Explain this
Imagine Logo v2
How the publisher describes it:
“Building on the success of SuperLogo, Imagine Logo adds multiple page projects, easy to use direct drive painting tools, full animation capability, citing multimedia, rich speech generation and powerful web features to your Logo environment.”
Review by Louise SiawPeter Winbourne
In brief:
Imagine Logo is an extremely powerful program and the clue to understanding what it is about is in the title.
“It could give wings to their imagination”
Logo does not figure prominently in the National Curriculum or National Numeracy Strategy, and there are few references to it in support materials like National Curriculum Online (we found four). The references we could find did not seem designed to inspire teachers to make Logo central to their children’s experience. The Logo-based curriculum seems - for now at least - to be dead. In such circumstances, what is to be made of a development like Imagine Logo? Have Logotron misread the market? We think that the answer to this is ‘no’; Imagine Logo is an extremely powerful program and the clue to understanding what it is about is in the title. For some children it could, indeed, give wings to their imagination as Logotron intends.
In a Micromath review we can’t ignore the issues such a program raises for mathematics teaching; we will address some of these, briefly, in this review.
Imagine Logo opens with a simple ‘Launcher Interface’ from which users have a choice of six components:
- Imagine Logo - a hugely powerful and accessible Logo
- Imagine Paint - for creating new imagine paintings
- Logomotion - a very sophisticated and accessible tool for creating animations
- Simple Turtle - for visual turtle graphics and first steps in procedure building
- Logo Point -for creating attractive screen based multimedia presentations with speech and much more besides
- Drag and Drop - for quickly building screen-based drag and drop frameworks like ‘dress teddy’, ‘weather forecast’ or ‘design your classroom’
Louise Siaw • ICT coordinator, Penwortham School, Wandsworth, London & Peter Winbourne • London South Bank University
Logotron
Windows CD-Single User: £59.00
