The grade seven blog template is basically done. I had all the grade seven students add themselves to the blog so I could create link lists. This part of the process should be automated as some of the students had difficulty
adding their blog URL and name correctly to the sidebar widget. If the ICT office [...]
Continue Reading →Over the years I have been put into situations where I have had to teach programming. I started with Basic then Pascal, Karrell, AP C++ and on to Java mainly at the High School level. I’ve always enjoyed programming and have also thought that Middle School students would enjoy making the computer do something instead of [...]
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Getting excited about another jump into the unknown. I just sent in the PO for the purchase of Minecraft for my lab so that I can start using it next semester. Although I have no idea what I am getting into and where this will take me even with my limited [...]
Continue Reading →I looked a lot at publishing on Friday. Started by looking at Paper.li and creating a newspaper from our student’s published work. Since I am having the students use the middle school category for all of their posts and to tag specific post with specific words I can target the content added [...]
Continue Reading →Really thought my next post would be about some of the games my grade 9′s are making using Game Salad. I still have to edit the poor video, of one of the games in action on my Iphone, that I made using a document scanner. Wonder if there is a better way to get at a [...]
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