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Balázs Nánai
John von Neumann Computer Society
H-1054 Budapest, Báthori u. 16.
HUNGARY
Phone: ++ 36 1 3329 390, ++ 36 1 3329 349
Fax: ++36 1 1318 140
E-mail: eurologo@ella.hu

Please feel free to contribute with your comments before and duering conference sending your message to Eurologo97

Patron: Prof. Tibor Vámos
Professor, Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Honorary President of the John von Neumann Society

Chairman of Eurologo'97: M. Doyle (UK)

Scientific Secretary: M. Turcsányi-Szabó (Hungary)

International Scientific Committee:
A. Atanasiu (Romania), V. Batagelj (Slovenia), E. Calabrese (Italy), S. Close (Ireland), S. Corriea (Portugal), D. Dicheva (Bulgaria), M. Doyle (UK), J. Enkenberg (Finland), K. Farkas (Hungary), G. Futschek (Austria), Y. Give'on (Israel), V. Kaptelinin (Russia), I. Kalas (Slovakia), C. Krantz (Luxemburg), C. Kynigos (Greece), H. Loethe (Germany), E. Neuwirth (Austria), R. Noss (UK), E. Sendova (Bulgaria), J. Sklenar (Malta), J. Suomala (Finland), S. Triantafillou (Greece), M. Turcsányi-Szabó (Hungary), A. Walat (Poland), U. Wittrup (Sweden).

International Program Committee:
M. Doyle (UK), I. Kalas (Slovakia), R. Noss (UK), E. Sendova (Bulgaria), M. Turcsányi-Szabó (Hungary)

Local Organising Committee:
G. Aranyos, B. Nánai (John von Neumann Computer Society), K. Farkas (Szécsényi István Secondary School), T. Könczöl (Ministry of Education), M. Körös-Mikis (National Institute for Public Education), J. Mészáros (Gyöngyösi Elementarty School), M. Turcsányi-Szabó, L. Zsakó (Eötvös Loránd University, Dept. Informatics Methodology)


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Detailed daily program

20th August, Wednesday

14:00-15:00 R210 SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE MEETING
15:00-18:45 R135 OPENING PLENARY SESSION
Chair: Mícheál Ó Dúill
15:00-16:20 OPENING ADRESSES
Prof. Tibor Vámos (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Wallace Feurzeig (BBN Systems and Technologies)
16:20-16:40 COFFEE BREAK
16:40-18:10 OPENING LECTURE
Prof. Celia Hoyles & Prof. Richard Noss (UK)
Clashing Cultures
18:10-18:45 ANNOUNCEMENTS
18:45-20:00 FREE TIME
20:00-22:00 Ball Room WELCOME PARTY
This is a great chance to meet friends - old and new - and will be held in the conference building in the form of a buffet reception. From the building delegates can enjoy a colourful, live 3D multiple Turtle microworld closing our National Day events.

21st August, Thursday

9:00-12:20 R135 PLENARY SESSION:
Chair: Dr. Brian Harvey
9:00-10:00 Prof. Andrea A. diSessa (USA)
20 Reasons Why You Should Use BOXER (instead of Logo)
10:00-10:20 COFFEE BREAK
10:20-11:20 Prof. Bojidar Sendov & Evgenia Sendova (Bulgaria)
Tuning a Logo-like Environment to a Knowledge Domain
11:20-12:20 Dr. Ivan Kalas & Dr. Andrej Blaho (Slovakia)
I Beg Your Pardon Turtles: Don't Forget About Data Structures
12:20-14:00 LUNCH BREAK
14:00-15:55 PAPER SESSIONS (P1A-P4A, P1B-P4B, P1C-P4C)
15:55-16:10 COFFEE BREAK
16:10-18:00 PAPER SESSIONS (P5A-P8A, P5B-P8B, P5C-P8C)
18:00-19:00 DISCUSSIONS
14:00-15:55 R135 PAPER SESSION (P1A-P4A)
Mathematics - Science education I.
Chair: Prof. Vladimir Batagelj
14:00-14:25 Wallace Feurzeig (USA)
Programming in Two Dimensions
14:30-14:55 Dr. Chronis Kynigos (Greece)
Dynamic Representations of Angle with a Logo-based Variation Tool: a Case Study
15:00-15:25 Kirill Alexandrov, Dr. Sergei Soprunov (Russia)
One Approach to Mechanic Simulations in Logo
15:30-15:55 Gabriela Gonzalez A., Marina Kriscautzky L., Patricia Martinez F. (Mexico)
LOGO: a Mathematical Message
16:10-18:00 R135 PAPER SESSION (P5A-P8A)
Mathematics - Science education II.
Chair: Prof. Richard Noss
16:10-16:35 Dr. Anthony Jones (Australia)
Increasing Confidence in Mathematics Ability Through Logo and Collaborative Learning
16:40-17:05 Dr. John Close, Dr. Darina Dicheva (Ireland-Bulgaria)
Misconceptions in Recursion: Diagnostic Teaching
17:10-17:35 Alexandra Youdina (Russia)
Research Project in Logo for High School Students (ages 14-16)
17:40-18:00 Mészáros Judit, Zsakó László (Magyar tanárok részére) in Hungarian
A Logo és a Nemzeti Alaptanterv
14:00-15:55 R337 PAPER SESSION (P1B-P4B)
Software development I.
Chair: Dr. Ivan Kalas
14:00-14:25 Pavel Petrovic (Slovakia)
Design and Play in Comenius Logo: A Microworld for Designing and Exploring Games
14:30-14:55 Dr. Yannis Kotsanis, Stathis Triantafillou (Greece)
Space - Book - Screen: Exploring Developmental Microworlds
15:00-15:25 Dr. Andrej Blaho, Dr. Ivan Kalas (Slovakia)
Designing Educational Environments. Quicksand for Developers?
15:30-15:55 Dr. Peter Tomcsányi (Slovakia)
Multimedia in Comenius Logo - an Example CD Player
16:10-18:00 R337 PAPER SESSION (P5B-P8B)
Software development II.
Chair: Dr. Chronis Kynigos
16:10-16:35 Dr. Eric Neumann, Wallace Feurzeig, Peter Garik, Dr. Allan Collins (USA)
Object-Object Transformation Language and its Application to Games for Learning Computational Science Modelling
16:40-17:05 Kirill Alexandrov, Dr. Sergei Soprunov, Elena Yakovleva (Russia)
Logo for the Illiterate Programmers
17:10-17:35 Stathis Triantafillou, Vasilis Ekonomou, Dr. Yannis Kotsanis, Sophia Eoukouvinou, Stefanos Spaneas (Greece)
Exploratory Multimedia Software for Assistive Technology
17:40-18:00 Manolis Koutlis, Chronis Kynigos, Aggeliki Oikonomou, George Tsironis (Greece)
Empowering Logo Through a Component-Oriented Approach
14:00-15:55 R635 PAPER SESSION (P1C-P4C)
Curriculum I.
Chair: Prof. Celia Hoyles
14:00-14:25 Dr. Valentina Dagiene (Lithuania)
Problems of Teaching Logo as a Part of Informatics
14:30-14:55 Dr. Darina Dicheva, Dr. Roumen Nikolov, Evgenia Sendova (Bulgaria)
School Informatics in Logo Style: a Textbook Facing the new Challenges of the Bulgarian Informatics Curriculum
15:00-15:25 Iliana Nicolova (Bulgaria)
Towards VALUE - a Virtual Almanac for Logo Users and Educators
15:30-15:55 Dr. Márta Kõrös-Mikis (Hungary)
Logo: This Side the Curricula and Beyond
16:10-18:00 R635 PAPER SESSION (P5C-P8C)
Curriculum II.
Chair: Dr. Andrzej Walat
16:10-16:35 Lena Papathomaidi, Vassilis Ekonomou, George Bariamis (Greece)
Mathematics Software Development by Students for Students
16:40-17:05 Dr. Peter Tomcsányi, Monika Tomcsányiová(Slovakia)
Experimental IT Education for Lower Secondary School Using Windows and Comenius Logo
17:10-17:35 Márta Turcsányi-Szabó (Hungary)
Designing Logo Pedagogy for Elementary Education
17:40-18:00 Márta Turcsányi-Szabó (Hungary)
Approaching Arts Through Logo

22nd August, Friday

9:00-10:20 R135 PLENARY SESSION:
Chair: Prof. Andrea A. diSessa
9:00-9:40 Dr. Harvey, Brian (USA)
Reasoning with Computers
9:40-10:20 Dr. José Armando Valente (Brasil)
Contextualizing Continuous Education in Logo via Internet
10:20-10:35 COFFEE BREAK
10:35-12:00 PAPER SESSIONS (P10A-P12A, P10B-P12B, P10C-P12C)
12:00-14:00 LUNCH BREAK
14:00 -22:00 EXCURSION WITH DINNER
A half-day trip at Budapest and along the River Danube including a visit to historic towns. Szentendre is a unique artists' town with its cobble stoned squares, picturesque old streets and 18th century town houses, including the famous Margit Kovács Ceramics Museum. Visiting the formal royal residence at Visegrád, we shall conclude the trip with a Hungarian style dinner.
10:35-12:00 R135 PAPER SESSION (P10A-P12A)
Learning process.
Chair: Dr. José Armando Valente
10:35-11:00 Prof. Ronald G. Ragsdale, (USA)
Home learning: IT and the Learning Process
11:05-11:30 Mícheál Ó Dúill (UK)
Rethinking the School Curriculum for a Computer Animated Medium
11:35-12:00 Dr. Ripper, Afira (Brasil)
The Instrument and the Other in the Construction of Knowledge - Study of a Logo-based Learning Environment.
10:35-12:00 R337 PAPER SESSION (P10B-P12B)
Combinations
Chair: Márta Turcsányi-Szabó
10:35-11:00 Prof. Vladimir Batagelj (Slovenia)
Logo to Postscript
11:05-11:30 Prof. Vladimir Batagelj (Slovenia)
Drawing Space-filling Curves in Logo
11:35-12:00 Dr. Andrzej Walat (Poland)
MATH + ART&DESIGN + ? = LOGO
10:35-12:00 R635 PAPER SESSION (P10C-P12C)
Logo-Lego / Functional Approach
Chair: Dr. Károly Farkas
10:35-11:00 Prof. Gerald Futschek (Austria)
Design Considerations for Larger Lego-Logo Programs and their Use in Beginner's Programming Learning
11:05-11:30 Uzi Armon (Israel)
Cooperative Parent-Child Learning in a LEGO-Logo Environment
11:35-12:00 Uzi Armon (Israel)
An Algorithm that Translates Intrinsic Equations of Curves into Intrinsic Procedures of these Curves

23th August, Saturday

9:00-12:05 SESSIONS AT EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY, INFORMATICS DEPT. GROUP
address: Budapest, Múzeum krt. 6-8. in the main building, located at ASTORIA subway station.
(W1A-W2A, W1B-W2B, W1C-W3C, W1D-W3D, Post1-Post8, D1-D8, Exhibition)

12:05-13:40 LUNCH BREAK
13:40-15:35 R702 CLOSING PLENARY SESSION:
Chair: Mícheál Ó Dúill
13:40-14:10 Stathis Triantafillou, Julian Pixton, Kees Callenbach, Dr. Ivan Kalas, Márta Turcsányi-Szabó, Prof. Panayotis Pintelas, Iliana Nikolova
MATCh: a Multimedia Authoring environmenT for Children
(an INCO-COPERNICUS European Community Program)
14:10-15:10 PANEL DISCUSSION
15:10-15:20 ANNOUNCEMENTS
15:20-15:35 CLOSING ADDRESS
15:35-16:30 R210 SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE MEETING
9:00-11:45 Poster Room POSTER SESSION (POST1-POST8)
Chair: Eszter Zubovics
Posters can be seen during the morning session, when you can consult with presenters throughout. Presentations are scheduled as follows:
9:00-9:20 Beverley Crane (Australia)
Multi Media & Microworlds in Teaching the Humanities
9:25-9:40 Prof. Margaret James, Phillip Kent, Phil Ramsden (UK)
`TangentField': A Tool for `Webbing' the Learning of Differential Equation
9:45-10:00 Xenia Siouti, Evi Trouki, Giorgos Psycharis (Greece)
Mathematical Microworlds with a Variation Tool in a Component Logo Environment
10:10-10:25 Zoran Putnik, Dr. Zoran Budlmac (Yugoslavia)
Bringing LOGO to the World of Purely Functional Programming
10:30-10:45 Anna Medve (Hungary)
Logo Elements of Methodology to Develop Structured Programming Terminology
10:50-11:05 Dr. Károly Farkas (Hungary)
Permenant Motivation in Logo
11:10-11:25 Dr. Károly Farkas (Hungary)
Playful Informatics and Eurologo
11:30-11:45 Gladys A. Bravo Verdugo(Chile)
“The Environment Contamination" Simulated by Microworlds
9:00-12:05 Demo Room DEMONSTRATION SESSION (D1-D8)
Chair: Secundino Correia
9:00-9:30 Prof. Eduardo de Antueno, Carlos Grant, Ignacio Luppi (Argentina)
A New Latin American Logo Version
9:35-10:00 John Forman (Brasil)
Demonstration of Multilogo for Windows
10:10-10:25 Diliana Miteva (Bulgaria)
Logo as Theatre
10:30-10:45 George Tsironis (Greece)
Embedding Logo in Component-Oriented Worlds for Exploratory Learning
10:50-11:05 Ivailo Ivanov (Bulgaria)
Top-down And Bottom-up Along The Christmas Tree
11:10-11:25 Norma Ethel Beccerica de Cabana (Argentina)
Drawing with the Turtle Program Specially Designed for Students Who Have Not Yet Acquired Reading and Speaking Skills
11:30-11:45 Dorina Fehér (Hungary)
A 3D Microworld in Comenius Logo
11:50-12:05 Gábor Kis (Hungary)
VISUAL, an Open Environment for Visual Modelling
9:00-12:05 BIG Lab, WORKSHOP SESSION (W1A-W2A)
Chair: Tünde Madarász
9:00-10:30 Free look at programs
10:35-12:05 Dr. Brian Harvey (USA)
(for children age 14-18 and educators)
Reasoning with Computers
9:00-12:05 1. lab, WORKSHOP SESSION (W1B-W2B)
Chair: Dr. Peter Tomcsányi
9:00-10:30 Prof. Gerald Futschek, Leopold Berger (Austria)
(for children age 12 - 14 and teachers)
Lego-Logo Workshop
10:35-12:05 Dr. Thomas Hecht (Slovakia)
LEGO DACTA: A Way to Learn Programming in a Logo-like Language
9:00-12:05 2. lab, WORKSHOP SESSION (W1C-W3C)
Chair: Márta Turcsányi-Szabó
9:00-10:00 Judit Mészáros (Hungary)
Logo for the Therapy of Children's Everyday Problems
10:10-11:10 Lajos Kovács (Hungary)
World in /e/motion
11:10-12:05 Gabriela Gonzalez A., Marina Kriscautzky L., Patricia Martinez F. (Mexico)
(for deaf children)
Working with LOGO for Deaf Children
9:00-12:05 3. Lab, WORKSHOP SESSION (W1D-W3D)
Chair: Lilla Kerényi
9:00-10:00 Prof. Bojidar Sendov (Bulgaria)
No threshold, no Ceiling in GEOMLAND
10:10-11:10 Dalit Levy (Israel)
(for teachers)
Classification, Discussion, Recursion: Helping the Development of Computer-Science Concepts

There will be a small exhibition in front of the plenary hall throughout the conference held by the following exhibitors:

There will also be a small exhibition on “The history of Logo in Hungary" that can be seen on the morning of the 23rd at Eötvös Loránd University's Exhibition room.

Works submitted for the Cartoon Competition can also be seen at Eötvös Loránd University's Exhibition room.