and later will be able to build more complex shapes using repeat loops and procedures. In the end, they will use different methods to create simple animations.

This book is approximately 18000 words long, contains 46 figures and is about 121 kindle pages. The page count was measured using the smallest font on a Kindle Paperwhite 3G.

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