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 Cross-curricular problem solving and multimedia software
A natural progression from SuperLogo, but even easier to use and more versatile, Imagine Logo is a cross-curricular tool that brings multimedia authoring to the Logo environment. Suitable for learners of all ages and abilities, Imagine Logo promotes the creative use of ICT. It supports the National Numeracy Strategy and problem solving & critical thinking in Literacy, Science, Geography, History, Art and Music.
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Prepared by teachers for teachers, The Great Big Imagine Logo Project Book provides a step-by-step guide to help you make the most of Imagine Logo. Containing extensive resources, project plans and ideas, the work book is designed to meet your needs in delivering the Primary Curriculum.
Click here for sample pages (PDF format)
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 Use it in the SuperLogo mode to control on-screen turtles, create procedures and build activities. This ideal introduction to computing ensures students can
understand exactly what they have done, as it provides them with instant visual feedback.
To help develop more advanced skills students can use Imagine Logo to create multiple page projects, draw directly onto pages, and animate on-screen turtles.
Using Imagine Logo�s multimedia capabilities students can create high quality project presentations and publish them on the web or the school intranet.
Imagine Logo comes with the Logomotion Animation Editor, a powerful tool to help create a wide range of static or animated objects. It can be used in the D&T
class to explore the first principles of animation. Students can go on to extend their skills by using Logo to undertake complex tasks like object teleporting, network projects and game programming.
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- Helpful, easy to use reference guide
- Mathematical investigation through modelling
- Unique choosers, sliders and buttons to help you create activities
- Ability to employ multiple animated turtles
- User friendly - quick to master
- Tutorials to build 'click and drag' programs to explore mathematical concepts and ideas.
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Communicate Ideas
 Another new development is the ability to communicate across a
network. The unique Net Class chooser in 'direct drive mode' provides
a host of opportunities for secondary pupils to investigate networking.
Similar to most modern programming environments, Imagine Logo fully
exploits communication and collaboration technologies.
Utilizing this high-level network support, users of all ages and
abilities can create many simple yet effective network projects.
- Establish client-server connections
- Quickly recognize status of connection and connected users
- Send messages, data and objects easily
- Easily send programs and run instructions remotely
- Quickly process events and received data 'Save as Exe file' feature, save any project as a full windows .exe program.
By utilising these sophisticated but simple to use tools pupils can undertake exciting projects like object teleporting, distributed computing, data collecting and game programming.
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- Communicate ideas
- Work with control
- Compose music
- Build project presentations
- Use throughout the school with all ages and abilities
- Teachers and pupils are supported by the Turtle's Guide, an activity book which helps develop core ICT skills and concepts such as Creating Multimedia presentations for projects.
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Multimedia Projects
Imagine Logo makes the actual process of designing and creating
a screen based multimedia project a rich and engaging learning experience.
It promotes the development of problem solving skills, critical
thinking and the creative use of ICT and is unsurpassed at letting
your students learn through exploration and construction.
'Seymour
Papert's vision of Logo was to 'allow children to program computers,
rather than having children programmed by computers.' Imagine
Logo certainly does that. It encourages creativity and exploration...
and is excellent for creating multimedia presentations'.
TEEM Evaluation for KS3
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Logomotion
Imagine Logo also comes with the Logomotion Animation Editor -
a powerful tool to help create a wide range of static or animated
graphic objects to include in your Imagine Logo projects or to use
on your web pages.
- Support for anti-aliasing and alpha channel transparency
- Onion skinning for creating animations
- Hot spot animations
- Full range of drawing tools - pen, pencil, felt tip, eraser
- Full range of effects - smudge, smear, colour, lighten, darken,
soften, sharpen
- Automatic generation of rotations - turn a .gif into a rotating
turtle/logo animation
- Automatic transformations - resize, flip, rotate and anti-aliase
frames
- File and animation organizer - view your images and animations
as frames.
 Logomotion provides excellent tools for:
- Drawing and Painting
- Writing text in any font, style, colour and size onto graphics
- Inserting basic geometric shapes, lines, ellipses and rectangles.
- Creating turtle animations to use in Imagine Logo.
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- Presentation tools
- Web based project frameworks
- Design brief frameworks
- Animation features
- Speech input and output
- Free web plug-in for publishing your projects on the web or on your school intranet
- Web based step by step guides on using each application
- New CommPort class which enables the user to use serial and parallel communication ports to connect with hardware devices
- Allowing users to create procedures and connect to robotics or datalogging hardware, to see their procedure in action
 Imagine Logo and Logomotion have been designed to provide you with advanced bitmap and animation editing tools for coursework projects- Powerful tools to transform animations, or animated films, frame by frame to create your own animated presentation or web graphics
- Develop and modify standard Windows icons and cursors for specific users as part of a design brief
- Alter or create web graphics, to be used as background pictures, within Imagine Logo or outside the Imagine Logo environment.
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 Free Resources
Imagine Logo is supported and enhanced by a host of quality manuals
and beginners guides but in addition Imagine Logo also has a resources
website providing project galleries, step by step guides, and plug-ins.
Key Stage: KS3 to KS4
Platform: Windows
Format: CD
Scottish Primary Key Stage: P7 to P7
Scottish Senior Key Stage: S3 to S4
Price: £62.00
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