EUROLOGO 2001- A Turtle Odyssey

8th European Logo Conference

Linz / Austria, 21-25 August 2001

NEW!!!
Conference venue, travel and hotel information

www.eurologo.org/eurologo2001

Final Program and Call for Participation

Conference Chairs

Evgenia Sendova (Bulgaria) and Erich Neuwirth (Austria)

Scope of the conference

EUROLOGO is a biannual scientific international conference that addresses all scientists, developers and educators that develop, use or study all kinds of Logo or Logo-based software. Furthermore also investigations of other exploratory computational environments, classroom applications of Logo philosophy and other innovative educational research and practices that are in touch with the Logo approach are covered.

EUROLOGO 2001 is held in Linz, Austria from 21-25 August 2001. The conference carries on the work of the previous ones in Dublin (1987), Gent (1989), Parma (1991), Anavissos (1993), Birmingham (1995), Budapest (1997) and Sofia (1999).

Conference Topics

Learning with Logo: Cognitive, cultural and cross-cultural aspects

Learning by exploring, communication and collaboration

Methodology and curriculum design

Classroom practices

Pedagogical and psychological issues

Teacher education

Children with special needs

Software environments and tools

Mental models of computation

Robotics with Logo: connecting mind and physical reality

Implementing Logo philosophy with other software

Logo in the Information Society

Logo and global communication

Challenges of the Internet

Conference Outline

 

Morning sessions

Afternoon sessions

Evening

Tuesday August 21

Tutorials,

Registration

Tutorials,

Registration

Welcome Cocktail

Wednesday August 22

Keynote, Plenaries

Paper presentations

Conference Reception

Thursday August 23

Keynote, Plenary and Discussion sessions

Conference Excursion

Conference Dinner

Friday August 24

Keynotes, Plenaries

Paper presentations

Demonstrations

Conference Closing, Welfare

Saturday August 25

Unofficial Programs

   

Conference language

English

Detailed conference program

Tuesday, August 21

8:30 – 17:00  Registration

10:00 – 13:00  Morning Tutorials

T1 Uri Wilensky  NetLogo: Modeling with a Massively Parallel Logo

T3 Brian Harvey  Advanced Logo Beyond the Turtle

T5 Zsuzsa Pluhár  Lego-Logo

Details see Tutorial Program

15:00 – 18:00  Afternoon Tutorials

T2 Ken Kahn  ToonTalk

T4 Ivan Kalas, Andrej Blaho, L. Salanci, P. Tomcsanyi, M. Tomcsanyiova  Imagine: A Powerful Tool for Creative Learning

T6 Márta Turcsányi-Szabó  Developing Educational Microworlds using SuperLogo (Comenius Logo)

Details see Tutorial Program

Evening  Welcome Cocktail

Wednesday, August 22

8:30 – 9:00  Welcome Addresses

9:00 – 10:30  K1 Keynote and Plenary - Implementations I

Ken Kahn: ToonTalk and Logo. Is ToonTalk a Colleague, Competitor, Successor, Sibling or Child of Logo?

Andrej Blaho, Ivan Kalas: Object Metaphore Helps Create Simple Logo Projects

11:00 – 12:30  K2 Plenaries – Different Implementations II

Lubimor Salanci: Networking in Logo

Chronis Kynigos: E-slate Logo as a Basis for Constructing Microworlds with Mathematics Teachers

14:00 – 15:30  P1 Classroom Experiences – Primary Education

Anthony Jones: Primary School Students Using MicroWorlds: Turtles, Multimedia and Learning

Monika Tomcsányiová: Cloning in Logo

Károly Farkas, Ildikó Tasnádi, Éva Törtely: Logo from the Kindergarten to the University Level

14:00 – 15:30  P2 Robots and Lego-Logo

Irina Kouznetsova, Sophia Gorlitskaya, Victor Sidorov: LOGO&LEGO – A Single Learning Environment for Children with Different Backgrounds

Wlodzimierz Gajda: The System of Networked, Mechanical Logo Turtles

Erich Neuwirth: Robots: Designing and Implementing a Simple Software Interface (combining fischertechnik and MSWLogo)

16:00 – 17:30  P3 Classroom Experiences – Secondary Education

Chronis Kynigos, George Psicharis: Meanings on the Notion of Curvature Generated with a Medium for Dynamic Manipulation and Symbolic Expression

Alexandra Yudina: Informatics in Logo for High School

Karl Fuchs: Logical Functions and Proving Theorems with 15-Years old Students. Elementary Logic with Value-Tables

16:00 – 17:30  P4 Special Needs and Philosophy

Ivailo Ivanov, Temenujka Zafirova, Nina Jordanova: On Mice and Handicapped Children

Nina Gouskova, Tatiana Gerasimova: Application of LOGO-Environment for Supplementary Education of Problem Children

Michael Ó Dúill: Logo-like and Inarticulate Intelligence

Evening                  Conference Reception

Thursday, August 23

8:30 – 10:30  K3 Keynote and Plenary – The Dark and Bright Side of ICT

Brian Harvey: Harmful to Children? The Alliance for Childhood Report

Evgenia Sendova: Modelling Creative Processes in Abstract Art and Music

11:00 – 12:30  K4 Plenary Discussion - Can Logo be Harmful to Children? How Logo is Helpful to Children?

Panel: Brian Harvey, Evgenia Sendova, Ken Kahn, Paul Nicholson
Moderation: Erich Neuwirth

Afternoon                Conference Excursion

Evening                  Conference Dinner

Friday, August 24

8:30 – 10:30  K5 Keynotes – Teaching Methodology

Paul Nicholson: Teachers, Turtles, and Gravity

Uri Wilensky: Modeling Nature’s Emergent Patterns with Multi-agent Languages

11:00 – 12:30  K6 Plenary Session - Didactics

Márta Turcsányi-Szabó: Why S.O.M.E. Logo Environments are Suitable for Broader Educational Purposes?

Márta Turcsányi-Szabó, Zsuzsa Pluhár, Erich Neuwirth: Extending the Boundaries of Teacher Education with Co-didactics

14:00 – 15:30  P7 Logo Implementations and Logo Programming

Matjaz Zaversnik, Vladimir Batagelj: MSWLogo and dynamic link libraries

Michele Moro: JxLogo: A new Integrated Java-based Programming Environment for Logo

Peter Tomcsanyi: Using Speech Input and Output in Logo Programming

Vladimir Batagelj: Logo to SVG

14:00 – 15:30  D1 Demonstrations

Sietse Kuipers: A Demonstration of  'Forward 100'

A. Ganichev, S. Soprunov: Logo for the Preliterate Programmers

Ivailo Ivanov, Temenujka Zafirova, Nina Jordanova: Special Games for Handicapped Children to get Control on the Mouse

16:00 – 17:30  P6 Methodology and Curriculum Design

Ana Isabel Sacristán, Sonia Ursini: Incorporating Technologies to the Mexican School Culture: The EMAT Project and its Logo Extension

Valentina Dagiene: Algorithmic Thinking: What Set of Logo Constructions Should be Used to Develop it?

Márta Körös-Mikis: Defining Innovative Practice by LOGO-Educators

16:00 – 17:30  P5 Environments for Learning and Teacher Education

Erich Neuwirth: Turtle Ballet: Simulating Parallel Turtles in a Nonparallel LOGO Version

Tiago Correia, Secundino Correia: The Pathways Microworld or The Magic Forest

Vesela Ilieva, Ivailo Ivanov: My First Computer Software

17:30 – 18:00  Official Closing

Evening                  Farewell, Best Presentation Award

Saturday, August 25

Unofficial programs

Post Conference Meetings

Logo Picnic after breakfast for all

Discussions, etc.

Conference venue

Linz is a small town at the side of the Danube not more than two hours away from Vienna. As one of the main cities of Austria, Linz is a center of education, industry and commerce. Tradition and New Technologies meet in Linz (www.anto.com/linz.html).

The conference will take place at the campus of the "Paedagogische Akademie der Dioezese Linz - Teacher Training College" that is situated at the slope of one of the smaller hills of Linz. The College provides excellent conference facilities and a student house for accommodation at reasonable costs.

Housing information

There are 2 categories of accommodation facilities nearby the conference site available and one very simple and cheap facility is situated directly at the campus.

Category

distance to conference

rooms

approx. price per day and person

A Hotel

10 Min by public bus

good 3 star hotel standard, single or double rooms

50 to 75 Euro

plus breakfast (10 Euro)

B Hostel

5 Min walk

simple and small, but clean and functional

single, double or quadruple rooms with WC and shower

20 to 30 Euro

breakfast included

C Student house

at the campus

single bed only,

shared WC and showers outside of the rooms

15 Euro

breakfast not included

Registration fees

Regular fee                    320 Euro (ATS 4400)

Reduced fee                  290 Euro (ATS 3990)

Accompanying person  120 Euro (ATS 1650)

Tutorials only                   80 Euro (ATS 1100)

Reduced fee for early registration (until June 15, 2001), teachers, students and OCG members.

The conference fee includes the conference proceedings, the conference participation, coffee, lunches and official social conference events. The fee for accompanying persons includes the meals and participation in all official social events.

The registration fees are payable in such a way that the full fee receives at the conference account.

Account No: 2601839, BLZ 34000

Education Highway, "Eurologo 2001"

Name of Bank: Raiffeisen Landesbank Ooe, Raiffeisenplatz 1, 4020 Linz, AUSTRIA

Credit Cards: VISA, Mastercard with name of owner, card no, valid thru, signature

Social Events

Welcome Cocktail, Conference dinner, conference excursion, conference reception

International Scientific Committee

M. Alberti (Italy), A. Anov (Denmark), J. M. Arias (Spain), A. Atanasiu (Romania), V. Batagelj (Slovenia), J. S. Close (Ireland), S. Correia (Portugal), V. Dagiene (Lithuania), D. Dicheva (Bulgaria), J. Enkenberg (Finland), K. Farkas (Hungary), G. Futschek (Austria), M. L. Giovannini (Italy), Matjaž Zaveršnik (Slovenia), J. Gurtner (Switzerland), K. R. Johnson (UK), I. Kalas (Slovakia), V. Kaptelinin (Russia), C. Krantz (Luxembourg), C. Kynigos (Greece), H. Loethe (Germany), V. Midoro (Italy), E. Neuwirth (Austria), R. Noss (UK), M. Doyle (UK), Consolato Pellegrino (Italy), H. Pinxteren (Netherlands), A. Plebe (Italy), G. Reuteler (Liechtenstein), G. Schuyten (Belgium), E. Sendova (Bulgaria), Y. S. Give'on (Israel), J. Sklenar (Malta), S. Soprunov (Russia), J. Suomala (Finland), S. Triantafillou (Greece), M. Turcsányi-Szabó (Hungary), A. Walat (Poland), U. Wittrup (Sweden)

Program Committee

Chairs: Márta Turcsányi-Szabó (Hungary) and Gerald Futschek (Austria)

Vladimir Batagelj (Slovenia), Secundino Correia (Portugal), Darina Dicheva (USA), Ivan Kalaš (Slovak Rep.), Chronis Kynigos (Greece), Herbert Loethe (Germany), Erich Neuwirth (Austria), Iliana Nikolova (Bulgaria), Richard Noss (UK), Sergei Soprunov (Russia), Andrzej Walat (Poland)

Organizing Organizations

Paedagogische Akademie der Dioezese Linz, IST

OCG – Austrian Computer Society

in cooperation with

Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology

Working Group Computer Supported Didactics, University of Vienna

Conference Address

Paedagogische Akademie der Dioezese Linz

Salesianumweg 3

A-4020 Linz

AUSTRIA

Contact address and persons

eurologo2001@sunsite.univie.ac.at

(Gerald Futschek, Anton Knierzinger and Erich Neuwirth)

Local Organization

Anton Knierzinger

Paedagogische Akademie der Dioezese Linz

Registration and Accommodation

Elisabeth Degenhart (Education Highway)

dee@eduhi.at

Salesianumweg 3

A-4020 Linz

AUSTRIA

Looking forward to welcoming you at the EUROLOGO 2001!