Turtles Can Do Math, and So Can You!

Jim Tiffin Jr.Director of Academic Technology

The Harley School

Saying Hello to an Old Friend

• Text-based graphical programming language

The Turtle’s 21st Century Look

• Block-based graphical programming language

Only a Few Basics

• Helpful hints to save some frustrations

Explore, Experiment, Enjoy!

• Learn like a you were a kid again! Just try it out and see what you discover!

Some Examples from My Classes

• Patterns• Subroutines• Recursion• Rainbow Tornados!

Your Turn!

• Create some of your own artwork using TurtleArt– Save your files using SAVE SAVE IMAGE…• This makes your code part of the image

– Email your picture to easy16using@photos.flickr.comto make it part of our workshop gallery!!

– The subject line becomes the title of your artwork… and all good artists title their work

(Images will be licensed CC-BY so others may use them)

Reflections and Questions

• What do you think?– What could this do for your students?

• What questions do you have?

Thank you!

• Lots of resources, and the workshop gallery, can be found at:

jtiffinjr.wikispaces.com(please take time to fill out the feedback survey at the bottom as

well…)