Google is Cool
Today I’m playing with Google and hopefully this just worked. Earlier I embedded my swimming calendar in to a moodle page. I’ve set up a course for my swim team and I didn’t want to duplicate my calendaring (not a word, I know) efforts.
After I finished messing around with the calendar I had […]
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One of my classes can be a challenge. Its near the end of the day and most of the students are ninth graders. If you don’t know what that this is like some day around 1:00 in the afternoon convince 24 people to drink three or four cups of coffee and and ask them to […]
At least once a week I try to show my students a video about cool new technology or something. I figure its a good way to get them to hear and use computer related vocabulary without them even knowing it. The following are a few resources that have and have not been successful with students.
Campaign […]
At an urban high school its difficult to recruit students for the swim team. I am now the team’s coach and I often hear something to the effect of, “Are you crazy? I can’t even swim!”, when I ask students if they want to join. I’ve been looking for ways to focus my efforts and […]
Now that we have started programming I’m faced with the challenge of getting students to understand what they are doing. Of course it really isn’t enough for me to just give them programs to copy. The other day I spent a fair amount of time looking for research, web sites, articles, whatever I could find […]
It all started with a little program called “Hello World”. Who knows where we’ll go from here but today was our first day of programming. I learned a few things about how to structure a programming lesson and by the end of the day everyone was clicking away. I found having the students highlight the […]
The WIRED NEXTFEST was last week in New York City. If I had known ahead of time I would have been on a $35.00 Chinatown bus Friday night with my free ticket for emailing ten of my friends. Anyway, on their website there is some neat futuristic technology and a contest for students to imagine […]
Last Thursday we tried the binary counting activity(pdf) from the Computer Science Unplugged site. All in all I’d say it was a great way to introduce them to the concept. I had to make my own worksheet, the one included on the page was a little simple and complicated at the same time and the […]
A quick note. We don’t have nay paper at school. Yes you read that right, no paper. The copiers are dry. Early this morning I saw a teacher making copies on pink paper she had stashed at the beginning of the year. This situation must present a serious problem for most teachers, especially when it […]
Rather than a lecture about the history of computers I gave each student an invention to research and asked them to create a presentation they would give to the class. The format I chose for presenting was a little different and worked particularly well in one class while in others it was a dud. I […]
