Children’s Programming
LOGO logo the turtle interactive on line version no downlaod required
Another LOGO free downloadable logo program
Imagine LOGO Imagine a logo program
Tour of Imagine LOGO etour of Imagine Logo
Tessellations However, in its free “trial” version, the FILE >> SAVE menu will only allow you to save in Tesselmania’s unique *.TSS format. I take a screen shot and paste in Paint.
Squeak Squeak is a “media authoring tool”– software that you can download to your computer and then use to create your own media or share and play with others.
Westpoint Bridge Design Westpoint Bridge design. After designing online I have the children construct bridges from their designs using gumdrops and toothpicks.
Scratch Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art — and share your creations on the web. Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also gaining a deeper understanding of the process of design.
Game Maker (added by Steve 
avialable at GAME MAKER allows students to cre3ate their own vide games. See comments below.
Alice Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing. It uses 3D graphics and a drag-and-drop interface to facilitate a more engaging, less frustrating first programming experience.
These are the ones I haven’t tried yet:
FLASH intro to flash-
TOONTALK Describes ToonTalk – an animated interactive world inside of which children can build programs and games.
STAGECAST CREATOR Stagecast Creator gives you the power to create interactive simulations, stories, games, and more!
KIDS PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE Kids programing language. version 1.1 is free. It has advanced into phrogram below which you have to pay for.
PHROGRAM Make your own PC games, tell interactive stories and learn what it takes to “code” …
CROQUET Croquet is a powerful open source software development environment for the creation and large-scale distributed deployment of multi-user virtual 3D applications and metaverses. The screen shots make it look similar to Alice. Uses avatars similar to those in Second Life.
SOPHIE’s raison d’être is to enable people to create robust, elegant rich-media, networked documents without recourse to programming. . Sophie promises to open up the world of multimedia authoring to a wide range of creative people. Sophie was just released in July of 2007
Klik and Play is an object oriented programming environment, free for use in school activities. Simple games can be easily created by absolute beginners. With more experience and by devoting some time to studying the manual, quite elaborate shoot-the-badguys or destroy-the-aliens type of games can be created
